(n.) An old name for a nonmetallic mineral, usually cleavable and somewhat lustrous; as, calc spar, or calcite, fluor spar, etc. It was especially used in the case of the gangue minerals of a metalliferous vein.
(v. t.) A general term any round piece of timber used as a mast, yard, boom, or gaff.
(v. t.) Formerly, a piece of timber, in a general sense; -- still applied locally to rafters.
(v. t.) The bar of a gate or door.
(v. t.) To bolt; to bar.
(v. t.) To To supply or equip with spars, as a vessel.
(v. i.) To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.
(v. i.) To use the fists and arms scientifically in attack or defense; to contend or combat with the fists, as for exercise or amusement; to box.
(v. i.) To contest in words; to wrangle.
(n.) A contest at sparring or boxing.
(n.) A movement of offense or defense in boxing.
Example Sentences:
(1) It's good to be able to take the opportunity to thank my friends and sparring partners from around the YouView boardroom table.
(2) US supreme court justices spar over strictest abortion law in the nation Read more Delta has been sending its patients on this trek for a week – ever since the fifth circuit court of appeals put on hold a lower court ruling that would have allowed the clinic to remain open.
(3) In vivo spin-lattice relaxation times, T1, of water and lipid protons of normal and atrophic muscles were measured, using the spatially resolved spectroscopy (SPARS) sequence, in a genetic avian model of myopathy.
(4) A method of spatially resolved spectroscopy (SPARS), combined with techniques to suppress water signal, was used to overcome this problem.
(5) Amid the sparring over Snowden's asylum claim, his father Lon Snowden told Reuters he was confident Putin would not cave in to pressure to send his son back to the US to face espionage charges.
(6) Shoppers will find out whether they are shopping in a free-bag or pay-bag Spar only when they reach the checkout.
(7) Many of the president's former sparring partners are now billionaires who occupy senior Kremlin positions.
(8) All eyes will be watching closely as Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Martin O’Malley, Jim Webb and Lincoln Chafee spar over the economy, environment, foreign policy, labor rights, and more.
(9) Down at the Spar store, the manager, Chris Richards, was waiting anxiously for the notices that will explain the charge to customers.
(10) Although the data for hearing-impaired subjects fail to support the rationale for the SPAR test, the results for the entire research sample offer substantial support.
(11) Business, governments, consumers, activists - all the main actors in the debate over corporate social responsibility were present in the Brent Spar case, and since then nothing has quite been the same.
(12) But by this time next year, Obama and others may have cause to miss their old sparring partner Karzai.
(13) Although the technical and scientific assessments led to our initial plan to safely sink Brent Spar in deep water in the Atlantic Ocean (a plan supported by the government at the time) we failed to engage sufficiently with others and win public acceptance.
(14) As a child, Dinara fell asleep to the sound of her parents talking late into the night, sparring cheerfully over history or discussing Leyla’s work as head of the Institute for Peace and Democracy , a group launched in 1995 to fight corruption, violence against women, and unlawful evictions.
(15) Carly Fiorina expertly defuses Trump on 'beautiful face' retort and foreign policy Read more The New York real estate mogul went out off his way to bash Carly Fiorina , the former Hewlett Packard CEO and GOP presidential rival with whom he sparred in Wednesday’s debate.
(16) In a cartoon fashion, I half-believe he'll turn up on the news one day jogging and sparring.
(17) His T-shirt is soon soaked with sweat and he looks incredulous when told he has sparred 10 rounds.
(18) To satisfy the competitive spirit, there will be a chance for them to enter an arena-style activity that lets them spar against one another for honour and bragging rights..." On that subject, Destiny players will, of course, get access to Bungie.net, the studio's community website.
(19) Obama has often sparred with Netanyahu over strategy on Iran and the Palestinians.
(20) Subjects were categorized into groups showing high, medium, and low competitive anxiety to assess whether differences on the variables of sparring and forms were significantly related with scores on competition anxiety, age, or gender after adjusting for the covariate of years of competition.
Wrangle
Definition:
(v. i.) To argue; to debate; to dispute.
(v. i.) To dispute angrily; to quarrel peevishly and noisily; to brawl; to altercate.
(v. t.) To involve in a quarrel or dispute; to embroil.
(n.) An angry dispute; a noisy quarrel; a squabble; an altercation.
Example Sentences:
(1) As the wrangling over the body continued, police extended their investigations at the Cambridge Tsarnaev family home.
(2) The final sprint comes after a year of wrangling in Congress, against a background of noisy public meetings and demonstrations.
(3) Sikorski's comments were, it appears, made before the current wrangling over commission nominations heated up and in the context of a specific disagreement on benefits policy.
(4) "The biggest complaint that business has against this government is that they don't have a long-term strategy for growth, and that they have created huge uncertainty," says shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna, who cites the coalition wrangling over the energy bill, finally published last week, as an example of the mixed messages the government has sent out.
(5) Attorney Adam Streisand said the deal was closed Tuesday morning following weeks of legal wrangling between the team’s previous owner, billionaire Donald Sterling, and his estranged wife, Shelly.
(6) After more wrangling, she managed to get him transferred to a civilian prison, where she could visit him every week.
(7) Even before it hosted the 1884-5 Berlin Conference at which European imperial powers wrangled for control of Africa, Germany had enthusiastically embraced the spirit of colonialism.
(8) Slowly she built up a picture of chimp life in all its domestic detail: the grooming, the food-sharing, the status wrangles, and the fights.
(9) We considered also viral and autoimmunity theory and the possibility that these two hypothesis don't wrangle but complete them.
(10) When the cumulative financial effects of the tax rises and spending cuts for 2013 are variously estimated as a drop in GDP of between 4% and 6%, wrangling over the government debt ceiling is not a good idea.
(11) The decision also comes as Washington wrangles with whether to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline to transport crude from Alberta to the Gulf of Mexico.
(12) Republican leadership is frantically trying to wrangle support to open debate on repeal.
(13) But a committee is still wrangling over the constitution's makeup and a national vote on its formation is unlikely until late December – prompting concerns about when and how Egypt might return to electoral politics.
(14) I sure as hell don’t want to let people that want to kill us and kill our nation use our internet.” Chris Christie , meanwhile, was unimpressed by Cruz and Rubio’s wrangling over the intricacies of legislation.
(15) After seven years of legal wrangling, and lobbying by the boys' families, France's highest court on Wednesday overturned a previous ruling saying the case against the police officers should be dropped.
(16) The procedural wrangling was, in fact, a cover for points of serious, substantive disagreement.
(17) Indicators of levels of drug use in Sweden, which has one of the toughest approaches we saw, point to relatively low levels of use, but not markedly lower than countries with different approaches.” Endless coalition wrangling over the contents of the report, which has taken more than eight months to be published, has ensured that it does not include any conclusions.
(18) The decision came after months of political wrangling which came to a head in June when two boats carrying refugees capsized north of Christmas Island within a week of each other, killing at least 90 people.
(19) That sparked more legal wrangling, which led to a court of appeal victory for the Guardian, which was again challenged by the government.
(20) This baseless scaremongering is beneath Lord Owen and the British people deserve better.” Owen’s intervention comes after a week of wrangling between the two sides about the NHS.