spur
A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose…A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse. Often worn by, and emblematic of, the cowboy or the knight.
» More money for education will spur economic growth.
Höhere Ausgaben im Bildungssektor werden die Wirtschaft ankurbeln.
Больше денег на образование будет стимулировать экономический рост.
Значение
значений: 22A rigid implement, often roughly y-shaped, that is fixed to one's heel for the purpose of prodding a horse. Often worn by, and emblematic of, the cowboy or the knight.
Sporn
шпо́раšpóra
остро́гаostróha, шпо́раšpóra
a sharp prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse onward
A jab given with the spurs.
(переносно)Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse.
Ansporn
сти́мулstímul
An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster.
шпо́раšpóra
Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into a city.
Roots, tree roots.
A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.
отро́гotróg
A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale to strip off the blubber.
A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
The short wooden buttress of a post.
A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage.
Eckblatt
Ergotized rye or other grain.
Примеры
предложений: 29More money for education will spur economic growth.
Больше денег на образование будет стимулировать экономический рост.
deHöhere Ausgaben im Bildungssektor werden die Wirtschaft ankurbeln.
What on earth spurred them to such an action?
Какая муха их укусила?
Ideas occur to me on the spur of the moment.
Идеи приходят мне в голову спонтанно.
These issues cannot be decided on the spur of the moment.
Такие вопросы нельзя решать с бухты-барахты.
I think tax cuts can spur growth.
Переводы
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Происхождение
From Middle English spure, spore, from Old English spora, spura, from Proto-West GermanicFrom Middle English spure, spore, from Old English spora, spura, from Proto-West Germanic *spurō, from Proto-Germanic *spurô, from Proto-Indo-European *sperH- (“to kick”).
See sparrow.
Short for spurious.
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