spar vs yard
yard vs sparspar and yard both are nouns.
spar is a verb but yard is not a verb.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| spar | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| yard | Yes | No | No | No |
As nouns,
yard is a hyponym of
spar; that is, yard is a
word with a more specific, narrower meaning than
spar:
- spar: a stout rounded pole of wood or metal used to support rigging
- yard: a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen
Other hyponyms of spar include
boom, bowsprit, dolphin striker, martingale, gaff, jibboom, mast, sprit.
| spar (noun) | yard (noun) |
|---|---|
| making the motions of attack and defense with the fists and arms; a part of training for a boxer | an enclosure for animals (as chicken or livestock) |
| a stout rounded pole of wood or metal used to support rigging | a long horizontal spar tapered at the end and used to support and spread a square sail or lateen |
| any of various nonmetallic minerals (calcite or feldspar) that are light in color and transparent or translucent and cleavable | the enclosed land around a house or other building |
| an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines | |
| a tract of land enclosed for particular activities (sometimes paved and usually associated with buildings) | |
| a tract of land where logs are accumulated | |
| a unit of length equal to 3 feet; defined as 91.44 centimeters; originally taken to be the average length of a stride | |
| a unit of volume (as for sand or gravel) | |
| the cardinal number that is the product of 10 and 100 |
| spar (verb) | yard (verb) |
|---|---|
| fight verbally | |
| box lightly | |
| fight with spurs | |
| furnish with spars |
Words related to "spar"
Words related to "yard"
- 1000
- G
- God's acre
- K
- M
- backyard
- barnyard
- capacity measure
- capacity unit
- chain
- chicken run
- chicken yard
- chiliad
- churchyard
- cubage unit
- cubature unit
- cubic content unit
- cubic measure
- cubic yard
- curtilage
- displacement unit
- dooryard
- enclosure
- farmyard
- fathom
- field
- foot
- fore-yard
- foreyard
- fowl run
- front yard
- ft
- fthm
- garden
- grand
- grounds
- hen yard
- junkyard
- large integer
- lea
- linear measure
- linear unit
- main yard
- marshalling yard
- millenary
- one thousand
- pace
- parcel
- parcel of land
- perch
- piece of ground
- piece of land
- playground
- pole
- railway yard
- railyard
- rod
- royal yard
- sailing ship
- sailing vessel
- schoolyard
- side yard
- spar
- stockyard
- thou
- thousand
- tiltyard
- top-gallant yard
- topgallant yard
- tract
- volume unit
- yardarm
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