Distort vs Disport - What's the difference?
distort | disport |
To bring something out of shape.
(ergative) To become misshapen.
To give a false or misleading account of
(obsolete) distorted; misshapen
* Spenser
(ambitransitive) to amuse oneself divertingly or playfully; to cavort or gambol
* Buckle
* Alexander Pope
* Byron
to display ostentatiously
To remove from a port; to carry away.
(archaic) A pastime; anything which diverts one from serious matters; a game; sport; relaxation, recreation; entertainment; amusement
(obsolete) Fun; gaiety; merriment; mirth; joy
(obsolete) Deportment; bearing; carriage.
(obsolete) orientation; elevation; bearing.
* 1662 , Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World (Dialogue Two)
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between distort and disport
is that distort is (obsolete) distorted; misshapen while disport is (obsolete) orientation; elevation; bearing.As verbs the difference between distort and disport
is that distort is to bring something out of shape while disport is (ambitransitive) to amuse oneself divertingly or playfully; to cavort or gambol.As an adjective distort
is (obsolete) distorted; misshapen.As a noun disport is
(archaic) a pastime; anything which diverts one from serious matters; a game; sport; relaxation, recreation; entertainment; amusement.distort
English
Verb
(en verb)- In their articles, journalists sometimes distort the truth.
Derived terms
* distorterAdjective
(en adjective)- Her face was ugly and her mouth distort .
disport
English
Verb
(en verb)- They could disport themselves.
- where light disports in ever mingling dyes
- Childe Harold basked him in the noontide sun, / Disporting there like any other fly.
- (Prynne)
Noun
(en noun)- ... shooting a bullet ... out of a Culverin towards the East, and afterwards another, with the same charge, and at the same elevation or disport towards the West.