different between penetrating vs alert
penetrating
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?n?t?e?t??/
- Hyphenation: pen?e?trat?ing
Adjective
penetrating (comparative more penetrating, superlative most penetrating)
- able to pierce or penetrate
- The skunk produces a penetrating odor.
- demonstrating acute or keen understanding
- His novel shows a penetrating insight into the criminal mind.
Translations
Verb
penetrating
- present participle of penetrate
Anagrams
- repatenting
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alert
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??l??t/
- (General American) enPR: ?-lûrt?, IPA(key): /??l?t/
- Rhymes: -??(?)t
- Hyphenation: a?lert
Etymology 1
From French alerte (“alert”), from the phrase à l'erte (“on the watch”), from Italian all'erta (“to the height”), from erta (“lookout, tower”).
Adjective
alert (comparative more alert, superlative most alert)
- Attentive; awake; on guard.
- (obsolete) brisk; nimble; moving with celerity.
- I saw an alert young fellow that cocked his hat upon a friend of his who entered just at the same time with myself
Translations
Noun
alert (plural alerts)
- An alarm.
- A notification of higher importance than an advisory.
- (military) A state of readiness for potential combat.
- an airborne alert; ground alert
Translations
Etymology 2
Formed within English by conversion, from alert (adj). Compare French alerter.
Verb
alert (third-person singular simple present alerts, present participle alerting, simple past and past participle alerted)
- To give warning to.
Translations
References
Anagrams
- alter, alter-, altre, artel, later, ratel, taler, telar
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French alerte.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a??l?rt/
- Hyphenation: alert
- Rhymes: -?rt
Adjective
alert (comparative alerter, superlative alertst)
- alert
Inflection
Derived terms
- alertheid
Anagrams
- later, ratel
German
Etymology
From French alerte.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [a?l??t]
Adjective
alert (comparative alerter, superlative am alertesten)
- alert
Declension
Further reading
- “alert” in Duden online
Romanian
Etymology
From French alerte
Adjective
alert m or n (feminine singular alert?, masculine plural aler?i, feminine and neuter plural alerte)
- wide-awake
Declension
Swedish
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a?læ?/
- Rhymes: -æ??
Adjective
alert (comparative alertare, superlative alertast)
- alert
Declension
Anagrams
- artel, later, letar, realt
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