comport

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So shouldn't the manual / COM6 option be selected instead of "managed by Windows"? it depends on the software you use. some software can use the microsoft intermediate driver directly without need for the comport settings. (google maps, garmin xt ...) others like gpstest require a com port setting.

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  1. transitive verb To conduct or behave (oneself) in a particular manner: Comport yourself with dignity.
  2. intransitive verb To agree, correspond, or harmonize: a foreign policy that comports with the principles of democracy.

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  • It reserves the right to limit comments to those that, in its view, comport with its stated comment policy. —  The Moderate Voice
  • -- All comments must comport with applicable state and federal laws. —  The Moderate Voice
  • Though Chopra has manipulated his followers into accepting his teachings and in the process made himself a very wealthy man (so much for desire causing suffering as basic Buddhism postulates), one can't help notice that Chopra doesn't exactly comport himself by the Eastern dictum that the self does not exist. —  Baltimore Reporter
  • Given the premise that there is, indeed, a natural aristocracy at work in the population, the question must be raised: how should this aristocracy comport itself? —  The Book Of THoTH, Popular Articles from The Archive Category - Zen
  • When the subject is disability its often the case that even smart people in the media will comport themselves with Victorian sentimentality or flat out dunder-headedness. —  Planet of the Blind
 

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comport:   comported
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  1. Middle English comporten, from Old French comporter, to conduct, from Latin comportāre, to bring together : com-, com- + portāre, to carry; see per-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from F. comporter = Provencal Spanish Portuguese comportar = Italian comportare, admit of, allow, endure, from Middle Latin comportare, behave, L. comportare, conportare, bring together, from com-, together, + portare, carry: see port.
  2. from Old French comport = Spanish comporte (obsolete) = Italian comporto; from the verb.
 

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/ˈkɑmpoʊrt/
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