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spark
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) enPR: spärk, IPA(key): /sp??k/
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: späk, IPA(key): /sp??k/
- Rhymes: -??(?)k
- Homophone: SPARC
Etymology 1
From Middle English sparke, sperke, from Old English spearca, from Proto-Germanic *sprakô (compare Dutch spark and sprank, Middle Low German sparke), from Proto-Indo-European *sperg- (“to strew, sprinkle”) (compare Breton erc’h (“snow”), Latin sparg? (“to scatter, spread”), sparsus (“scattered”), Lithuanian sprógti (“to germinate”), Ancient Greek ??????? (spargá?, “to swell”), Avestan ????????????????????????????????????????? (frasparega, “branch, twig”), Sanskrit ??????? (parjanya, “rain, rain god”)).
Noun
spark (plural sparks)
- A small particle of glowing matter, either molten or on fire.
- A short or small burst of electrical discharge.
- A small, shining body, or transient light; a sparkle.
- (figuratively) A small amount of something, such as an idea or romantic affection, that has the potential to become something greater, just as a spark can start a fire.
- , Book IV, Chapter XVII
- But though we have, here and there, a little of this clear light, some sparks of bright knowledge
- 2013, Phil McNulty, "[1]", BBC Sport, 1 September 2013:
- Everton's Marouane Fellaini looks one certain arrival but Moyes, who also saw United held to a draw by Chelsea at Old Trafford on Monday, needs even more of a spark in a midfield that looked laboured by this team's standards.
- , Book IV, Chapter XVII
- Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the Indomalayan genus Sinthusa.
- (in plural sparks but treated as a singular) A ship's radio operator.
- (Britain, slang) An electrician.
Synonyms
- (small particle of glowing matter): ember, gnast, funk
- (small amount of something, such as an idea, that has the potential to become something greater): beginnings, germ, glimmer
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Esperanto: sparko
Translations
Verb
spark (third-person singular simple present sparks, present participle sparking, simple past and past participle sparked)
- (transitive, figuratively) To trigger, kindle into activity (an argument, etc).
- (transitive) To light; to kindle.
- 2009, Alex Jenson, The Serotonin Grand Prix (page 12)
- Byron sparked the cigarette. He sucked it dramatically and thrust it into Marko's hand.
- 2009, Alex Jenson, The Serotonin Grand Prix (page 12)
- (intransitive) To give off a spark or sparks.
Derived terms
- spark off
- sparkle
Translations
Etymology 2
Probably Scandinavian, akin to Old Norse sparkr (“sprightly”).
Noun
spark (plural sparks)
- A gallant; a foppish young man.
- The finest sparks and cleanest beaux.
- Jones had no sooner quitted the room, than the petty-fogger, in a whispering tone, asked Mrs Whitefield, “If she knew who that fine spark was?”
- A beau, lover.
Verb
spark (third-person singular simple present sparks, present participle sparking, simple past and past participle sparked)
- (intransitive) To woo, court; to act the gallant or beau.
Synonyms
- make love, romance, solicit; see also Thesaurus:woo
Derived terms
- sparkish
- sparker
References
- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
Anagrams
- K-spar, Karps, Parks, Praks, parks
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse spark, verbal noun to sparka (“to kick”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spark/, [sb?????]
Noun
spark n (singular definite sparket, plural indefinite spark)
- kick
Inflection
Verb
spark
- imperative of sparke
Faroese
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spa??k/
Noun
spark n (genitive singular sparks, plural spørk)
- kick
Declension
Derived terms
Icelandic
Etymology
From sparka (“to kick”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?spar?k/
- Rhymes: -ar?k
Noun
spark n (genitive singular sparks, nominative plural spörk)
- kick
Declension
Middle English
Noun
spark
- Alternative form of sparke
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
spark n (definite singular sparket, indefinite plural spark, definite plural sparka or sparkene)
- a kick (with a foot)
Derived terms
- brassespark
- frispark
- hjørnespark
- straffespark
Related terms
- sparke
Verb
spark
- imperative of sparke
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
spark n (definite singular sparket, indefinite plural spark, definite plural sparka)
- a kick (with a foot)
Derived terms
- brassespark
- frispark
- hjørnespark
- straffespark
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse spark, from sparka (“to kick”).
Noun
spark c
- kick
- kicksled; short for sparkstötting
Declension
Anagrams
- karps, parks, skarp
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holocaust
English
Etymology
From Middle English holocaust, from Anglo-Norman holocauste, from Late Latin holocaustum, from the neuter form of Ancient Greek ?????????? (holókaustos), from ???? (hólos, “whole”) + ??????? (kaustós, “burnt”), from ???? (kaí?, “I burn”). Used to refer to mass killings since at least 1925.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?h?l?k??st/
- (US) IPA(key): /?h?l?k?st/, /?ho?l?k?st/
- (US, Canada, cot–caught merger) IPA(key): /?h?l?k?st/, /?ho?l?k?st/
Noun
holocaust (plural holocausts)
- A sacrifice that is completely burned to ashes. [from the 13th c]
- Coordinate term: moirocaust
- 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Mark XII:
- And to love a mans nehbour as hymsilfe, ys a greater thynge then all holocaustes and sacrifises.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.3:
- in the holocaust or burnt-offering of Moses, the gall was cast away: for, as Ben Maimon instructeth, the inwards, whereto the gall adhereth, were taken out with the crop (according unto the law,) which the priest did not burn, but cast unto the east [...].
- Extensive destruction of a group (usually of people or animals), whether by deliberate agency or by natural agency (especially fire). [from the 19th c]
- 1895 September 10, "ANOTHER ARMENIAN HOLOCAUST; Five Villages Burned, Five Thousand Persons Made Homeless, and Anti-Christians Organized.", in The New York Times
- 1925, Melville Chater, History's Greatest Trek, in The National Geographic Magazine
- But the initial episodes of the Exchange drama were enacted to the accompaniment of the boom of cannon and the rattle of machine guns and with the settings painted by the flames of the Smyrna holocaust [...]
- 1938, The Palestine Post (Sunday February 6 1938), volume XIV, No. 3567, page 4, column 4 (beneath "Help for Franco?"):
- […] the entire Press, more particularly the French press, is worried lest there be some connection between the bloodless holocaust of German Generals and Ambassadors and the persistent reports that Mussolini is about to intervene in Spain on the grand scale.
- 1954, Talbot Jennings, Jan Lustig, Noel Langley, Knights of the Round Table (film)
- None will emerge the victor from this holocaust.
- a nuclear holocaust
- In particular, a state-sponsored mass murder of an ethnic group, especially the Holocaust (which see). [from the 20th c]
Usage notes
- Use of the word holocaust to refer to the mass murder of Jews under the Nazis dates back to 1942, according to the OED. By the 1970s, the Holocaust was often synonymous with the Jewish exterminations. This use of the term as a synonym for the Jewish exterminations has been criticised because it appears to imply that there was a voluntary religious purpose behind the Nazi actions, which was not the case from either the Nazis' perspective or the victims'. Hence, some people prefer the term Shoah, which means destruction.
- The word continues to be used in its other senses. For example, part of the action of a BBC radio drama by James Follett in 1981 takes place in “Holocaust City”, which by inference was named because the inhabitants were the only survivors of a global nuclear war. However, this usage is considered by some to be Holocaust trivialization.
- For more information on the use of the term Holocaust, see the entry Holocaust.
Hyponyms
- homocaust
- nuclear holocaust
Related terms
- caustic
- holo-
Translations
Verb
holocaust (third-person singular simple present holocausts, present participle holocausting, simple past and past participle holocausted)
- (rare) To sacrifice and burn (an animal) completely.
- 1986, Sylvia Brinton Perera, The Scapegoat Complex: Toward a Mythology of Shadow and Guilt:
- The Holocausted Goat
- Besides the condemning accuser, there is also the "holocausted goat," originally symbolizing libido sacrificed to the offended Yahweh.
- 1987, Quadrant:
- The first was the holocausted goat, not worthy to live, who manifests in the modern complex as the helpless victim of pre-egoic consciousness. The second is the exiled wandering goat who carries all the denied instincts — sexuality, ...
- 1997, Kathie Carlson, Life's Daughter/death's Bride: Inner Transformations Through the Goddess Demeter/Persephone, Shambhala Publications:
- Is it any wonder that the ruler of such a place would be worshipped with aversion rather than invocation? Or that the offering to underworld deities was traditionally an offering that was holocausted, completely burnt and given over […] ?
- 1986, Sylvia Brinton Perera, The Scapegoat Complex: Toward a Mythology of Shadow and Guilt:
- (rare) To destroy completely, especially by fire.
- 1850, George Townsend, Journal of a tour in Italy, in 1850, with an account of an interview with the pope, page 119:
- The meek and candid persecutor, Cardinal Pole, who killed and took possession when Cranmer was holocausted, built the chapel, and became the voucher for the truth of the absurd legend. We visited the reputed grotto of the nymph Egeria.
- 1888, Southern California Practitioner, page 79:
- Sulla once said, before Caesar had made much of a showing, that some day this young man would be the ruin of the aristocracy, and twenty years afterward, when Caesar sacked, assassinated and holocausted a whole theological seminary […]
- 1850, George Townsend, Journal of a tour in Italy, in 1850, with an account of an interview with the pope, page 119:
- (rare, possibly nonstandard) To subject to a holocaust (mass annihilation); to destroy en masse. (Compare genocide (verb).)
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:holocaust.
See also
- burnt offering
- ethnic cleansing
- pogrom
References
- Lewis M. Paternoster and Ruth Frager-Stone, Three Dimensions of Vocabulary Growth, second edition (Amsco School Publications, 1998)
- Oxford Dictionary: holocaust
- “holocaust”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
- “holocaust” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
Czech
Alternative forms
- holokaust m
Noun
holocaust m
- holocaust (the state-sponsored mass murder of an ethnic group)
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch holocaust, from Latin holocaustum, from the neuter of Ancient Greek ?????????? (holókaustos). The shift to masculine was influenced by Middle French holocauste. The meaning “genocide” derives from English holocaust.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???.lo??k?u?st/
- Hyphenation: ho?lo?caust
Noun
holocaust m (plural holocausten)
- holocaust, genocide
- (dated) holocaust (complete burnt offering)
Related terms
- Holocaust
Old Spanish
Alternative forms
- olocaust (alternative spelling)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [o.lo?kau?st]
Noun
holocaust m (plural holocaustos)
- Apocopic form of holocausto, burnt offering
- c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 34r.
- Idem, f. 76r.
- c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 34r.
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