Secure vs Spare - What's the difference?
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Free from attack or danger; protected.
Free from the danger of theft; safe.
Free from the risk of eavesdropping, interception or discovery; secret.
Free from anxiety or doubt; unafraid.
* Dryden
Firm and not likely to fail; stable.
Free from the risk of financial loss; reliable.
Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; commonly used with of .
* Milton
Overconfident; incautious; careless.
To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.
* Dryden
To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; frequently with against'' or ''from'', or formerly with ''of .
* T. Dick
To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping.
To get possession of; to make oneself secure of; to acquire certainly.
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sparing; frugal; parsimonious; chary.
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Being over and above what is necessary, or what must be used or reserved; not wanted, or not used; superfluous.
* Spenser
Held in reserve, to be used in an emergency.
lean; wanting flesh; meager; thin; gaunt.
* Shakespeare
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The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.
* Holland
Parsimony; frugal use.
* Spenser
An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
That which has not been used or expended.
A spare part, especially a spare tire.
(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.
(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.
To show mercy.
# To desist; to stop; to refrain.
# To refrain from inflicting harm; to use mercy or forbearance.
# To preserve from danger or punishment; to forbear to punish, injure, or harm; to show mercy.
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# To be frugal; not to be profuse; to live frugally; to be parsimonious.
#* (rfdate) (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
# To keep to oneself; to forbear to impart or give.
#* (rfdate) (John Milton)
#* (rfdate) Bible, Proverbs xvii. 27
# (transitive)} To save or gain, as by frugality; to reserve, as from some occupation, use, or duty.
#* (rfdate) (Knolles)
(to give up) To deprive oneself of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.
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Secure is a related term of spare.
As adjectives the difference between secure and spare
is that secure is free from attack or danger; protected while spare is scanty; not abundant or plentiful.As verbs the difference between secure and spare
is that secure is to make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect while spare is to show mercy.As a noun spare is
the act of sparing; moderation; restraint.secure
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Alternative forms
* secuer (obsolete)Adjective
(en-adj)- But thou, secure of soul, unbent with woes.
- secure of a welcome
- Confidence then bore thee on, secure / Either to meet no danger, or to find / Matter of glorious trial.
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Antonyms
* insecureDerived terms
* securelyVerb
(secur)- I spread a cloud before the victor's sight, / Sustained the vanquished, and secured his flight.
- to secure''' a creditor against loss; to '''secure a debt by a mortgage
- It secures its possessor of eternal happiness.
- to secure''' a prisoner; to '''secure a door, or the hatches of a ship
- to secure an estate
Ángel di María says Manchester United were the ‘only club’ after Real", The Guardian , 26 August 2014:
- With the Argentinian secured United will step up their attempt to sign a midfielder and, possibly, a defender in the closing days of the transfer window. Juventus’s Arturo Vidal, Milan’s Nigel de Jong and Ajax’s Daley Blind, who is also a left-sided defensive player, are potential targets.
- "[Captain] was able to secure some good photographs of the fortress."
(Flight, 1911, p. 766)
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) spare, spar, from (etyl) ‘thick’).Adjective
(er)- a spare diet
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- He was spare , but discreet of speech.
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- I have no spare time.
- if that no spare clothes he had to give
- a spare''' anchor; a '''spare bed or room
- O, give me the spare men, and spare me the great ones.
- (Grose)
Derived terms
* go spare * spare part * spare time * spare tire * spare tyre * spare wheelNoun
(en noun)- Killing for sacrifice, without any spare .
- Poured out their plenty without spite or spare .
Etymology 2
From (etyl) sparen, sparien, from (etyl) .Verb
(spar)- He will not spare in the day of vengeance.
- Kill me, if you please, or spare me.
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- I, who at some times spend, at others spare , / Divided between carelessness and care.
- [Thou] thy Father's dreadful thunder didst not spare .
- He that hath knowledge, spareth his words.
- All the time he could spare from the necessary cares of his weighty charge, he bestowed on serving of God.
- Where angry Jove did never spare / One breath of kind and temperate air.
- I could have better spared a better man.
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