par
IPA: pˈɑr
noun
- Equal value; equality of nominal and actual value; the value expressed on the face or in the words of a certificate of value, as a bond or other commercial paper.
- Equality of condition or circumstances.
- (golf, mostly uncountable) The allotted number of strokes to reach the hole.
- (golf, countable) A hole in which a player achieves par.
- (UK) An amount which is taken as an average or mean.
- A village and beach near St Austell in Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX0753).
- Abbreviation of paragraph. [A passage in text that starts on a new line, the first line sometimes being indented, and usually marks a change of topic.]
- Abbreviation of parenthesis. [A clause, phrase or word which is inserted (usually for explanation or amplification) into a passage which is already grammatically complete, and usually marked off with brackets, commas or dashes.]
- Abbreviation of parish. [In the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran and Roman Catholic Church, an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.]
- Alternative form of parr (“young salmon”) [Young salmon, at a stage between fry and smolt when they feed chiefly on invertebrates but cannot tolerate saltwater.]
- Initialism of periodic automatic replenishment: in inventory control, a fixed quantity of an item that must be kept on hand to support daily operations.
- Initialism of photosynthetically-active radiation.
- (aviation) Initialism of precision approach radar.
- Abbreviation of phased-array radar.
- (genetics) Abbreviation of pseudoautosomal region.
- (Philippines, meteorology) Acronym of Philippine Area of Responsibility.
verb
- (transitive, golf) To reach the hole in the allotted number of strokes.
- (MLE, MTE) To associate, to chill, to hang.
adjective
- Abbreviation of parallel. [Equally distant from one another at all points.]
- Initialism of planed all round: of timber, planed on all sides as opposed to rough sawn.
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Examples of "par" in Sentences
- "Even par is going to be in the hunt (Saturday)," he said.
- Think of planned escape to new appr for models and stars in par-ee
- Voyage fait par mer en_ 1648 _par trois vaisseaux russes, dont un est parvenu jusqu'à la Kamschatka_. "[
- Edward, assassin par excellence is back, and Olaf our favorite friendly serial killer, joins us again as back-up.
- Mousavi is still going to be largely a puppet for the mullahs, and rigged elections will probably remain par for the course.
- At twenty-five miles was the almost bare rocky hill which I called par excellence the Cups, from the number of those little stone indentures upon its surface, which I first saw on the
- Cabrera escaped with par from a tough spot in the bunker on the ninth hole, birdied the next hole to get into contention, then used his power to make birdies on the 15th and 17th holes.
- The reason their bonds are currently trading far below par is that the assets backing up their claim are just not worth enough (nor expected to become worth enough when their bonds mature) to repay them.
- Each level takes me around 10 minutes on the first play through (level par is usually around 3: 00 minutes) and there are 50 levels to the game, so lots of content to run through and (I hear) one of the best endings to grace a video game in a loooong time.
- Iraqi National Coalition, led by Ammar Al-Hakim joined by the Sadrists, issued a statement on Wednesday in which they called the parliament for an emergency session to discuss the decisions and the mechanism of the Appeals Panel to review the appeals submitted by the excluded politicians against "J and A" resolutions.
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