verb · transitive · rare

spar

spar · spars · sparred · sparring

вести тренировочный бой, спарринговать

To supply or equip with sparsTo supply or equip (a vessel) with spars.

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UK/spɑː/US/spɑɹ/

» Mary's sparring partner had a seizure.

Marias Sparringpartner hatte einen Krampfanfall.

Meaning

5 senses

(transitive)To supply or equip (a vessel) with spars.
furnish with spars
To fight, especially as practice for martial arts or hand-to-hand combat.
спарринговатьsparringovatʹ, вести тренировочный бойtrenirovočnyj
To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.
fight with spurs
To contest in words; to wrangle.
(dialectal, obsolete)To bolt, bar.

Examples

12 sentences

Mary's sparring partner had a seizure.
deMarias Sparringpartner hatte einen Krampfanfall. — brauchinet
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Every good fighter needs a sparring partner.
deJeder gute Kämpfer braucht jemanden, mit dem er üben kann. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
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Would you like to spar with me?
ruХочешь спарринг со мной? — amanshi
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During an annual inspection, the aviation mechanic discovered corrosion in the wing spar.
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However not attacking your partner in sparring is not a kindness!
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Translations

2 languages

Русский

By meaning 1

to fight, especially as practice for martial arts or hand-to-hand combat:

Origin

From Middle English sparre (“spar, rafter, beam”) (noun), sparren (“to close, bar”) (verb)

From Middle English sparre (“spar, rafter, beam”) (noun), sparren (“to close, bar”) (verb), from Middle Dutch sparre or Middle Low German Sparre, all 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.

From Middle English sparren (“to dart out; to strike out”), from Old English 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 sperrast (“to kick out at, thrust, struggle”). The slang sense of friend is probably from the phrase sparring partner under the influence of the similar slang words par and star.

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