SPARK • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Spark

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/spɑrk/ Listen

noun

Spark n.

1.

A small particle of fire or ignited substance which is emitted by a body in combustion. "Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward."

2.

A small, shining body, or transient light; a sparkle.

3.

That which, like a spark, may be kindled into a flame, or into action; a feeble germ; an elementary principle. "If any spark of life be yet remaining." "Small intellectual spark." "Vital spark of heavenly flame." "We have here and there a little clear light, some sparks of bright knowledge." "Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark."

Spark arrester, a contrivance to prevent the escape of sparks while it allows the passage of gas, chiefly used in the smokestack of a wood-burning locomotive. Called also spark consumer. (U.S.)

Spark n.

1.

A brisk, showy, gay man. "The finest sparks and cleanest beaux."

2.

A lover; a gallant; a beau.

verb

Spark v. i.

1.

To sparkle. (Obs.)

2.

(Elec.) To produce, or give off, sparks, as a dynamo at the commutator when revolving under the collecting brushes.

Spark v. i. To play the spark, beau, or lover. "A sure sign that his master was courting, or, as it is termed, sparking, within."

See images of 'Spark'

Etymology of 'Spark'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"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

Copyright © 2025 e-Free Translation.com