PAR
\pˈɑː], \pˈɑː], \p_ˈɑː]\
Definitions of PAR
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- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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(in golf) the standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course; "a par-5 hole"; "par for this course is 72"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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(golf) the standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course; "a par-5 hole"; "par for this course is 72"
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make a score (on a hole) equal to par
By Princeton University
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An amount which is taken as an average or mean.
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The number of strokes required for a hole or a round played without mistake, two strokes being allowed on each hole for putting. Par represents perfect play, whereas bogey makes allowance on some holes for human frailty. Thus if par for a course is 75, bogey is usually put down, arbitrarily, as 81 or 82.
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See Parr.
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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.
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Equality of condition or circumstances.
By Oddity Software
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An amount which is taken as an average or mean.
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The number of strokes required for a hole or a round played without mistake, two strokes being allowed on each hole for putting. Par represents perfect play, whereas bogey makes allowance on some holes for human frailty. Thus if par for a course is 75, bogey is usually put down, arbitrarily, as 81 or 82.
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See Parr.
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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.
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Equality of condition or circumstances.
By Noah Webster.
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Full or normal value; as, the stock is below par; equality; as, the man is not on a par with his associates.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A pair, specifically a pair of cranial nerves, as p. nonum, ninth pair (in the modern enumeration, twelfth pair), p. vagum, the vagus, pneumogastric, or tenth pair.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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An accepted standard of value; equivalence; parity.
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Per; as, parboll.
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Besides; near; by; used in certain words of foreign origin and in new scientific terms; as, paraphrase.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Equal value; the state of the shares of a public undertaking when they are neither at a discount nor a premium-that is, when they may be purchased at the original price, usually called at par; below par, at a discount; above par, at a premium; on a par, on a level; in the same condition or rank; par of exchange, the established value of the coin or standard value of one country expressed in the coin or standard of another.
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A prefix, meaning in part; partly.
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Signifying side by side, as for comparison; alongside; near to; like; unlike; beyond; divergence or contrariety.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [Latin] State of equality; the value expressed on the face or in the words of a certificate of value, or other commercial paper;—equality of condition or circumstances. At par, the original price of stocks, railway shares, &c; above par, at a premium; and below par, at a discount.
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