What's the difference between outsmart and smart?

Outsmart


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Virgin Trains has not been liked by the DfT because the department holds the view that it has been outsmarted and outgunned in commercial negotiations in previous years.
  • (2) "If you want to get on, certainly in tabloid journalism, then you have to outsmart the criminals and outsmart all these lawyers who are in it for the money.
  • (3) For more than a month, Russians around the country have been buying up candles and matches, salt and torches in an effort to outsmart the apocalypse some believe will come when the Mayan calendar runs out on Friday .
  • (4) Luckily for the viewer, if not for Breslin, he's not so easily outsmarted.
  • (5) In the process, he must figure out how to outsmart his captor and escape.
  • (6) There are no easy games in this competition.” South Africa’s Fourie du Preez, who plays his club rugby in Japan, described the result as the low point of his career and said the Springboks had been outsmarted.
  • (7) The reflex reaction to an act of mass terror was not to outsmart, out-think and marginalise the new enemy – it was to get even by being even more violent, lawless and vicious, leading Nato into the Afghan quagmire, and the coalition in Iraq.
  • (8) Murdoch, who knows how to outsmart his enemies, moved to gain control of events by saying he would withdraw his undertaking to spin off Sky News 30 minutes before Hunt spoke.
  • (9) There’s another Gypsy world champion.” Billy Joe Saunders outsmarts Andy Lee to win WBO middleweight title Read more He had just dethroned his fellow Traveller Andy Lee over 12 tense rounds, decking him twice in the third, but he was aware, too, that the media have been hunting down every squeak and indiscretion of the first member of their community to win a world heavyweight title, Tyson Fury.
  • (10) "Not even a big agent like Jorge Mendes can outsmart me," Zahovic told DNvevnik.
  • (11) It wasn't that I was being outsmarted necessarily, but I just felt different.
  • (12) Sherlock outsmarted the competition with almost 8 million viewers tuning into watch the climax of the super sleuth's battle against arch nemesis Moriarty in the final episode on Sunday night.
  • (13) Yet the teetotaller, a traditional Zulu with four wives and 21 children, has outsmarted and outmanoeuvred every political rival to retain an iron grip on the governing party.
  • (14) The studios are normally in the running; but they've been outsmarted in the recent past."
  • (15) They just outsmarted us.” The Springbok captain, Jean de Villiers, told the BBC that South Africa could still bounce back.
  • (16) "I feel sorry for him, the other parties outsmarted him," Narayan said.
  • (17) Interview Part two: On Lionel Messi, Teddy Sheringham and outsmarting defenders Guardian US sports has live minute-by-minute coverage of all MLS playoff games, including the second leg of LA Galaxy vs Real Salt Lake
  • (18) Even when Lawson became chancellor and Peter Walker succeeded him at energy, Lawson still played a crucial role in trying to outsmart Rooke.
  • (19) But it is still being outsmarted by Aldi, Lidl and domestic chains such as Musgrave’s SuperValu.
  • (20) A ll but lost in the excitement of Everton not only winning at Manchester United for the first time in more than 20 years but having a left-back in the opposition penalty area in the 86th minute looking to score a goal was the consideration that Roberto Martínez outsmarted David Moyes in the transfer window as well as on the Old Trafford pitch.

Smart


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To feel a lively, pungent local pain; -- said of some part of the body as the seat of irritation; as, my finger smarts; these wounds smart.
  • (v. i.) To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil.
  • (v. t.) To cause a smart in.
  • (v. i.) Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles.
  • (v. i.) Severe, pungent pain of mind; pungent grief; as, the smart of affliction.
  • (v. i.) A fellow who affects smartness, briskness, and vivacity; a dandy.
  • (v. i.) Smart money (see below).
  • (v. i.) Causing a smart; pungent; pricking; as, a smart stroke or taste.
  • (v. i.) Keen; severe; poignant; as, smart pain.
  • (v. i.) Vigorous; sharp; severe.
  • (v. i.) Accomplishing, or able to accomplish, results quickly; active; sharp; clever.
  • (v. i.) Efficient; vigorous; brilliant.
  • (v. i.) Marked by acuteness or shrewdness; quick in suggestion or reply; vivacious; witty; as, a smart reply; a smart saying.
  • (v. i.) Pretentious; showy; spruce; as, a smart gown.
  • (v. i.) Brisk; fresh; as, a smart breeze.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Pint from £2.90 The Duke Of York With its smart greige interior, flagstone floor and extensive food menu (not tried), this newcomer feels like a gastropub.
  • (2) Never become so enamored of your own smarts that you stop signing up for life’s hard classes.
  • (3) "He's defined by being himself, by being smart, by being a good athlete," Goldwater said of Keller.
  • (4) Advancing the health and rights of women is the right – and smart – thing to do for any nation hoping to remain or emerge as a leader on the global stage.
  • (5) By way of encouragement we've got 10 copies of Faber's smart new anniversary edition to give away.
  • (6) It’s likely Xi’s brand of smart authoritarianism will keep not just his party in power but the whole show on the road If all this were to succeed as intended, western liberal democratic capitalism would have a formidable ideological competitor with worldwide appeal, especially in the developing world.
  • (7) These letters are also written during a period when Joyce was still smarting from the publishing difficulties of his earlier works Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” Gordon Bowker, Joyce’s biographer, agreed: “Joyce’s problem with the UK printers related to the fact that here in those days printers were as much at risk of prosecution on charges of publishing obscenities as were publishers, and would simply refuse to print them.
  • (8) I could just banish the app from my phone forever, but deleting a piece of smart tech that makes my life easier doesn’t feel very satisfying.
  • (9) I buy ‘smart price’, own-brand cornflakes, rather than Kellogg’s, and I still get to the checkout and think, ‘That’s come to a lot again.’” Are you Daniel Blake?
  • (10) If you're sincere and smart and genuine and lovable that's what's going to come across in your videos and tweets."
  • (11) In a statement, Fisher Price said: “We recently learned of a security vulnerability with our Fisher-Price WiFi-connected Smart Toy Bear.
  • (12) Can consoles still survive in a rapidly changing business where smartphones, tablets and smart TVs, and now Steam Machines, are threatening?
  • (13) Snapchat is also thinking about new devices, launching a Snapchat Micro app for Samsung's Galaxy Gear smart watch in September, capable of shooting pics and videos with the device's camera, then sharing them.
  • (14) There were signs of encouragement early in the second half from Sunderland, and they should have pulled one back only for a terrible call from the assistant referee Eddie Smart.
  • (15) In Drosophila melanogaster new tester strains for the somatic mutation and recombination test (SMART) in the wing were constructed with the aim of increasing the metabolic capacity to activate promutagens.
  • (16) And there are plenty who think that, as our libel laws are cleaned up, smart lawyers are switching horses to privacy.
  • (17) I think the heart of good comedy really lives in truth and reacting to the absurdities, hypocrisies, abuses of power in the world.” Late night television is a no longer a glass of warm milk before bed, it’s a lunch buffet And as TV viewership declines and internet virality becomes as important as real-time eyeballs, cable networks might find that topical comedy is a smart, cost-effective way to grab cross-platform attention.
  • (18) With cities moving markets, joint procurement standards generate great potential for economies of scale, from buses to smart street lighting.
  • (19) A smart city would use IT to manage traffic so air stays fit to breathe.
  • (20) Pitched as a "smart" calendar, it's easy to create appointments and events, and ties in neatly with the developer's separate Any.do to-do lists app.