Whimsy vs Sport - What's the difference?
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A quaint and fanciful idea. A whim. Playfully odd behaviour.
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An impulsive, illogical or capricious character.
(mining) A whim.
To fill with whimsies or whims; to make fantastic; to craze.
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(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.
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(obsolete) Mockery; derision.
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(countable) A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
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(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.
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(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)
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(obsolete) Play; idle jingle.
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To amuse oneself, to play.
To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
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To display; to have as a notable feature.
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, title= (reflexive) To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
* Bible, Isa. lvii. 4
To represent by any kind of play.
* (John Dryden)
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.
In transitive terms the difference between whimsy and sport
is that whimsy is to fill with whimsies or whims; to make fantastic; to craze while sport is to represent by any kind of play.As an acronym SPORT is
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Alternative forms
* whimseyNoun
(en-noun)- The whimsies of poets and painters. — Ray.
- Men's folly, whimsies , and inconstancy. — Swift.
- Mistaking the whimseys of a feverish brain for the calm revelation of truth. — Bancroft.
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Verb
- To have a man's brain whimsied with his wealth.
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(wikipedia sport)Noun
- 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.
- Then make sport at me; then let me be your jest.
- 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.
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- 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 sportVerb
(en verb)- He sports with his own life.
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- Against whom do ye sport yourselves?
- Now sporting on thy lyre the loves of youth.
- (Darwin)