Vivid vs Sharpie - What's the difference?
vivid | sharpie |
(of perception) Clear, detailed or powerful.
(of an image) Bright, intense or colourful.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 Full of life, strikingly alive.
*{{quote-book, year=1907, author=
, title=The Dust of Conflict
, chapter=32 An alert person. (rfex)
(US, regional) A knowledgeable fisherman.
* 1976 December, Ken Schultz, Field & Stream Fishing Contest Winners: Nothing but the Best , ,
(US) A swindler.
*1953 , (Raymond Chandler), The Long Goodbye , Penguin 2010, p. 102:
*:Three booths down a couple of sharpies were selling each other pieces of Twentieth Century Fox, using double arm gestures instead of money.
(US) A long, narrow fishing boat used in shallow waters.
* 1995 , Rodney Barfield, Seasoned by Salt: A Historical Album of the Outer Banks ,
* 2006 , Greg Rössel, The Boatbuilder's Apprentice ,
(birdwatching)
* 2005 , Bill Thompson, Eirik A. T. Blom, Jeffrey A. Gordon, Identify Yourself: The 50 Most Common Birding Identification Challenges ,
* 2010 , Era S. VanDenburg, The Natural World of Ivy Lane ,
(Australia) A member of a violent, fashionably dressed youth gang of the 1960s and 1970s.
* 2006 , Iain McIntyre, Tomorrow Is Today: Australia in the Psychedelic Era, 1966-1970 ,
A felt-tipped marker pen.
As nouns the difference between vivid and sharpie
is that vivid is (new zealand) a felt-tipped permanent marker while sharpie is an alert person.As an adjective vivid
is (of perception) clear, detailed or powerful.vivid
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Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.}}
citation, passage=The vivid , untrammeled life appealed to him, and for a time he had found delight in it; but he was wise and knew that once peace was established there would be no room in Cuba for the Sin Verguenza.}}
Derived terms
* vividness * vividlyExternal links
* * ----sharpie
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Alternative forms
* (member of an Australian youth gang) sharpNoun
(wikipedia sharpie) (en noun)page 78,
- Eventually DeBlasio became a sharpie .
- In New York and New Jersey coastal fishing parlance a “sharpie” is one who fishes seven days a week all summer long, selling his fish to the market to make a living. Sharpies supposedly have fishing down to a science, to such a degree that they only go to particular places, at particular times, using particular fishing methods, and come back with a boatload of fish while everyone else wonders in amazement.
page 168,
- He brought this pair of sharpies , the Lucia'' and the ''Ella , to Beaufort by schooner and began to use them for fishing, oyster dredging, and even as a passenger ferry and party boat.
- The sharpie is a flat-bottomed, shallow-draft vesel of moderate size, comparable to a sloop or schooner.
page 293,
- On the other end of the spectrum are the flat-bottomed sharpies'. The earliest ' sharpies were developed in the mid-nineteenth century as the ideal boats for the oyster fishery of the Connecticut shore.
page 93,
- It is harder to gauge the shorter tail of sharpies', but on sitting birds the tail shape is a more useful character than it is on flying birds. ' Sharpies of all ages and sexes almost always show a notched tail when they are sitting.
page 48,
- My mother had lost a considerable number of spring chicks to a raiding sharpie .
page 47,
- The Circle Ballroom in High Street Preston was another popular sharpie' hang-out.' Sharpies were all deep drinkers.