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spar
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /sp??/
- (US) IPA(key): /sp??/, [sp??], [sp??]
- Rhymes: -??(?)
- Homophone: spa (in non-rhotic accents)
Etymology 1
From Middle English sparre (“spar, rafter, beam”) (noun), sparren (“to close, bar”) (verb), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sparrô (“stake, beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)par- (“beam, log”). Compare Dutch spar (“balk”), German Sparren (“rafter, spar”), Danish sparre (“spar”), Albanian shparr, shpardh (“kind of oak”). Perhaps also compare spear, park.
Noun
spar (plural spars)
- A rafter of a roof.
- A thick pole or piece of wood.
- (obsolete) A bar of wood used to fasten a door.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.11:
- The Prince staid not his aunswere to devize, / But, opening streight the Sparre, forth to him came […].
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.11:
- (nautical) Any linear object used as a mast, sprit, yard, boom, pole or gaff.
- (aeronautics) A beam-like structural member that supports ribs in an aircraft wing or other airfoil.
Derived terms
- spar buoy
- spar deck
- spar torpedo
Translations
Verb
spar (third-person singular simple present spars, present participle sparring, simple past and past participle sparred)
- (obsolete or dialectal) to bolt, bar.
- (transitive) To supply or equip (a vessel) with spars.
Derived terms
- oversparred, undersparred
Etymology 2
From Middle English sparren (“to dart out; to strike out”), from Old English sperran, spirran, spyrran (“to strike, strike out at, spar”), related to Low German sparre (“a struggling, striving”), German sich sperren (“to struggle, resist, oppose”), Icelandic sperrask (“to kick out at, thrust, struggle”).
Verb
spar (third-person singular simple present spars, present participle sparring, simple past and past participle sparred)
- To fight, especially as practice for martial arts or hand-to-hand combat.
- To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.
- To contest in words; to wrangle.
Translations
Noun
spar (plural spars)
- A sparring session; a preliminary fight, as in boxing or cock-fighting.
Etymology 3
From Middle Low German spar, sper (“spar”); or from a backformation of sparstone (“spar”), from Middle English sparston (“gypsum, chalk”), from Old English spærst?n (“gypsum”). Related to German Sparkalk (“plaster”), Old English spæren (“of plaster, of mortar”).
Noun
spar (countable and uncountable, plural spars)
- (mineralogy) Any of various microcrystalline minerals, of light, translucent, or transparent appearance, which are easily cleft.
- (mineralogy) Any crystal with readily discernible faces.
Descendants
- ? Irish: sparra
- ? Welsh: sbar
Translations
Anagrams
- APRs, Arps, PSRA, RAPs, arps, pars, raps, rasp, sapr-
Danish
Etymology 1
From Spanish espada (“sword”), from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek ????? (spáth?, “blade”).
Noun
spar c (singular definite sparen, plural indefinite sparer)
- spade (one of the black suits in a deck of cards)
Inflection
Etymology 2
See spare (“to save,spare”).
Verb
spar
- imperative of spare
See also
- spar on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
- Spar (kulør) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia da
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch sparre (“pole, beam”), from Old Dutch *sparro, from Frankish *sparro, from Proto-Germanic *sparrô. Cognate to West Frisian spjir.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sp?r/
- Hyphenation: spar
- Rhymes: -?r
Noun
spar m (plural sparren, diminutive sparretje n)
- spruce; certain tree of the family Pinaceae, especially of the genus Picea, but also used for trees of the genera Abies, Tsuga and Pseudotsuga.
Derived terms
- blauwspar
- douglasspar
- fijnspar
- Nordmannspar
- zilverspar
German
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?pa???]
Verb
spar
- singular imperative of sparen
- (colloquial) first-person singular present of sparen
Icelandic
Adjective
spar (comparative sparari, superlative sparastur)
- economical
- thrifty
Declension
Middle English
Verb
spar
- Alternative form of sparren (“to close”)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From German [Term?], from Spanish espadas (“sword”)
Noun
spar
- spades (suit in playing cards)
Etymology 2
Verb
spar
- imperative of spare
References
- “spar” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
From German [Term?], from Spanish espadas (“sword”)
Noun
spar m (definite singular sparen, indefinite plural spar or sparar, definite plural sparane)
- spades (suit in playing cards)
Etymology 2
Verb
spar
- present of spa
- imperative of spara
References
- “spar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Verb
spar
- present tense of spara.
- imperative of spara.
Anagrams
- pars, raps
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disagree
English
Etymology
From Middle English disagre (“to refuse to assent to”), from Anglo-Norman disagreer, disagrer, desagreer (“to refuse assent”), from Old French desagreer, desagrëer (“to be disagreeable; to be unpleasant”) (modern French désagréer (“to displease”)); the English word is analysable as dis- +? agree.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d?s????i?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /d?s????i/
- Rhymes: -i?
- Hyphenation: dis?a?gree
Verb
disagree (third-person singular simple present disagrees, present participle disagreeing, simple past and past participle disagreed)
- (intransitive) To fail to agree; to have a different opinion or belief.
- Synonym: beg to differ
- (intransitive) To fail to conform or correspond with.
Usage notes
- This is generally a stative verb that rarely takes the continuous inflection. See Category:English stative verbs
Derived terms
Translations
References
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