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spur
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sp??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /sp?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Etymology 1
From Middle English spure, spore, from Old English spura, spora, from Proto-Germanic *spurô, from Proto-Indo-European *sper-, *sperw- (“to twitch, push, fidget, be quick”).
Noun
spur (plural spurs)
- A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse. Often worn by, and emblematic of, the cowboy or the knight.
- Meronyms: rowel, prick
- 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 22:
- Two sorts of spurs seem to have been in use about the time of the Conquest, one called a pryck, having only a single point like the gaffle of a fighting cock; the other consisting of a number of points of considerable length, radiating from and revolving on a center, thence named the rouelle or wheel spur.
- A jab given with the spurs.
- 1832, The Atheneum (volume 31, page 493)
- I had hardly said the word, when Kit jumped into the saddle, and gave his horse a whip and a spur — and off it cantered, as if it were in as great a hurry to be married as Kit himself.
- 1832, The Atheneum (volume 31, page 493)
- (figuratively) Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse.
- An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster.
- Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into a city.
- Roots, tree roots.
- (geology) A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.
- A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale to strip off the blubber.
- (carpentry) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
- (architecture) The short wooden buttress of a post.
- (architecture) A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage.
- Ergotized rye or other grain.
- A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
- (shipbuilding) A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
- (shipbuilding) A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot be placed.
- (mining) A branch of a vein.
- (rail transport) A very short branch line of a railway line.
- (transport) A short branch road of a motorway, freeway or major road.
- (botany) A short thin side shoot from a branch, especially one that bears fruit or, in conifers, the shoots that bear the leaves.
Derived terms
- spur gear
- spur-leather
- spur-of-the-moment
- spur road
Translations
Verb
spur (third-person singular simple present spurs, present participle spurring, simple past and past participle spurred)
- (transitive) To prod (especially a horse) on the side or flank, with the intent to urge motion or haste, to gig.
- 1592, William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act V, Scene III, line 339:
- Draw, archers, draw your arrows to the head! Spur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood; Amaze the welkin with your broken staves!
- 1592, William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act V, Scene III, line 339:
- (transitive) To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object
- Synonyms: incite, stimulate, instigate, impel, drive; see also Thesaurus:incite
- 1599, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act III, Scene IV, line 4.
- My desire / (More sharp than filed steel) did spur me forth...
- (transitive) To put spurs on.
- (intransitive) To press forward; to travel in great haste.
Derived terms
- spur on
Translations
Etymology 2
See sparrow.
Noun
spur (plural spurs)
- A tern.
Etymology 3
Short for spurious.
Noun
spur (plural spurs)
- (electronics) A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal.
Etymology 4
Noun
spur (plural spurs)
- The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor.
Translations
Etymology 5
Verb
spur (third-person singular simple present spurs, present participle spurring, simple past and past participle spurred)
- (obsolete, dialectal) Alternative form of speer.
- 1638, Thomas Heywood, "The Rape of Lucrece. A true Roman Tragedy", in The Dramatic Works of Thomas Heywood, Vol. V, John Pearson, 1874, pages 230 & 231.
- The Pall Mall Magazine, Vol. 33, 1904, page 435.
- 1638, Thomas Heywood, "The Rape of Lucrece. A true Roman Tragedy", in The Dramatic Works of Thomas Heywood, Vol. V, John Pearson, 1874, pages 230 & 231.
Anagrams
- Prus, purs, surp
Middle English
Noun
spur
- Alternative form of spore
Scots
Alternative forms
- sparra
- spug
- spuggie
- speug
Noun
spur (plural spurs)
- sparrow
References
- “spur” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
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actuate
English
Etymology
From Medieval Latin ?ctu?tus, perfect passive participle of ?ctu? (“actuate, implement”), from Latin ?ctus, perfect passive participle of ag? (“do, act”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?ækt?u.e?t/, /?æktju.e?t/
- (US) IPA(key): /?ækt?u.e?t/
Verb
actuate (third-person singular simple present actuates, present participle actuating, simple past and past participle actuated)
- (transitive) To activate, or to put into motion; to animate.
- November 6, 1750, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler No. 67
- Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion.
- November 6, 1750, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler No. 67
- (transitive) To incite to action; to motivate.
- 1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral, 2. ed., London, Oxford University Press, 1973. § 11.
- A man in a fit of anger, is actuated in a very different manner from one who only thinks of that emotion.
- Men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition; and, on the contrary, mean and narrow minds are the least actuated by it.
- 1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral, 2. ed., London, Oxford University Press, 1973. § 11.
Derived terms
- actuator
Related terms
- actuation
Translations
See also
- actualise, actualize
Latin
Verb
?ctu?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of ?ctu?
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