What's the difference between gelt and gent?

Gelt


Definition:

  • (n.) Trubute, tax.
  • (v. t.) A gelding.
  • (n.) Gilding; tinsel.

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Gent


Definition:

  • (a.) Gentle; noble; of gentle birth.
  • (a.) Neat; pretty; fine; elegant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Days and Nights in the Forest , which began as a comedy about Calcuttan gents on safari for aboriginal villagers, before shading into something almost too dark for my comprehension.
  • (2) She concluded her speech with a message for the audience - perhaps all of us - perhaps some of us - perhaps one person in particular, a snowy haired gent from Queensland.
  • (3) A new albumin variant of a family in Rome has been studied and, in respect of CISMEL standards, it has been classified as "very fast type gent".
  • (4) The susceptibility patterns of clinical Gram-negative isolates were determined to cefotaxime (CTX) and desacetylcefotaxime (dCTX) alone and in combination with gentamicin (GENT) or tobramycin (TOB) by an agar dilution technique.
  • (5) The estimation of the variants' relative mobility at three pH allowed us to distinguish three fast-moving variants (Gent, Vanves, and Reading) and five slow-moving variants (Sondrio, Roma, Christchurch, Lille, and B) in the French population.
  • (6) Instead, he was re-imagined as a suave gent in a v-neck cashmere sweater, mixing drinks, listening to records, and appreciating the 'finer things in life', like jazz and beautiful women.
  • (7) While Gent’s performance appeared slightly more nervous at the end of the second half, the hosts maintained their lead until the final whistle.
  • (8) Mark Rylance was a perfect gent, David Oyelowo took my phone from me and took the picture repeatedly until he was satisfied and Ava DuVernay was just brilliant.
  • (9) I would describe her as … sheepish.” He later said: “Ms Cafferkey got through the screening area with what I would call as deception.” After Cafferkey tested positive for Ebola, Nick Gent, a doctor and deputy dead of PHE’s emergency response department, was drafted in to assess the efficacy of the screening process.
  • (10) The properties of these revertants suggest that reversion of double opal-mutants is effected by the activity of some gent-suppressor appeared in the phage genome.
  • (11) Following Bishop's withdrawal, the list of candidates is understood to include Sir Christopher Gent, the former Vodafone chief and non-executive chairman of GlaxoSmithKline; Sir Christopher Bland, the former BT chairman; the British Airways chairman Martin Broughton; and Niall FitzGerald, the former chief executive of Unilever and deputy chairman of Thomson Reuters.
  • (12) He would replace Sir Christopher Gent, the current chairman, who has indicated he intends to stand down at the end of 2015 after almost 10 years in the role at the pharmaceutical company, which is battling for its reputation in the midst of bribery allegations.
  • (13) Proper gent of radio and Junior Choice was a classic.
  • (14) Ladies, don your pantsuits, and gents, grab your red power ties: we're headed to Washington for the main event.
  • (15) Zenit lead on a maximum nine points after they won 3-1 at home to Lyon, with Gent and Lyon each on one point.
  • (16) What a gent x August 27, 2014 Sue Perkins (@sueperkins) All getting a little inflamed for my liking.
  • (17) Corporate governance codes mean Gent and Broughton would have to give up their chairmanships to take the post.
  • (18) The monster who had caused misery for thousands was the dapper gent serving him sweet tea, playing Cliff Richard records and teaching his grandchildren to care for injured animals.
  • (19) He was one of the very old-school London criminal gents.
  • (20) The dapper gent kicked off his career at 15 in Ernest Hemingway’s old haunt Chicote, before opening this cocktail lounge in 1992.