Meaning of "purport" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PURPORT

From Anglo-French: contents, from Old French porporter to convey, from por- forth + porter to carry, from Latin portāre.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF PURPORT

purport  [pɜːˈpɔːt]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PURPORT

Purport is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb purport in English.

WHAT DOES PURPORT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of purport in the English dictionary

The first definition of purport in the dictionary is to claim by manner or appearance, esp falsely. Other definition of purport is to signify or imply. Purport is also meaning; significance.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO PURPORT

PRESENT

Present

I purport

you purport

he/she/it purports

we purport

you purport

they purport

Present continuous

I am purporting

you are purporting

he/she/it is purporting

we are purporting

you are purporting

they are purporting

Present perfect

I have purported

you have purported

he/she/it has purported

we have purported

you have purported

they have purported

Present perfect continuous

I have been purporting

you have been purporting

he/she/it has been purporting

we have been purporting

you have been purporting

they have been purporting

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I purported

you purported

he/she/it purported

we purported

you purported

they purported

Past continuous

I was purporting

you were purporting

he/she/it was purporting

we were purporting

you were purporting

they were purporting

Past perfect

I had purported

you had purported

he/she/it had purported

we had purported

you had purported

they had purported

Past perfect continuous

I had been purporting

you had been purporting

he/she/it had been purporting

we had been purporting

you had been purporting

they had been purporting

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will purport

you will purport

he/she/it will purport

we will purport

you will purport

they will purport

Future continuous

I will be purporting

you will be purporting

he/she/it will be purporting

we will be purporting

you will be purporting

they will be purporting

Future perfect

I will have purported

you will have purported

he/she/it will have purported

we will have purported

you will have purported

they will have purported

Future perfect continuous

I will have been purporting

you will have been purporting

he/she/it will have been purporting

we will have been purporting

you will have been purporting

they will have been purporting

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would purport

you would purport

he/she/it would purport

we would purport

you would purport

they would purport

Conditional continuous

I would be purporting

you would be purporting

he/she/it would be purporting

we would be purporting

you would be purporting

they would be purporting

Conditional perfect

I would have purport

you would have purport

he/she/it would have purport

we would have purport

you would have purport

they would have purport

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been purporting

you would have been purporting

he/she/it would have been purporting

we would have been purporting

you would have been purporting

they would have been purporting

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you purport
we let´s purport
you purport

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to purport

Past participle

purported

Present Participle

purporting

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «PURPORT»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «purport» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of purport

aim · allege · assert · bearing · betoken · claim · convey · declare · denote · design · drift · express · gist · idea · implication · imply · import · indicate · intend · intent · intention · maintain · mean · meaning · object · objective · plan · pretend · proclaim · profess · purpose · sense · significance · signify · spirit · suggest · tendency · tenor

TRANSLATION OF PURPORT

Find out the translation of purport to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of purport from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «purport» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 声称
• Translator English - Spanish: pretender
• English: purport
• Translator English - Hindi: मुराद
• Translator English - Arabic: تدعي
• Translator English - Russian: претендует
• Translator English - Portuguese: alegar
• Translator English - Bengali: সারমর্ম
• Translator English - French: prétendre
• Translator English - Malay: Purport
• Translator English - German: vorgeben
• Translator English - Japanese: 主張する
• Translator English - Korean: > 내세우다
• Translator English - Javanese: Purport
• Translator English - Vietnamese: nội dung
• Translator English - Tamil: கருத்து
• Translator English - Marathi: प्राध्यापक
• Translator English - Turkish: meram
• Translator English - Italian: sostenere
• Translator English - Polish: w umowie,
• Translator English - Ukrainian: претендує
• Translator English - Romanian: pretinde
• Translator English - Greek: φιλοδοξούν
• Translator English - Afrikaans: voorgee
• Translator English - Swedish: anspråk
• Translator English - Norwegian: hensikt

8 QUOTES WITH «PURPORT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word purport.

1

Vanna Bonta

It's weird how people who are the least close to me or who've never even met me purport to be experts on the real me; and then, sadly, there are those who could be in touch with me but prefer to gossip with strangers about me instead.

2

William J. Brennan, Jr.

The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.

3

Angela Carter

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.

4

Chris Hardwick

What's more unnerving than magnetism, ghosts, and unpurified water? Gadgetmongers who purport to protect us from metaphysical monsters that go bump in the New Age night.

5

Brit Hume

Some in journalism consider themselves apart from and to some extent above the people they purport to serve.

6

Rosemary Mahoney

I think most memoirs, though they purport to be about this particular time or this person you met, are really about the effect that person or time had on you.

7

J. R. R. Tolkien

I dislike Allegory - the conscious and intentional allegory - yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.

8

Ai Weiwei

The Olympic Games are highly commercialised. They purport to follow the traditions of an ancient athletics competition, but today it is the commercial aspect that is most apparent. I have seen how, through sport, cities and corporations compete against each other for financial gain.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PURPORT»

Discover the use of purport in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to purport and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Purport of Life:

Pranav Chaturvedi. 8. 8. 8. 8. Purport of Life Purport of Life Purport of Life Purport of Life Frustated disheartened disappointed, Frustated disheartened disappointed, Frustated disheartened disappointed, Frustated disheartened disappointed, ...

Pranav Chaturvedi

The Origin, History & Purport of Freemasonry (Extended ...

John Fellows. enclosing the record and comments, to the Rt. Hon. * * *, Earl of * * * *; and for fear of detection by what is technically called an alibi, he dates the letter, without giving the place from whence it was written. May 6, 1696.

John Fellows, 2013

Deleuze & Guattari: New Mappings in Politics, Philosophy, ...

First, a few words on Hjelmslev are in order. For Hjelmslev, there is an unformed thought-mass common to all languages called purport (matter). Unformed purport is formed differently in English ("I do not know") and in French ("Je ne sais pas") ...

Eleanor Kaufman, Kevin Jon Heller, 1998

Discourse in Society: Systemic Functional Perspectives

I have suggested already that purport is a more inclusive concept than context: This was implicit in the claim that an alternative term for describing the social conditions of human existence,' would be 'situation- purport' (see section 2.5).

Peter Howard Fries, Michael Gregory, 1995

Kenya Gazette

The Town Council of Machakos (Taxi-Cab) By-Laws, 1977 The general purport of these By-laws is to regulate and control the movement of taxi-cabs within the town for public interest. The Town Council of Machakos (Parking Places and ...

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The Great Pyramid of Ghizeh: Its Symbolism and Purport

This is a new release of the original 1923 edition.

Francis W. Chapman, 2013

A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for ...

specific treason. Bat, with submission, whatever opinion may be entertained on the other poinl,\ it is quite impossible that your lordships can hold that this indictment is relevant, unless you are satisfied, that the purport of the oath set forth is ...

‎1826

Treatise on Basic Philosophy: Semantics I: Sense and Reference

PURPORT. OR. LOGICAL. ANCESTRY. 2.l. Purport and Gist The purport of a construct, we said in Sec. l , may be regarded as the totality of its conceptual determiners, i.e. the collection of constructs that "define" or prove it. A natural explication ...

M. Bunge, 1974

The Ideal Real: Beckett's Fiction and Imagination

73) . . . incidents that is to say of great formal brilliance and indeterminable purport, (p. 71) Purport is the element belonging to the old ontology ; formal brilliance and distinctness are the elements of the new in this transition. It is the formal ...

Paul Davies, 1994

Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme ...

Among the text writers, Chitty defines purport to be " the substance of an instrument, as it appears to every eye." 1 Chitty C. L. 214. If this be true, purport means the same as tenor. Archbold says, that purport is that which appears on the face.

Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court, Ephraim Williams, Dudley Atkins Tyng, 1850

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PURPORT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term purport is used in the context of the following news items.

Photos purporting to show El Chapo Guzmán after escape surface

This photo purportedly showing El Chapo Guzmán after his Saturday night escape were published by ElBlogDelNarco.com on Sunday. If verified, the photos ... «mySanAntonio.com, Jul 15»

Photos Purport to Show Syrian Church Before and After It Was …

A side-by-side photo montage has emerged that purports to show what a Syrian church in Aleppo looked like before and after it was bombed. The after photo ... «TheBlaze.com, Jul 15»

Islamic State photos purport to show unharmed Palmyra ruins

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Islamic State posted photographs online which it said were taken in the central Syrian city of Palmyra and appeared to show its ancient ruins ... «Yahoo News, May 15»

How Viral History Accounts Are Hurting the Past They Purport to …

Although it only started in March, the Twitter account @MedievalReacts has soared to over 270,000 followers — all because it takes images without attribution ... «Hyperallergic, Apr 15»

Images of alleged 'iPad Pro' purport to show mysterious second port

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Documents purport to show ISIS leader's high school grades

The head of ISIS wasn't the best English student, according to documents posted Wednesday by the German broadcaster ARD. He was better at math and ... «CBS News, Feb 15»

Amazon: Free Cash Flow Not What The Bulls Purport It To Be

financial statements and the consequent discounted cash flow (DCF) based valuations. Largely due to management's ability to successfully skew the discussion ... «Nasdaq, Dec 14»

ELDs vs. harassment: Carrier groups purport benefits for drivers …

PeopleNet_TABLET_InCab_HomeScreen_061913 Upon the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's recent conclusion that use of electronic logging ... «Overdrive Magazine, Nov 14»

Photos posted online purport to show slain Washington state woman …

This image released by the Portland, Ore., Police Bureau, shows David Kalac, 33, who police say is a suspect in the killing of a woman in Port Orchard, Wash., ... «Fox News, Nov 14»

Pro-Kurdish Media Purport to Show Fight for Kobani

NBC News Intense street fighting seen from behind Kurdish lines for Kobani, the Syrian border town targeted and partially occupied by ISIS fighters. Published ... «NBCNews.com, Oct 14»