Third-person singular simple present indicative form of par.
pers
pers
pron
(rare, nonstandard) That which belongs to per, theirs (singular): possessive case of per, used in place of a noun.
pres
pres
noun
Abbreviation of present.
Clipping of presentation.
plural of pre
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pre.
pris
pros
pros
noun
plural of pro
prus
prys
purs
purs
noun
plural of pur
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of pur
raps
raps
noun
plural of rap
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of rap
rasp
rasp
noun
(obsolete) The raspberry.
A coarse file, on which the cutting prominences are distinct points raised by the oblique stroke of a sharp punch, instead of lines raised by a chisel, as on the true file.
The sound made by this tool when used, or any similar sound.
verb
(intransitive) To make a noise similar to the one a rasp makes in use; to utter rasps.
(intransitive) To use a rasp.
(transitive) To work something with a rasp.
(transitive, intransitive, figurative) To grate harshly upon; to offend by coarse or rough treatment or language.
To say in a raspy voice.
reps
reps
noun
(textiles, now rare) Rep.
plural of rep
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of rep
resp
resp
adj
(medicine, colloquial) Respiratory.
noun
(medicine, colloquial) Respirology or respiratory medicine.
verb
(Scotland) Alternative form of risp
rips
rips
noun
plural of rip
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of rip
risp
risp
noun
A rubbing or grating together.
verb
To rub together, to rasp or grate.
rspb
rsvp
rsvp
verb
(informal) Alternative letter-case form of RSVP
spar
spar
noun
(aeronautics) A beam-like structural member that supports ribs in an aircraft wing or other airfoil.
(mineralogy) Any crystal with readily discernible faces.
(mineralogy) Any of various microcrystalline minerals, of light, translucent, or transparent appearance, which are easily cleft.
(nautical) Any linear object used as a mast, sprit, yard, boom, pole or gaff.
(obsolete) A bar of wood used to fasten a door.
A rafter of a roof.
A sparring session; a preliminary fight, as in boxing or cock-fighting.
A thick pole or piece of wood.
verb
(obsolete or dialectal) To bolt, bar.
(transitive) To supply or equip (a vessel) with spars.
To contest in words; to wrangle.
To fight, especially as practice for martial arts or hand-to-hand combat.
To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.
spor
spqr
spry
spry
adj
Having great power of leaping or running; nimble; active.
Vigorous; lively; cheerful.
spur
spur
noun
(architecture) 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.
(architecture) The short wooden buttress of a post.
(botany) A short thin side shoot from a branch, especially one that bears fruit or, in conifers, the shoots that bear the leaves.
(carpentry) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, such as a rafter or crossbeam; a strut.
(electronics) A spurious tone, one that interferes with a signal in a circuit and is often masked underneath that signal.
(figurative) Anything that inspires or motivates, as a spur does a horse.
(geology) A mountain that shoots from another mountain or range and extends some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.
(mining) A branch of a vein.
(rail transport) A very short branch line of a railway line.
(shipbuilding) A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam cannot be placed.
(shipbuilding) A piece of timber fixed on the bilgeways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
(transport) A short branch road of a motorway, freeway or major road.
A jab given with the spurs.
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.
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 tern.
A wall in a fortification that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall.
An appendage or spike pointing rearward, near the foot, for instance that of a rooster.
Any protruding part connected at one end, for instance a highway that extends from another highway into a city.
Ergotized rye or other grain.
Roots, tree roots.
The track of an animal, such as an otter; a spoor.
verb
(intransitive) To press forward; to travel in great haste.
(obsolete, dialectal) Alternative form of speer.
(transitive) To prod (especially a horse) on the side or flank, with the intent to urge motion or haste, to gig.
(transitive) To put spurs on.
(transitive) To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object