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Par vs Arrear - What's the difference?

par | arrear |

As nouns the difference between par and arrear

is that par is equal value; equality of nominal and actual value; the value expressed on the face or in the words of a certificate of value, as a bond or other commercial paper while arrear is work to be done, obligation.

As an abbreviation par

is paragraph.

As a preposition par

is by; with.

As a verb par

is to reach the hole in the allotted number of strokes.

As a proper noun Par

is the name of a town and beach near St Austell in Cornwall.

As an initialism PAR

is planed all round (timber - meaning planed on all sides as opposed to rough sawn.

As an adverb arrear is

towards the rear, backwards.

par

English

Etymology 1

Abbreviation.

Abbreviation

(Abbreviation) (head)
  • paragraph
  • parallel
  • parenthesis
  • parish

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • By; with.
    • Usage notes
    * Used frequently in Middle English in phrases taken from French, being sometimes written as a part of the word which it governs; as, par amour, or paramour; par cas, or parcase; par fay, or parfay.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Equal value; equality of nominal and actual value; the value expressed on the face or in the words of a certificate of value, as a bond or other commercial paper.
  • Equality of condition or circumstances.
  • (golf, mostly uncountable) The allotted number of strokes to reach the hole.
    • He needs to make this shot for par .
  • (golf, countable) A hole in which a player achieves par
  • * {{quote-news, 2009, January 18, , Paul Casey storms to four-stroke lead in Abu Dhabi, Herald Sun citation
    • , passage=Kaymer started with six straight pars before making a birdie on the seventh and an eagle on the eighth. }}
    Derived terms
    * below par * on par, on a par * par for the course * under par * up to par

    Verb

    (parr)
  • (golf) To reach the hole in the allotted number of strokes.
    • He will need to par every hole in order to win this game.

    Etymology 3

    Compare (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Young salmon. (also spelled parr)

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    arrear

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (obsolete) Towards the rear, backwards.
  • * 1591 , Edmund Spenser, Virgil's Gnat , ll. 465-8:
    • She, (Ladie) having well before approoved / The feends to be too cruell and severe, / Observ'd th' appointed way, as her behooved, / Ne ever did her ey-sight turne arere [...].
  • (obsolete) Behind time; overdue.
  • * 1803 , Edward Hyde East, Reports of cases Argued and determined in the Court of King's Bench , London 1814, vol. 3, p. 559:
    • In case the annuity should be arrear for sixty days being lawfully demanded, then the trustee might enter upon the premises assigned [...].

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Work to be done, obligation.
    • I have a large arrear of letters to write. -- J. D. Forbes.
    My own work, with its manifold arrears , took me all day to clear off. -- Stoker, Dracula
  • Unpaid debt.