boast vs court

boast

verb
  • To speak of with pride, vanity, or exultation, with a view to self-commendation; to extol. 

  • To play a boast shot. 

  • To dress, as a stone, with a broad chisel. 

  • To brag; to talk loudly in praise of oneself. 

  • To possess something special (e.g. as a feature). 

  • To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required. 

noun
  • A shot where the ball is driven off a side wall and then strikes the front wall. 

  • A brag; ostentatious positive appraisal of oneself. 

  • Something that one brags about. 

court

verb
  • To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract. 

  • To risk (a consequence, usually negative). 

  • To attempt to attract. 

  • To attempt to gain alliance with. 

  • To seek to achieve or win. 

  • To engage in courtship behavior. 

  • To try to win a commitment to marry from. 

  • To engage in behavior leading to mating. 

  • To engage in activities intended to win someone's affections. 

noun
  • An apartment building, or a small development of several apartment buildings. 

  • Attention directed to a person in power; behaviour designed to gain favor; politeness of manner; civility towards someone 

  • A street with no outlet, a cul-de-sac. 

  • An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different buildings; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley. 

  • Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign. 

  • Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical. 

  • one of the two divisions of a tennis, badminton or volleyball court, in which the player or players of each team play 

  • The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or other dignitary; a palace. 

  • The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state. 

  • The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of cases. 

  • The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered. 

  • The session of a judicial assembly. 

  • A place arranged for playing the games of tennis, basketball, handball, badminton, volleyball, squash and some other games 

  • The judge or judges or other judicial officer presiding in a particular matter, particularly as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both. 

  • A housing estate under the House Ownership Scheme. 

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