different between joke vs sport
joke
English
Etymology
From Latin iocus (“joke, jest, pastime”), from Proto-Italic *jokos (“word, (playful?) saying”), from Proto-Indo-European *yokos (“word, utterance”), from ultimate root Proto-Indo-European *yek- (“to speak, utter”) (of which distant cognates include Proto-Celtic *yextis (“language”) (Breton yezh (“language”) and Welsh iaith (“language”)) and German Beichte (“confession”)). Cognate with French jouer, Italian giocare, Portuguese jogar, Spanish juego and jugar, and Romanian juca.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d???k/
- (US) IPA(key): /d?o?k/
- Rhymes: -??k
Noun
joke (plural jokes)
- An amusing story.
- 1708, John Gay, Wine
- Or witty joke our airy senses moves / To pleasant laughter.
- 1708, John Gay, Wine
- Something said or done for amusement, not in seriousness.
- It was a joke!
- (figuratively) The root cause or main issue, especially an unexpected one
- (figuratively) A laughably worthless thing or person; a sham.
- Your effort at cleaning your room is a joke.
- The president was a joke.
Usage notes
- Adjectives often applied to "joke": old, bad, inside, poor, silly, funny, lame, hilarious, stupid, offensive.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:joke
Coordinate terms
- comedy
- limerick
- parody
- pun
Derived terms
Related terms
- jocular
Descendants
- ? Danish: joke
- ? French: joke
- ? Persian: ????
- ? Japanese: ????, ? Japanese: ??
- ? Welsh: jôc
Translations
Verb
joke (third-person singular simple present jokes, present participle joking, simple past and past participle joked)
- (intransitive) To do or say something for amusement rather than seriously.
- I didn’t mean what I said — I was only joking.
- (intransitive, followed by with) To dupe in a friendly manner for amusement; to mess with, play with.
- Relax, man, I'm just joking with you.
- (transitive, dated) To make merry with; to make jokes upon; to rally.
- to joke a comrade
Related terms
- joker
Translations
See also
- jeer
- mock
Anagrams
- ojek
Danish
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English joke.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?d?j?w??]
Noun
joke c (singular definite joken, plural indefinite jokes)
- joke
Inflection
Synonyms
- spøg
- vits
- vittighed
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English joke.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?d?j?w???], (imperative) IPA(key): [?d?j?w???]
Verb
joke (past tense jokede, past participle joket)
- joke
Inflection
Synonyms
- spøge
French
Etymology
From English joke.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?ok/
- (Quebec) IPA(key): /d?o?k/
Noun
joke f (plural jokes)
- (Louisiana, Quebec) joke
Derived terms
- faire une joke
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sport
English
Etymology
From Middle English sporten (verb) and sport, spoort, sporte (noun), apheretic shortenings of disporten (verb) and disport, disporte (noun). More at disport.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /sp??t/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sp??t/
- (Tasmanian) IPA(key): /sp??/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /spo(?)?t/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /spo?t/
- Rhymes: -??(?)t
Noun
sport (countable and uncountable, plural sports)
- (countable) Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.
- (countable) Something done for fun, regardless of its design or intended purpose.
- (countable) A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
- (countable) Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport.
- (obsolete) That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
- a. 1765, year of origin unknown, Hey Diddle Diddle (traditional rhyme)
- The little dog laughed to see such sport, and the dish ran away with the spoon.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:hobby
- a. 1765, year of origin unknown, Hey Diddle Diddle (traditional rhyme)
- (obsolete) Mockery, making fun; derision.
- (countable) A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
- flitting leaves, the sport of every wind
- a. 1676, John Clarke, On Governing the Temper
- 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.
- (slang, countable) A sportsman; a gambler.
- (slang, countable) One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.
- (obsolete, uncountable) An amorous dalliance.
- (informal, usually singular) A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question)
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:friend
- (obsolete) Play; idle jingle.
- 1725-1726, William Broome, The Odyssey
- An author who should introduce such a sport of words upon our stage […] would meet with small applause.
- 1725-1726, William Broome, The Odyssey
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ???? (sup?tsu) (from sports)
- ? Korean: ??? (seupocheu) (from sports)
Translations
Verb
sport (third-person singular simple present sports, present participle sporting, simple past and past participle sported)
- (intransitive) To amuse oneself, to play.
- (intransitive) To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
- 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious
- He sports with his own life.
- 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious
- (transitive) To display; to have as a notable feature.
- (reflexive) To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
- Against whom do ye sport yourselves?
- (transitive) To represent by any kind of play.
- 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.
- 1860, Charles Darwin, The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication
- more than one kind of rose has sported into a moss
- 1860, Charles Darwin, The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication
- (transitive) To close (a door).
- 1904, M. R. James, The Mezzotint
- There he locked it up in a drawer, sported the doors of both sets of rooms, and retired to bed.
- 1904, M. R. James, The Mezzotint
Translations
Anagrams
- -prost, -prost-, Ports, Prost, ports, strop, torps, trops.
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?sport]
Noun
sport m inan
- sport
Declension
Derived terms
Related terms
- sportovat
- sportovec m
Further reading
- sport in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- sport in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sp?rt/
- Hyphenation: sport
- Rhymes: -?rt
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English sport, from Middle English sport, from Middle English sport, from older disport, from Old French desport. First attested in the 19th century. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun
sport f (plural sporten, diminutive sportje n)
- (countable) A sport; (uncountable) sports.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Middle Dutch sporte, metathesised form of sprote. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun
sport f (plural sporten, diminutive sportje n)
- rung, step on a ladder
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
sport
- first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of sporten
- imperative of sporten
Anagrams
- sprot, strop
Estonian
Noun
sport (genitive spordi, partitive sporti)
- sport, sports
Declension
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English sport.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sp??/
Noun
sport m (plural sports)
- sport
Derived terms
Further reading
- “sport” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??port]
- Hyphenation: sport
- Rhymes: -ort
Noun
sport (plural sportok)
- sport
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- sport in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Italian
Pronunciation
Noun
sport m (invariable)
- sport (activity that uses physical skills, often competitive)
- hobby, pastime
Derived terms
Lower Sorbian
Etymology
Borrowed from English sport.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sp?rt/
Noun
sport m
- sport (athletic activity that uses physical skills)
Declension
References
- sport in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.
Norman
Noun
sport m (plural sports)
- (Jersey) sport (physical activity pitting two or more opponents against each other)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From English sport
Noun
sport m (definite singular sporten, uncountable)
- sport
- Synonym: idrett
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Alternative forms
- spora, sporet
Verb
sport
- past participle of spore
References
- “sport” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From English sport
Noun
sport m (definite singular sporten, uncountable)
- sport
- Synonym: idrett
Derived terms
- hestesport
- kampsport
References
- “sport” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from English sport.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sp?rt/
Noun
sport m inan
- sport
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- sport in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
From French sport.
Noun
sport n (plural sporturi)
- sport
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
- šp?rt (Croatia)
Etymology
Borrowed from English sport.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spôrt/
Noun
sp?rt m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)
- sport
Declension
Derived terms
Swedish
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English sport, first used in 1857.
Pronunciation 1
- IPA(key): /?sp??/
Noun
sport c
- sport
Declension
Derived terms
See also
- idrott
References
- sport in Nationalencyklopedin (needs an authorization fee).
- sport in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Pronunciation 2
- IPA(key): /?sp??/
Verb
sport
- supine of spörja.
Anagrams
- ports, prost, torps
West Frisian
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch sport, from English sport.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sp?(r)t/
Noun
sport c (plural sporten)
- sport (physical activity)
Further reading
- “sport”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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