Wear

[weə] or [wɛr]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) the act of having on your person as a covering or adornment; 'she bought it for everyday wear'.

(noun.) impairment resulting from long use; 'the tires showed uneven wear'.

(verb.) have or show an appearance of; 'wear one's hair in a certain way'.

(verb.) have on one's person; 'He wore a red ribbon'; 'bear a scar'.

(verb.) put clothing on one's body; 'What should I wear today?'; 'He put on his best suit for the wedding'; 'The princess donned a long blue dress'; 'The queen assumed the stately robes'; 'He got into his jeans'.

(verb.) be dressed in; 'She was wearing yellow that day'.

(verb.) deteriorate through use or stress; 'The constant friction wore out the cloth'.

(verb.) last and be usable; 'This dress wore well for almost ten years'.

(verb.) have in one's aspect; wear an expression of one's attitude or personality; 'He always wears a smile'.

卡梅拉校對--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) Same as Weir.

(v. t.) To cause to go about, as a vessel, by putting the helm up, instead of alee as in tacking, so that the vessel's bow is turned away from, and her stern is presented to, the wind, and, as she turns still farther, her sails fill on the other side; to veer.

(v. t.) To carry or bear upon the person; to bear upon one's self, as an article of clothing, decoration, warfare, bondage, etc.; to have appendant to one's body; to have on; as, to wear a coat; to wear a shackle.

(v. t.) To have or exhibit an appearance of, as an aspect or manner; to bear; as, she wears a smile on her countenance.

(v. t.) To use up by carrying or having upon one's self; hence, to consume by use; to waste; to use up; as, to wear clothes rapidly.

(v. t.) To impair, waste, or diminish, by continual attrition, scraping, percussion, on the like; to consume gradually; to cause to lower or disappear; to spend.

(v. t.) To cause or make by friction or wasting; as, to wear a channel; to wear a hole.

(v. t.) To form or shape by, or as by, attrition.

(v. i.) To endure or suffer use; to last under employment; to bear the consequences of use, as waste, consumption, or attrition; as, a coat wears well or ill; -- hence, sometimes applied to character, qualifications, etc.; as, a man wears well as an acquaintance.

(v. i.) To be wasted, consumed, or diminished, by being used; to suffer injury, loss, or extinction by use or time; to decay, or be spent, gradually.

(n.) The act of wearing, or the state of being worn; consumption by use; diminution by friction; as, the wear of a garment.

(n.) The thing worn; style of dress; the fashion.

(n.) A dam in a river to stop and raise the water, for the purpose of conducting it to a mill, forming a fish pond, or the like.

(n.) A fence of stakes, brushwood, or the like, set in a stream, tideway, or inlet of the sea, for taking fish.

(n.) A long notch with a horizontal edge, as in the top of a vertical plate or plank, through which water flows, -- used in measuring the quantity of flowing water.

伊恩校對

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Carry (upon the person), bear.[2]. Impair (by use), waste, consume, use up, wear away, wear out.

v. n. [1]. Be wasted, wear away.[2]. Endure use.

整理:诺里斯

同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Carry, bear, exhibit, sport, consume, dou, waste, impair, rub, channel, groove,excavate, hollow, diminish

ANT:Doff, abandon, repair, renovate, renew, increase, swell, augment

乔斯林編輯

解釋/意思:

n. another spelling of weir.

v.t. (obs.) to guard ward off: to guide.

v.t. to carry on the body: to have the appearance of: to consume by use time or exposure: to waste by rubbing: to do by degrees: to exhaust efface: (naut.) to veer.—v.i. to be wasted by use or time: to be spent tediously: to consume slowly: to last under use: (Shak.) to be in fashion to become accustomed: (naut.) to come round away from the wind: (obs.) to become:—pa.t. wōre; pa.p. wōrn.—n. act of wearing: lessening or injury by use or friction: article worn.—adj. Wear′able fit to be worn.—n. Wear′er.—p.adj. Wear′ing made or designed for wear: consuming exhausting.—n. the process of wasting by attrition or time: that which is worn clothes.—ns. Wear′ing-appar′el dress; Wear′-ī′ron a friction-guard.—Wear and tear loss by wear or use; Wear away to impair consume; Wear off to rub off by friction: to diminish by decay: to pass away by degrees; Wear out to impair by use: to render useless by decay: to consume tediously: to harass.

編輯:雷金纳德