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nounPlural spars spɑːspɑr 1A thick, strong pole such as is used for a mast or yard on a ship. Example sentencesExamples - Every point is held together by the spar that sticks up in the center.
- The spars - those are those huge, diagonal sticks hanging from the masts - are the frame for the sails.
- Fearing they would be blown into the island cliffs, the crew furled the main sail, then to lower the ship's profile further, Alexander ordered the main spar lowered.
- Although these canoes are covered with birchbark, this skin, like that of a kayak, is stretched over a framework of ribs and spars.
- 1.1 The main longitudinal beam of an aeroplane wing.
Example sentencesExamples - It had a single two-bladed propeller in the front and high wings secured by a pair of metal spars from the bottom of the fuselage, which was white with a blue stripe to the tail.
- The aircraft has twelve integral fuel tanks installed between the front and back spars in the wings.
- GKN Aerospace of the UK is to supply the complex carbon composite wing spars.
Origin Middle English: shortening of Old French esparre, or from Old Norse sperra; related to Dutch spar and German Sparren. Rhymes aargh, Accra, afar, ah, aha, aide-mémoire, ajar, Alcazar, are, Armagh, armoire, Artois, au revoir, baa, bah, bar, barre, bazaar, beaux-arts, Bekaa, bête noire, Bihar, bizarre, blah, Bogotá, Bonnard, bra, cafard, café noir, Calabar, car, Carr, Castlebar, catarrh, Changsha, char, charr, cigar, comme ci comme ça, commissar, coup d'état, de haut en bas, devoir, Dhofar, Directoire, Du Bois, Dumas, Dunbar, éclat, embarras de choix, escritoire, fah, famille noire, far, feu de joie, film noir, foie gras, Fra, galah, gar, guar, guitar, ha, hah, ha-ha, Halacha, hurrah, hussar, huzza, insofar, Invar, jar, je ne sais quoi, ka, kala-azar, Kandahar, khimar, Khorramshahr, knar, Krasnodar, Kwa, la-di-da, lah, Lehár, Loire, ma, mama, mamma, mar, Mardi Gras, ménage à trois, mirepoix, moire, nam pla, Navarre, noir, objet d'art, pa, pah, Panama, papa, par, Pará, Paraná, pas, pâté de foie gras, peau-de-soie, pietà, Pinot Noir, pooh-bah, poult-de-soie, pya, rah, registrar, Saar, Salazar, Sana'a, sang-froid, scar, schwa, Seychellois, shah, Shangri-La, shikar, ska, sol-fa, spa, star, Starr, Stranraer, ta, tahr, tar, tartare, tata, tra-la, tsar, Twa, Villa, voilà, waratah, yah verbspars, sparred, sparring spɑːspɑr [no object]1Make the motions of boxing without landing heavy blows, as a form of training. one contestant broke his nose while sparring Example sentencesExamples - He spars with him at least three hours in the morning and two hours in the afternoon.
- Usually he'd be here before him, practicing and sparring.
- They were sparring in his father's paddy fields.
- Feeling suddenly claustrophobic, he headed for the training yards, where he sparred half-heartedly with a few others.
- We witness combat between two males sparring over a mate, and the sight of these two massive animals hurtling themselves at each other is amazing.
- We got chatting at the gym and would sometimes spar together.
- Later that evening she stood before her father, prepared to spar in the training hall.
- I sparred with Cassius Clay, as he was called then - I taught him everything he knew.
- Jason, you spar with Denise and I'll spar with Mark.
- It was while using one of these places I first met a sparring bloke, who taught me how to spar, and showed me the way to put my dukes up.
- It wasn't a distraction while sparring, but it was annoying.
- Right now, we'll be practicing some martial arts sparring.
- They begin a round of verbal sparring about their past together, Linklater's camera constantly swivelling to catch all the insults as they fly across the room.
- He wanders into a local gym, sees world welterweight champion Yuri in the ring, and offers to spar with him.
- He's introduced on stage, where amidst the dancers he stands at the end of a row, sparring with a punching bag.
- Truly, though, Shen liked to spar in the training room.
- During those two sparring sessions, Parker clearly got the best of it.
- We were sparring in the afternoon, just like we always do.
- She was not quite up to verbally sparring with Sam yet.
- We trained, sparred, fought, ate, and laughed together ever since childhood.
- She looked up and saw many people in deep concentration, sparring with their partners, trading blows with great speed and accuracy.
- It's like the music in the movies where the hero is training for greatness; sparring in a basement with a punching bag or running like the wind or something.
- Mentally sparring with these leadership thinkers was like going a round with the intellectual heavyweight champion of the world.
- They're merely sparring, feeling each other out, which plays directly into Orson's hands.
- 1.1 Argue with someone without marked hostility.
mother and daughter spar regularly over drink, drugs, and career Example sentencesExamples - By the numbers - doctors, province spar over figures
Synonyms quarrel, argue, have a row/fight, row, fight, disagree, fail to agree, differ, be at odds, have a misunderstanding, be at variance, fall out, dispute, squabble, brawl, bicker, chop logic, wrangle, bandy words, cross swords, lock horns, be at each other's throats, be at loggerheads informal scrap, argufy, spat, have a spat archaic altercate
2(of a gamecock) fight with the feet or spurs.
nounPlural spars spɑːspɑr 1A period or bout of sparring. Example sentencesExamples - This wasn't a spar in the training room in Sunstone.
- They were matching each other move for move in a spar.
- Remembering the spars she had had with the brothers, she smiled.
- Maybe she could beat him in a spar match, but he wouldn't find out until the annual martial arts tournament at school.
2informal A close friend. Buster was his spar and he didn't want to let him down
Origin Old English sperran, spyrran 'strike out', of unknown origin; compare with Old Norse sperrask 'kick out'. nounPlural spars spɑːspɑr usually in combination or with modifier A crystalline, easily cleavable, translucent or transparent mineral.
Derivatives adjective ˈspɑːriˈspɑri Containing or resembling spar, a crystalline, easily cleavable, translucent or transparent mineral. crystals of sparry calcite Example sentencesExamples - The sparry calcite is interpreted as a single phase of precipitation that infilled external moulds of the arthropod.
- Gaps between the marcasite crystals are filled with coarse, sparry calcite.
- Polygonal septarian cracks are filled with sparry calcite cements or micrite matrix.
Origin Late 16th century: from Middle Low German; related to Old English spærstān 'gypsum'. nounspärspɑr 1A thick, strong pole such as is used for a mast or yard on a ship. Example sentencesExamples - The spars - those are those huge, diagonal sticks hanging from the masts - are the frame for the sails.
- Fearing they would be blown into the island cliffs, the crew furled the main sail, then to lower the ship's profile further, Alexander ordered the main spar lowered.
- Every point is held together by the spar that sticks up in the center.
- Although these canoes are covered with birchbark, this skin, like that of a kayak, is stretched over a framework of ribs and spars.
- 1.1 The main longitudinal beam of an airplane wing.
Example sentencesExamples - It had a single two-bladed propeller in the front and high wings secured by a pair of metal spars from the bottom of the fuselage, which was white with a blue stripe to the tail.
- GKN Aerospace of the UK is to supply the complex carbon composite wing spars.
- The aircraft has twelve integral fuel tanks installed between the front and back spars in the wings.
Origin Middle English: shortening of Old French esparre, or from Old Norse sperra; related to Dutch spar and German Sparren. verbspärspɑr [no object]1Make the motions of boxing without landing heavy blows, as a form of training. one contestant broke his nose while sparring Example sentencesExamples - They were sparring in his father's paddy fields.
- They begin a round of verbal sparring about their past together, Linklater's camera constantly swivelling to catch all the insults as they fly across the room.
- We trained, sparred, fought, ate, and laughed together ever since childhood.
- He spars with him at least three hours in the morning and two hours in the afternoon.
- Usually he'd be here before him, practicing and sparring.
- It was while using one of these places I first met a sparring bloke, who taught me how to spar, and showed me the way to put my dukes up.
- Mentally sparring with these leadership thinkers was like going a round with the intellectual heavyweight champion of the world.
- Later that evening she stood before her father, prepared to spar in the training hall.
- We witness combat between two males sparring over a mate, and the sight of these two massive animals hurtling themselves at each other is amazing.
- During those two sparring sessions, Parker clearly got the best of it.
- Truly, though, Shen liked to spar in the training room.
- Jason, you spar with Denise and I'll spar with Mark.
- We got chatting at the gym and would sometimes spar together.
- Right now, we'll be practicing some martial arts sparring.
- She looked up and saw many people in deep concentration, sparring with their partners, trading blows with great speed and accuracy.
- They're merely sparring, feeling each other out, which plays directly into Orson's hands.
- He's introduced on stage, where amidst the dancers he stands at the end of a row, sparring with a punching bag.
- It wasn't a distraction while sparring, but it was annoying.
- We were sparring in the afternoon, just like we always do.
- He wanders into a local gym, sees world welterweight champion Yuri in the ring, and offers to spar with him.
- I sparred with Cassius Clay, as he was called then - I taught him everything he knew.
- She was not quite up to verbally sparring with Sam yet.
- It's like the music in the movies where the hero is training for greatness; sparring in a basement with a punching bag or running like the wind or something.
- Feeling suddenly claustrophobic, he headed for the training yards, where he sparred half-heartedly with a few others.
- 1.1 Engage in argument, typically of a kind that is prolonged or repeated but not violent.
mother and daughter spar regularly over drink, drugs, and career Example sentencesExamples - By the numbers - doctors, province spar over figures
Synonyms quarrel, argue, have a fight, have a row, row, fight, disagree, fail to agree, differ, be at odds, have a misunderstanding, be at variance, fall out, dispute, squabble, brawl, bicker, chop logic, wrangle, bandy words, cross swords, lock horns, be at each other's throats, be at loggerheads - 1.2 (of a gamecock) fight with the feet or spurs.
nounspärspɑr 1A period or bout of sparring. Example sentencesExamples - Remembering the spars she had had with the brothers, she smiled.
- This wasn't a spar in the training room in Sunstone.
- They were matching each other move for move in a spar.
- Maybe she could beat him in a spar match, but he wouldn't find out until the annual martial arts tournament at school.
2informal A close friend.
Origin Old English sperran, spyrran ‘strike out’, of unknown origin; compare with Old Norse sperrask ‘kick out’. nounspärspɑr usually in combination or with modifier A crystalline, easily cleavable, light-colored mineral.
Origin Late 16th century: from Middle Low German; related to Old English spærstān ‘gypsum’. |