sport vs standard

sport

noun
  • A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship. 

  • Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics. 

  • A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question) 

  • Term of endearment used by an adult for a child, usually a boy. 

  • A sportsman; a gambler. 

  • One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes. 

  • A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery. 

  • Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, fishing. 

  • Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport. 

  • 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. 

verb
  • To display; to have as a notable feature. 

  • To close (a door). 

  • To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with. 

  • 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. 

  • To amuse oneself, to play. 

  • To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races. 

  • To divert; to amuse; to make merry. 

  • To represent by any kind of play. 

standard

noun
  • A level of quality or attainment. 

  • Something used as a measure for comparative evaluations; a model. 

  • The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established for coinage. 

  • The upper petal or banner of a papilionaceous corolla. 

  • The sheth of a plough. 

  • A collar of mail protecting the neck. 

  • A rule or set of rules or requirements which are widely agreed upon or imposed by government. 

  • An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally. 

  • One of the upright members that supports the horizontal axis of a transit or theodolite. 

  • A sturdy, woody plant whose upright stem is used to graft a less hardy ornamental flowering plant on, rather then actually planting it. 

  • Any upright support, such as one of the poles of a scaffold. 

  • A manual transmission vehicle. 

  • A bottle of wine containing 0.750 liters of fluid. 

  • A large drinking cup. 

  • standard idiom, a prestigious or standardized language variety; standard language 

  • A tree of natural size supported by its own stem, and not dwarfed by grafting on the stock of a smaller species nor trained upon a wall or trellis. 

  • A musical work of established popularity. 

  • An object supported in an upright position, such as a lamp standard. 

  • The flag or ensign carried by a military unit. 

  • Grade level in primary education. 

intj
  • An expression of agreement. 

adj
  • Having a manual transmission. 

  • Conforming to the standard variety. 

  • Of a usable or serviceable grade or quality. 

  • As normally supplied (not optional). 

  • Falling within an accepted range of size, amount, power, quality, etc. 

  • Having recognized excellence or authority. 

  • Growing alone as a free-standing plant; not trained on a post etc. 

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