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单词 spar
释义

spar1

/spɑː /
noun
1A thick, strong pole such as is used for a mast or yard on a ship.The spars - those are those huge, diagonal sticks hanging from the masts - are the frame for the sails....
  • Although these canoes are covered with birchbark, this skin, like that of a kayak, is stretched over a framework of ribs and spars.
  • Every point is held together by the spar that sticks up in the center.
1.1The main longitudinal beam of an aeroplane wing.GKN Aerospace of the UK is to supply the complex carbon composite wing spars....
  • The aircraft has twelve integral fuel tanks installed between the front and back spars in the wings.
  • It had a single two-bladed propeller in the front and high wings secured by a pair of metal spars from the bottom of the fuselage, which was white with a blue stripe to the tail.

Origin

Middle English: shortening of Old French esparre, or from Old Norse sperra; related to Dutch spar and German Sparren.

Rhymes

spar2

/spɑː /
verb (spars, sparring, sparred) [no object]
1Make the motions of boxing without landing heavy blows, as a form of training: one contestant broke his nose while sparring...
  • Truly, though, Shen liked to spar in the training room.
  • Later that evening she stood before her father, prepared to spar in the training hall.
  • He's introduced on stage, where amidst the dancers he stands at the end of a row, sparring with a punching bag.
1.1Argue with someone without marked hostility: mother and daughter spar regularly over drink, drugs, and career...
  • By the numbers - doctors, province spar over figures

Synonyms

quarrel, argue, have a row/fight, row, fight, disagree, fail to agree, differ, be at odds, have a misunderstanding, be at variance, fall out, dispute, squabble, brawl, bicker, chop logic, wrangle, bandy words, cross swords, lock horns, be at each other's throats, be at loggerheads
informal scrap, argufy, spat, have a spat
archaic altercate
2(Of a gamecock) fight with the feet or spurs.
noun
1A period or bout of sparring.Maybe she could beat him in a spar match, but he wouldn't find out until the annual martial arts tournament at school....
  • They were matching each other move for move in a spar.
  • This wasn't a spar in the training room in Sunstone.
2 informal A close friend: Buster was his spar and he didn’t want to let him down

Origin

Old English sperran, spyrran 'strike out', of unknown origin; compare with Old Norse sperrask 'kick out'.

spar3

/spɑː /
noun [usually in combination or with modifier]
A crystalline, easily cleavable, translucent or transparent mineral.

Derivatives

sparry

adjective ...
  • Polygonal septarian cracks are filled with sparry calcite cements or micrite matrix.
  • Gaps between the marcasite crystals are filled with coarse, sparry calcite.
  • The sparry calcite is interpreted as a single phase of precipitation that infilled external moulds of the arthropod.

Origin

Late 16th century: from Middle Low German; related to Old English spærstān 'gypsum'.

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