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Spark

noun
1.
A momentary flash of light.  Synonyms: flicker, glint.
2.
Merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance.  Synonyms: light, sparkle, twinkle.  "There's a perpetual twinkle in his eyes"
3.
Electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field.  Synonyms: arc, discharge, electric arc, electric discharge.
4.
A small but noticeable trace of some quality that might become stronger.  "A spark of decency"
5.
Scottish writer of satirical novels (born in 1918).  Synonyms: Dame Muriel Spark, Muriel Sarah Spark, Muriel Spark.
6.
A small fragment of a burning substance thrown out by burning material or by friction.
verb
1.
Put in motion or move to act.  Synonyms: activate, actuate, set off, spark off, touch off, trigger, trigger off, trip.  "Actuate the circuits"
2.
Emit or produce sparks.  Synonym: sparkle.



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"Spark" Quotes from Famous Books



... sharply forward. The vast blue-black sky was like an inverted gold-pan and the stars were flake colours adhering to it. The cold snapped at me till my cheeks tingled, and my eyes felt as if they could spark. Oh, life was sweet! ...
— The Trail of '98 - A Northland Romance • Robert W. Service
... hearts of the people. Many a man, cold and unemotional heretofore in his attitude toward the war, was won to a recognition of its menace, its necessities, and his personal duty to his country, by the arguments and example of the Liberty Girls. If there was a spark of manhood in him, he would not allow a young girl ...
— Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls • Edith Van Dyne (AKA L. Frank Baum)
... by light produced in a vacuum by means of Ruhmkorff's apparatus, which threw an artificial brightness into the depths of the Columbiad. There the cartridges were arranged with the utmost regularity, connected by a metallic thread, destined to communicate to them all simultaneously the electric spark, by which means this mass of gun-cotton was ...
— Jules Verne's Classic Books • Jules Verne
... how in me should lurk Thoughts apt to neighbour thine, thou creature sunlit? If through long fret and irk Thine eyes within their browed recesses were Worn caves where thought lay couchant in its lair; Wert thou a spark among dank leaves, ah ruth! With age in all thy veins, while all thy heart was youth; Our contact might run smooth. But life's Eoan dews still moist thy ringed hair; Dian's chill finger-tips Thaw if at night they happen on thy lips; The flying fringes of the sun's cloak frush The fragile ...
— Sister Songs • Francis Thompson
... chair facing the sofa, her white gloves clasped on her knee, the embroidered bag hanging by its golden cords to the tip of the golden slippers. She fixed her eyes steadily on her companion, and there was in them a spark of anger, before which Cecil had ...
— The Independence of Claire • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey


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