WORD: SPUR
MEANING:
1. A short spike or spiked wheel that attaches to the heel of a rider's boot and is used to urge a horse forward.
2. Something that serves as a goad or incentive.
3. A spurlike attachment or projection, as:
a. A spinelike process on the leg of some birds.
b. A climbing iron; a crampon.
c. A gaff attached to the leg of a gamecock.
d. A short or stunted branch of a tree.
e. A bony outgrowth or protuberance.
4. A lateral ridge projecting from a mountain or mountain range.
5. An oblique reinforcing prop or stay of timber or masonry.
6. Botany A tubular or saclike extension of the corolla or calyx of a flower, as in a columbine or larkspur.
7. An ergot growing on rye.
8. A spur track.
9. hasten, speed, rush, hurry up
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Former South African allrounder Jacques Kallis has said that his decision to retire from international cricket was well considered and not taken at the spur of the moment
PRONOUNCE:
spur - स्पर
LINK: SPUR
MEANING:
1. A short spike or spiked wheel that attaches to the heel of a rider's boot and is used to urge a horse forward.
2. Something that serves as a goad or incentive.
3. A spurlike attachment or projection, as:
a. A spinelike process on the leg of some birds.
b. A climbing iron; a crampon.
c. A gaff attached to the leg of a gamecock.
d. A short or stunted branch of a tree.
e. A bony outgrowth or protuberance.
4. A lateral ridge projecting from a mountain or mountain range.
5. An oblique reinforcing prop or stay of timber or masonry.
6. Botany A tubular or saclike extension of the corolla or calyx of a flower, as in a columbine or larkspur.
7. An ergot growing on rye.
8. A spur track.
9. hasten, speed, rush, hurry up
EXAMPLE/USAGE:
1. Former South African allrounder Jacques Kallis has said that his decision to retire from international cricket was well considered and not taken at the spur of the moment
PRONOUNCE:
spur - स्पर
LINK: SPUR
No comments:
Post a Comment