ware vs wear vs where

ware

Definitions

verb

  1. spend extravagantly

noun

  1. commodities offered for sale
  2. articles of the same kind or material; usually used in combination: `silverware', `software'

Examples

The Fat Controller and I were back inside the bolt when it arrived from the bonded warehouse at Felixstowe.

Which is stupid, considering the drivers around here A: Don't normally stop for people and in fact have been caught trying to sneak ~around~ them and B: I've been nicked several times and almost hit three times different instances last summer attempting to obey the biking laws, none of those for mistakes on my part as I've been scared shitless at the lack of aware driving that's crept over my town.

Have a cosmic awareness, an interest in ecology, environment, vegetarianism, or are very socially conscious.

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wear

Definitions

noun

  1. the act of having on your person as a covering or adornment
  2. impairment resulting from long use
  3. a covering designed to be worn on a person's body

verb

  1. have in one's aspect; wear an expression of one's attitude or personality
  2. deteriorate through use or stress
  3. have on one's person
  4. have or show an appearance of
  5. exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
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Examples

Baby and Infant Products, Flap Hats, Swim Diapers, Swimwear Outwear, Sleeping Bags.

Leaving London they went to Paris, where they passed a few days, but soon grew weary of the place; and Lord Chetwynde, feeling a kind of languor, which seemed to him like a premonition of disease, he decided to go to Germany.

My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards.

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