par
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.
Adjective
- Abbreviation of parallel.
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Noun Entry 2
- 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.
- It also means that when a right-wing Jewish group such as the ZOA chooses to overlook Bannon’s well-documented links to anti-Semitic white nationalists, it puts itself on a moral par with J.V.P. Bannon is the man who...
- Equality of condition or circumstances.
- The allotted number of strokes to reach the hole.
- He needs to make this shot for par.
- A hole in which a player achieves par.
- Kaymer started with six straight pars before making a birdie on the seventh and an eagle on the eighth. - 2009 January 18, “Paul Casey storms to four-stroke lead in Abu Dhabi”, in Herald Sun:
- An amount which is taken as an average or mean.
Origin
Borrowed from Latin pār (“equal”).
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above par below par course par mint par mint par of exchange no-par on par on a par par for the course par value par yield subpar under par up to par
Noun abbreviation, alt of
- Abbreviation of paragraph.
- And this particular Chisolm — as the papers had spelled out in headlines and opening pars — had been a soldier, a corporal in the British Army. - 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 419:
- Abbreviation of parenthesis.
- Abbreviation of parish.
Noun alt of, alternative
- Alternative form of parr (“young salmon”).
Forms
Preposition
- By; with.
Origin
Borrowed from French par (“through, by”), from Latin per (“through”). Doublet of per.
Verb golf, hobbies
- To reach the hole in the allotted number of strokes.
- He will need to par every hole in order to win this game.
Forms
Verb Multicultural London English
- To associate, to chill, to hang.
- Par with the hard heads and young offenders. - 2007 May 21, “Sirens” (track 3), in Maths + English, performed by Dizzee Rascal:
- I par with the best, this is bars in the flesh. - 2014 September 27, “Fire in the Booth”performed by Stormzy:
- Don't par wih a broke boy, I'll do the most. - 2016 August 12, “Don't run” (track 2), in PARTYNEXTDOOR 3(PX3), performed by PARTYNEXTDOOR:
Origin
Borrowed from Jamaican Creole, itself from partner.