Definitions for Sparks

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Spelling: [spahrks]

IPA: /spɑrks/

Sparks is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 83 anagrams from letters in Sparks (akprss).

Definitions for Sparks

noun

1. Jared [jair-id] /ˈdʒɛər ɪd/ (Show IPA), 1789–1866, U.S. historian and editor.
2. a city in W Nevada, E of Reno.
3. an ignited or fiery particle such as is thrown off by burning wood or produced by one hard body striking against another.
4. Also called sparkover. Electricity. the light produced by a sudden discontinuous discharge of electricity through air or another dielectric. the discharge itself. any electric arc of relatively small energy content. the electric discharge produced by a spark plug in an internal-combustion engine.
5. anything that activates or stimulates; inspiration or catalyst.
6. a small amount or trace of something.
7. a trace of life or vitality.
8. sparks, (used with a singular verb) Slang. a radio operator on a ship or aircraft.
9. (usually initial capital letter) a member of Camp Fire, Inc., who is five years of age.
10. an elegant or foppish young man.
11. a beau, lover, or suitor.
12. a woman of outstanding beauty, charm, or wit.

verb (used with object)

1. to kindle, animate, or stimulate (interest, activity, spirit, etc.):
2. to woo; court.

verb (used without object)

1. to emit or produce sparks.
2. to issue as or like sparks.
3. to send forth gleams or flashes.
4. (of the ignition of an internal-combustion engine) to function correctly in producing sparks.
5. to engage in courtship; woo.

Origin of Sparks

before 900; (noun) Middle English; Old English spearca; cognate with Middle Dutch, Middle Low German sparke; (v.) Middle English sparken; cognate with Middle Dutch, Middle Low German sparken

Examples for Sparks

Then a shower of Sparks rose high in the air and the conflagration subsided.

It Sparks a comedic crisis of cultural conscience, which will presumably play out across the series.

Pleasure shoots magically in every direction like an explosion of Sparks.

Wherever he has gone he has left some Sparks of his own genial enthusiasm.

But to persist, to endure, to put your will toward a dream that Sparks you, is to live large.

The grindstone was soon in motion; the Sparks were flying off in showers.

You have blown out the Sparks of love and kindliness, and have for ever robbed the Universe.

He loses consciousness on the street, falling to the ground “through a wilderness of spots and Sparks.”

It is a wonder that the Sparks did not fly, the Devil struck so hard on the hot iron.

His hunger strike in December 2011 received nation-wide recognition and was one of the Sparks that ignited the protest movement.