Roof vs. Spar — What's the Difference?

A roof is the top covering of a building, including all materials and constructions necessary to support it on the walls of the building or on uprights, providing protection against rain, snow, sunlight, extremes of temperature, and wind. A roof is part of the building envelope.

A thick, strong pole such as is used for a mast or yard on a ship.

The structure forming the upper covering of a building or vehicle

A period or bout of sparring.

The upper limit or level of prices or wages

A close friend

Cover with a roof

A crystalline, easily cleavable, translucent or transparent mineral.

The exterior surface and its supporting structures on the top of a building.

Make the motions of boxing without landing heavy blows, as a form of training

The upper exterior surface of a dwelling as a symbol of the home itself

(of a gamecock) fight with the feet or spurs.

The top covering of something

(Nautical) A wooden or metal pole, such as a mast, boom, yard, or bowsprit, used to support sails and rigging.

The upper surface of an anatomical structure, especially one having a vaulted inner structure

A usually metal pole used as part of a crane or derrick.

The highest point or limit; the summit or ceiling

A main structural member in an airplane wing or a tail assembly that runs from tip to tip or from root to tip.

To furnish with a roof or cover.

A motion of attack or defense in boxing.

(architecture) The external covering at the top of a building.

A sparring match.

The top external level of a building.

A nonmetallic, readily cleavable, translucent or transparent light-colored mineral with a shiny luster, such as feldspar.

The upper part of a cavity.

A member of the women's reserve of the US Coast Guard, disbanded as a separate unit in 1946.

(mining) The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.

To supply with spars.

(climbing) An overhanging rock wall.

(Obsolete) To fasten with a bolt.

(transitive) To cover or furnish with a roof.

To fight with an opponent in a short bout or practice session, as in boxing or the martial arts.

To traverse buildings by walking or climbing across their roofs.

To make boxing or fighting motions without hitting one's opponent.

To put into prison, to bird.

To bandy words about in argument; dispute.

(transitive) To shelter as if under a roof.

To fight by striking with the feet and spurs. Used of gamecocks.

The cover of any building, including the roofing (see Roofing) and all the materials and construction necessary to carry and maintain the same upon the walls or other uprights. In the case of a building with vaulted ceilings protected by an outer roof, some writers call the vault the roof, and the outer protection the roof mask. It is better, however, to consider the vault as the ceiling only, in cases where it has farther covering.

A rafter of a roof.

That which resembles, or corresponds to, the covering or the ceiling of a house; as, the roof of a cavern; the roof of the mouth.

A thick pole or piece of wood.

The surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.

(obsolete) A bar of wood used to fasten a door.

To cover with a roof.

(nautical) Any linear object used as a mast, sprit, yard, boom, pole or gaff.

To inclose in a house; figuratively, to shelter.

(aeronautics) A beam-like structural member that supports ribs in an aircraft wing or other airfoil.

A protective covering that covers or forms the top of a building

A sparring session; a preliminary fight, as in boxing or cock-fighting.

Protective covering on top of a motor vehicle

(MLE) A friend, a mate, a pal.

Provide a building with a roof; cover a building with a roof

(mineralogy) Any of various microcrystalline minerals, of light, translucent, or transparent appearance, which are easily cleft.

(mineralogy) Any crystal with readily discernible faces.

To bolt, bar.

(transitive) To supply or equip (a vessel) with spars.

To fight, especially as practice for martial arts or hand-to-hand combat.

To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.

To contest in words; to wrangle.

An old name for a nonmetallic mineral, usually cleavable and somewhat lustrous; as, calc spar, or calcite, fluor spar, etc. It was especially used in the case of the gangue minerals of a metalliferous vein.

A general term any round piece of timber used as a mast, yard, boom, or gaff.

Formerly, a piece of timber, in a general sense; - still applied locally to rafters.

The bar of a gate or door.

A contest at sparring or boxing.

A movement of offense or defense in boxing.

To bolt; to bar.

To To supply or equip with spars, as a vessel.

To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.

To use the fists and arms scientifically in attack or defense; to contend or combat with the fists, as for exercise or amusement; to box.

To contest in words; to wrangle.

Any of various nonmetallic minerals (calcite or feldspar) that are light in color and transparent or translucent and cleavable

A stout rounded pole of wood or metal used to support rigging

Making the motions of attack and defense with the fists and arms; a part of training for a boxer

Furnish with spars

Fight with spurs;

Box lightly

Fight verbally;