ware

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
/ˈwɛə/    /ˈwɛɹ/|/ˈweː/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use. in-compounds,uncountable,usually
    — Astbury was the more successful and made frequent journeys to London, where he sold his ware and obtained further orders.
  2. Seaweed; drift seaweed; seawrack. UK,dialectal,obsolete
    — On many of the farms in East Lothian, from 100 to 120 Imperial acres are annually manured with sea-ware; and when I mention that 30 double-cart loads are spread on 1 acre, you may conceive the labour incurred in carting from 3000 to 3600 loads during a short season; for it is only in winter that the ware is cast ashore by storms,[…]
  3. Spring, springtime. Northern-England,Scotland
  4. See wares. in-plural,uncountable,usually
  5. Pottery or metal goods. uncountable,usually
    — damascene ware, tole ware
  6. A style or genre of artifact. countable,usually
  7. Crockery. Ireland,uncountable,usually
动词 v.
  1. To be ware or mindful of something. dialectal,obsolete
    — 1450, Palladius on Husbondrieː Ware the horn and heels lest they fling a flap to thee.
  2. Alternative form of wear (“to veer or bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern”) alt-of,alternative
    — The Ship wares bravely, steddy, steddy; she is before it. […] The Ship wares round, so right the Helm; hard up.
  3. Old eye dialect spelling of were.
    — Againſt this ther ware many objections made by the creditors, viz., that quoad the 9000 lƀ. a year contained in his contract of marriage, they ware præferable, being præferable and prior creditors, and ſo he was ſucceſſor titulo lucrativo poſt contractum debitum; and as to the 6000 lƀ. per annum added, 1^(o.) before that letter they had a jus quæſitum by the ſignitor; 2^(do.) They had rights præferable.
  4. simple past of wear form-of,obsolete,past
  5. To protect or guard (especially oneself); to be on guard, be wary. obsolete
    — Ware thee.
    Watch yourself.
形容词 adj.
  1. Aware. poetic
    — And in like wise as she said so they departed, that neither the king nor none of his council were ware of their departing.
  2. Wary; cautious. obsolete
    — He is ware inough; he is wilye, and circumſpect for ſtirring vp any ſedition.

词形变化

wares plural more ware comparative most ware superlative wares present,singular,third-person waring participle,present wared participle,past wared past more ware comparative most ware superlative wares present,singular,third-person waring participle,present wared participle,past wared past wore participle,past wore past wares plural

词源

词源 1
From Middle English ware, from Old English waru, from Proto-West Germanic *waru, from Proto-Germanic *warō (“attention”) as in beware, in the sense of “an object of care, a valuable”, from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to watch, keep guard”), whence also ward.
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Were (“an item for exchange, barter, or sale; ware”), Dutch waar (“goods offered for sale or use; ware”), German Ware (“ware”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk vare (“ware”), Faroese vøra (“ware”), Icelandic and Swedish vara (“ware”).
词源 2
From Middle English ware, war, from Old English wær, from Proto-West Germanic *war, from Proto-Germanic *waraz.
词源 3
From Middle English waren (“to be ware, be on guard, be mindful, protect, guard”), from Old English warian, from Proto-West Germanic *warōn, from Proto-Germanic *warōną. Cognate with Saterland Frisian woarje (“to guard”).
词源 4
From Middle English wor (in sewor) from Old English wār (“seaweed”), ultimately related to Proto-Germanic *wīraz; compare wire. Cognate with Scots wair (“seaweed”), Dutch wier (“seaweed”), Middle Dutch wier (“seaweed”).
词源 5
From Middle English ware, from Old Norse vár (“spring”), from Proto-Germanic *wazrą. Cognate with Icelandic vor (“spring”), Swedish vår (“spring”), Danish vår (“spring”), Scots ware, wair (“spring”).
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