different between thinker vs swot

English

Etymology

From Middle English thinkere, equivalent to think +? -er. Compare West Frisian tinker (“thinker”), Dutch denker (“thinker”), German Denker (“thinker”), Danish tænker (“thinker”), Swedish tänkare (“thinker”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /????.k??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /????.k?/
• Rhymes: -??k?(r)

Noun

thinker (plural thinkers)

1. One who spends time thinking, contemplating or meditating.
2. An intellectual, such as a philosopher or theologian.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often applied to "thinker": creative, deep, critical, great, strategic, original, political, clear, social, brilliant, logical, liberal, conservative, influential, lateral, radical, religious, profound, abstract.

Derived terms

• deep thinker

Translations

Anagrams

• rethink

English

Alternative forms

• swat

Etymology

From a dialectal English word, from Middle English swot, swat, from Old English sw?t (“perspiration; sweat”), from Proto-Germanic swait? (“sweat”). More at sweat.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sw?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /sw?t/
• Homophone: swat
• Rhymes: -?t

Verb

swot (third-person singular simple present swots, present participle swotting, simple past and past participle swotted)

1. (intransitive, slang, Britain) To study with effort or determination (object of study indicated by "up on").

   You should swot up on your French before travelling to Paris.

   Synonym: cram

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• hit the books

Noun

swot (plural swots)

1. (slang, Britain) One who swots.
   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 23:

     He liked Tom all right... Sampson and Bullock he could do without, however. Especially Sampson, who was too much of a grammar-school-type swot ever to be quite the thing.

2. (slang, Britain) Work.
3. (slang, Britain) Vigorous study at an educational institution.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Translations

Anagrams

• OTWs, Stow, TOWs, Tows, ow'st, stow, tows, twos, wost, wots

Saterland Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sw?t/

Adjective

swot

1. black