sport
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
Proto-Italic *dis-
Latin dis-
Anglo-Norman des-
Proto-Indo-European *per-der.
Proto-Indo-European *pr̥téh₂
Proto-Italic *portā
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Proto-Italic *portāō
Latin portāre
Anglo-Norman porter
Anglo-Norman desporterbor.
Middle English disporten
Middle English sporten
English sport
From Middle English sporten (“to divert, disport”, verb) and sport, spoort, sporte (noun), apheretic shortenings of disporten (verb) and disport, disporte (noun), from Old French desporter (“to divert, amuse, please, play; to seek amusement”), etymologically meaning "to carry away (the mind from serious matters)," from des- + porter, from Latin dis- + Latin portāre, ultimately from Latin deportāre, from de- + portāre, from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to lead, pass over”)). Replaced native English laik, lake (“sport, fun, amusement”), and Middle English spile, spyl (“fun, sport, play”). More at disport. Doublet of disport and deport.
Base: porter
Affixes: des-
Inflected forms:
form: sports
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sports
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sporting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sported
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sported
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Basketball is her favorite sport, and she also enjoys various other sports as well.
Sport can be an excellent form of exercise because the competition and sense of achievement can help with both motivation and pleasure.
gloss: A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Jen may have won, but she was sure a poor sport; she laughed at the loser.
The loser was a good sport, and congratulated Jen on her performance.
gloss: Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: You're such a sport! You never get upset when we tease you.
gloss: Something fun, pastime; amusement.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: Think it but a minute spent in sport.
Her sports were such as carried riches of knowledge upon the stream of delight.
The little dog laughed to see such sport, and the dish ran away with the spoon.
gloss: Mockery, making fun; derision.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: Why then make ſport at me, then let me be your ieſt
gloss: A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: flitting leaves, the sport of every wind
Never does man appear to greater disadvantage than when he is the sport of his own ungoverned passions.
gloss: Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, or fishing.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: 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. The term encompasses both mutants and organisms with non-genetic developmental abnormalities such as birth defects.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: We never shot another like it, so I do not know if it was a `sport' or a distinct species.
At Hortus Bulborum you will find heirloom narcissi that date back at least to the 15th century and famous old tulips like 'Duc van Tol' (1595) and its sports.
gloss: A sportsman; a gambler.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
examples: See my dressed like all the sports/In my blazer and a pair of shorts.
gloss: One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
gloss: An amorous dalliance.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
gloss: A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question)
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
singular
uncountable
usually
examples: "Say, sport!" he would say briskly.
gloss: Term of endearment used by an adult for a child, usually a boy.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Hey, sport! You've gotten so big since I saw you last! Give me five.
Tie me kangaroo down, sport/Tie me kangaroo down/Tie me kangaroo down, sport/Tie me kangaroo down.
gloss: Play; idle jingle.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: 1725-1726, William Broome, The Odyssey
An author who should introduce such a sport of words upon our stage […] would meet with small applause.
gloss: To amuse oneself, to play.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: children sporting on the green
gloss: To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Jen sports with Bill's emotions.
He sports with his own life.
gloss: To display; to have as a notable feature.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Jen's sporting a new pair of shoes; he was sporting a new wound from the combat
But despite its plague of tunnels, the run-in on this route is of unusual interest to the locomotive enthusiast: besides the hordes of self-important saddle-tanks shunting in the extensive yards, there was at one time the chance of seeing those slender little North London engines, with their large outside cylinders and no visible storage place for coal, and also an occasional South Eastern locomotive sporting a lot of polished brass.
[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].
He was especially happy to see one of the most important discoveries make it to the screen: dinosaurs that sported feathers. But judging from the emails he has been receiving, some moviegoers did not share his excitement.
gloss: To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
pos: verb
tags: reflexive
examples: Against whom do ye sport yourselves?
gloss: To represent by any kind of play.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Now sporting on thy lyre the loves of youth.
gloss: To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
pos: verb
gloss: 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.
pos: verb
examples: more than one kind of rose has sported into a moss
gloss: To close (a door).
pos: verb
tags: archaic
transitive
examples: There he locked it up in a drawer, sported the doors of both sets of rooms, and retired to bed.
Derived words: action sport
adrenaline sport
adventure sport
adventurous sport
air sport
antisport
ask me one about sport
ask me one on sport
autosport
bad sport
blood sport
boardsport
cardiosport
combat sport
contact sport
cue sport
cuesport
cybersport
cycle sport
dancesport
demonstration sport
disability sport
disabled sport
electronic sport
eSport
e-sport
e-sports
extreme sport
fantasy sports
field sport
flying sport
for sport
good sport
gravity sport
hardsport
individual sport
junk sport
locksport
LudoSport
make-sport
make sport of
mar-sport
mind sport
motorbike sport
motorcycle sport
motorsport
multi-sport
multisport
national sports team
nonsport
old sport
outsport
paddlesport
para-sport
parasport
poor sport
powersport
professional sport
pseudosport
racket sport
radiosport
roller sport
rotisserie sports
snowsport
spectator sport
spoil-sport
spoilsport
spornosexual
sportability
sport acrobatics
sportaholic
sportal
sportbike
sport bike
sport bowling
sport climber
sport climbing
sport coat
sportcoat
sportdiver
sportdiving
sport diving
sportfisherman
sportfishery
sportfishing
sport fish
sportfish
sport-fucking
sportful
Sportianity
sportify
sporting
sportish
sportive
sport jacket
sport-jacketed
sportless
sportlike
sportling
sportly
sport mode
sport of kings
sport of nature
sport pepper
sportpony
sports
sports anorexia
sports bag
sports bar
sports betting
sports bib
sports bra
sportscape
sports car
sports card
sports center
sports centre
sports club
sports cream
sports day
sports drink
sports entertainment
sports fan
sports field
sports final
sports gathering
sports ground
sports jacket
sports-jacketed
sports luxe
sports-luxe
sportsman
sportsmanship
sports medicine
sports mode
sportsome
sports page
sportspeak
sports physiology
sports prototype
sports science
sports supplement
sport stacking
sportster
sportswoman
sports writer
sport truck
sport ute
sport utility vehicle
sport-utility vehicle
sportwear
sportweight
supersport
team sport
trashsport
trash sport
watersport
water sport
wheelchair sport
winter sport
sport one's oak
sport the oak
sport away
unsported
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