Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Open and observable; not hidden, concealed, or secret: overt hostility; overt intelligence gathering.
- adj. Of, relating to, or being military or intelligence operations sanctioned or mandated by Congress: overt aid to the rebels.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Open; yielding easy passage.
- Plain to the view; apparent; not covert; open; manifest.
- In heraldry: Having the wings spread: said of a bird. The wings are represented with the points downward unless blazoned as overt elevated.
- Open: said of anything that is commonly shut: as, a purse overt.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Open to view; public; apparent; manifest. Opposite of
hidden . - adj. (Law) Not covert; open; public; manifest.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. open and observable; not secret or hidden
Etymologies
- From Old French overt ("open") (modern French ouvert). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French, past participle of ovrir, to open, from Vulgar Latin *ōperīre, alteration (influenced by Latin cōperīre, to cover) of Latin aperīre. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Seeking protection against what he called the overt and covert attempts and 'partisan and biased approach' of the petroleum ministry to intervene in a commercial dispute with RIL, Anil wrote to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh offering to meet and explain the issues.”
“This is certainly in overt conflict with what the White House wants all Federal agencies to be doing so as to be "transparent" and "open".”
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“This is serious big interest, private equity and financiers using their new boy for the first time in overt action.”
UK govt proposes idiotic two-strikes-and-you're-out Internet copyright rule - Boing Boing
“Regarding the decline in overt violence, I think the role of technology deserves mention as well.”
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“Obama was able to credential himself as an African American without engaging in overt racial politics.”
“In writing an essay for the book that accompanies the Corcoran exhibition, I adopted a style in overt homage to Ballard — in hopes that such a literary strategy might help illuminate this great body of work.”
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“However the difference between "openly" and "overt" is less than that between "unredacted" and "censored" and so in some ways it is the biter bit.”
The Tories keep very strange company - Are they endorsing a homophobic rag ?
“Strict — the ACLU is engaging in overt religious discrimination, no matter how you slice it.”
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“As a matter of internal US division of labor, there are policy (again, not legal) questions as to whether the CIA should be engaged in overt conventional war, or something starting to approach that.”
“Non-Muslim worshipers risk arrest, imprisonment, lashing, deportation, and sometimes torture for engaging in overt religious activity that attracts official attention.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘overt’.
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1100
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
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Psychology
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GRE 2014
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On with their heads!
Words that make other words with the addition of one letter at the beginning. The resulting words are tagged "behead".
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List 2(starting at 260)
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GRE 1100
drudgery, implore, hapless, nuance, wrest, incipient, inadvertent, tremulous, bristle, euphemism, disdain, pugnacious and 346 more...
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gre2
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amagnano's Words
truculent, churlish, antipathy, sociopathy, loquacious, disheveled, pouilly-fuisse, enamored, marked, assuage, ascetic, pagan and 190 more...
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quality words
This is a mix of new words I've read studying for the GRE verbal and words I use normally. I also check back on these words if I don't use them often enough.
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What Do You Mean $
ahh these hurt.....
hermit, prone, maxim, guise, solvenly, lurid, lax, amiable, irate, cloister, mediate, nettle and 100 more...
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Vocab
Words that I come across, and go blank, or want to clarify.
nefarious, edifice, malevolent, ostensible, folderol, bauble, livid, amnesty, calculus, saddlery, maisonette, cuisse and 423 more...
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The New Yorker
prejudice, ignominious, quintessence, disparity, vanguard, repudiated, eclectic, dredge, taxonomy, pugnacious, surreptitiously, pudgy and 113 more...
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