Die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "apt" kan afhang van die konteks, maar hier is 'n paar moontlike definisies:
Geskik of gepas vir 'n spesifieke doel of situasie: "Hy het 'n aanleg vir tale" of "Daardie opmerking was baie gepas gegewe die omstandighede."
Waarskynlik of geneig om iets te doen: "Sy is geneig om haar sleutels te vergeet" of " Hy is geneig om sy mening te sê."
Vinnig om te leer of te verstaan: "Die studente in daardie klas is baie bekwaam in wiskunde" of "Sy het 'n geskikte verstand vir wetenskap ."
Slim of vaardig: "Hy het 'n gepaste waarneming oor die situasie gemaak" of "Sy het 'n gepaste talent vir musiek."
Oor die algemeen word "geskik" dikwels gebruik om iemand of iets te beskryf wat besonder goed geskik of bekwaam is in 'n sekere area of situasie.
1. DRINK AND KEEP YOUR FINGERS CROSSED would have been a more apt epitaph, Sant reckoned.
2. When, in the course of his composition, he arrived at a break in his subject which would naturally require a pause, or a point, he would be exceedingly apt to run his characters, at this place, more than usually close together.
3. But, as is commonly said, one evil calls up another and the end of one misfortune is apt to be the beginning of one still greater, and so it proved in my case for my worthy servant, until then so faithful and trusty when he found me in this lonely spot, moved more by his own villainy than by my beauty, sought to take advantage of the opportunity which these solitudes seemed to present him, and with little shame and less fear of God and respect for me, began to make overtures to me and finding that I replied to the effrontery of his proposals with justly severe language, he laid aside the entreaties which he had employed at first, and began to use violence.
4. Camilla was struck with alarm at hearing what Lothario said, and with much anger, and great good sense, she reproved him and rebuked his base design and the foolish and mischievous resolution he had made but as woman has by nature a nimbler wit than man for good and for evil, though it is apt to fail when she sets herself deliberately to reason, Camilla on the spur of the moment thought of a way to remedy what was to all appearance irremediable, and told Lothario to contrive that the next day Anselmo should conceal himself in the place he mentioned, for she hoped from his concealment to obtain the means of their enjoying themselves for the future without any apprehension and without revealing her purpose to him entirely she charged him to be careful, as soon as Anselmo was concealed, to come to her when Leonela should call him, and to all she said to him to answer as he would have answered had he not known that Anselmo was listening.
5. Nor will it be a sufficient excuse to say that the chief object well-ordered governments have in view when they permit plays to be performed in public is to entertain the people with some harmless amusement occasionally, and keep it from those evil humours which idleness is apt to engender and that, as this may be attained by any sort of play, good or bad, there is no need to lay down laws, or bind those who write or act them to make them as they ought to be made, since, as I say, the object sought for may be secured by any sort.
6. Seward is loved not only by his household and his friends, but even by his patients, who, being some of them hardly in mental equilibrium, are apt to distort causes and effects.
7. I am so worried in my mind that I am apt to be irritable.
8. Emma could not think it too soon for with all his good and agreeable qualities, there was a sort of parade in his speeches which was very apt to incline her to laugh.
9. A simple name, but an apt description of the interior.
10. But if I should describe the kitchen grate, the prodigious pots and kettles, the joints of meat turning on the spits, with many other particulars, perhaps I should be hardly believed at least a severe critic would be apt to think I enlarged a little, as travelers are often suspected to do.