sparとは

意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From Middle English sparre (“spar, rafter, beam”) (noun), sparren (“to close, bar”) (verb), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sparrô (“stake, beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)par- (“beam, log”). Compare Dutch spar (“balk”), German Sparren (“rafter, spar”), Danish sparre (“spar”), Albanian shparr, shpardh (“kind of oak”). Perhaps also compare spear, park.

名詞

spar (複数形 spars)

1. A rafter of a roof.
2. A thick pole or piece of wood.
3. (obsolete) A bar of wood used to fasten a door.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.11:

     The Prince staid not his aunswere to devize, / But, opening streight the Sparre, forth to him came […].

4. (nautical) Any linear object used as a mast, sprit, yard, boom, pole or gaff.
5. (aeronautics) A beam-like structural member that supports ribs in an aircraft wing or other airfoil.

派生語

• spar buoy
• spar deck
• spar torpedo

動詞

spar (三人称単数 現在形 spars, 現在分詞 sparring, 過去形および過去分詞形 sparred)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) to bolt, bar.
2. (transitive) To supply or equip (a vessel) with spars.

派生語

• oversparred, undersparred

語源 2

From Middle English sparren (“to thrust または strike rapidly”), from 古期英語 sperran, spirran, spyrran (“to strike, strike out at, spar”), related to Low German sparre (“a struggling, striving”), German sich sperren (“to struggle, resist, oppose”), Icelandic sperrask (“to kick out at, thrust, struggle”).

動詞

spar (三人称単数 現在形 spars, 現在分詞 sparring, 過去形および過去分詞形 sparred)

1. To fight, especially as practice for martial arts or hand-to-hand combat.
   • 2012 April 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     After early sparring, Spurs started to take control as the interval approached and twice came close to taking the lead. Terry blocked Rafael van der Vaart's header on the line and the same player saw his cross strike the post after Adebayor was unable to apply a touch.

2. To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.
3. To contest in words; to wrangle.

名詞

spar (複数形 spars)

1. A sparring session; a preliminary fight, as in boxing or cock-fighting.

語源 3

From Middle Low German spar, sper (“spar”); or from a backformation of sparstone (“spar”), from Middle English sparston (“gypsum, chalk”), from 古期英語 spærstān (“gypsum”). Related to German Sparkalk (“plaster”), 古期英語 spæren (“of plaster, of mortar”).

名詞

spar (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 spars)

2. (mineralogy) Any of various microcrystalline minerals, of light, translucent, or transparent appearance, which are easily cleft.
3. (mineralogy) Any crystal with readily discernible faces.

アナグラム

• APRs, Arps, PSRA, RAPs, arps, pars, raps, rasp, sapr-