spare

adj

1. Extra.

   “I have no spare time.”

   “if that no spare cloths he had to give”

2. Extra.

   “a spare anchor; a spare wheel or tyre”

3. Extra.

   “We could rent out the spare room.”

   “Shepard: I take it this is your first time here? Wrex: Meant to tell you Shepard. Earth reminds me of home. Guess you'll be needing a new planet too. That's okay. Tuchanka's got room to spare and a guard dog named Kalros.”

   “As the 1857 to Manchester Piccadilly rolls in, I scan the windows and realise there are plenty of spare seats, so I hop aboard. The train is a '221'+'220' combo to allow for social distancing - a luxury on an XC train as normally you're playing sardines, so I make the most of it.”

4. Not plentiful.

   “a spare diet”

   “Jones’ sad eyes betray a pervasive pain his purposefully spare dialogue only hints at, while the perfectly cast Brolin conveys hints of playfulness and warmth while staying true to the craggy stoicism at the character’s core.”

5. Not plentiful.

   “I’m naked to the bone, With nakedness my shield. Myself is what I wear: I keep the spirit spare.”

6. Not plentiful.

   “He was spare, […]but discreet of speech.”

   “Under Hartmut Warkuss, its design director until 2003, Volkswagen styling celebrated its Teutonic origins and the spare modernist tradition expressed in Braun radios and coffee makers, reference points for the neomodern simplicity of the iPod.”

7. Not plentiful.

   “O, give me the spare men, and spare me the great ones.”

8. (UK, informal)Very angry; frustrated or distraught.

   “When he found out that someone had broken the window, he went spare.”

   “The poor girl is going spare, stuck in the house all day with the kids like that.”

   ““That'll drive him spare.””

   “My grandfather (unaware that he was using antique terms) would often say ruefully that I would drive him spare. The idea was that my behaviour would so dement him as to drive him berserk.”

noun

1. The act of sparing; moderation; restraint.

   “men slaine, then without any spare at all they trampled over the dead carkasses”

2. Parsimony; frugal use.

   “Pourd out their plenty, without spight or spare:”

3. An opening in a petticoat or gown; a placket.
4. That which has not been used or expended.
5. (especially)A spare part.

   “I stopped to help out. Do you have a spare? [Said by one motorist to another with a flat tire.]”

6. A spare part.

   “People sometimes forget that world-class logistics also involve inventory management in warehouses full of spares.”

7. A superfluous or second-best person.

   “an heir and a spare”

   “The whole Heir versus Spare thing? Wasn't it a bit late for that tired childhood dynamic?”

8. The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare.
9. The act of knocking down all remaining pins in second ball of a frame; this entitles the pins knocked down on the next ball to be added to the score for that frame.
10. (Canada)A free period; a block of school during which one does not have a class.

    “I also remember watching David Letterman's short-lived morning show on TV when I had a spare during my school schedule.”

11. (Myanmar)assistant or extra hand (typically on buses and lorries)

verb

1. (intransitive)To show mercy, to have mercy on.
2. (intransitive)To show mercy, to have mercy on.
3. (transitive)To show mercy, to have mercy on.

   “For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.”

   “Cologne Hauptbahnhof is reached in the small hours, and the traveller new to postwar Germany is spared the sight of the devastated city.”

4. (specifically, transitive)To show mercy, to have mercy on.

   “Kill me, if you please, or spare me.”

   “Reggie Clemons has one last chance to save his life. After 19 years on death row in Missouri for the murder of two young women, he has been granted a final opportunity to persuade a judge that he should be spared execution by lethal injection.”

5. (intransitive)To keep.

   “I, who at some times spend, at others spare, / Divided between carelessness and care.”

6. (transitive)To keep.

   “Thou that day / Thy Father's dreadful thunder didst not spare”

   “He that hath knowledge, spareth his words: and a man of understanding is of an excellent spirit.”

7. (transitive)To keep.

   “All the time he could spare from the necessary cares of his weighty charge, from assaults, and the naturall refreshing of his body, be bestowed in praier and seruing of God”

8. (transitive)(to give up): To deprive oneself of, as by being frugal; to do without; to dispense with; to give up; to part with.

   “Where angry Jove did never spare / One breath of kind and temperate air.”

   “Poor Jack, farewell! / I could have better spared a better man”

   “Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.[…]Next day she[…]tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. Then, thwarted, the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the law, and perhaps had spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary.”

   “At Southall, we believe, it has been difficult to spare men from an understaffed motive power establishment to undergo non revenue-earning training on the diesel multiple-units, because crews are scarce for trip freight working.”

name

1. A surname transferred from the nickname.