bare vs bear
Definitions
verb
- lay bare
- make public
- lay bare
adjective
- lacking its natural or customary covering
- just barely adequate or within a lower limit
- lacking in magnitude or quantity
- lacking embellishment or ornamentation
- having everything extraneous removed including contents
Examples
Jeff, clad in board trunks and a T-shirt, leans back in his chair with the lappie on his, uhhh, lap, and his bare feet up on the desk.
He pulled himself up and stumbled to the bathroom, where he turned on the cold tap and collapsed at the bottom of the shower, barely awake.
His mane is a little threadbare and Mum threatens to bin him calling him moth-eaten!
Definitions
verb
- have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices
- take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
- be pregnant with
- have on one's person
- have
noun
- an investor with a pessimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to fall and so sells now in order to buy later at a lower price
- massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws
Examples
Intellectual Dublin seemed no longer to consist of writers, but of folk singers, bearded or otherwise.
Beard is rather dismissive of their optical sophistication, shown in the curvature of the stylobate and in the entasis of the columns — the slight outward swelling of a column designed to counter the optical illusion of concavity, were the columns 'sides to be perfectly straight.
Moreover, Mr Webb's point about what he calls disinterested management -- that is to say, the management of banks by officers whose remuneration bears no relation to the profit made on each piece of business transacted -- is one of the matters in which English banking seems likely at least to be modified.
