Discreet or discrete?
These two words sound exactly the same but have different meanings.
Discreet is an adjective, meaning careful or reserved in one’s speech or actions, often to avoid offending someone or to gain an advantage:
- He is very discreet.
- I will make some discreet enquiries for you.
Discrete is an adjective meaning separate, in distinct parts:
- There are five discrete categories.
- The units in digital recordings are discrete.
Tags: confusing words, discreet, discrete
May 2nd, 2008 at 11:27 am
it was so nice to kno d distinct meanings of the two words discreet n discrete.
V may not realise the importance of the difference in the meaning n understand one for the other. However, in many a competitive exams, it has come as questions to evaluate ur verbal ability by asking d students to differentiate n choose the correct word with reference to the context available in the question.
thanks for making this difference appear so subtle n easy.
May 2nd, 2008 at 11:47 am
yes it is realy useful to know something more about some different meaning and its use in normal life
May 2nd, 2008 at 1:53 pm
It was so much useful to know the difference between the two words, also I am afraid that many Spanish speakers had been using it wrong, because it is a false cognate. to be careful in Spanish is “discreto”, so we can
be used discret in a wrong way.
May 3rd, 2008 at 6:40 am
thanks for these nice,useful information.please keep me on touch!
May 4th, 2008 at 11:42 am
It seems new information to me
thanks alot
May 4th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Thanks
May 5th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Thanks for this explanation. Well, I know 2 more English words in order to enrich my vocabulary.
May 6th, 2008 at 4:48 am
Thanks a lot
i love these words
May 6th, 2008 at 5:51 am
Thanks for interesting information. You make an important contribution to our knowlege.
May 6th, 2008 at 12:54 pm
Homonyms always cause truobles even in our native language.
Thanks a lot for useful information
May 6th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
Hi,Thanks Joe so much! ))) I love to enlarge my vocabulary in order to improve my English..
May 6th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
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May 7th, 2008 at 2:38 am
Wow being an English lecturer I’ve never realised the difference of these 2 words, though I use discreete often but never discrete. Its very informative and refreshing. Please highlight more of these type of words, useful to use in lecture’s quizz.
May 10th, 2008 at 4:28 pm
Thank you for such a helpful piece of information. Hope you will continue publishing short and understandable articles on various items, especially words easily confused.
May 10th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
thanks for these confusing words, you know when someone deals with such confusing words , he feels that he has a good account, i.e. rich, thank u for enriching us,thanks for your generosity.
May 10th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
thanks it useful words which some time we canot relaise what mean.
May 11th, 2008 at 7:23 am
These words can be confusing if not understood by students as well as teachers. Thank you for the information.
May 11th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Thanks for your very nice information about these confusing words, you make an important contribution to my knowlege.
May 12th, 2008 at 12:08 am
Thank you,this information about differences in meaning is always very useful.
May 15th, 2008 at 7:26 am
thanks alot for the information about the differences.
you really enrich our background of meanings
May 16th, 2008 at 4:32 am
it is really a good to know the words so one can use it appropriately.
thanks
May 17th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
I wonder how English Language have all that………..
May 18th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
thank you for your explanation. It’s very useful for Portuguese speaking learners and teachers.
May 19th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
Good job! that is the word of the day!
May 21st, 2008 at 6:09 am
THANK YOU , THATS MORE INFORMATIVE
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:37 pm
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Thanks a lot
alaaayman
May 23rd, 2008 at 6:17 am
Thank you very much . I know another way to enrich my blog : Egyptsuccessland . Indeed ESL blogs is a better chance to know the best friends who help us learn and teach English well.
Thanks a lot
alaaayman
May 28th, 2008 at 4:17 am
Hi, teacher Joe
Would you mind telling me more information about the folowing words:reason , consequence , result?
Thanks a lot,
alaaayman
May 28th, 2008 at 4:25 am
Hi, teacher Joe
What is the best to say:
Could you ,please, tell me some information about computer?,
could you tell me some information about computer , please?,
Please , could you tell me some information about computer ?or
could you tell me some information about computer?
Wait from you,
alaaayman
June 16th, 2008 at 1:51 am
good to know this.
thanks
Nina
June 24th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
Awsome! It helped me a lot to improve and enlarge my vocabulary. TKX!!
June 24th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Teacher Joe,
I need to do my final writting for my English course but I really don’t know what to write about yet… I thought about ‘techniques for using music to teach L2 student’…Do u have something about that could helpe me? If yes, please e.mail me!
June 25th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Dear sir,
I remmbered one of 7 secrets that you submitted on your websit which says improve your vocabukary 5 word a day at least .
All my respect and alot of thanks on these great informations to improve our language .
I really love the way that you do it to benefit us and to know
the differences of meaning words .
BTW I saved all your lessons on my computre and I feel happy and proud when I show my friends the new inforamtion that I learned from you .
waiting more
Thanks Alots
Wafa
June 26th, 2008 at 10:08 am
Solange: I think you want Teacher Joe, it’s a different blog:
http://eslblogs.englishclub.com/teacherjoe/
Good luck with your project!