spare
adjective · noun · verbA2Định nghĩa theo từ loại
Tính từ
adjective- 1.
Extra.
- 2.
Not plentiful.
- 3.
(UK, informal)Very angry; frustrated or distraught.
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.
Danh từ
noun- 1.
The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.
- 2.
Parsimony; frugal use.
- 3.
An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
- 4.
That which has not been used or expended.
- 5.
A spare part.
- 6.
A superfluous or second-best person.
an heir and a spare
- 7.
(bowling) 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.
- 8.
(bowling) 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.
- 9.
(Canada)A free period; a block of school during which one does not have a class.
- 10.
(Myanmar)assistant or extra hand (typically on buses and lorries)
Động từ
verb- 1.
To show mercy, to have mercy on.
- 2.
To keep.
- 3.
(transitive)(to give up): To deprive oneself of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.
Where angry Jove did never spare / One breath of kind and temperate air.
Nguồn gốc từ
From Middle English spare, spar, from Old English spær (sparing, scant), from Proto-Germanic *sparaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sph₁rós, from the root *speh₁-.