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spare

/spɛː

adjective

1Additional to what is required for ordinary use: few people had spare cash for inessentials...

Many Beninese enjoy soft drinks and beer, but these require spare cash.
This space is reserved as a spare area for products with all primary defects and some secondary defects.
The large, silvery cradle - which has an embedded Dell logo that glows blue when the PDA is connected - has a secondary bay for recharging spare batteries.

Synonyms

extra, supplementary, additional, second, another, alternative, emergency, reserve, backup, relief, fallback, substitute, fresh, auxiliary, ancillary;

North American alternate

surplus, surplus to requirements, superfluous, too much/many, supernumerary, excessive, in excess, going begging;

redundant, not required, unnecessary, inessential, unessential, needless, unneeded, uncalled for, dispensable, disposable, expendable, unwanted, useless;

French de trop

1.1Not currently in use or occupied: a spare seat...

Keren occupied only one leaving his spare seats free.
Open crates and various strange pieces of equipment seemed to occupy every spare bit of space.
It's the only spare seat in the whole classroom.

1.2(Of time) not taken up by one’s usual duties or activities; available for leisure: he tried to write poetry in his spare time...

For most acts, this wouldn't work, but Lemon Jelly has a style that requires headphones and a spare 45 minutes to absorb the album from start to finish.
A question from another child revealed Mr Blunkett wishes he had more spare time.
I have more spare time and I'm more perceptive of my life and my surroundings.

Synonyms

free, leisure, unoccupied, own

2With no excess fat; thin: a spare, bearded figure...

She was spare featured with a thin mouth and rectangular face.
Empty but not hungry, she felt sleek and spare, like a dragonfly.
A tall, spare man with jet black hair leaned over the counter to greet them.

Synonyms

slender, lean;

willowy, sylphlike, svelte, lissom, graceful, snake-hipped, rangy, clean-limbed, trim, slight, slightly built, without an ounce of fat;

thin, as thin as a reed, skinny, size-zero, gaunt, attenuated, lanky, spindly

informal skin and bone

rare gracile, attenuate

3Elegantly simple: her clothes are smart and spare in style...

Critics usually describe Hemingway's style as simple, spare, and journalistic.
These recordings are spare and simple - just three guys in a room playing clean, clear lines and letting them ring.
Glazed all along its south side, it offers a simple, spare and sunny series of places that provide a surprising number of possibilities for eating in company.

noun

1An item kept in case another item of the same type is lost, broken, or worn out: the wheel’s broken and it would be suicide to go on without a spare...

After E, above you put the kit back together and have a large box of spares left over.
He played his bass like he had five spares waiting backstage.
Everybody in the world should buy all Miyazaki's films twice and then give their spares to each other.

2(In tenpin bowling) an act of knocking down all the pins with two balls.I threw a gutter ball, screwing up my spare from the frame before....

After her first turn, she'd decided to get the five gutter balls out of the way and missed the first ball, then got a spare.
He knocked down nine pins with his first ball, then picked up the spare.

verb

1 [with two objects] Give (something of which one has enough) to (someone): she asked if I could spare her a bob or two...

You have all this money and you won't spare enough to let your own child go back home.
My most recent one just said basically that I'm a homeless man, can you spare some change to help me provide some food.
Can anyone spare me a couple of quid?

Synonyms

afford, do without, manage without, get along without, dispense with, part with, give, let someone have, provide

1.1Make free or available: I’m sure you can spare me a moment...

Then without sparing a moment's pity for the fawning, awkward creature that Jonas had become, Christy turned on her heels.
He spared a moment to take a glance at what was happening.
His voice dripped with ironic sarcasm, as he spared a moment to glance at her.

2 [with object] Refrain from killing, injuring, or distressing: there was no way the men would spare her...

For where is the man who would spare the lives of the vanquished if he saw more profit in killing than in sparing them?…
The rains in the end of May did not spare even posh areas.
And I have to say that my opinion is with the rest of my family that the fact that her life was spared was enough.

Synonyms

not harm, leave uninjured, leave unhurt;

be merciful to, show mercy to, have mercy on, be lenient to, deal leniently with, have pity on;

pardon, grant a pardon to, excuse, leave unpunished, forgive, reprieve, release, free, let off, amnesty

informal go easy on

2.1 [with two objects] Refrain from inflicting (something unpleasant) on (someone): the country had until now been spared the violence occurring elsewhere...

Much of the film feels profoundly sad, as Donovan spares no unpleasant detail, making for a sobering look at someone so attached to the bottle.
As children's fears invite adult protection, an anxious child will be spared from unpleasant duties or routines.
We are spared most of the violence of the situation, and really only see its conclusion.

3 (spare oneself) [with negative] Try to ensure or satisfy one’s own comfort or needs: in her concern to help others, she has never spared herself...

No doubt Pat Grant will be lining himself up for a shot at the chair when it falls vacant in five years time, and meantime he'll not be sparing himself in his endeavours to prove his credentials.
He was extremely hardworking, never sparing himself in the performance of his duties and once he fainted in his office from exhaustion and almost died.
He was always the quiet one to lead by example, never sparing himself.

4 [no object] archaic Be frugal: but some will spend, and some will spare

Phrases

go spare

spare someone's blushes

spare me days!

spare no effort

spare no expense (or no expense spared)

spare the rod and spoil the child

spare a thought for

to spare

Derivatives

sparely

/ˈspɛːli/ adverb ...

But while the work has caused some controversy since its premiere in 1999, the sparely staged Tongue is ultimately a testament to the power of understanding.
If you took a map of Australia and drew a wonky circle around the middle of the country, you'd land in the outback: red dirt, sparely inhabited, the back country.
The Queen's Gallery is a trim, sparely designed enclosure within the wide and steep but surprisingly narrow fabric of Buckingham Palace.

spareness

noun ...

There's the wood panelling, high stools and football on the telly that you'd expect, but the soothing green walls, the dark chocolate brown booths, and a certain spareness about it all are a relief.
Through her art, Piper brings together conceptualism, minimalism and the politics of identity in a forceful collision that results in a passionate spareness.
There is another aspect of Arcady that is more difficult to describe, but which owes primarily to the disarming simplicity of the book's lexicon and spareness of its phrasing.

sparer

/ˈspɛːrə/ noun (rare) ...

Generally, I found Pedersen's coverage to be sparer of the two books in this variation.
Sadly, the prose doesn't sing the way Chandler's does, holding much more to the sparer style used by Parker.
His drawings are sparer, more ‘in glorious black and white,’ more elegantly stylized, more Weegee, less rough than his brother's.

Origin

Old English spær 'not plentiful, meagre', sparian 'refrain from injuring', 'refrain from using', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German sparen 'to spare'.

In the senses ‘left over, extra’, and ‘to avoid harming’, spare is an Old English word, but the spare in spare ribs is quite different. Spare ribs probably comes from the old German word ribbesper, which meant ‘pickled pork ribs roasted on a spit’. Once English speakers started using the German term in the 16th century they soon swapped the two parts round to make it sound more like an English word (compare sideburns). The title of the British feminist magazine Spare Rib, first published in 1972, is a pun on the ‘spare’ rib that God took from Adam's body to create the first woman, Eve.

单词	spare
释义	spare /spɛː / adjective 1Additional to what is required for ordinary use: few people had spare cash for inessentials... Many Beninese enjoy soft drinks and beer, but these require spare cash. This space is reserved as a spare area for products with all primary defects and some secondary defects. The large, silvery cradle - which has an embedded Dell logo that glows blue when the PDA is connected - has a secondary bay for recharging spare batteries. Synonyms extra, supplementary, additional, second, another, alternative, emergency, reserve, backup, relief, fallback, substitute, fresh, auxiliary, ancillary; North American alternate surplus, surplus to requirements, superfluous, too much/many, supernumerary, excessive, in excess, going begging; redundant, not required, unnecessary, inessential, unessential, needless, unneeded, uncalled for, dispensable, disposable, expendable, unwanted, useless; French de trop 1.1Not currently in use or occupied: a spare seat... Keren occupied only one leaving his spare seats free. Open crates and various strange pieces of equipment seemed to occupy every spare bit of space. It's the only spare seat in the whole classroom. 1.2(Of time) not taken up by one’s usual duties or activities; available for leisure: he tried to write poetry in his spare time... For most acts, this wouldn't work, but Lemon Jelly has a style that requires headphones and a spare 45 minutes to absorb the album from start to finish. A question from another child revealed Mr Blunkett wishes he had more spare time. I have more spare time and I'm more perceptive of my life and my surroundings. Synonyms free, leisure, unoccupied, own 2With no excess fat; thin: a spare, bearded figure... She was spare featured with a thin mouth and rectangular face. Empty but not hungry, she felt sleek and spare, like a dragonfly. A tall, spare man with jet black hair leaned over the counter to greet them. Synonyms slender, lean; willowy, sylphlike, svelte, lissom, graceful, snake-hipped, rangy, clean-limbed, trim, slight, slightly built, without an ounce of fat; thin, as thin as a reed, skinny, size-zero, gaunt, attenuated, lanky, spindly informal skin and bone rare gracile, attenuate 3Elegantly simple: her clothes are smart and spare in style... Critics usually describe Hemingway's style as simple, spare, and journalistic. These recordings are spare and simple - just three guys in a room playing clean, clear lines and letting them ring. Glazed all along its south side, it offers a simple, spare and sunny series of places that provide a surprising number of possibilities for eating in company. noun 1An item kept in case another item of the same type is lost, broken, or worn out: the wheel’s broken and it would be suicide to go on without a spare... After E, above you put the kit back together and have a large box of spares left over. He played his bass like he had five spares waiting backstage. Everybody in the world should buy all Miyazaki's films twice and then give their spares to each other. 2(In tenpin bowling) an act of knocking down all the pins with two balls.I threw a gutter ball, screwing up my spare from the frame before.... After her first turn, she'd decided to get the five gutter balls out of the way and missed the first ball, then got a spare. He knocked down nine pins with his first ball, then picked up the spare. verb 1 [with two objects] Give (something of which one has enough) to (someone): she asked if I could spare her a bob or two... You have all this money and you won't spare enough to let your own child go back home. My most recent one just said basically that I'm a homeless man, can you spare some change to help me provide some food. Can anyone spare me a couple of quid? Synonyms afford, do without, manage without, get along without, dispense with, part with, give, let someone have, provide 1.1Make free or available: I’m sure you can spare me a moment... Then without sparing a moment's pity for the fawning, awkward creature that Jonas had become, Christy turned on her heels. He spared a moment to take a glance at what was happening. His voice dripped with ironic sarcasm, as he spared a moment to glance at her. 2 [with object] Refrain from killing, injuring, or distressing: there was no way the men would spare her... For where is the man who would spare the lives of the vanquished if he saw more profit in killing than in sparing them?… The rains in the end of May did not spare even posh areas. And I have to say that my opinion is with the rest of my family that the fact that her life was spared was enough. Synonyms not harm, leave uninjured, leave unhurt; be merciful to, show mercy to, have mercy on, be lenient to, deal leniently with, have pity on; pardon, grant a pardon to, excuse, leave unpunished, forgive, reprieve, release, free, let off, amnesty informal go easy on 2.1 [with two objects] Refrain from inflicting (something unpleasant) on (someone): the country had until now been spared the violence occurring elsewhere... Much of the film feels profoundly sad, as Donovan spares no unpleasant detail, making for a sobering look at someone so attached to the bottle. As children's fears invite adult protection, an anxious child will be spared from unpleasant duties or routines. We are spared most of the violence of the situation, and really only see its conclusion. 3 (spare oneself) [with negative] Try to ensure or satisfy one’s own comfort or needs: in her concern to help others, she has never spared herself... No doubt Pat Grant will be lining himself up for a shot at the chair when it falls vacant in five years time, and meantime he'll not be sparing himself in his endeavours to prove his credentials. He was extremely hardworking, never sparing himself in the performance of his duties and once he fainted in his office from exhaustion and almost died. He was always the quiet one to lead by example, never sparing himself. 4 [no object] archaic Be frugal: but some will spend, and some will spare Phrases go spare spare someone's blushes spare me days! spare no effort spare no expense (or no expense spared) spare the rod and spoil the child spare a thought for to spare Derivatives sparely /ˈspɛːli/ adverb ... But while the work has caused some controversy since its premiere in 1999, the sparely staged Tongue is ultimately a testament to the power of understanding. If you took a map of Australia and drew a wonky circle around the middle of the country, you'd land in the outback: red dirt, sparely inhabited, the back country. The Queen's Gallery is a trim, sparely designed enclosure within the wide and steep but surprisingly narrow fabric of Buckingham Palace. spareness noun ... There's the wood panelling, high stools and football on the telly that you'd expect, but the soothing green walls, the dark chocolate brown booths, and a certain spareness about it all are a relief. Through her art, Piper brings together conceptualism, minimalism and the politics of identity in a forceful collision that results in a passionate spareness. There is another aspect of Arcady that is more difficult to describe, but which owes primarily to the disarming simplicity of the book's lexicon and spareness of its phrasing. sparer /ˈspɛːrə/ noun (rare) ... Generally, I found Pedersen's coverage to be sparer of the two books in this variation. Sadly, the prose doesn't sing the way Chandler's does, holding much more to the sparer style used by Parker. His drawings are sparer, more ‘in glorious black and white,’ more elegantly stylized, more Weegee, less rough than his brother's. Origin Old English spær 'not plentiful, meagre', sparian 'refrain from injuring', 'refrain from using', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch and German sparen 'to spare'. In the senses ‘left over, extra’, and ‘to avoid harming’, spare is an Old English word, but the spare in spare ribs is quite different. Spare ribs probably comes from the old German word ribbesper, which meant ‘pickled pork ribs roasted on a spit’. Once English speakers started using the German term in the 16th century they soon swapped the two parts round to make it sound more like an English word (compare sideburns). The title of the British feminist magazine Spare Rib, first published in 1972, is a pun on the ‘spare’ rib that God took from Adam's body to create the first woman, Eve. 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