spare
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: bowling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: From Middle English spare, spar, from Old English spær (“sparing, scant”), from Proto-Germanic *sparaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sph₁rós, from the root *speh₁-.
Compare Dutch spaar(zaam), German spar(sam) and spär(lich), Swedish spar(sam), Icelandic sparr (“sparing”); also Latin (pro)sperus (“lucky”), Old Church Slavonic споръ (sporŭ, “plentiful”), Albanian shperr (“earn money”), Persian سپار (sepâr, “entrust; deposit”), Ancient Greek σπαρνός (sparnós, “rare”), Sanskrit स्फिर (sphirá, “thick”).
Inflected forms:
form: sparer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: sparest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: spares
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: spares
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sparing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: spared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: spared
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: spare
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: spare
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: spared
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: spare
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: sparest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: spared
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: sparedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: spares
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: spareth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: spared
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: spare
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: spared
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: spare
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: spared
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: spare
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: sparing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: spared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: Extra.
pos: adj
examples: I have no spare time.
if that no spare cloths he had to give
gloss: Extra.
pos: adj
examples: a spare anchor; a spare wheel or tyre
gloss: Extra.
pos: adj
examples: We could rent out the spare room.
Shepard: I take it this is your first time here?
Wrex: Meant to tell you Shepard. Earth reminds me of home. Guess you'll be needing a new planet too. That's okay. Tuchanka's got room to spare and a guard dog named Kalros.
As the 1857 to Manchester Piccadilly rolls in, I scan the windows and realise there are plenty of spare seats, so I hop aboard. The train is a '221'+'220' combo to allow for social distancing - a luxury on an XC train as normally you're playing sardines, so I make the most of it.
gloss: Not plentiful.
pos: adj
examples: a spare diet
Jones’ sad eyes betray a pervasive pain his purposefully spare dialogue only hints at, while the perfectly cast Brolin conveys hints of playfulness and warmth while staying true to the craggy stoicism at the character’s core.
gloss: Not plentiful.
pos: adj
examples: I’m naked to the bone,
With nakedness my shield.
Myself is what I wear:
I keep the spirit spare.
gloss: Not plentiful.
pos: adj
examples: He was spare, […]but discreet of speech.
Under Hartmut Warkuss, its design director until 2003, Volkswagen styling celebrated its Teutonic origins and the spare modernist tradition expressed in Braun radios and coffee makers, reference points for the neomodern simplicity of the iPod.
gloss: Not plentiful.
pos: adj
examples: O, give me the spare men, and spare me the great ones.
gloss: Very angry; frustrated or distraught.
pos: adj
tags: UK
informal
examples: When he found out that someone had broken the window, he went spare.
The poor girl is going spare, stuck in the house all day with the kids like that.
“That'll drive him spare.”
My grandfather (unaware that he was using antique terms) would often say ruefully that I would drive him spare. The idea was that my behaviour would so dement him as to drive him berserk.
gloss: The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.
pos: noun
examples: men slaine, then without any spare at all they trampled over the dead carkasses
gloss: Parsimony; frugal use.
pos: noun
examples: Pourd out their plenty, without spight or spare:
gloss: An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
pos: noun
gloss: That which has not been used or expended.
pos: noun
gloss: A spare part.
pos: noun
tags: especially
examples: I stopped to help out. Do you have a spare? [Said by one motorist to another with a flat tire.]
gloss: A spare part.
pos: noun
examples: People sometimes forget that world-class logistics also involve inventory management in warehouses full of spares.
gloss: A superfluous or second-best person.
pos: noun
examples: an heir and a spare
The whole Heir versus Spare thing? Wasn't it a bit late for that tired childhood dynamic?
gloss: The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare.
pos: noun
gloss: The act of knocking down all remaining pins in second ball of a frame; this entitles the pins knocked down on the next ball to be added to the score for that frame.
pos: noun
gloss: A free period; a block of school during which one does not have a class.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
examples: I also remember watching David Letterman's short-lived morning show on TV when I had a spare during my school schedule.
gloss: assistant or extra hand (typically on buses and lorries)
pos: noun
tags: Myanmar
gloss: To show mercy, to have mercy on.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To show mercy, to have mercy on.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To show mercy, to have mercy on.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
Cologne Hauptbahnhof is reached in the small hours, and the traveller new to postwar Germany is spared the sight of the devastated city.
gloss: To show mercy, to have mercy on.
pos: verb
tags: specifically
transitive
examples: Kill me, if you please, or spare me.
Reggie Clemons has one last chance to save his life. After 19 years on death row in Missouri for the murder of two young women, he has been granted a final opportunity to persuade a judge that he should be spared execution by lethal injection.
In April of 2009, however, the disease was found to suddenly no longer be appearing in newly-hatched chickens, and, upon review, it was discovered that Dr. Wildcat had modified 6002 without authorization, removing the disease from the genome. She's detained and questioned by Muller, and, even though she tries to lie that she didn't do anything, they have footage of her ascending the tree on her own. Muller tells her that she can't just take it upon herself to decide what's best, as who knows what would've happened if she had made a mistake. She proceeds to cuss him out, and he gives her a choice, telling her that if she apologizes now, he'll put in a good word for her with the O5 Council, which might spare her. She's silent for a moment, but does end up apologizing.
gloss: To keep.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: I, who at some times spend, at others spare, / Divided between carelessness and care.
gloss: To keep.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Thou that day / Thy Father's dreadful thunder didst not spare
He that hath knowledge, spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.
gloss: To keep.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: All the time he could spare from the necessary cares of his weighty charge, from assaults, and the naturall refreshing of his body, be bestowed in praier and seruing of God
gloss: (to give up): To deprive oneself of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Where angry Jove did never spare / One breath of kind and temperate air.
Poor Jack, farewell! / I could have better spared a better man
Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.[…]Next day she[…]tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. Then, thwarted, the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the law, and perhaps had spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary.
At Southall, we believe, it has been difficult to spare men from an understaffed motive power establishment to undergo non revenue-earning training on the diesel multiple-units, because crews are scarce for trip freight working.
Derived words: go spare
like a spare prick at a wedding
nonspare
spange
spanger
spare ball
spare change
sparely
spareness
spare part
sparer
spare rib
spare room
spare time
spare tire
spare tool
spare tyre
spare wheel
unspare
spary
donut spare
hot spare
spareful
spareless
don't spare the horses
forspare
spareable
spare a thought for
spare no effort
spare no expense
spare someone's blushes
spare someone the details
spare the rod and spoil the child
to spare
unspared
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: رَحِمَ
roman: raḥima
lang: Armenian
word: խնայել
roman: xnayel
lang: Bulgarian
word: щадя
roman: štadja
lang: Bulgarian
word: пощадявам
roman: poštadjavam
lang: Danish
word: skåne
lang: Dutch
word: sparen
lang: German
word: sparen
lang: Gothic
word: 𐍆𐍂𐌴𐌹𐌳𐌾𐌰𐌽
roman: freidjan
lang: Ancient Greek
word: φείδομαι
roman: pheídomai
lang: Hungarian
word: megkímél
lang: Hungarian
word: kímél
lang: Icelandic
word: þyrma
lang: Italian
word: risparmiare
lang: Latin
word: impercō
lang: Latin
word: parcō
lang: Old Norse
word: þyrma
lang: Polish
word: oszczędzać
lang: Polish
word: oszczędzić
lang: Russian
word: щади́ть
roman: ščadítʹ
lang: Russian
word: ми́ловать
roman: mílovatʹ
lang: Russian
word: пощади́ть
roman: poščadítʹ
lang: Russian
word: поми́ловать
roman: pomílovatʹ
lang: Sanskrit
word: मृडति
roman: mṛḍati
lang: Spanish
word: perdonar
lang: Spanish
word: no adolorar
lang: Spanish
word: mostrar misericordia a
lang: Spanish
word: ser misericorde con
lang: Spanish
word: apiadar (se de)
lang: Spanish
word: dejar a salvo
lang: Swedish
word: skona
lang: Turkish
word: bağışlamak