spark
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noun- 1.
A small particle of glowing matter, either molten or on fire, resulting from an electrical surge or excessive heat created by friction.
Đồng nghĩa: cinder, ember, gnast, funk
- 2.
A short or small burst of electrical discharge.
- 3.
A small, shining body, or transient light; a sparkle.
Đồng nghĩa: scintilla, scintillation, sparklet, glint, twink
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(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
Đồng nghĩa: beginning, germ, glimmer, scintilla, ace, atom, atomy, aught, bissel, bit, crumb, glimpse, dab, damn, dash, diddly, glint, dot, spatter, drop, dusting, fleck, glimmer, hint, flip, flyspeck, grain, halfpennyworth, inch, iota, jot, lick, mite, modicum, molecule, morceau, morsel, mote, ooch, ounce, particle, pennyworth, piece, pinch, relish, scantling, semblance, scent, scintilla, scooch, scrap, scruple, shred, skerrick, skoosh, skosh, sliver, smattering, smidge, smidgen, smidget, smidgy, smitch, smithereen, soupçon, spark, speck, speckle, spot, sprinkle, sprinkling, strain, tad, tidbit, tidge, tinge, tittle, toddick, touch, trace, trifle, tuppence worth, vestige, whiff, whit
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Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the Indomalayan genus Sinthusa.
- 6.
(in the plural sparks but treated as a singular) A ship's radio operator.
- 7.
(UK, slang)An electrician.
Đồng nghĩa: juicer, sparky
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(cellular automata) A small collection of cells which briefly appears at the edge of a larger pattern before dying off.
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(in plural, obsolete)(obsolete, thieves' cant, chiefly in the plural) A diamond, especially one set in a piece of jewellery.
- 10.
A gallant; a foppish young man.
Đồng nghĩa: blade, masher, barbermonger, beau, blade, blood, buck, carpet knight, cockscomb, dandy, dike, dood, dude, dudelet, exquisite, fashionable, fast man, fine gentleman, fop, foretop, fribble, gallant, go, jack-a-dandy, Jemmy-Jessamy, jetter, macaroni, masher, metrosexual, mignon, petit maître, popinjay, pretty boy, prig, puss-gentleman, smart, spark, spiff, swell, tippy, toff
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A beau, lover.
Đồng nghĩa: suitor, swain, admirer, adorer, baby, beloved, courter, crush, darling, enamorado, flame, follower, leman, loteby, love, love interest, lover, paramour, sparker, sweetheart, truelove, wooer
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verb- 1.
(figuratively, transitive)(transitive, figurative) To trigger, kindle into activity (an argument, etc).
- 2.
(transitive)To light; to kindle.
- 3.
(intransitive)To give off a spark or sparks.
Đồng nghĩa: scintillate
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(intransitive)(intransitive, of a gun) To shoot; to fire
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(archaic, intransitive)To woo, court; to act the gallant or beau.
Đồng nghĩa: make love, romance, solicit, address, beau, bedear, chase after, court, endear, make a move (on), make love, pitch woo, put the moves on, romance, solicit, spark, woo
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From Middle English sparke, sperke, from Old English spearca, from *sparkō (compare Spoorke, spark, spark, Sparke, Sparke), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *sparkaz (lively, energetic), from Proto-Indo-European *sperg- (to strew, sprinkle) (compare erc’h snow, spargō, sparsus (scattered), sprógti to germinate, σπαργάω to swell, 𐬟𐬭𐬀𐬯𐬞𐬀𐬭𐬈𐬔𐬀,).