bare

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
/bɛə/|/bɛː/    /bɛɚ/|/beː/|[beː~bɛː]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The surface, the (bare) skin.
    — In sad good earnest, sir, you have toucht the very bare of naked truth [...]
  2. Surface; body; substance.
    — You have touched the very bare of naked truth.
  3. That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
动词 v.
  1. simple past of bear form-of,obsolete,past
    — And the children of the Levites bare the ark of God upon their shoulders with the staves thereon
  2. To uncover; to reveal. figuratively,sometimes,transitive
    — She bared her teeth at him.
形容词 adj.
  1. Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.
    — a bare majority
  2. Naked, uncovered.
    — "I refuse to show myself out of doors in my bare feet," the Centipede said. "I have to get my boots on again first."
  3. Having no supplies.
    — a room bare of furniture
  4. Having no decoration.
    — The walls of this room are bare — why not hang some paintings on them?
  5. Having had what usually covers (something) removed.
    — The trees were left bare after the swarm of locusts devoured all the leaves.
  6. A lot or lots of. Multicultural-London-English,Yorkshire,not-comparable,slang
    — It's taking bare time.
  7. With head uncovered; bareheaded.
    — When once thy foot enters the church, be bare. / God is more there, then thou: for thou art there / Onely by his permiſſion.
  8. Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
    — Bare in thy guilt how foul muſt thou appear?
  9. Mere; without embellishment. figuratively
    — bare essentials; bare necessities
  10. Threadbare, very worn.
    — for it appears, by their bare liveries, that they live by your bare words.
  11. Not insured.
    — Before the company was formed, the firm went bare for about three months in 1985, but it now has prior acts coverage for that time.
副词 adv.
  1. Barely. dialectal
    — The fiend had bare departed when Ailie came over the threshold to find the auld carline glunching over the fire.
  2. Very; significantly. Multicultural-London-English,slang
    — That pissed me off bare.
  3. Without a condom. slang
    — While none of the participants had complete confidence in condoms, they continued to use them as a better alternative than “going in bare".

词形变化

barer comparative barest superlative bares plural bares present,singular,third-person baring participle,present bared participle,past bared past

词源

词源 1
From Middle English bare, bar, from Old English bær (“bare, naked, open”), from Proto-West Germanic *baʀ, from Proto-Germanic *bazaz (“bare, naked”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰosós, from *bʰos- (“bare, barefoot”).
Cognate with Scots bare, bair (“bare”), Saterland Frisian bar (“bare”), West Frisian baar (“bare”), Dutch bar (“bare”), German bar (“bare”), Swedish bar (“bare”), Icelandic ber (“bare”), Lithuanian basas (“barefoot, bare”), Polish bosy (“barefoot”).
词源 2
From Middle English baren, from Old English barian, from Proto-Germanic *bazōną (“to bare, make bare”).
词源 3
Inflected forms.
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