ENCOURAGE vs SPUR: NOUN
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- A sharp prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse onward
- An ergot growing on rye.
- A tubular or saclike extension of the corolla or calyx of a flower, as in a columbine or larkspur.
- A lateral ridge projecting from a mountain or mountain range.
- A bony outgrowth or protuberance.
- A short or stunted branch of a tree.
- A gaff attached to the leg of a gamecock.
- A climbing iron; a crampon.
- A spinelike process on the leg of some birds.
- A spurlike attachment or projection, as.
- An incentive.
- A short spike or spiked wheel that attaches to the heel of a rider's boot and is used to urge a horse forward.
- A verbalization that encourages you to attempt something
- A railway line connected to a trunk line
- Any pointed projection
- Tubular extension at the base of the corolla in some flowers
- An oblique reinforcing prop or stay of timber or masonry.
- A curved piece of timber serving as a half beam to support the deck where a whole beam cannot be placed.
- A heavy timber extended from a pier or wharf against the side of a ship to prevent the ship from striking against the pier.
- A shore or piece of timber extending from the bilgeways, and fayed and bolted to the bottom of the ship on the stocks.
- In ship-building;
- In fortification, a wall that crosses a part of the rampart and joins it to an anterior work; also, a tower or blockhouse placed in the outworks before the port
- In botany, a calcar; a slender hollow projection from some part of a flower, as from the calyx of columbine and larkspur and the corolla of violets. It is usually nectariferous, being the nectary (nectarium) of Linnæus. The term is also rarely applied to a solid spur-like process. See also cuts under nectary, columbine, and Delphinium.
- In architecture, any offset from a wall, etc., as a buttress; specifically, the claw or griffe projecting from the toru sat each of the angles of the base of early Pointed medieval columns.
- (J) In carpentry, a brace connecting or strengthening a post and some other part, as a rafter or cross-beam.
- A climbing-iron used in mounting telegraph-poles and the like.
- In hydraul, engin., awing-dam, or projection built out from a river-bank to deflect the current.
- In mammalogy, the calcarof some bats.
- In sporting, a gaff, or sharp piercing or cutting instrument fastened upon the natural spur of a game-cock In the pit.
- In ornithology: A horny modification of the integument of a bird's foot, forming an outgrowth of the nature of a claw, usually sharp-pointed and supported on a bony core, and used as a weapon of offense and defense; a calcar. Such a spur differs from a clan mainly in not ending a digit, but being an offset from the side of the metatarsus; it is also characteristic; of though not confined to the male, and is therefore a secondary sexual character. It is familiar as occurring on the shank of the domestic cock and other gallinaceous birds, and is sometimes double or treble, as in Pavo bicalcaratus and in the genera Galloperdix, Ithaginis, and Polyplectron. See cuts under calcarate, Galloperdix, Ithaginis, pea-fowl, Polyplectron, Rasores, and tarsometatarsus. A similar horny outgrowth on the pinion-bone of the wing in various birds, resembling a claw, but differing in being a lateral offset not terminating a digit. It occurs in certain geese, plovers, pigeons, and jacanas, and is double in the screamer. See cuts under jacana, Palamedea, and spur-winged.
- The ridge in the interior of a bifurcating tube between the two branches given off from it.
- In horticulture, a twig or short branch that bears flowers and fruit, in distinction from one that continues to elongate in woody growth.
- A side-track running out from a main railway line and forming part of a Y.
- A spur track.
- A pointed instrument worn on the heel by a horseman to goad the horse.
- Anything which goads, impels, or urges to action; incitement; instigation; incentive; stimulus: used in this sense in the phrase on or upon the spur of the moment—that is, on a momentary impulse; suddenly; hastily; impromptu.
- Some projecting thing more or less closely resembling a horseman's spur in form or position.
- Plural Short small twigs projecting a few inches from the trunk.
- In physical geography, a ridge or line of elevation subordinate to the main body or crest of a mountainrange; one of the lower divisions of a mountain-mass, when this, as is frequently the case, is divided by valleys or gorges. See mountain-chain.
- An anal spur.
- A calcar of some frogs.
- In entomology, a spine or stiff bristle on the leg.
- A snag; a spine; specifically, in herpetology:
ENCOURAGE vs SPUR: VERB
- Contribute to the progress or growth of
- To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit.
- To spur on, strongly recommend.
- To foster, give help or patronage
- Spur on
- Inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to
- Incite or stimulate
- Goad with spurs
- Equip with spurs
- Strike with a spur
- Give heart or courage to
ENCOURAGE vs SPUR: INTRANSITIVE VERB
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- To ride quickly by spurring a horse.
- To incite or stimulate.
- To urge (a horse) on by the use of spurs.
ENCOURAGE vs SPUR: TRANSITIVE VERB
- To stimulate; spur.
- To give support to; foster.
- To inspire with hope, courage, or confidence.
- To give courage to; to inspire with courage, spirit, or hope; to raise, or to increase, the confidence of; to animate; enhearten; to incite; to help forward; -- the opposite of discourage.
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ENCOURAGE vs SPUR: OTHER WORD TYPES
- To give courage to; inspire with courage, spirit, or firmness of mind; incite to action or perseverance.
- To help forward; promote; give support to: as, to encourage manufactures.
- To make stronger.
- Inspire with confidence
- Give hope or courage to
- Figuratively, to urge or incite.
- To hasten.
- To fasten spurs to, as a horseman's boot, or a solleret.
- To furnish with spurs, as a rider: as, booted and spurred; to furnish with a spur or gaff, as a game-cock.
- To prop; support.
- To prick one's horse with the spur; ride in haste.
- Figuratively, to press forward.
- To prick or rasp with the point or rowel of a spur.
- Any sharply pointed projection
ENCOURAGE vs SPUR: RELATED WORDS
- Invite, Allow, Facilitate, Stimulate, Urge, Inspire, Spur, Entice, Motivate, Discourage, Incentivize, Advance, Further, Boost, Promote
- Encourage, Invigorate, Catalyze, Spark, Jumpstart, Stimulate, Gad, Spur track, Branch line, Spine, Goading, Urging, Prodding, Goad, Prod
ENCOURAGE vs SPUR: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Invite, Allow, Facilitate, Stimulate, Urge, Inspire, Spur, Entice, Motivate, Discourage, Incentivize, Advance, Further, Boost, Promote
- Propel, Energize, Boost, Stoke, Encourage, Invigorate, Catalyze, Spark, Jumpstart, Stimulate, Spine, Goading, Urging, Prodding, Prod
ENCOURAGE vs SPUR: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- Suggestions from the followers are encourage and rewarded.
- We invite and encourage everyone to visit us!
- Templates may also encourage cloned or copied documentation.
- Narrow roads help to encourage low travel speeds.
- Honor societies recognize and encourage high academic scholarship.
- Recreational activities encourage social awareness and communication skills.
- At Kent we recognise, encourage and reward excellence.
- Encourage employees to share their thoughts and suggestions.
- Encourage them to write down questions they have.
- Just as we need to encourage women to lean in to their careers, we need to encourage men to lean in to their families.
- Free World program to spur prosperity in Asia.
- Taxes have been reduced to spur economic development.
- The edge of the bit has a sharpened spur to cut the fibers of the wood, as in the lip and spur drill bit.
- Hiked the campground spur, then a little hiked part of the Rocky Springs Trail from the spur intersection to the road.
- If the cause of the bone spur is not addressed, removal of the spur will only provide an expensive, invasive, temporary reprieve.
- The spur trail up to the cabin leaves the NCT about the same point you reach the spur for the observation deck.
- Heel spur and plantar fasciitis are sometimes linked together under the term Heel Spur Syndrome.
- Spur down at setting out to do burning out operations from Flat Rock Spur.
- Speak with us today to evaluate your toe bone spur or heel bone spur.
- Fortunately, many patients are able to achieve adequate relief from bone spur pain with nonsurgical heel spur treatment.
ENCOURAGE vs SPUR: QUESTIONS
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