Vert vs Pert - What's the difference?
vert | pert |
(label) A green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees counter-clockwise.
(label) Green undergrowth or other vegetation growing in a forest, as a potential cover for deer.
(label) The right to fell trees or cut shrubs in a forest.
:* 1819': “I understand thee,” said the King, “and the Holy Clerk shall have a grant of '''vert and venison in my woods of Warncliffe.” — Walter Scott, ''Ivanhoe
(label) In sport, a type of bicycle stunt competition.
A vertical surface used by skateboarders or skiers.
Attractive (of a person); well-formed, shapely (of a part of the body).
Lively; alert and cheerful; bright.
* 1594 , William Shakespeare, , Act 1, Scene 1:
* 2009 , Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 333:
(obsolete) Open; evident; unhidden; apert.
As adjectives the difference between vert and pert
is that vert is in blazon, of the colour green while pert is attractive (of a person); well-formed, shapely (of a part of the body).As an abbreviation vert
is vertebrate.As a noun vert
is a green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees counter-clockwise.As a verb pert is
to behave with pertness.As an acronym PERT is
Program Evaluation and Review Technique, a method for diagramming and analyzing the flow of dependent tasks and other events in a project.vert
English
(wikipedia vert)Etymology 1
, from (etyl) (m).Noun
(en noun)See also
* vt. in heraldic contexts.Etymology 2
Abbreviation of (vertical).Noun
(en noun)See also
*Anagrams
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English
Adjective
(er)- "Go Philostrate, Stirre vp the Athenian youth to merriments, Awake the pert and nimble spirit of mirth"
- "You'll not be so pert when the Cornish seize you. They spit children like you and roast them on bonfires."
- (Piers Plowman)