different between comp vs compt

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?mp/

Adjective

comp (not comparable)

1. Clipping of complimentary.

Noun

comp (plural comps)

1. Alternative form of comp.
2. Clipping of competition.
3. (design) Clipping of comprehensive layout, a graphic design showing final proposed layout of text and images.
4. (education) Clipping of comprehensive examination.
5. (Britain, education) Clipping of comprehensive school.
6. Clipping of complimentary ticket or item.
7. Clipping of comparable.
8. (informal) Clipping of compensation.
9. Clipping of composite.

10. Clipping of composition.
11. Clipping of compositor.
    • 1939, Modern Game Breeding and Hunting Club News

      […] Charles, Va., where he worked as a comp for two years. Then back home he went to Snow Hill to produce his own weekly newspaper, the Snow Hill Advocate.

12. Clipping of comptroller (“chief accountant”).
13. (colloquial, dated) Clipping of computer, especially a desktop computer.

    Synonym: 'puter
14. Clipping of compilation.
15. Clipping of computer science, especially an academic program.

    Synonym: comp sci

Translations

Verb

comp (third-person singular simple present comps, present participle comping, simple past and past participle comped)

1. (intransitive, US) To accompany, in music.
   • 2001, Charles Suhor, Jazz in New Orleans: The Postwar Years Through 1970 (page 9)

     He comped lightly and then played a short phrase to begin his solo.

2. (transitive) To compose (a visual design); to make a composite.
3. (transitive) To provide someone with (a complimentary item, such as a ticket).
4. (transitive) To provide a complimentary item, such as a ticket to (someone).
5. Clipping of compile.

Anagrams

• CPOM, POMC

Middle English

Noun

comp

1. Alternative form of kampe

English

Etymology 1

From Latin comptus, past participle of comere (“to care for, comb, arrange, adorn”).

Adjective

compt (comparative more compt, superlative most compt)

1. (obsolete) neat; spruce

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Etymology 2

From French compte.

Noun

compt

1. (obsolete) account; reckoning; computation

Verb

compt (third-person singular simple present compts, present participle compting, simple past and past participle compted)

1. (obsolete) To compute; to count.