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Spanning
- verb - to cover or extend over an area or time period; "Rivers traverse the valley floor", "The parking lot spans 3 acres"; "The novel spans three centuries"
Sparging
- verb - agitate by introducing air or compressed gas; "sparge the water"
- scatter with liquid; wet lightly; "Sprinkle the lawn"
Sparking
- verb - emit or produce sparks; "A high tension wire, brought down by a storm, can continue to spark"
- put in motion or move to act; "trigger a reaction"; "actuate the circuits"
Sparling
- noun - common smelt of Europe
- the common smelt of Europe
Sparring
- verb - an argument in which the participants are trying to gain some advantage
- box lightly
- fight verbally; "They were sparring all night"
- fight with spurs; "the gamecocks were sparring"
- furnish with spars
- making the motions of attack and defense with the fists and arms; a part of training for a boxer
Spatting
- verb - become permanently attached; "mollusks or oysters spat"
- clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval
- clap one's hands together; "The children were clapping to the music"
- come down like raindrops; "Bullets were spatting down on us"
- engage in a brief and petty quarrel
- spawn; "oysters spat"
- strike with a sound like that of falling rain; "Bullets were spatting the leaves"
Spawling
- - That which is spawled, or spit out.
Spawning
- verb - call forth
- lay spawn; "The salmon swims upstream to spawn"
Speaking
- verb - capable of or involving speech or speaking; "human beings--the speaking animals"; "a speaking part in the play"
- delivering an address to a public audience; "people came to see the candidates and hear the speechmaking"
- exchange thoughts; talk with; "We often talk business"; "Actions talk louder than words"
- express in speech; "She talks a lot of nonsense"; "This depressed patient does not verbalize"
- give a speech to; "The chairman addressed the board of trustees"
- make a characteristic or natural sound; "The drums spoke"
- the utterance of intelligible speech
- use language; "the baby talks already"; "the prisoner won't speak"; "they speak a strange dialect"
Spearing
- verb - pierce with a spear; "spear fish"
- thrust up like a spear; "The branch speared up into the air"