overt
adjEtymology
From Middle English overt, uverte (“open, uncovered; unfastened; accessible, unobstructed; clear, manifest”), from Anglo-Norman overt, Middle French ouvert, Old French overt, ouvert, uvert (“opened”) (modern French ouvert), past participle of Anglo-Norman, Old French ovrir, ouvrir, uvrir (“to open”), from Late Latin operire, variant of Latin aperīre (“to open”), from aperiō (“to open, uncover”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“away; from”) + *h₂wer- (“to cover, shut”). The English word is a doublet of apert and ouvert.
Definitions
Open and not concealed or secret.
Disclosed.
- Arg. an eagle rising wings overt inverted sa. armed or. HILTOFTE, V.
An action or condition said to be detrimental to one’s own survival and thus unethical
An action or condition said to be detrimental to one’s own survival and thus unethical; the consciousness of such behaviour.
- Scientologists are sure that the person must have “overts” against Scientology, therefore nothing a former member says can be trusted.
- Masturbation is an overt—strictly forbidden in Scientology, as Hubbard believed that it can slow one’s process to enlightenment.
The neighborhood
Derived
market overt, nonovert, overtly, overtness, overt prestige, pound overt, semiovert, unovert
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at overt. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at overt. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at overt
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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