What's the difference between smart and swart?

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.

Swart


Definition:

  • (n.) Sward.
  • (a.) Of a dark hue; moderately black; swarthy; tawny.
  • (a.) Gloomy; malignant.
  • (v. t.) To make swart or tawny; as, to swart a living part.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "No serious international lawyer has applauded the US's failure to act in Rwanda," Mia Swart, a professor of international law at the University of Johannesburg, wrote in South Africa's Business Day newspaper "Syria should not be another Rwanda.
  • (2) Sonia Swart, the chief executive of Northampton general hospital NHS trust, said she had asked for her name to be removed.
  • (3) Translocation of outer membrane precursor proteins across the Escherichia coli inner membrane is severely hampered in lipid biosynthetic mutants with strongly reduced phosphatidylglycerol (PG) levels (De Vrije, T., De Swart, R. L., Dowhan, W., Tommassen, J., and De Kruijff, B.
  • (4) The guanine-nucleotide-binding domain (G domain) of elongation factor Tu(EF-Tu) consisting of 203 amino acid residues, corresponding to the N-terminal half of the molecule, has been recently engineered by deleting part of the tufA gene and partially characterized [Parmeggiani, A., Swart, G. W. M., Mortensen, K. K., Jensen, M., Clark, B. F. C., Dente, L. and Cortese, R. (1987) Proc.
  • (5) Meanwhile Dr Jeroen Swart, the world renowned South African physiologist who conducted a range of tests on Chris Froome last year, told the Guardian that, while the renewed attention on the use – and potential misuse – of TUEs was welcome, there were other performance enhancement issues in sport that needed addressing.
  • (6) We obtained an 80% overall agreement between the tests, confirming the levels of agreement reported by Rolak (87%) and Swart and Millac (92%).
  • (7) Swart specifically highlighted the use of cortisone out of competition, especially in cycling to lose weight without losing power, as well as thyroid medication use by runners to control appetite – both of which remain legal despite their apparent benefits.
  • (8) It is closely related to the sequence of protein SCMKB-IIIB3 (Haylett, Swart & Parris, 1971) differing in only four positions.
  • (9) It is homologous with protein SCMKB-IIIB2 (Haylett & Swart, 1969).