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What is the difference between sport and meet?

sport | meet |

As adjectives the difference between sport and meet

is that sport is suitable for use in athletic activities or for casual or informal wear while meet is suitable; right; proper.

As nouns the difference between sport and meet

is that sport is (countable) any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics while meet is a sports competition, especially for athletics or swimming.

As verbs the difference between sport and meet

is that sport is to amuse oneself, to play while meet is (senseid)to come face to face with by accident; to encounter.

sport

English

(wikipedia sport)

Noun

  • (countable) Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.
  • (countable) A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
  • * 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.
  • (countable) Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirable manner, a good sport.
  • * You're such a sport ! You never get upset when we tease you.
  • (obsolete) That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Think it but a minute spent in sport .
  • * Sir Philip Sidney
  • Her sports were such as carried riches of knowledge upon the stream of delight.
  • * Hey Diddle Diddle
  • The little dog laughed to see such sport , and the dish ran away with the spoon.
  • (obsolete) Mockery; derision.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Then make sport at me; then let me be your jest.
  • (countable) A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
  • * Dryden
  • flitting leaves, the sport of every wind
  • * John Clarke
  • Never does man appear to greater disadvantage than when he is the sport of his own ungoverned passions.
  • (uncountable) Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, fishing.
  • (biology, botany, zoology, countable) 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.
  • * '>citation
  • (slang, countable) A sportsman; a gambler.
  • (slang, countable) One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.
  • (obsolete, uncountable) An amorous dalliance.
  • * Charlie and Lisa enjoyed a bit of sport after their hike.
  • (informal, usually singular) A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question)
  • * {{quote-magazine
  • , date= , year=1924 , month=July , first= , last= , author=Ellis Butler , coauthors= , title=The Little Tin Godlets , volume=25 , issue=1 , page=14 , magazine=The Rotarian , publisher=Rotary International , issn= citation , passage="Say, sport !" he would say briskly.}}
  • (obsolete) Play; idle jingle.
  • * Broome
  • An author who should introduce such a sport of words upon our stage would meet with small applause.

    Derived terms

    * air sport * blood sport * combat sport * contact sport * cue sport * extreme sport * flying sport * good sport * individual sport * mind sport * motorsport * old sport * poor sport * professional sport * spectator sport * spoilsport * sportsman * sportsmanship * sport jacket * sport stacking * sport utility vehicle * team sport * watersport * wheelchair sport * winter sport

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To amuse oneself, to play.
  • To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
  • * Tillotson
  • He sports with his own life.
  • To display; to have as a notable feature.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Welcome to the plastisphere , passage=[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, […].}}
  • (reflexive) To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
  • * Bible, Isa. lvii. 4
  • Against whom do ye sport yourselves?
  • To represent by any kind of play.
  • * (John Dryden)
  • Now sporting on thy lyre the loves of youth.
  • To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
  • 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.
  • (Darwin)

    Anagrams

    * ports * strop 1000 English basic words ----

    meet

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) meten, from (etyl) . Related to (l).

    Verb

  • (lb) Of individuals: to make personal contact.
  • #(senseid)To come face to face with by accident; to encounter.
  • #:
  • #*
  • , passage=Yesterday, upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today / I wish, I wish he’d go away
  • #To come face to face with someone by arrangement.
  • #:
  • #*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=10 citation , passage=With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.}}
  • #To be introduced to someone.
  • #:
  • #:
  • #*
  • #*:Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
  • #(lb) To French kiss someone.
  • (lb) Of groups: to gather or oppose.
  • #To gather for a formal or social discussion.
  • #:
  • #*
  • #*:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
  • #To come together in conflict.
  • #*:
  • #*:Sir said Epynegrys is þt the rule of yow arraunt knyghtes for to make a knyght to Iuste will he or nyll / As for that sayd Dynadan make the redy / for here is for me / And there with al they spored theyr horses & mett to gyders soo hard that Epynegrys smote doune sir Dynadan
  • #*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • #*:Weapons more violent, when next we meet , / May serve to better us and worse our foes.
  • #*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
  • , volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution , passage=The dispatches
  • #(lb) To play a match.
  • #:
  • (lb) To make physical or perceptual contact.
  • #To converge and finally touch or intersect.
  • #:
  • #*
  • #*:Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile; he could not tell what this prisoner (might do).
  • #To touch or hit something while moving.
  • #:
  • #To adjoin, be physically touching.
  • #:
  • To satisfy; to comply with.
  • :
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= Engineers of a different kind , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.
  • To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer.
  • :
  • *(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
  • *:Of vice or virtue, whether blest or curst, / Which meets contempt, or which compassion first.
  • Usage notes
    In the sense "come face to face with someone by arrangement", meet'' is sometimes used with the preposition ''with in American English.
    Derived terms
    * make ends meet * meet-and-greet * meet-cute * meet halfway * meet one's doom * meet one's maker * meet up * meet with

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A sports competition, especially for athletics or swimming.
  • A gathering of riders, their horses and hounds for the purpose of foxhunting.
  • (rail transport) A meeting of two trains in opposite directions on a single track, when one is put into a siding to let the other cross. (Antonym: a pass.)
  • A meeting.
  • OK, let's arrange a meet with Tyler and ask him.
  • (algebra) the greatest lower bound, an operation between pairs of elements in a lattice, denoted by the symbol (mnemonic: half an M)
  • (Irish) An act of French kissing someone
  • Antonyms
    * (greatest lower bound) join
    Derived terms
    * cornfield meet (train collision) * dual meet * flying meet * meet cute * meet-up/meetup * swim meet * track meet

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) mete, imete, from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (er)
  • suitable; right; proper
  • * (English Citations of "meet")

    References

    * [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=meet&searchmode=none]

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