Spark

Definition: Spark

Spark

Noun

1. A momentary flash of light.

2. Brightness and animation of countenance; "he had a sparkle in his eye".

3. Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.

4. A small but noticeable trace of some quality that might become stronger; "a spark of interest"; "a spark of decency".

5. Scottish writer of satirical novels (born in 1918).

6. A small fragment of a burning substance thrown out by burning material or by friction.

Verb

1. Actuate; "trigger a reaction".

2. Emit or produce sparks; A high tension wire, brought down by a storm, can continue to spark.".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "spark" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Etymology: Spark \Spark\, noun. [Old English sparke, Anglo-Saxon spearca; akin to Dutch spark, sperk; compare to Icelandic spraka to crackle, Lithuanian sprag["e]ti, Greek a bursting with a noise, Sanskrit to crackle, to thunder. Compare to Speak.]. (references)

Computing

Chemistry

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Spark

Heat

Phlogiston; fire, spark, scintillation, flash, flame, blaze; bonfire; firework, pyrotechnics, pyrotechny; wildfire; sheet of fire, lambent flame; devouring element; adiathermancy; recalescence.

Humorist

Noun: humorist, wag, wit, reparteeist, epigrammatist, punster; bel esprit, life of the party; wit-snapper, wit-cracker, wit-worm; joker, jester, Joe Miller, drole de corps, gaillard, spark; bon diable; practical joker.

Intrinsicality

Phrase: " character is higher than intellect "; "come give us a taste of your quality " magnos homines virtute metimur non fortuna; non numero haec judicantur sed pondere; " vital spark of heavenly flame ".

Life

Noun: life, vitality, viability; animation; vital spark, vital flame, soul, spirit.

Smallness

Small quan modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive; snip, snippet; snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair.

Crosswords: Spark

Danish (kick), Norwegian (kick), Swedish (kick).

It's the life spark. It forms-- (Willow; writing credit: Bob Dolman; George Lucas)

Listen to him rat if you value your spark. (Beast Wars: Transformers; writing credit: Bob Forward; Lawrence G. DiTillio)

In your room a few days ago. I'm trying to spark this bong, but the damn thing won't light (Van Wilder; writing credit: Brent Goldberg; David Wagner)

Great storms announce themselves with a single breeze, and a single random spark can ignite the fires of rebellion (Ladyhawke; writing credit: Edward Khmara)

A spark of humanity somewhere (I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream; writing credit: Harlan Ellison;)

You can't start a fire, you can't start a fire without a spark (DANCING IN THE DARK; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen)

If there's one spark of hope left in my grasp (I Still Believe; performing artist: Mariah Carey)

Even though I forgave ya when you had a spark. (Hip-Hop Hooray; performing artist: Naughty By Nature)

Ash tray, flip gate, time to spark it (Hot in Herre; performing artist: NELLY)

With your physical attraction gal you know to feel the spark (Mr. Boombastic; performing artist: Shaggy)

Spark plug car park. (references; author: unknown)

The Vital Spark (1959)

Spark Plug (1936)

The Divine Spark (1935)

Spark (1997)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Automobile Spark Plug Replacement Parts (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Activities for the Spark Curriculum for Early Childhood (reference)

• All the Stories of Muriel Spark (reference)

• Black Spark White Fire: Did African Explorers Civilize Ancient Europe? (reference)

• Movie Nights: 25 Movies to Spark Spiritul Discussions With Your Teen (reference)

• Spark (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Power of Dreams: The Creative Spark (reference)

• Single Spark (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Vital Spark of Heavenly Flame (reference)

• Spark (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• EFI FIERY SPARK PRO 2 RIP FOR (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

19th Century cyanotype photographic print of an oil painting by R.S. Floyd, depicting CSS Florida chasing a merchant sailing ship, after having set another prize afire (in the right distance). This may depict the events of 10 July 1864, when Florida took four prizes off the Eastern Shore of Maryland: the bark General Berry, which was captured first and burned; the bark (not a ship as shown here) Zelinda, captured second and burned later in the day; the schooner Howard, which was bonded and released with prisoners from previous captures; and the steamer Electric Spark, which was scuttled during the following night. Credit: NAVY.

"We rub these sticks together till we strike a spark ... we keep rubbing these sticks together ... we take these sticks ..." / Herblock. Credit: Library of Congress.

Farmer watching junkyard owner examining condition of spark coils in model-T Ford, Abbeville, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Conowingo Hydroelectric Plant. Spark gap of lightning arrester. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Becoming immediately sensible of the impropriety, he poked the fire, and extinguished the last frail spark for ever

These words were the spark which the other mother was probably awaiting

Spark intensifier

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

For instance, it was from animal studies that researchers discovered that the drug selegiline can prevent the toxic effects of MPTP. This discovery helped spark interest in studying selegiline as a preventive treatment in humans. (references)

Business

Conflicts between rival prison groups, often involved in drug trafficking, continued to spark lethal violence. (references)

Brakes, spark plugs, fuel, oil and air filters and water pumps compromise a large segment of the Palestinian market for automotive parts. (references)

Starter batteries are increasingly maintenance-free, brake friction materials are more durable and application-specific than before, and tires and exhaust parts are showing considerable improvements in life spans (as are shock absorbers, spark plugs and glow plugs). (references)

Civil Liberties

Pakistan

Local government officials defied an order from the provincial government to release the newspaper employees stating that such a move would spark unrest. (references)

Kazakhstan

The Government also has refused to register ethnically based political parties on the grounds that their activities could spark ethnic violence; however, the small Kazakh ethnic nationalist "Alash" Party was registered for the 1999 parliamentary elections. (references)

Economic History

Indonesia

Resolution of the current political impasse could spark renewed confidence. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Spark

A spark

Expressions using "spark": arrester consisting of a horned spark gap ♦ bright spark ♦ Dame Muriel Spark ♦ Jump spark ♦ late spark ♦ Muriel Sarah Spark ♦ Muriel Spark ♦ spark advance ♦ spark arrester ♦ spark chamber ♦ spark coil ♦ spark consumer ♦ spark counter ♦ spark discharge removal of material ♦ spark eroding ♦ spark erosion ♦ spark failure ♦ spark gap ♦ spark igniter ♦ spark jump ♦ spark jumping ♦ spark lever ♦ spark like a diamond ♦ spark of ♦ spark of genius ♦ spark of life ♦ spark off ♦ spark plug ♦ spark plug wire ♦ spark quench ♦ spark quenching device ♦ spark transmitter ♦ striking of a spark ♦ the igniting spark ♦ the vital spark ♦ vital spark. Additional references.

Beginning with "spark": spark-boat, spark-coil, spark-erosion, spark-free, spark-gap, spark-generating, spark-ignition, spark-ling, spark-plug, spark-plugs, spark-quench, spark-spattered, spark-suppressing.

Ending with "spark": lightning-spark.

Albanian

xixë (glint, scintilla, sparkle, sparklet). (various references)

Arabic 

‏حرض (abet, egg on, flesh, foment, incite, instigate, motive, provoke, rouse, set, stir, suborn), ‏جوهرة صغيرة, ‏الق, ‏إلتمع شررا, ‏أرسل شررا, ‏شرارة (sparkle), ‏بريق (blaze, brightness, burnish, flame, glance, gleam, glimmering, glitter, gloss, loudness, luster, opalescence, refulgence, sheen, shine, twinkle). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ухажвам (court, hang about, hang around, romance, rush, woo), ухажор (courtier, gallant, suitor, wooer), галантен кавалер (gallant, squire), весел младеж, електрическа искра, искря (flash, glitter, scintillate, sparkle, twinkle), искра (flash, scintilla, scintillation), искрица (sparklet), давам искра. (various references)

Catalan

bugia (plug, spark plug). (various references)

Chinese 

火花 (sparkle). (various references)

Czech

jiskra (scintilla, snap, sparkle, vim, zest), jiskřit (emit sparks, glitter, sparkle). (various references)

Danish

gnist (fire). (various references)

Dutch

vonk, sprank. (various references)

Esperanto

sparko, fajrero. (various references)

Faeroese

ravmagnsneisti, neisti. (various references)

Farsi 

ژابیژ, جرقه زدن (Scintillate, Sparkle), جرقه (Arc, Scintillation, Sparkle), اخگر (Ember), بارقه (Twinkle). (various references)

Finnish

säkene, säen, kipinöidä (emit sparks), kipinä. (various references)

French

étincelle. (various references)

Frisian

fonk. (various references)

German

Funke (gleam, glimmer, lighter, Ray). (various references)

Greek 

σπίθα (fire). (various references)

Hawaiian

xixë. (various references)

Hebrew 

לעורר (alarm, alert, appeal, contest, excite, infuriate, inspire, instigate, occasion, promote, prompt, spirit, stimulate, stir up), ל�"בזיק � צוצות, ל�"צית (fire, ignite, kindle, light, set fire to, set on fire), לרשוף (flash, gleam), שביב (scintilla), זיק�" (affinity, attachment, bond, link, linkage, linking, rapport, relation, sympathy, tie), זיק (flicker, sparkle), זק (fetter), כי�"ו�", �'ץ (flicker), רשף (flame, flash), � צוץ (flash, gleam, trace). (various references)

Hungarian

sziporka (flake), szikra (flake, scintilla, sparkle). (various references)

Indonesian

percikan, pencetus (founder of an idea, impetus, trigger), mencetuskan (ignite, kindle), cetusan (flash). (various references)

Irish

splanc. (various references)

Italian

scintilla (cinders, flue dust). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

火花　, 火花 , 種火 (ember, pilot light), スナック麺 (circlip, snack noodle, snake, snake dance, snakeskin, snap, snap ring, snapshot, snatch, sneak in, sneak out, sneak preview, sneaker, snob, snobbism, snooker, snoopy, snorkel, snow, snow boat, snow gun, snow mobile, snow surfing, snow tire, spark plug, sparkling wine, sparring, sparring partner, spatula, sperm bank, spice, spider, spike, spike heel, spiked shoes, spiker, spiky cut, spiral, spurt, spy, studded snow tire). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たねび (ember, pilot light), ひばな, スパーク . (various references)

Korean 

불꽃 (sparkle, SPARKS). (various references)

Manx

sparchal (splutter, spurt), smayl, smale, drillin (scintilla). (various references)

Norwegian

gnist. (various references)

Papiamen

chispa. (various references)

Pig Latin

arkspay.(various references)

Portuguese

faísca (bolt, flake), fagulha, centelha (flake, flicker, scintilla, sparkle, twinkle). (various references)

Romanian

scânteie de aprindere la motoare, scânteie (glance, gleam, sparkle), scânteia (coruscate, flash, glance, gleam, glint, glisten, glitter, kindle, scintillate, sparkle, twinkle), punct luminos, pic (a wee bit, atom, bead, bit, crumb, dash, drop, jot, pennyworth, pick, spot, sprinkle, touch, whit), licãrire (blink, glance, glimmer, glimpse, glint, glitter, Ray, shimmer, sparkle, sparkling, twinkle), licãr (gleam, sparkle). (various references)

Russian 

искра (iskra, scintilla). (various references)

Scottish

sradag (little spark of fire). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

varnica (spunk), podstaći (abet, enforce, exhort, fire, foment, galvanize, goad, incite to, induce, instigate, pique, stir, stoke, whet), podbosti (prick off, stir up), iskriti, iskra (sparkle). (various references)

Spanish

chispa (gleam, glint, scintilla, shred). (various references)

Swedish

gnista (particle, plug, scintilla, shade, spark of genius, spark plug, vestige), gnistra (coruscate, flash, scintillate, sparkle, twinkle). (various references)

Turkish

züppe (adonis, beau, buck, conceited pup, coxcomb, dandified, Dandy, dude, fop, high hat, jack-a-dandy, jackanapes, La-di-da, la-di-dah, macaroni, nob, Peacock, petit-maitre, popinjay, pup, puppy, snob, swell, toff), uyandırmak (arouse, awake, awaken, call, disabuse, disabuse of, evoke, excite, inspire, kindle, knock up, provoke, quicken, recall, revive, rouse, rouse up, stir, stir up, undeceive, wake, wake up, waken, whet), teşvik etmek (abet, cheer, cheer on, countenance, draw, egg, egg on, embolden, encourage, fillip, Foster, ginger, ginger up, give a fillip to, give countenance to, goad, goad on, incite, induce, inspirit, instigate, keep smb. in countenance, lend countenance to, lend wings to, prod, prompt, put a premium on, put smb. on his mettle, revitalize, set on, sharpen, spoonfeed, spur, spur smb. on, stimulate, stir up, tickle up, urge), kur yapmak (court, flirt, make a pass at, pay court to, pay one's addresses to, pay one's attention to smb., pay one's court to, philander, pitch, rush, Sue, woo), kıvılcım saçmak (glint, scintillate, sparkle), kıvılcım (glint, spark of, sparklet, spunk), hovarda (chaser, dissolute, gadabout, gay, libertine, licentious, masher, profligate, raffish, rake, rakish, rascal, riotous, rip, sybarite, vagabond, wild), harekete geçirmek (activate, actuate, arouse, deploy, edge on, Energize, fillip, give a fillip to, impel, prompt, rally, set going, set in motion, whack up), gemi telsizcisi (sparks), elektrikçi (electrician, sparks), belirti (clinic, evidence, foretoken, glimpse, impression, indication, Mark, note, prognostic, prognostication, sign, spark of, stamp, strain, streak, symptom, tinge, token, trace), ateşlemek (discharge, fire, ignite, let fly, let off, loose, loose off, pop, set off, touch off), ateşleme (discharge, firing, ignition, launching, lift off, priming). (various references)

Ukrainian

іскра (arc, scintilla), іскритися (glisten, scintillate, sparkle), іскрити, спалахувати (flame, flash, lighten, overflush), спалах (blaze, burst, deflagration, explosion, flare, flare up, flash, glint, outleap, rage), запалювати (enkindle, fire, fuze, ignite, inflame, kindle, light up, prime), проблиск (flash, flicker, peep, sparkle). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tia sáng (glint), tia lửa (light), t� n lửa tia loé, người vui tính người trai lơ, ánh loé. (various references)

Welsh

gwreichionen. (various references)

favilla, favillae, favillam, igniculus, scintilla, scintillae, scintillam, scintillas. (various references)

gneisto. (various references)

gneist. (various references)

estincelle. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "spark": sparked, sparker, sparkers, sparkier, sparkiest, sparkily, sparking, sparkish, sparkle, sparkled, sparkler, sparklers, sparkles, sparklier, sparkliest, sparkling, sparkly, sparkplug, sparkplugged, sparkplugging, sparkplugs, sparks, sparky. (additional references)

Words containing "spark": asparkle, outsparkle, outsparkled, outsparkles, outsparkling. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Spark" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apark, Apparc, Esmark, psar, sarc, Saryk, smark, snark, spack, spara, sparf, sparke, sparky, sparr, sparry, spart, spork, spqr, sprank. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: parks.

-1 letter: arks, park, pars, raps, rasp, sark, spar.

-2 letters: ark, ars, ask, asp, kas, par, pas, rap, ras, sap, ska, spa.

-3 letters: ar, as, ka, pa.

+1 letter: parkas, pranks, sparks, sparky.

+2 letters: imparks, markups, packers, parkers, presoak, repacks, reparks, respeak, spanker, sparked, sparker, sparkle, sparkly, speaker.

+3 letters: airparks, asparkle, barkeeps, breakups, caprocks, crackups, garpikes, gripsack, knappers, larkspur, palikars, paprikas, parkings, parkways, partakes, postmark, prankish, prebakes, prepacks, presoaks, pugmarks, rampikes, ranpikes, respeaks, soapbark, spankers, sparkers, sparkier, sparkily, sparking, sparkish, sparkled, sparkler, sparkles, sparlike, speakers, tripacks.