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Spar vs Argue - What's the difference?

spar | argue |

In obsolete terms the difference between spar and argue

is that spar is a bar of wood used to fasten a door while argue is to prove.

In transitive terms the difference between spar and argue

is that spar is to supply or equip (a vessel) with spars while argue is to present (a viewpoint or an argument therefor).

As verbs the difference between spar and argue

is that spar is to bolt, bar while argue is to prove.

As a noun spar

is a rafter of a roof.

spar

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) . Perhaps also compare (l), (l).

Noun

(en noun)
  • A rafter of a roof.
  • A thick pole or piece of wood.
  • (obsolete) A bar of wood used to fasten a door.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.11:
  • The Prince staid not his aunswere to devize, / But, opening streight the Sparre , forth to him came […].
  • (nautical) A general term denoting any linear object used as a mast, sprit, yard, boom, pole or gaff.
  • (aeronautics) A beam-like structural member that supports ribs in an aircraft wing or other airfoil.
  • Derived terms
    * spar buoy * spar deck * spar torpedo

    Verb

  • (obsolete, or, dialectal) to bolt, bar.
  • To supply or equip (a vessel) with spars.
  • Derived terms
    * oversparred, undersparred

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (sparr)
  • To fight, especially as practice for martial arts or hand-to-hand combat.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=April 15 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=After early sparring , Spurs started to take control as the interval approached and twice came close to taking the lead. Terry blocked Rafael van der Vaart's header on the line and the same player saw his cross strike the post after Adebayor was unable to apply a touch.}}
  • To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.
  • To contest in words; to wrangle.
  • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) spar, .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mineralogy) any of various microcrystalline minerals, of light, translucent, or transparent blee, which are easily cleft
  • (mineralogy) any crystal with no readily discernible faces.
  • Anagrams

    * ----

    argue

    English

    Verb

    (argu)
  • (obsolete) To prove.
  • To shows grounds for concluding ((that)); to indicate, imply.
  • * 1910 , , "The Soul of Laploshka", Reginald in Russia :
  • To have killed Laploshka was one thing; to have kept his beloved money would have argued a callousness of feeling of which I was not capable.
  • To debate, disagree or discuss opposing or differing viewpoints.
  • He also argued for stronger methods to be used against China.
    He argued as follows: America should stop Lend-Lease convoying, because it needs to fortify its own Army with the supplies.
    The two boys argued because of disagreement about the science project.
  • To have an argument, a quarrel.
  • To present (a viewpoint or an argument therefor).
  • He argued his point.
    He argued that America should stop Lend-Lease convoying because it needed to fortify its own Army with the supplies.

    Derived terms

    * argie-bargie * argle-bargle * arguable * argue the toss * arguer * argy-bargy

    Anagrams

    * English reporting verbs ----