What's the difference between disport and disportment?

Disport


Definition:

  • (v. i.) Play; sport; pastime; diversion; playfulness.
  • (v. i.) To play; to wanton; to move in gayety; to move lightly and without restraint; to amuse one's self.
  • (v. i.) To divert or amuse; to make merry.
  • (v. i.) To remove from a port; to carry away.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In addition, the static shearing displacement between the tectorial membrane and the organ of Corti, caused by the displacement of the basilar membrane, may partially decouple the hair cells from the tectorial membrane, an event that would explain the tinnitus, recruitment, and perhaps even the disportional loss of speech intelligibility associated with endolymphatic hydrops.
  • (2) But on the first of those two matches in Basel, the Germans fielded numerous reserves, Hungary won 8-3, and Grosics, for once not taking matters too seriously, was culpable on the last two of those goals, disporting himself outside the penalty box.
  • (3) By such an approach, where drug plasma levels are related to drug effects and to the pathophysiological condition, the significance of various factors on drug disportion during development will be better clarified, thus allowing a more rational and safer therapy in the newborn.

Disportment


Definition:

  • (n.) Act of disporting; diversion; play.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In addition, the static shearing displacement between the tectorial membrane and the organ of Corti, caused by the displacement of the basilar membrane, may partially decouple the hair cells from the tectorial membrane, an event that would explain the tinnitus, recruitment, and perhaps even the disportional loss of speech intelligibility associated with endolymphatic hydrops.
  • (2) But on the first of those two matches in Basel, the Germans fielded numerous reserves, Hungary won 8-3, and Grosics, for once not taking matters too seriously, was culpable on the last two of those goals, disporting himself outside the penalty box.
  • (3) By such an approach, where drug plasma levels are related to drug effects and to the pathophysiological condition, the significance of various factors on drug disportion during development will be better clarified, thus allowing a more rational and safer therapy in the newborn.

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