pars

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of par.

   The reporter filed six tight pars on the council vote before deadline.

   Five straight pars on the back nine steadied his round.

   Note

   Only the countable meanings take this plural: the short forms for paragraphs, parentheses and parishes, and par as a level of value. In journalism it counts paragraphs of copy, so a reporter files six pars and an editor trims two. The same spelling also serves as the present-tense verb, so the sentence shows which is meant.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present of par.

   Anyone who pars the seventeenth in this wind deserves a round of applause.

   A steady player who pars every hole will usually beat a flashy one who doesn't.

   Note

   After he, she, it or a singular noun, the verb leads two quite different lives. On the golf course it takes the hole as its object: she pars the eighteenth. In Multicultural London English it means hanging out, and the company follows with: he pars with his mates most evenings.

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