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Sport - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Sport : (noun)
1: an active diversion requiring physical exertion and
competition [syn: athletics]
2: the occupation of athletes who compete for pay
3: someone who engages in sports [syn: sportsman, sportswoman]
4: (biology) an organism that has characteristics resulting
from chromosomal alteration [syn: mutant, mutation, variation]
5: (Maine colloquial) temporary summer resident of inland Maine
6: verbal wit (often at another's expense but not to be taken
seriously); "he became a figure of fun" [syn: fun, play]
(verb)
1: wear or display in an ostentatious or proud manner; "she was
sporting a new hat" [syn: feature, boast]
2: play boisterously; "The children frolicked in the garden";
"the gamboling lambs in the meadows"; "The toddlers romped
in the playroom" [syn: frolic, lark, rollick, skylark,
disport, cavort, gambol, frisk, romp, run
around, lark about]
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Sport : \Sport\ (sp[=o]rt), n. [Abbreviated frm disport.]
1. That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
It is as sport a fool do mischief. --prov. x. 23.
Her sports were such as carried riches of knowledge
upon the stream of delight. --Sir P.
Sidney.
Think it but a minute spent in sport. --Shak.
2. Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision.
Then make sport at me; then let me be your
jest.Shak.
3. That with which one plays, or which is driven about in
play; a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
Flitting leaves, the sport of every wind. --Dryden.
Never does man appear to greater disadvantage than
when he is the sport of his own ungoverned pasions.
--John Clarke.
4. Play; idle jingle.
An author who should introduce such a sport of words
upon our stage would meet with small applause.
--Broome.
5. Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing,
racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked.
6. (Bot. & Zo["o]l.) A plant or an animal, or part of a plant
or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in
the species; an abnormal variety or growth. See Sporting
plant, under Sporting.
7. A sportsman; a gambler. [Slang]
In sport, in jest; for play or diversion. ``So is the man
that deceiveth his neighbor, and saith, Am not I in
sport?'' --Prov. xxvi. 19.
Syn: Play; game; diversion; frolic; mirth; mock; mockery;
jeer.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Sport : \Sport\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sported; p. pr. & vb. n.
Sporting.]
1. To play; to frolic; to wanton.
[Fish], sporting with quick glance, Show to the sun
their waved coats dropt with gold. --Milton.
2. To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be
given to betting, as upon races.
3. To trifle. ``He sports with his own life.'' --Tillotson.
4. (Bot. & Zo["o]l.) To assume suddenly a new and different
character from the rest of the plant or from the type of
the species; -- said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal.
See Sport, n., 6. --Darwin.
Syn: To play; frolic; game; wanton.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Sport : \Sport\, v. t.
1. To divert; to amuse; to make merry; -- used with the
reciprocal pronoun.
Against whom do ye sport yourselves? --Isa. lvii.
4.
2. To represent by any knd of play.
Now sporting on thy lyre the loves of youth.
--Dryden.
3. To exhibit, or bring out, in public; to use or wear; as,
to sport a new equipage. [Colloq.] --Grose.
4. To give utterance to in a sportive manner; to throw out in
an easy and copious manner; -- with off; as, to sport off
epigrams. --Addison.
To sport one's oak. See under Oak, n.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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