Spar

Definition: Spar

Spar

Noun

1. Any of various nonmetallic minerals (calcite or feldspar) that are light in color and transparent or translucent and cleavable.

2. A stout rounded pole of wood or metal used to support rigging.

Verb

1. Fight with spurs; of gamecocks in cockfights.

2. Box lightly.

3. Fight verbally; "They were sparring all night".

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

Date "spar" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Computing

Transportation

Food & Agriculture

Industry

Mining

Public Administration

Transportation

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

SPAR

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Contention

Wrestling, greco-roman wrestling; pugilism, boxing, fisticuffs, the manly art of self-defense; spar, mill, set-to, round, bout, event, prize fighting; quarterstaff, single stick; gladiatorship, gymnastics; jiujitsu, jujutsu, kooshti, sumo; athletics, athletic sports; games of skill.

Verb: contend; contest, strive, struggle, scramble, wrestle; spar, square; exchange blows, exchange fisticuffs; fib, justle, tussle, tilt, box, stave, fence; skirmish; pickeer; fight; (war); wrangle; (quarrel).

Discord

Fall out, quarrel, dispute; litigate; controvert; (deny); squabble, wrangle, jangle, brangle, bicker, nag; spar; (contend); have words; n. with; fall foul of.

Pendency

Eg, knob, button, hook, nail, stud, ring, staple, tenterhook; fastening; spar, horse.

Crosswords: Spar

Dutch (fir, spruce, spruce-fir), French (spar).

Spar på vandet (1949)

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

References

• Hot Spar Convenience Networks Co. Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Lan & Spar Bank A/S: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Spar Aerospace Ltd: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• SPAR Group, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Spar Handels A.G.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• LAN & SPAR BANK A/S: Labor Productivity Benchmarks and International Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

• Retailing - International Spar [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• Skookum Sam Spar Tree Man (reference)

• SPAR HANDELS-AG: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

• SUOMEN SPAR OYJ: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• How to Spar Against Karate (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• I Vargens Spar (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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

Crewmen swabbing the forward spar deck, during the Spanish-American War, 1898. Ensign Peter T. Coyle is on the bridge, overlooking the scene. Note ship's bell at right. Credit: NAVY.

Plan of the spar torpedo equipment designed for installation on the U.S. ships Casco, Chimo, Napa, Naubuc and Modoc, circa 1864. Credit: NAVY.

Photograph of a general arrangement drawing of the boat and its spar torpedo. The original plan appears to be of 19th Century vintage and is drawn on cloth. Lieutenant William B. Cushing used U.S. Navy Picket Boat No. 1 to sink the Confederate ironclad Albemarle on the night of 27-28 October 1864. Credit: NAVY.

Spar plan, copied from Charles B. Stuart's 1853 book "Naval & Mail Steamers of the United States". Credit: NAVY.

Heavily retouched photograph, circa 1864, mounted on a mat containing four sketches and the following inscriptions: (at bottom) "U.S. Iron-clad Torpedo Boat 'Spuyten Duyvil' Designed by Chf. Engr. Wm. W.W. Wood U.S.N. Genl. Inspector &c. for the Navy"; and (at top) "Constructed for the Navy Department 1864.". The sketches include (at top) two kinds of explosive shells for the ship's spar torpedoes; and (at bottom) the explosions of torpedo warheads during tests in May 1864. Credit: NAVY.

Richard Penlennon had just time to lift his wife and lash her to a spar. Credit: Library of Congress.

Tapping a spar tree, Clear Lake Lumber Co., Clear Lake, Wash. Credit: Library of Congress.

Diagrams of optical phenomena, including the rainbow, the double Icelandic spar, and prism refraction. Credit: Library of Congress.

U.S.S. Brooklyn spar deck. Credit: Library of Congress.

Wreck of the Maria Teresa, Battle of Santiago, 1898, starboard spar deck, 1898. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Business

Several specific areas were faring particularly well, such as services, which had registered the highest new franchise location opening rate, with 46.4 percent of total openings in 1999. Vival convenience stores led with 130 openings, followed by the supermarket SPAR with 100 openings. (references)

Economic History

Nigeria

Seven of these firms, VGC Communications, Mobitel, Multilinks, Intercellular, EM-Telecommunications, Spar Communications and Bodeux have begun operation in Lagos and Port Harcourt areas. (references)

Ireland

Outside of the main urban areas, many of the independent retailers are affiliated to "symbol groups" (such as Spar, Supervalue, Mace, Centra) which facilitate the attainment of purchasing economies of scale through procurement from a central purchaser. (references)

Poland

The largest foreign franchisers active in Poland are McDonald's, Domino's Pizza, TelePizza, Adidas, Intersport, Kodak Express, Fleury Michon, Avis Rent a Car, Marks & Spencer, Midas, The Athlete's Foot, English First, Futurekids, The Cheesecake Shop, Bianco Footwear, Bricomarche, Intermarche, Jean Claude Biguine, Jean Louis David, Saint Algue Paris, SPAR, Collagena, CyberLand, Blimpie, Jacadi Paris, Carre blanc, and the Yves Rocher Group. (references)

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

Expressions using "spar": adamantine spar ♦ bitter spar ♦ Blue spar ♦ Brown spar ♦ Calcareous spar ♦ Cube spar ♦ Derbyshire spar ♦ diamond spar ♦ Dogtooth spar ♦ flank of spar ♦ Fluor spar ♦ Greenland spar ♦ heavy spar ♦ Ice spar ♦ Iceland spar ♦ Labrador spar ♦ magnesium spar ♦ main spar ♦ manganese spar ♦ mast or spar ♦ needle spar ♦ Pearl spar ♦ ponderous spar ♦ raspberry spar ♦ rhomb spar ♦ satin spar ♦ schiller spar ♦ slate spar ♦ spar at each other ♦ spar buoy ♦ spar deck ♦ spar torpedo ♦ spar tree ♦ spar web ♦ table spar ♦ tabular spar ♦ to spring a spar. Additional references.

Beginning with "spar": spar-booms, spar-deck, spar-dem, Spar-hung.

Ending with "spar": cross-spar.

Albanian

spat, pajis me tra horizontal, ndeshje boksi, ndeshem (clash, collide, fall in, fight, meet, occur), direk (mast). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ملاكمة (boxing, fight, ring), ‏مشاجرة كلامية, ‏نزاع (contention, contest, controversy, difference, disagreement, discord, discordance, disputation, dispute, division, duel, embroilment, fray, odds, quarrel, question, row, squall, strife, struggle, tangle, variance, wont), ‏لاكم للتسلية, ‏وتد (cleat, coin, dowel, nog, pad, pale, peg, picket, pin, pole, stake, wedge), ‏تناوش, ‏تنازع (argue, dispute, squabble), ‏تظاهر بالملاكمة, ‏عتلة (crow, crow-bar, lever), ‏عارضة (beam, crossing, keel, ledger, plinth, role, sitter, template, tie, transom), ‏القائم (standing, stile), ‏السبار معدن لامع, ‏الصاري (topmast). (various references)

Bulgarian 

як метален прът, як дървен прът, шпат (spavin, spring-halt, string halt), греда (balk, baulk, beam, tie, timber), лонжерон (longeron), боря се с шипове, борба с петли, боричкам се (rough-house, scrap, scuffle), препирня (altercation, dissension, ruckus, ruction, variance, wrangle), препирам се (altercate, dispute, wrangle), поставям греди, поставям мачти. (various references)

Chinese 

晶石. (various references)

Czech

stožár (flagpole, flagstaff, mast, pylon), stìžeò, trám (balk, beam, girder, joist, raft, strut, timber), přít se (contest, dispute, palter, quarrel, wrangle), krokev (rafter), boxovat, živec. (various references)

Danish

træ anvendt som linebuk (mast, spar tree), rundholt, lille mast (handmast), heltoemmer (batten, square), buktræ (mast, spar tree), bjaelke (balk, baulk, bearer, float, float lever, floater, longeron). (various references)

Dutch

spier (blade, muscle, stalk), sleepmast (mast, spar tree), uitsleepmast (mast, spar tree), rondhout (heavy round timber), masthout (handmast), langsligger (longeron, longitudinal member, stringer), aanloper (batten). (various references)

Farsi 

مشت بازی کردن , مشاجره کردن (Argue, Wrangle), نزاع (Affray, Battle, Contention, Discord, Dispute, Fray, Quarrel, Scrap, Scuffle, Squeal, Strife, Tousle, War, Warfare, Wrangle), تیردکل . (various references)

Finnish

pukkipuu (mast, spar tree), parru (small square timber). (various references)

French

longeron, espar (spindle). (various references)

German

Sparren (chevron, rafter). (various references)

Greek 

καδρόνι στέγης (batten, rafter), κοντάρι (boat hook, pikestaff, pole, rod, shaft, spear), σχιστόλιθοσ (schist, shale, slate), σφηκίσκος (handmast, spars, yardarm), ιστόσ (mast, tissue, web), πυγμαχώ (box, scrap), πυγμαχία (boxing, prise fight, prize fight, pugilism, sparring), λογοφέρνω (wrangle), ασκούμαι (practice, practise), αγών (agent, bout, combat, game, heave, strife, struggle, tourney, tug, tussle), αντενοκάταρτο (handmast, spars, yardarm), διαμήκης δοκίδα (longeron, longitudinal), δοκόσ (beam, girder, joist, rafter), δοκάρι στέγης (batten). (various references)

Hebrew 

מוט מפרש, ל�"תפלמס (argue, dispute), ל�"תא�'רף (box, punch, wrestle), ל�"ת� צח (argue, debate, dispute, polemize, struggle, wrangle, wrestle), קור�" (beam, crossbeam, girder, rafter, timber), כלו� ס (pale, picket, pole, stake). (various references)

Hungarian

szárnyfõtartó (longeron), öklöz (pummel, thump, to buffet, to cuff, to pummel, to spar), ökölvívó-mérkõzés. (various references)

Italian

asta (bar, boom, dipstick, pole, rod, shaft). (various references)

Korean 

스파링. (various references)

Manx

sparrey (bar, batten, jemmey), clarinagh. (various references)

Pig Latin

arspay

Portuguese

vergar (sag), tranca (bar, bolt), praticar boxe, meia-viga (batten), lutar a soco, longarina de asa, longarina (boom, stringer), jogar boxe, encontro de boxe, disputar (argue, bicker, contest, disagree, dispute, fight, passage, put up with, quarrel, rencontre, rencounter, run), discutir (agitate, argue, canvass, controvert, debate, deliberate, discourse, discuss, dispute, gainsay, knock off, moot, quarrel, rap, reason, strike off, talk over, traverse, ventilate), defesa (advantage, aegis, avail, behoof, blindage, boot, breastwork, bunce, cover-point, defence, defense, egis, fender, fireguard, household troops, interdiction, maintenance, parry, pleading, preservation, profit, protection, save, security, shield, tower, vindication, ward), colocar mastros, barrote (baulk, beam, girder, joist, log, rafter, stud, timber), árvore mestra (mast, spar tree). (various references)

Romanian

spat, se ciorovãi (Bicker), se certa (altercate, be at odds, brawl, dispute, fall foul of, fall out, go foul of, haggle, jangle, quarrel, row, run foul of, squabble, wrangle), se bate în pinteni, se antrena (exercise, practise, train), vergã (gaff), luptã de cocoş, longeron de aripã, boxa (buffet), antrenament (absorbing, drill, practice, training, workout). (various references)

Russian 

брус (bar, beam, block, girder, joist, rod, scantling), боксировать (sparred), бокс (box, boxcalf, pugilism, ring), препираться (altercate), перекладина (epistyle, horizontal bar, rail, slat, spoke, stave, traverse). (various references)

Scottish

rong (a joining spar, the vital spark). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

rog (antler, horn), jarbol (mast), fluorit (fluorite, fluorspar), boksovati (box), špat. (various references)

Spanish

verga (cock, penis, yard), tabla directriz (batten), percha (bar, clothes hanger, clothes peg, coat hanger, hanger, peg, perch, rack, roost, yoke), palo (baton, cane, club, cock, gallows, handle, javelin, pale, perch, pin, pole, shot, staff, stick, suit, wicket, wood), larguero (crossbar, lavish, lengthy, slow-working, Stringer, support), hacer fintas, espato, entrenarse en boxeo, cabria (shearlegs, shears), bordón (piligrim's staff), berlinga (handmast), árbol mástil (mast, spar tree). (various references)

Swedish

mast (mast, pole, pylon), bom (bar, barrier, beam, bolt, boom, Derrick, fence, level-crossing gate, Miss). (various references)

Turkish

seren (boom, sprit, yard), tartışmak (altercate, argue, bat around, Bicker, brawl, bust, canvass, challenge, contend, controvert, debate, discuss, dispute, have a row with, have a set-to, have words with smb., jangle, join issue with smb., moot, negotiate, set to, take issue with smb., wrangle), tartışma (altercation, argument, argumentation, bickering, brawl, breeze, broil, bust up, contention, contest, contestation, controversy, cross talk, debate, disagreement, discussion, disputation, dispute, hassle, jangle, moot, parley, quarrel, rap, row, set to, shooting match, sparring, teach-in, wordy warfare, wrangle), münakaşa etmek (argue, dispute, join issue with smb., take issue with smb.), kavga etmek (altercate, brawl, feud, fight, hassle, have a row with, have a set-to, jar, quarrel, scrap, set to, tangle with, wrangle), kanat ana kirişi, horoz dövüşü (cock-fight, cockfighting, fighting cock, main), direk (atlas, backbone, beam, column, mast, pillar, pole, post, pylon, stake, stanchion, stick, upright), boks yapmak (box), boks maçı yapmak, boks maçı, billur (crystal, cut glass, flint glass), ağız kavgası etmek (bandy words, spat, squabble), ağız kavgası (altercation, battle of words, bust up, quarrel, row, slanging match, spat, squabble, words, wordy warfare). (various references)

Ukrainian

суперечка (beef, contest, controversy, debate, disagreement, ergotism, sparring, tussle, variance, words), тренувати боксерів, наступальний прийом, матч (match), боксувати, битися (battle, bustle, combat, fight, pulse, scuffle, skirmish, struggle, wrestle). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự đấu khẩu, trụ (pivot). (various references)

Welsh

aseth (lath, stake). (various references)

sparare. (various references)

esparer. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "spar": sparable, sparables, spare, spareable, spared, sparely, spareness, sparenesses, sparer, sparerib, spareribs, sparers, spares, sparest, sparge, sparged, sparger, spargers, sparges, sparging, sparid, sparids, sparing, sparingly, spark, sparked, sparker, sparkers, sparkier, sparkiest, sparkily, sparking, sparkish, sparkle, sparkled, sparkler, sparklers, sparkles, sparklier, sparkliest, sparkling, sparkly, sparkplug, sparkplugged, sparkplugging, sparkplugs, sparks, sparky, sparlike, sparling, sparlings. (additional references)

Words ending with "spar": calcspar, feldspar, felspar, fluorspar. (additional references)

Words containing "spar": asparagine, asparagines, asparagus, asparkle, aspartame, aspartames, aspartate, aspartates, calcspars, disparage, disparaged, disparagement, disparagements, disparager, disparagers, disparages, disparaging, disparagingly, disparate, disparately, disparateness, disparatenesses, disparities, disparity, dispart, disparted, disparting, disparts, esparto, espartos, feldspars, felspars, fluorspars, misparse, misparsed, misparses, misparsing, mispart, misparted, misparting, misparts, outsparkle, outsparkled, outsparkles, outsparkling, semitransparent, transparence, transparences, transparencies, transparency, transparent. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Spar" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bspa, dpar, esper, lpar, opar, ps, psar, saar, sarp, sarr, sdar, separ, sgar, shpar, siar, sjar, slar, smar, Spab, Spad, spaer, spag, spair, spam, spara, sparf, sparr, sparry, spart, spau, Spaw, spaz, spca, spef, speg, speq, sperd, spery, spev, spir, spor, spqr, spr, spurr, srap, srar, suar, svar, swar, szar. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: pars, raps, rasp.

-1 letter: ars, asp, par, pas, rap, ras, sap, spa.

-2 letters: ar, as, pa.

+1 letter: apers, apres, asper, carps, craps, fraps, grasp, harps, pairs, paras, pards, pares, paris, parks, parrs, parse, parts, pears, prams, praos, prase, prats, praus, prays, presa, proas, ramps, rapes, rasps, raspy, reaps, sapor, scarp, scrap, sharp, spare, spark, spars, spear, sprag, sprat, spray, strap, supra, tarps, traps, warps, wraps.

+2 letters: aprons, arpens, aspers, aspire, capers, capris, carpus, copras, cramps, crapes, drapes, escarp, gapers, gasper, gramps, grapes, graphs, grasps, japers, jasper, lapser, operas, pacers, padres, pagers, papers, pareos, parers, pareus, parges, pargos, paries, parish, parkas, parles, parols, parous, parsec, parsed, parser, parses, parson, parvis, parvos, passer, paster, pastor, pastry, paters, pauser, pavers, pawers, payers, payors, pearls, pharos, phrase, polars, praams, prahus, praise, prangs, pranks, prases, prates, prawns, praxes, praxis, primas, psywar, pulsar, purdas, pyrans, ralphs, rapers, raphes, raphis, rapids, rapist, rasped, rasper, recaps, remaps, repass, repast, repays, ripsaw, sapors, sapour, sapper, sarape, satrap, scarph, scarps, scrape, scraps, secpar, serape, seraph, shaper, sharps, sharpy, sherpa, soaper, spacer, spader, spared, sparer, spares, sparge, sparid, sparks, sparky, sparry, sparse, spears, spiral, spirea, sporal, sprags, sprain, sprang, sprats, sprawl, sprays, spread, straps, subpar, tapers, tapirs, tramps, trapes, upsoar, vapors.