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PAR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(golf) the standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course
Example:
par for this course is 72
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("par" is a kind of...):
score (a number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest)
Domain category:
golf; golf game (a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes)
Derivation:
par (make a score (on a hole) equal to par)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced
Example:
on a par with the best
Synonyms:
equality; equation; equivalence; par
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("par" is a kind of...):
position; status (the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "par"):
egalite; egality (social and political equality)
tie (equality of score in a contest)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make a score (on a hole) equal to par
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Hypernyms (to "par" is one way to...):
hit; rack up; score; tally (gain points in a game)
Domain category:
golf; golf game (a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
par ((golf) the standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course)
Context examples:
Loke's hearing abilities are on a par with the hearing of the toothed whale and the seal.
(Marine Birds Can Hear Under Water, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Another slice of cold meat, another draught of Madeira and water, will make you nearly on a par with the rest of us.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
They extend from the horn of the uterus to the ovaries and consist of an ampulla, an infundibulum, an isthmus, two ostia, and a pars uterina.
(Murine Fallopian Tube, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Those Sundays were great days for Martin, greatest because he was with Ruth, and great, also, because they were putting him more on a par with the young men of her class.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
He represented to the emperor the low condition of his treasury; that he was forced to take up money at a great discount; that exchequer bills would not circulate under nine per cent. below par; that I had cost his majesty above a million and a half of sprugs (their greatest gold coin, about the bigness of a spangle) and, upon the whole, that it would be advisable in the emperor to take the first fair occasion of dismissing me.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
But they were on a par, the pair of them, in dress and carriage, and he smiled with inward amusement at the caprice of his fancy which suggested the appearance of either of them in Mrs. Morse's drawing-room.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
So Martin thought, and he thought further, till it dawned upon him that the difference between these lawyers, officers, business men, and bank cashiers he had met and the members of the working class he had known was on a par with the difference in the food they ate, clothes they wore, neighborhoods in which they lived.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
