19 January 2017
spar(1)
[spahr]
noun
1. Nautical. a stout pole such as those used for masts, etc.; a mast, yard, boom, gaff, or the like.
2. Aeronautics. a principal lateral member of the framework of a wing of an airplane.
verb (used with object), sparred, sparring.
3. to provide or make with spars.
Origin of spar(1)
Middle English
1250-1300; Middle English sparre (noun); cognate with German Sparren, Dutch spar, Old Norse sparri
Related forms
sparlike, adjective
spar(2)
[spahr]
verb (used without object), sparred, sparring.
1. (of boxers) to make the motions of attack and defense with the arms and fists, especially as a part of training.
2. to box, especially with light blows.
3. to strike or attack with the feet or spurs, as gamecocks do.
4. to bandy words; dispute.
noun
5. a motion of sparring.
6. a boxing match.
7. a dispute.
Origin
1350-1400; Middle English: orig., thrust (noun and v.); perhaps akin to spur1
spar(3)
[spahr]
noun
1. any of various more or less lustrous crystalline minerals:
fluorspar.
Origin
1575-85; back formation from sparstone spar, Old English spærstān gypsum; compare Middle Low German spar
Related forms
sparlike, adjective
SPAR or Spar
[spahr]
Spell Syllables
noun
1. (during World War II) a woman enlisted in the women’s reserve of the U.S. Coast Guard (disbanded in 1946).
Origin
1942; Latin S (emper) par (ātus) “Always ready” the Coast Guard motto
SpAr
1. Spanish Arabic.
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Examples from the Web for spar
Contemporary Examples
spar comes from the co-ed world, a seemingly plain credential but one that will give her an enormous advantage at Barnard.
Big Woman on Campus
Kate Taylor
October 21, 2008
spar has a new book titled The Baby Business: How Money, Science and Politics Drive the Commerce of Conception.
Want Blue Eyes With That Baby?: The Strange New World of Human Reproduction
Eleanor Clift
November 23, 2014
Asked if the ability to reproduce should be a human right, spar said she would leave that for the philosophers to think about.
Want Blue Eyes With That Baby?: The Strange New World of Human Reproduction
Eleanor Clift
November 23, 2014
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Today’s quote
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead —his eyes are closed. The insight into the mystery of life, coupled though it be with fear, has also given rise to religion. To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms—this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.”
― Albert Einstein, Living Philosophies
On this day
19 January 1809 – birth of Edgar Allan Poe, American poet and novelist, The Raven. Died 7 October 1849.
19 January 1920 – Night of the Palmer Raids, in which more than 4,000 suspected radical leftists were arrested. Most were members of the Industrial Workers of the World union. Alexander Palmer was the United States Attorney-General. Most of those arrested were either deported or charged under the Espionage Act 1917 and the Sedition Act 1918.
19 January 1935 – birth of Johnny O’Keefe, Australian rock and roll legend. Known as J.O.K. or ‘The Wild One’. Died 6 October 1978.
19 January 1943 – birth of Janis Joplin. American singer song-writer. Died on 4 October 1970.
19 January 1966 – A UFO saucer nest is discovered near Tully, North Queensland, Australia when a banana farmer, George Pedley, claims that he saw a large, saucer-shaped object fly out of a swamp at Horseshoe Lagoon. He said the saucer was 25 feet wide and 9 feet high. Further investigation of the lagoon revealed that in a particularly reedy part, there was a large circle that was clear of reeds. The circle was 30 feet in diameter and the reeds had been flattened in a clockwise manner. Five other similar, but smaller, circles were discovered. Apart from the UFO claim, no other explanation could account for the circles. These are the first crop-circles discovered in the modern world.
This photo of the crop circle was taken by Emil Duran:
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