Synonyms: spare
Definition: a score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls
Similar words: score
Definition: the act of scoring in a game or sport
Usage: the winning score came with less than a minute left to play
Synonyms: fifth wheel, spare
Definition: an extra car wheel and tire for a four-wheel vehicle
Similar words: car wheel
Definition: a wheel that has a tire and rim and hubcap; used to propel the car
Synonyms: spare, spare part
Definition: an extra component of a machine or other apparatus
Similar words: component, element, constituent
Definition: an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system
Usage: spare components for cars; a component or constituent element of a system
Synonyms: spare
Definition: use frugally or carefully
Definition: use up, consume fully
Usage: The legislature expended its time on school questions
Synonyms: spare, give up, part with, dispense with
Definition: give up what is not strictly needed
Usage: he asked if they could spare one of their horses to speed his journey
Similar words: give
Definition: transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody
Usage: I gave her my money; can you give me lessons?; She gave the children lots of love and tender loving care
Definition: refrain from harming
Similar words: forbear, refrain
Definition: resist doing something
Usage: He refrained from hitting him back; she could not forbear weeping
Synonyms: spare
Definition: save or relieve from an experience or action
Usage: I'll spare you from having to apologize formally
Similar words: relieve, exempt, free
Definition: grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
Usage: She exempted me from the exam
Synonyms: unembellished, unornamented, plain, bare, spare
Definition: lacking embellishment or ornamentation
Usage: a plain hair style; unembellished white walls; functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete
Similar words: unadorned, undecorated
Definition: not decorated with something to increase its beauty or distinction
Definition: lacking in amplitude or quantity
Usage: a bare livelihood; a scanty harvest; a spare diet
Similar words: scrimpy, meager, meagerly, meagre, stingy
Definition: deficient in amount or quality or extent
Usage: meager resources; meager fare
Definition: thin and fit
Usage: the spare figure of a marathon runner; a body kept trim by exercise
Definition: lacking excess flesh
Usage: you can't be too rich or too thin; Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look-Shakespeare
Synonyms: supererogatory, superfluous, supernumerary, surplus, excess, extra, spare, redundant
Definition: more than is needed, desired, or required
Usage: trying to lose excess weight; found some extra change lying on the dresser; yet another book on heraldry might be thought redundant; skills made redundant by technological advance; sleeping in the spare room; supernumerary ornamentation; it was supererogatory of her to gloat; delete superfluous (or unnecessary) words; extra ribs as well as other supernumerary internal parts; surplus cheese distributed to the needy
Similar words: unnecessary, unneeded
Definition: not necessary
Synonyms: spare
Definition: kept in reserve especially for emergency use
Usage: a reserve supply of food; a spare tire; spare parts
Similar words: unnecessary, unneeded
Definition: not necessary
Definition: not taken up by scheduled activities
Usage: a free hour between classes; spare time on my hands
Similar words: unoccupied
Definition: not held or filled or in use
Usage: an unoccupied telephone booth; unoccupied hours