how to pronounce spar

/ˈspɑːɹ/

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spar is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of spar in a speech by a native speaker of american english:

“… for an afternoon watching them spar with …”

meanings of spar

noun:

A rafter of a roof.
A sparring session; a preliminary fight, as in boxing or cock-fighting.
Any crystal with readily discernible faces.
A thick pole or piece of wood.
Any linear object used as a mast, sprit, yard, boom, pole or gaff.
A bar of wood used to fasten a door.
Any of various microcrystalline minerals, of light, translucent, or transparent appearance, which are easily cleft.
A beam-like structural member that supports ribs in an aircraft wing or other airfoil.

verb:

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

spar frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word spar occurs in english on average 0.5 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics spar can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that spar can be often used in the following areas:

1) business and work;

2) life, nature, and living environment;