bear

sostantivo

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   A large, generally omnivorous mammal (a few species are purely carnivorous or herbivorous) of the family Ursidae; having shaggy fur, a very small tail, and flat feet.

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   A large, generally omnivorous mammal (a few species are purely carnivorous or herbivorous) of the family Ursidae; having shaggy fur, a very small tail, and flat feet. The meat of this animal.

   We had barbecued bear for dinner.

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   figuratoA rough, unmannerly, uncouth person.

   One evening about this time, when his Lordship did me the honour to sup at my lodgings with Dr. Robertson and several other men of literary distinction, he regretted that Johnson had not been educated with more refinement, and lived more in polished society. 'No, no, my Lord, (said Signor Baretti,) do with him what you would, he would always have been a bear.'

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   An investor who sells commodities, securities, or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices.

   This accompt has been made to appear a bull accompt, i.e. that the bulls cannot take their stock. The fact is the reverse; it is a bear accompt, but the bears, unable to deliver their stock, have conjointly banged the market, and pocketed the tickets, to defeat the rise and loss that would have ensued to them by their buying on a rising price on the accompt day […]

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   gergoA state policeman (short for Smokey Bear).

   By the time we got into Tulsa Town We had eighty-five trucks in all But there's a roadblock up on the cloverleaf And them bears was wall-to-wall. Yeah, them smokies is thick as bugs on a bumper They even had a bear in the air. I says, "Callin' all trucks, this here's the Duck. We about to go a-huntin' bear."

   'The bear's pulling somebody off there at 74,' reported someone else.

   He was listening for reports of Kojaks with Kodaks, or bear sightings (cop alerts) at his front door (ahead of him), especially plain wrappers (unmarked police cars) parked at specific yardsticks (mile-markers) taking pictures […]

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   gergoA large, hairy man, especially one who is homosexual.

   Bears are usually hunky, chunky types reminiscent of railroad engineers and former football greats.

   Bear sought by masculine white male, 30, 5'8", 165 lbs, for weekly safe encounter. I'm in a long-term relationship and seek outside fun. You: tall, masculine, over 200 lbs, discreet, moustache.

   I have everything it takes to be a bear: broad shoulders, full beard, semibald pate, and lots of body hair. But I don't want to be a fetish.

   There are numerous social organizations for bears in most parts of the United States. Lesbians don't have such prominent sexual subcultures as gay men, although, as just mentioned, some lesbians are into BDSM practices.

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   A koala (bear).

   Bunyip Bluegum was a tidy bear, he objected to whisker soup[.]

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   A portable punching machine.

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   A block covered with coarse matting, used to scour the deck.

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    The fifteenth Lenormand card.

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    Something difficult or tiresome; a burden or chore.

    That window can be a bear to open.

    "This was a real bear to refinish. You can't believe how hard it was right here to get a thousand years of crud out of this carving."

verbo

1. 1

   To endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in.

   to bear a railroad stock

   to bear the market

aggettivo

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   Characterized by declining prices in securities markets or by belief that the prices will fall.

   The great bear market starting in 1929 scared a whole generation of investors.

verbo

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   To carry or convey, literally or figuratively.

   They came bearing gifts.

   Judging from the look on his face, he wasn't bearing good news.

   The little boat bore us to our destination.

   This plant's light and fluffy seeds may be borne by the wind to remote islands.

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   To carry or convey, literally or figuratively. To carry (weapons, flags or symbols of rank, office, etc.) upon one's person, especially visibly; to be equipped with (weapons, etc.).

   the right to bear arms

   Master Shake: […] so that I too may be able to bet on the sporting event where the guy did jailtime for bringing the gun into the club. / Carl: Hey ey ey, watch it. He got a constitutional right to bear arms...in a dance club.

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   To carry or convey, literally or figuratively. To wear (garments, pieces of jewellery, etc.).

   The queen bore the royal scepter and crown as she processed into the hall.

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   raroTo carry or convey, literally or figuratively. To carry (offspring in the womb), to be pregnant (with).

   The scan showed that the ewe was bearing twins.

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   To carry or convey, literally or figuratively. To have or display (a mark or other feature).

   She still bears the scars from a cycling accident.

   The stone bears a short inscription.

   This bears all the hallmarks of a terrorist attack.

   […] male stag-beetles often bear wounds from the huge mandibles of other males.

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   To carry or convey, literally or figuratively. To display (a particular heraldic device) on a shield or coat of arms; to be entitled to wear or use (a heraldic device) as a coat of arms.

   The shield bore a red cross.

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   To carry or convey, literally or figuratively. To present or exhibit (a particular outward appearance); to have (a certain look).

   He bore the look of a defeated man.

   The body was unclothed, and bore the appearance of being washed up by the sea.

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   To carry or convey, literally or figuratively. To have (a name, title, or designation).

   The school still bears the name of its founder.

   […] imitations that bear the same name as the things […]

   Heinrich Olbers described the paradox that bears his name in 1823.

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   To carry or convey, literally or figuratively. To possess or enjoy (recognition, renown, a reputation, etc.); to have (a particular price, value, or worth).

   The dictator bears a terrible reputation for cruelty.

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    To carry or convey, literally or figuratively. To have (interest or a specified rate of interest) stipulated in its terms.

    The bond bears a fixed interest rate of 3.5%.

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    To carry or convey, literally or figuratively. To have (an appendage, organ, etc.) as part of the body; (of a part of the body) to have (an appendage).

    Only the male Indian elephant bears tusks.

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    To carry or convey, literally or figuratively. To carry or hold in the mind; to experience, entertain, harbour (an idea, feeling, or emotion).

    to bear a grudge, to bear ill will

    the ancient grudge I bear him

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    raroTo carry or convey, literally or figuratively. To feel and show (respect, reverence, loyalty, etc.) to, towards, or unto a person or thing.

    The brothers had always borne one another respect.

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    To carry or convey, literally or figuratively. To possess inherently (a quality, attribute, power, or capacity); to have and display as an essential characteristic.

    to bear life

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    To carry or convey, literally or figuratively. To have (a relation, correspondence, etc.) to something else.

    The punishment bears no relation to the crime.

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    To carry or convey, literally or figuratively. To give (written or oral testimony or evidence); (figurative) to provide or constitute (evidence or proof), give witness.

    His achievements bear testimony to his ability.

    The jury could see he was bearing false witness.

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    To carry or convey, literally or figuratively. To have (a certain meaning, intent, or effect).

    This word no longer bears its original meaning.

    Her sentence bore that she should stand a certain time upon the platform.

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    To carry or convey, literally or figuratively. To behave or conduct (oneself).

    She bore herself well throughout the ordeal.

    Thus must thou thy body bear.

    Hath he borne himself penitently in prison?

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    raroTo carry or convey, literally or figuratively. To possess and use, to exercise (power or influence); to hold (an office, rank, or position).

    Every man should bear rule in his own house.

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    obsoletoTo carry or convey, literally or figuratively. To carry a burden or burdens.

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    obsoletoTo carry or convey, literally or figuratively. To take or bring (a person) with oneself; to conduct.

    Bear them to my house.

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    To support, sustain, or endure. To support or sustain; to hold up.

    This stone bears most of the weight.

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    To support, sustain, or endure. To endure or withstand (hardship, scrutiny, etc.); to tolerate; to be patient (with).

    The pain is too much for me to bear.

    It doesn’t bear thinking about.

    I would never move to Texas — I can't bear heat.

    This reasoning will not bear much analysis.

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    To support, sustain, or endure. To sustain, or be answerable for (blame, expense, responsibility, etc.).

    The hirer must bear the cost of any repairs.

    He shall bear their iniquities.

    What have you gotten there under your arm, Daughter? somewhat, I hope, that will bear your Charges in your Pilgrimage.

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    To support, sustain, or endure. To admit or be capable of (a meaning); to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.

    In all criminal cases the most favourable interpretation should be put on words that they can possibly bear.

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    To support, sustain, or endure. To warrant, justify the need for.

    This storm definitely bears monitoring.

    An unusually high percentage of the hundreds of gay men who participated in the experimental trials for this vaccine (1978-1980) developed AIDS. Since these trials occurred at about the same time as the first AIDS cases in the same cities […] a possible connection at least bears careful study.

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    To support, keep up, or maintain. To afford, to be something to someone, to supply with something.

    […] admitted to that equal sky, / His faithful dog shall bear him company.

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    To support, keep up, or maintain. To carry on, or maintain; to have.

    […] and he finds the Pleasure, and Credit of bearing a Part in the Conversation, and of having his Reasons sometimes approved and hearken'd to.

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    To press or impinge upon. To push, thrust, press.

    The rope has frayed where it bears on the rim of the wheel.

    These men therefore bear hard upon the suspected party.

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    figuratoTo press or impinge upon. To take effect; to have influence or force; to be relevant.

    to bring arguments to bear

    How does this bear on the question?

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    To press or impinge upon. Of a weapon, to be aimed at an enemy or other target.

    The cannons were wheeled around to bear upon the advancing troops.

    2012, Ronald D. Utt, Ships of Oak, Guns of Iron Constitution's gun crews crossed the deck to the already loaded larboard guns as Bainbridge wore the ship around on a larboard tack and recrossed his path in a rare double raking action to bring her guns to bear again on Java's damaged stern.

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    To produce, yield, give birth to. To give birth to (someone or something) (may take the father of the direct object as an indirect object).

    In Troy she becomes Paris’ wife, bearing him several children, all of whom die in infancy.

    The twins were borne by an Italian mother.

    The powerful Bene Gesserit sisterhood for ninety generations has been manipulating bloodlines to produce the Kwisatz Haderach, a superbeing. On Caladan, Jessica, a member of the sisterhood and the bound concubine of Duke Leto Atreides, had been ordered to bear only daughters. Because of her love for the duke, she disobeyed and gave birth to a son: Paul, Paul Atreides.

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    To produce, yield, give birth to. To produce or yield something, such as fruit or crops.

    This year our apple trees bore a good crop of fruit.

    Betwixt two seasons comes th' auspicious air, / This age to blossom, and the next to bear.

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    To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere).

    Carry on past the church and then bear left at the junction.

    By my readings, we're bearing due south, so we should turn about ten degrees east.

    Great Falls bears north of Bozeman.

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    obsoletoTo gain or win.

    Some think to bear it by speaking a great word.

    She was […] found not guilty, through bearing of friends and bribing of the judge.

sostantivo

1. 1

   Variante di bereAlternative spelling of bere (“barley”).

   There are several plots of those species of barley called big, which is six-rowed barley; or bear, which is four-rowed, cultivated.

   Bigg or bear, with four grains on the ear, was the kind of barley.

   Two stacks of beare, of xx boules,

   […] one wheat stack, one half-stack of corn, and a little hay, all standing in the barnyard; four stacks of bear in the barn, about three bolls of bear lying on the barn floor, two stacks of corn in the barn, […]

sostantivo

1. 1

   Variante di bereAlternative spelling of bere (“pillowcase”).

   And, according to this, one of my Neighbours made a Bag, like a Pillow-bear, of the ordinary six-penny yard Cloth, and boiled his Hops in it half an Hour; then he took them out, and put in another Bag of the like Quantity of fresh Hops, […]

   ij payer of schete, ij pelows wt the berys,

   1641.—14 yards of femble cloth, 12s. ; 8 yards of linen, 6s. 8d. ; 20 yards of harden, 10s. ; 5 linen sheets, 1l. ; 7 linen pillow bears, 8s. ; 2 femble sheets and a line hard sheet, 10s. ; 3 linen towels, 4s. ; 6 lin curtains and a vallance, 12s. ; […]

   I give to my Grand Child Lidea Carpenter the Coverlid that her mother spun and my pillow bear and a pint Cup & my great Pott that belongs to the Pott and Trammels.

Forme

plurale

bears

passato

beared, bore, bare

participio passato

beared, borne, bore, born

participio presente

bearing

3ª persona singolare

bears