APTS

Noun

apts

plural of apt

Anagrams

• ATSP, PATs, PSAT, PTAs, PTSA, TAPs, TPAs, Taps, past, pats, spat, stap, taps

Noun

APTs

plural of APT

Anagrams

• ATSP, PATs, PSAT, PTAs, PTSA, TAPs, TPAs, Taps, past, pats, spat, stap, taps

Proper noun

APTS

(transport) Initialism of Advanced Public Transportation Systems.

Anagrams

• ATSP, PATs, PSAT, PTAs, PTSA, TAPs, TPAs, Taps, past, pats, spat, stap, taps

Source: Wiktionary


APT

Apt, a Etym: [F. apte, L. aptus, fr. obsolete apere to fasten, to join, to fit, akin to apisci to reach, attain: cf. Gr. apta fit, fr. ap to reach attain.]

1. Fit or fitted; suited; suitable; appropriate. They have always apt instruments. Burke. A river . . . apt to be forded by a lamb. Jer. Taylor.

2. Having an habitual tendency; habitually liable or likely; -- used of things. My vines and peaches . . . were apt to have a soot or smuttiness upon their leaves and fruit. Temple. This tree, if unprotected, is apt to be stripped of the leaves by a leaf-cutting ant. Lubbock.

3. Inclined; disposed customarily; given; ready; -- used of persons. Apter to give than thou wit be to ask. Beau. & Fl. That lofty pity with which prosperous folk are apt to remember their grandfathers. F. Harrison.

4. 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. Live a thousand years, I shall not find myself so apt to die. Shak. I find thee apt . . . Now, Hamlet, hear. Shak.

Syn.

– Fit; meet; suitable; qualified; inclined; disposed; liable; ready; quick; prompt.

Apt, v. t. Etym: [L. aptare. See Aptate.]

Definition: To fit; to suit; to adapt. [Obs.] " To apt their places." B. Jonson. That our speech be apted to edification. Jer. Taylor.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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