What's the difference between coltish and sportive?
Coltish
Definition:
(a.) Like a colt; wanton; frisky.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sudden fame can do strange things to teenagers but, following the 2-1 win against Australia at Sunderland , Sterling and Henderson are confident Rashford will comfortably take it in his rangy, coltish stride.
(2) Photograph: Jill Mead for the Guardian In season four there was an all-female final with a memorable cast: the designer Frances Quinn, who was always having “ideas”; the confident, self-assured Kimberley Wilson, who, to no one’s surprise, knew a word in Japanese for the notion of always being able to push yourself beyond your apparent limits; the coltishly beautiful Ruby Tandoh , who flavoured her bakes with a brooding melancholy.
(3) Daniel Day-Lewis's embodiment of the Great Emancipator, which transcends mere acting and becomes something more like live sculpting, will take every Best Actor statuette and bauble of the spring awards season, without a doubt, and is now the Lincoln to beat; an Elder Lincoln to bookend Henry Fonda's coltish and knock-kneed Young Mr Lincoln in John Ford's exquisite slice of Americana from 1939.
Sportive
Definition:
(a.) Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry.
Example Sentences:
(1) Among the chromosomal rearrangements that occurred during the chromosomal evolution of the sportive lemurs, only those which would generate a pronounced reproductive barrier were considered in relation to the geographic distribution of this genus.
(2) Today more younger patients were operated replacing a destroyed hip joint: the reintegration in professional and sportive activities is a major part of the rehabilitation process.
(3) Of the 149 patients, 130 had been injured in sportive activities and 110 were able to return to some degree of athletics.
(4) They also discuss the problems of muscle atrophy and the time at which sportive activities of varying strains may be taken up again.
(5) It reduces the theoric immobilization time, makes rehabilitation easier as well as the return to sportive and professional activities.
(6) In September 2008 I watched a crowd of no more than a hundred fans of Espérance Sportive Tunis – the major team of the country – take on the riot police in the backstreets around Place de Carthage and Place de Barcelone.
(7) Not only does OLT provide mere survival (among 5 patients with lethal hepatic disease, 4 are alive at 2 years from OLT), it also provides a regained quality of life with a virtually normal (for the price of a daily medication intake) family, professional and sportive life.
(8) Specificity of ultrastructural organization of the skeletal muscle fibers is revealed in connection with sportive specialization.
(9) Schleck is now the favourite for this summer's race and he said: "My goal is to win the Tour de France in a sportive way, being the best of all competitors, not in court.
(10) On account of the fact that the regular wheelchair, above all when "sportively styled", is forcing both legs, i.e.
(11) 5 of those 10 patients were free of complaints during sportive activities 3 years later.
(12) To avoid this and to conserve the sportive ability we recommend the displacement of the tuberositas tibiae to medial and distal.
(13) 10 out of those 11 patients had no complaints during their sportive activities 3 years after this operation.
(14) A retrospective analysis of 29 patients with regard to their sportive activities after operative treatment of osteochondritis dissecans was carried out.
(15) A review of consecutive treatment methods and professional and sportive rehabilitation measures are presented.
(16) On comparison of the West African potto with two other prosimian myoglobins known so far, there were 12 differences between the potto and the galago (East African) and 18 differences between the potto and the sportive lemur (Madagascar).
(17) Graham Little, presenter of ITV4's The Cycle Show I'll be watching stage two at Ballycastle, a beautiful spot and also the start and finish of the Giant's Causeway Coast Sportive that I help organise!
(18) Ergospirometry was performed in 19 children and adolescents operated for tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) to assess their exercise capacity compared to an active non sportive control group.
(19) In 1908, glorifying the sportive energy of combat, the Italian futurist Marinetti called war “the hygiene of the world”.
(20) All patients were able to continue their sportive activity after the excision of the paratenon.