wear, wearing
(noun) the act of having on your person as a covering or adornment; “she bought it for everyday wear”
clothing, article of clothing, vesture, wear, wearable, habiliment
(noun) a covering designed to be worn on a person’s body
wear
(noun) impairment resulting from long use; “the tires showed uneven wear”
wear
(verb) have or show an appearance of; “wear one’s hair in a certain way”
wear, bear
(verb) have on one’s person; “He wore a red ribbon”; “bear a scar”
wear, put on, get into, don, assume
(verb) put clothing on one’s body; “What should I wear today?”; “He put on his best suit for the wedding”; “The princess donned a long blue dress”; “The queen assumed the stately robes”; “He got into his jeans”
wear, have on
(verb) be dressed in; “She was wearing yellow that day”
tire, wear upon, tire out, wear, weary, jade, wear out, outwear, wear down, fag out, fag, fatigue
(verb) exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress; “We wore ourselves out on this hike”
wear, wear off, wear out, wear down, wear thin
(verb) deteriorate through use or stress; “The constant friction wore out the cloth”
break, wear, wear out, bust, fall apart
(verb) go to pieces; “The lawn mower finally broke”; “The gears wore out”; “The old chair finally fell apart completely”
wear, hold out, endure
(verb) last and be usable; “This dress wore well for almost ten years”
wear
(verb) have in one’s aspect; wear an expression of one’s attitude or personality; “He always wears a smile”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Wear
A river in the counties of County Durham and Tyne and Wear, north east England. The cities of Durham and Sunderland are situated upon its banks.
• -ware, Ware, arew, ware
wear (third-person singular simple present wears, present participle wearing, simple past wore, past participle (now colloquial and nonstandard) wore or worn)
To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner.
To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
(colloquial, with "it") To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.
To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce (some change) through attrition, exposure, or constant use.
(intransitive) To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due to any continued process, activity, or use.
To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
(intransitive) To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or desirable qualities under any continued strain or long period of time; sometimes said of a person, regarding the quality of being easy or difficult to tolerate.
(intransitive, colloquial) (in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue, or weariness near the point of an exhaustion of patience.
(intransitive, of time) To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
(nautical) To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed to tacking when the wind is brought around the bow); to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind. Also written "ware". Past: weared, or wore/worn.
Synonym: gybe
wear (uncountable)
(uncountable) (in combination) clothing
(uncountable) damage to the appearance and/or strength of an item caused by use over time
(uncountable) fashion
wear (third-person singular simple present wears, present participle wearing, simple past wore or weared, past participle worn or weared)
(now, chiefly, UK dialectal, transitive) To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.
(now, chiefly, UK dialectal, transitive) To defend; protect.
(now, chiefly, UK dialectal, transitive) To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off; repel.
(now, chiefly, UK dialectal, transitive) To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or place of safety.
wear (plural wears)
Dated form of weir.
• -ware, Ware, arew, ware
Source: Wiktionary
Wear, n.
Definition: Same as Weir.
Wear, v. t. Etym: [Cf. Veer.] (Naut.)
Definition: To cause to go about, as a vessel, by putting the helm up, instead of alee as in tacking, so that the vessel's bow is turned away from, and her stern is presented to, the wind, and, as she turns still farther, her sails fill on the other side; to veer.
Wear, v. t. [imp. Wore; p. p. Worn; p. pr. & vb. n. Wearing. Before the 15th century wear was a weak verb, the imp. & p. p. being Weared.] Etym: [OE. weren, werien, AS. werian to carry, to wear, as arms or clothes; akin to OHG. werien, weren, to clothe, Goth. wasjan, L. vestis clothing, vestire to clothe, Gr. vas. Cf. Vest.]
1. To carry or bear upon the person; to bear upon one's self, as an article of clothing, decoration, warfare, bondage, etc.; to have appendant to one's body; to have on; as, to wear a coat; to wear a shackle. What compass will you wear your farthingale Shak. On her white breast a sparkling cross swore, Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore. Pope.
2. To have or exhibit an appearance of, as an aspect or manner; to bear; as, she wears a smile on her countenance. "He wears the rose of youth upon him." Shak. His innocent gestures wear A meaning half divine. Keble.
3. To use up by carrying or having upon one's self; hence, to consume by use; to waste; to use up; as, to wear clothes rapidly.
4. To impair, waste, or diminish, by continual attrition, scraping, percussion, on the like; to consume gradually; to cause to lower or disappear; to spend. That wicked wight his days doth wear. Spenser. The waters wear the stones. Job xiv. 19.
5. To cause or make by friction or wasting; as, to wear a channel; to wear a hole.
6. To form or shape by, or as by, attrition. Trials wear us into a liking of what, possibly, in the first essay, displeased us. Locke. To wear away, to consume; to impair, diminish, or destroy, by gradual attrition or decay.
– To wear off, to diminish or remove by attrition or slow decay; as, to wear off the nap of cloth.
– To wear on or upon, to wear. [Obs.] "[I] weared upon my gay scarlet gites [gowns.]" Chaucer.
– To wear out. (a) To consume, or render useless, by attrition or decay; as, to wear out a coat or a book. (b) To consume tediously. "To wear out miserable days." Milton. (c) To harass; to tire. "[He] shall wear out the saints of the Most High." Dan vii. 25. (d) To waste the strength of; as, an old man worn out in military service.
– To wear the breeches. See under Breeches. [Colloq.]
Wear, v. i.
1. To endure or suffer use; to last under employment; to bear the consequences of use, as waste, consumption, or attrition; as, a coat wears well or ill; -- hence, sometimes applied to character, qualifications, etc.; as, a man wears well as an acquaintance.
2. To be wasted, consumed, or diminished, by being used; to suffer injury, loss, or extinction by use or time; to decay, or be spent, gradually. "Thus wore out night." Milton. Away, I say; time wears. Shak. Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou and this people that is with thee. Ex. xviii. 18. His stock of money began to wear very low. Sir W. Scott. The family . . . wore out in the earlier part of the century. Beaconsfield. To wear off, to pass away by degrees; as, the follies of youth wear off with age.
– To wear on, to pass on; as, time wears on. G. Eliot.
– To wear weary, to become weary, as by wear, long occupation, tedious employment, etc.
Wear, n.
1. The act of wearing, or the state of being worn; consumption by use; diminution by friction; as, the wear of a garment.
2. The thing worn; style of dress; the fashion. Motley wear. Shak. Wear and tear, the loss by wearing, as of machinery in use; the loss or injury to which anything is subjected by use, accident, etc.
Weir, Wear, n. Etym: [OE. wer, AS. wer; akin to G. wehr, AS. werian to defend, protect, hinder, G. wehren, Goth. warjan; and perhaps to E. wary; or cf. Skr. vr to check, hinder. sq. root142. Cf. Garret.]
1. A dam in a river to stop and raise the water, for the purpose of conducting it to a mill, forming a fish pond, or the like.
2. A fence of stakes, brushwood, or the like, set in a stream, tideway, or inlet of the sea, for taking fish.
3. A long notch with a horizontal edge, as in the top of a vertical plate or plank, through which water flows, -- used in measuring the quantity of flowing water.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 November 2024
(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”
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