Comport

Definition: Comport

Comport

Verb

1. Behave well or properly; "The children must learn to behave".

2. Behave in a certain manner; "She carried herself well"; "he bore himself with dignity"; "They conducted themselves well during these difficult times".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "comport" was first used: sometime around 1385. (references)

Synonyms: Comport

Agreement

Verb: be accordant; Adjective: agree, accord, harmonize; correspond, tally, respond; meet, suit, fit, befit, do, adapt itself to; fall in with, chime in with, square with, quadrate with, consort with, comport with; dovetail, assimilate; fit like a glove, fit to a tittle, fit to a T; match; become one; homologate.

Conduct

Bear oneself, behave oneself, comport oneself, demean oneself, carry oneself, conduct oneself, acquit oneself.

Crosswords: Comport

So always comport yourself in a manner befitting - quick! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

For being a bastard with no manners, you haven't a dook of an idea how to comport yourself public-wise, O my brother! (A Clockwork Orange; writing credit: Stanley Kubrick)

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High Tech

• 31x1 Front Panel Emulation Comport Adapter Db25m To Rj48f (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Business

They were able to develop newer, faster, and larger capacity hard disks in the past under licenses from U.S. manufacturers, such as Tandon, Xebec, Epello, and Comport. (references)

Political Economy

Poland

While all major political parties are in favor of Poland joining the EU (which means Poland will have to adjust its laws and regulations to comport with the EU's acquis communautaire), they differ in their level of enthusiasm. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "comport": comport oneself ♦ comport oneslf ♦ comport with. Additional references.

Albanian

sillem (behave, conduct oneself, demean, deport, deport oneself, do, handle, move about, perform, Potter, quit, walk), mbahem (carry, hold, hold on, hold one's own, keep, remit). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تصرف (action, behave, behavior, behaviour, carry, carry on, conduct, conduct oneself, demeanor, demeanour, deport, deport oneself, deportment, disposal, fend, make, make shift, manage, mark out, proceed, rustle up), ‏سلك (bear, behave, cable, conduct oneself, corps, deport, deport oneself, get along, pursue, service), ‏إنسجم مع (agree, get on well with smb., harmonization, jibe, pertain, team). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съгласувам се (agree, concur, coordinate), държа се (acquit oneself, act, bear, bear up, comport oneself, conduct oneself, demean, deport oneself, hold, hold on, hold one's own, quit, stand out, stick, walk). (various references)

Czech

shodovat se (agree, coincide, concur, tally). (various references)

Farsi 

حامل بودن , تحمل کردن (Bear, Bide, Endure, Experience, Stomach, Suffer, Support, Sustain, Tolerate, Undergo, Withstand), سازش کردن (Agree, Assimilate), جوربودن (Accordance, Adhere), رفتار (Behavior, Comportment, Conduct, Demarche, Demeanour, Ethic, Gesture, Manner, Treatment), دربرداشتن (Bear, Comprise, Contain, Embody, Encircle, Entail, Include, Presuppose). (various references)

French

se conduire (conduct, conduct oneself), se comporter (conduct, conduct oneself, court), s'accorder avec (consort with). (various references)

German

sich verhalten (acquit oneself, act, behave, conduct, conduct oneself, demean oneself). (various references)

Greek 

συμμορφούμαι (comply), συμπεριφέρομαι (behave, conduct oneself, demean). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"ת� �"�' (behave, comport oneself, conduct oneself, deport oneself, manage). (various references)

Hungarian

megegyezik (accede, agree, clinch, come to an agreement, compound, concur, to accord, to agree, to covenant, to equal, to gibe, to parallel, to tally, to unite), összefér valamivel. (various references)

Italian

comportarsi (act, behave, carry, conduct, conduct oneself, deport oneself, do, perform). (various references)

Pig Latin

omportcay

Portuguese

conduzir-se, comportar-se (behave, conduct), ser compatível com. (various references)

Romanian

se potrivi (agree, assort, become, befit, coincide, dovetail, fit, hit it off, jump together, register, tally, yoke together), se comporta (bear, behave, carry oneself, comport oneself, demean oneself, deport oneself, do, quit), fi în acord cu. (various references)

Russian 

вести себя (behave, comport oneself, conduct oneself, demean, deport oneself, quit). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vladati se (behave, comport oneself), ponašati se (acquit, behave, conduct oneself, demean, deport oneself). (various references)

Spanish

portarse (bear, behave, carry, perform). (various references)

Swedish

uppföra sig (behave, carry oneself, conduct, conduct oneself, deport oneself). (various references)

Turkish

yakışmak (assort, become, befit, behoove, behove, fit, go together, pertain, suit), uymak (abide by, accommodate oneself, accord, adapt, agree, answer, assort, become, chime, chime in with, coincide, comply, comply with, conform, consist, consort, correlate, correspond, defer, do, do for, fall with, fit, follow, gear, go, go together, go with, harmonize, keep, keep to, match, mate, obey, observe, pertain, quadrate, respect, sort together, Square, square with, string along with, suit, tally, tally with, tone, work in with), bağdaşmak (accord, agree, consort, reach an agreement, Square, square with). (various references)

Ukrainian

узгоджуватися (accord, cohere, conform, consist, cotton, stand together, sympathize), поводитися (act, bear oneself, behave, conduct oneself, handle, treat, walk). (various references)

comportare. (various references)

comporter. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "comport": comported, comporting, comportment, comportments, comports. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Comport" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Combort, comor, Compaor, comparm, compot, compr, computrac, conjort, conort, Cospoir, Gompertz, Mosport, opport. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: compo, compt, coopt, motor, promo, tromp, troop.

-3 letters: comp, coop, coot, corm, crop, moor, moot, mort, poco, poor, port, prom, romp, room, root, roto, toom, torc, toro, trop.

-4 letters: coo, cop, cor, cot, moc, moo, mop, mor, mot, oot, opt, orc, ort, pom, pot, pro, roc, rom, rot, tom, too, top, tor.

-5 letters: mo.

+1 letter: comports.

+2 letters: compactor, comported, ectomorph.

+3 letters: compactors, comparator, compatriot, competitor, comporting, compositor, copromoter, ectomorphs, optometric.

+4 letters: chromoplast, comparators, compatriots, compensator, competitors, comportment, compositors, comptroller, compurgator, computerdom, copromoters, corporatism, ectomorphic, mesotrophic, mucoprotein, noncomputer, photometric, phytochrome, proctodaeum, psychomotor, thermoscope, tomographic.

+5 letters: actinomorphy, apochromatic, chemotropism, chromoplasts, compatriotic, compensators, compensatory, comportments, comptrollers, compurgation, compurgators, computerdoms, contemplator, contemporary, contemporize, corporatisms, cryptogamous, macropterous, microscopist, morphometric, mucoproteins, oophorectomy, paronomastic, photochromic, phytochromes, postorgasmic, postromantic, proclamation, proctodaeums, protoplasmic, thermocouple, thermoscopes, thermotropic.