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Distorts vs Disports - What's the difference?

distorts | disports |

As verbs the difference between distorts and disports

is that distorts is (distort) while disports is (disport).

distorts

English

Verb

(head)
  • (distort)

    • distort

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To bring something out of shape.
  • (ergative) To become misshapen.
  • To give a false or misleading account of
    • In their articles, journalists sometimes distort the truth.

    Related terms

    * distorted (pos a) * distortion

    Derived terms

    * distorter

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) distorted; misshapen
  • * Spenser
    • Her face was ugly and her mouth distort .

    disports

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (disport)

    • disport

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (ambitransitive) to amuse oneself divertingly or playfully; to cavort or gambol
  • * Buckle
    • They could disport themselves.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • where light disports in ever mingling dyes
  • * Byron
    • Childe Harold basked him in the noontide sun, / Disporting there like any other fly.
  • to display ostentatiously
  • To remove from a port; to carry away.
    • (Prynne)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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)
    • ... 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.

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