Dictionary Definition
apt adj
1 at risk of or subject to experiencing something
usually unpleasant; "he is apt to lose"; "she is liable to forget"
[syn: apt(p), liable(p)]
2 mentally quick and resourceful; "an apt pupil";
"you are a clever man...you reason well and your wit is bold"-Bram
Stoker [syn: clever]
3 (usually followed by `to') naturally disposed
toward; "he is apt to ignore matters he considers unimportant"; "I
am not minded to answer any questions" [syn: apt(p), disposed(p),
given(p),
minded(p),
tending(p)]
4 being of striking appropriateness and
pertinence; "the successful copywriter is a master of apposite and
evocative verbal images"; "an apt reply" [syn: apposite, appropriate, pertinent]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From apte < aptus, from obsolete apere, "to fasten, to join, to fit", akin to apisci "to reach, attain": compare with Greek ἅπτειν (haptīn) "to fasten" and Sanskrit आप्त (āpta) "fit", from आप् (āp) "to reach, attain".Pronunciation
- /æpt/
- Rhymes with: -æpt
Adjective
- Fit or fitted; suited; suitable; appropriate.
- Tonight there’s a full moon, which is apt, since the election night will bring out the lunatics.
- Having a habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely;
disposed towards—used of persons or things.
- This tree, if unprotected, is apt to be stripped of its leaves by a leaf-cutting ant.
- Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do something); quick
to learn; prompt; expert; as, a pupil apt to learn; an apt scholar.
- An apt wit. —Johnson.
- (Although I) live a thousand years, I shall not find myself so apt to die. —Shakespeare
- An apt wit. —Johnson.
Synonyms
Translations
Fit or fitted; suited; suitable; appropriate
Having an habitual tendency; habitually liable
or likely; disposed towards
- German: geneigt
Ready; especially fitted or qualified (to do
something); quick to learn; prompt; expert
Extensive Definition
APT or Apt may refer to:
People
- Jerome Apt, Ph.D. (born 1949), an American astronaut
- Allison Apt (born 1984), an Israel Supermodel
Places
- Apt,
Vaucluse, a commune of the Vaucluse département of France
- Arrondissement of Apt, in the Vaucluse département of France
- APT, a nightclub in Manhattan's Meatpacking District
Companies
- Apt Records, a subsidiary record label of ABC-Paramount Records
- APT Corporation, a manufactuer of audio components
- Apt (design agency), Norway's leading interactive design agency
- Apt Designhttp://www.aptdesignonline.com, a small graphic and web design firm owned by Brad Fitzgerald
Organizations
- Alabama Public Television, a network of Public Broadcast TV stations
- American Players Theatre, a classical theater located in Spring Green, Wisconsin
- American Public Television, a television program provider in the United States
- Applied Probability Trust, a UK-based non-profit-making foundation for study and research in the mathematical sciences
- Art in Perpetuity Trust, a London-based charity
- ASEAN Plus Three, an international organisation
- Association for Public Transportation, a Boston-based nonprofit organization
Medicine
Transport
- Advanced Passenger Train, an ambitious passenger train designed during late 1970s; also British Rail APT-E, the prototype unit
Technology
- Animation Photo Transfer, a process whereby photography is used in the production of celluloids
- Applied Photon Technology, a California-based manufacturer of arc and flash lamp discharge devices
- Atom-Probe Tomography, an atomic-resolution microscopy technique
- Attached Proton Test, a technique used in Carbon-13 NMR spectroscopy
- Automatic Picture Transmission, a weather satellite system
- Automatic self-cleaning Public Toilet, a self-cleaning public toilet
Computing
- APT (programming language), a high-level computer programming language
- Advanced Packaging Tool, Debian's high-level package management system, also used by other Linux distributions
- Almost Plain Text, a wiki-like syntax used by Apache Maven
- annotation processing tool, a utility for executing annotation processors in the Java programming language
Other
- Apartment, a self-contained housing unit that occupies only part of a building
- APT (film), a 2006 South Korean horror film
- Apt meteorite of 1803, which fell in Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France (see Meteorite falls)
- Appointment, Promotion, Tenure, a set of policies and procedures used by a university or college to determine rank or advancement for faculty
- Arbitrage pricing theory, a financial modeling theory
apt in German: APT
apt in Spanish: APT
apt in French: APT
apt in Korean: APT
apt in Italian: APT
apt in Dutch: APT
apt in Portuguese: APT
apt in Finnish: APT
apt in Swedish: APT
apt in Chinese: Apt
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Daedalian, a propos, ad rem,
adapted, adept, adroit, alert, applicable, apposite, appropriate, apropos, artistic, authoritative, becoming, befitting, bent, brainy, bravura, bright, brilliant, clean, clever, comely, compelling, convincing, coordinated, correct, crack, crackerjack, cunning, cute, daedal, decisive, deft, dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic, disposed, dispositioned, docile, dovetailing, educable, exact, excellent, expeditious, expert, facile, fair, fancy, felicitous, fit, fitted, fitting, foreseeable, formable, geared, gifted, given, good, goodish, graceful, handy, happy, hopeful, immediate, impressionable, in the
cards, in the mood, inclined, ingenious, inspired, instant, instantaneous, instructable, intelligent, just, just right, keen, keen-witted, liable, likely, magisterial, malleable, masterful, masterly, meet, meshing, minded, moldable, motivated, neat, nice, nimble, nimble-witted, no
dumbbell, no mean, not born yesterday, odds-on, on the button,
opportune, pat, pertinent, plastic, pliable, politic, precise, predictable, predictable
within limits, predisposed, presumable, presumptive, probable, professional, proficient, promising, prompt, prone, proper, punctual, qualified, quick, quick-thinking,
quick-witted, quite some, ready, receptive, relevant, resourceful, right, ripe for instruction,
schoolable, scintillating, seasonable, seemly, sharp, sharp-witted, skillful, slick, smart, some, sortable, speedy, statesmanlike,
statistically probable, steel-trap, stylish, suitable, suited, suiting, summary, susceptible, swift, tactful, tailored, talented, teachable, telling, the compleat, the
complete, thirsty for knowledge, to the point, to the purpose,
trainable, verisimilar, virtuoso, well-chosen,
well-done, well-expressed, well-put, willing, workmanlike