{"id":24713,"date":"2017-10-09T19:18:51","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T19:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=24713"},"modified":"2017-10-09T19:18:51","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T19:18:51","slug":"english-biology-one-definition-of-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-biology-one-definition-of-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"English, biology: one definition of <i>sport<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tutoring any subject, definitions are important. The tutor shares a meaning of <i>sport<\/i> he recently discovered.<\/h1>\n<p>The term <em>sport<\/em>, referring to a physical game, is well understood. However, I encountered <em>sport<\/em> used in a horticultural context, so looked it up:<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-family:monospace;font-size:130%;background-color:#bbffdd\">sport <i>(noun)<\/i>: an individual obviously different from its peers &#8211; for example, because of a mutation.<\/div>\n<p style=\"white-space: pre-wrap\"><\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Mish, Frederick C (editor). <i>The Merriam-Webster Dictionary<\/i>. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hortnews.extension.iastate.edu\/2008\/2-6\/CultivarOrVariety.html\">hortnews.extension.iastate.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring any subject, definitions are important. The tutor shares a meaning of sport he recently discovered. The term sport, referring to a physical game, is well understood. However, I encountered sport used in a horticultural context, so looked it up: &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-biology-one-definition-of-sport\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English, biology: one definition of <i>sport<\/i><\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,779,5],"tags":[2536,2537,2535],"class_list":["post-24713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-botany","category-english","tag-biological-definition-of-sport","tag-sport-in-horticulture","tag-what-is-a-sport-in-biology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24713"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24737,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24713\/revisions\/24737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}