Definition of Spark

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Definition of Spark

Spark

To produce, or give off, sparks, as a dynamo at the commutator when revolving under the collecting brushes.

A small particle of fire or ignited substance which is emitted by a body in combustion.

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

That which, like a spark, may be kindled into a flame, or into action; a feeble germ; an elementary principle.

A brisk, showy, gay man.

A lover; a gallant; a beau.

To sparkle.

To play the spark, beau, or lover.

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Spark Quotations

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
George Washington

Yes, love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.
Lord Byron

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
Albert Schweitzer

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.
Nikola Tesla

To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
Victor Hugo

And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see - or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read.
Alice Walker

You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
Robin Williams

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
John Burroughs

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
Henri Frederic Amiel

From a little spark may burst a flame.
Dante Alighieri

Spark Translations

spark in Danish is gnist
spark in Dutch is vonk, sprank
spark in German is Funke
spark in Italian is trasmettere alla radio
spark in Norwegian is gnist
spark in Spanish is chispa
spark in Swedish is gnista, gnistra

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