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A small particle of glowing matter, either molten or on fire.

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A short or small burst of electrical discharge.

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

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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.

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Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the Indomalayan genus Sinthusa.

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(in plural sparks but treated as a singular) A ship's radio operator.

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An electrician.

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To trigger, kindle into activity (an argument, etc).

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To light; to kindle.

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To give off a spark or sparks.

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Appalachian To court.

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A gallant; a foppish young man.

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A beau, lover.

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To woo, court; to act the gallant or beau.

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An electrician

Examples of sparks in a Sentence

There were sparks between them from the start.

There had been sparks from the beginning.

Make sure you don't get any sparks on that thing.

Sparks and blue fire erupted around the door until it glowed red.

She and Josh had everything in common, yet there were no sparks.

It is formed when a stream of electric sparks is passed through moist air, and in the oxidation ',of nitrogenous matter in the presence of water.

With this apparatus he obtained sparks 6 in.

After that the discharge balls might be separated a little and a continuous series of sparks or brush discharges would take place between them.

Swords clashed and spit sparks while their feet danced too fast for her to follow.

The peculiar action of electric sparks and waves in reducing the resistance of discontinuous conductors was rediscovered and investigated by Calzecchi Onesti,' by Branly, 2 Dawson Turner, 3 Minchin, Lodge, 4 and many others.

There was nothing electrical in Thoreau's intercourse with his fellow men; he gave off no spiritual sparks.

The birds, as Mr Necker very truly describes, appear like flying brilliant sparks."

Sparks's edition (10 vols., Boston, 1836-1842; revised, Philadelphia, 1858) also contained fresh matter; and there are further additions in the edition of John Bigelow (Philadelphia, 1887-1888; 5th ed., 1905) and in that by Albert Henry Smyth (to vols., New York, 1905-1907).

See The Diary and Letters of Gouverneur Morris (2 vols., New York, '888), edited by Anne Cary Morris; Jared Sparks, Life of Gouverneur Morris (3 vols., Boston, 1832), the first volume being a biography and the second and third containing Morris's miscellaneous writings and addresses; and Theodore Roosevelt, Gouverneur Morris (Boston, 1888), in the "American Statesmen" series.

At a red heat ammonia is easily decomposed into its constituent elements, a similar decomposition being brought about by the passage of electric sparks through the gas.

In 1835, in a paper on "The Prismatic Decomposition of Electrical Light," he proved that sparks from different metals give distinctive spectra, which afforded a ready means of discriminating between them.

For this purpose I diminished a similar mixture of dephlogisticated [oxygen] and common air, in the same manner as before [by sparks over ], till it was reduced to a small part of its original bulk.

Cavendish determined its constitution and showed that it could be synthesized by passing a stream of electric sparks through moist air.

Wimshurst constructed numerous very powerful machines of this type, some of them with "multiple plates, which operate i - almost any climate, and rarely fail to charge themselves and deliver a torrent of sparks between the disf El charge balls whenever the winch is turned.

Hence sparks can be obtained of more than double the length at ordinary atmospheric pressure.

It is by the appearance of the flame that the operator or " blower " knows when to end the process, judging by its brilliancy, colour, sound, sparks, smoke and other indications.

The texts of his writings, as published by Jared Sparks, have been so "edited" in these respects as to destroy their value as evidence; but the edition of Mr Worthington C. Ford restores the original texts.

Sparks's edition (12 vols., Boston, 1837) has in the main been superseded, though it contains some papers not included by Ford, and the Life, which comprises vol.

In the 1785 paper he proved the correctness of this supposition by showing that when electric sparks are passed through common air there is a shrinkage of volume owing to the nitrogen uniting with the oxygen to form nitric acid.

He found that when the resonator was placed in certain positions with regard to the oscillator, small sparks were seen between the micrometer balls, and when the oscillator was placed at one end of a room having a sheet of zinc fixed against the wall at the other end, symmetrical positions could be found in the room at which, when the resonator was there placed, either no sparks or else very bright sparks occurred at the poles.

By adjustment of the contact breaker the series of sparks may be made to fit more or less perfectly with the formation of the drops.

It does not dissociate on heating as do the pentachloride and pentabromide, thus indicating the existence of pentavalent phosphorus in a gaseous compound; dissociation, however, into the trifluoride and free fluorine may be brought about by induction sparks of 150 to 200 mm.

Electric sparks give at first free sulphur and the trifluoride, the latter at a higher temperature splitting into the pentafluoride and phosphorus.

The last sparks of resistance were extinguished in 1018, and the great Slavonic realm lay in the dust.

His sermon on "Unitarian Christianity," preached at Baltimore in 1819, at the ordination of Jared Sparks, and that at New York in 1821, on "Unitarian Christianity most favourable to Piety," made him its interpreter.

The Glasgow chair was a source of inspiration to scientific men for more than half a century, and many of the most advanced researches of other physicists grew out of the suggestions which Thomson scattered as sparks from his anvil.

But suddenly instead of those chances and that genius which hitherto had so consistently led him by an uninterrupted series of successes to the predestined goal, an innumerable sequence of inverse chances occur--from the cold in his head at Borodino to the sparks which set Moscow on fire, and the frosts--and instead of genius, stupidity and immeasurable baseness become evident.

The jet should be situated between the sparks and the eye, and the observation is facilitated by a piece of ground glass held a little beyond the jet, sO as to diffuse the light; or the shadow of the jet may be received on the ground glass, which is then held as close as possible on the side towards the observer.

If the sparks are not controlled they can cause life-threatening arrhythmia.

Dawn has her day in court A BLAZING row sparks a blaze of another kind in the Emmerdale vicarage on Friday.

Affectionately known as M&S or Marks and Sparks, they are one of the UK's favorite department stores.

Always watch that sparks and flying embers do not set light to anything.

Sparks argues that Trent remained rooted at the spot and must have used the waist-level finder due to his concern about stabilizing the camera.

Silver Pyramid Black Cat's conic fountain creates a surprisingly high pillar of sparks.

He stared in amazement as sparks went down the front of his shirt and set his chest hair afire.

Sparks will fly when their schooling in swords and sorcery comes head-to-head!

However I have just had the magneto rebuilt by somebody who comes on a recommendation so I am more hopeful of prolonged sparks.

Features quick cuts year was even the sparks marina the summer months.

I saw Lil ' Chris from Rock School at Sparks in the Park in Norwich last nite.

The giant ogre was smashing the gate with his huge ax each time iron cracked off sending sparks into the air.

Checking for sparks can be a problem if you don't have a handy plug spanner or a spare plug.

The blast was attributed to an unusual build-up of stomach gases ignited by the sparks.

Spark arresters can prevent spark arresters can prevent sparks from the flue landing on the thatch, however they must be cleaned regularly.

Someone should buy that woman a nice, Marks and Sparks polo-neck sweater.

The last time this had happened, Marks was dead, and Sparks was saying goodbye.

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