jared sparks

Sparks

[spahrks]
noun
1.
Jar·ed [jair-id] , 1789–1866, U.S. historian and editor.
2.
a city in W Nevada, E of Reno.
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sparks (spɑːks) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
1.  an electrician
2.  a radio officer, esp on a ship

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Jared sparks is always a great word to know.
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a fool or simpleton; ninny.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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Word Origin & History

spark
O.E. spearca, from P.Gmc. *spark- (cf. M.L.G. sparke, M.Du. spranke, not found in other Gmc. languages). Electrical sense dates from 1748. Slang sense of "a gallant, a beau, a lover" (c.1600) is perhaps a fig. use, but also perhaps from cognate O.N. sparkr "lively." The verb is attested from c.1300;
the slang meaning "stimulate, to trigger" first attested 1912. Spark plug first recorded 1903 (sparking plug is from 1902); fig. sense of "one who initiates or is a driving force in some activity" is from 1941.
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jared sparks

American publisher and editor of the North American Review, biographer, and president of Harvard College

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