Bear

[beə] or [bɛr]

Definition

(noun.) massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws.

(noun.) an investor with a pessimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to fall and so sells now in order to buy later at a lower price.

(verb.) move while holding up or supporting; 'Bear gifts'; 'bear a heavy load'; 'bear news'; 'bearing orders'.

(verb.) bring forth, 'The apple tree bore delicious apples this year'; 'The unidentified plant bore gorgeous flowers'.

(verb.) take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person; 'I'll accept the charges'; 'She agreed to bear the responsibility'.

(verb.) have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices; 'She bears the title of Duchess'; 'He held the governorship for almost a decade'.

(verb.) have; 'bear a resemblance'; 'bear a signature'.

Typist: Loretta--From WordNet

Definition

(v. t.) To support or sustain; to hold up.

(v. t.) To support and remove or carry; to convey.

(v. t.) To conduct; to bring; -- said of persons.

(v. t.) To possess and use, as power; to exercise.

(v. t.) To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription.

(v. t.) To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name.

(v. t.) To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbor

(v. t.) To endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer.

(v. t.) To gain or win.

(v. t.) To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc.

(v. t.) To render or give; to bring forward.

(v. t.) To carry on, or maintain; to have.

(v. t.) To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.

(v. t.) To manage, wield, or direct.

(v. t.) To behave; to conduct.

(v. t.) To afford; to be to; to supply with.

(v. t.) To bring forth or produce; to yield; as, to bear apples; to bear children; to bear interest.

(v. i.) To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness.

(v. i.) To suffer, as in carrying a burden.

(v. i.) To endure with patience; to be patient.

(v. i.) To press; -- with on or upon, or against.

(v. i.) To take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring matters to bear.

(v. i.) To relate or refer; -- with on or upon; as, how does this bear on the question?

(v. i.) To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.

(v. i.) To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect to something else; as, the land bears N. by E.

(n.) A bier.

(n.) Any species of the genus Ursus, and of the closely allied genera. Bears are plantigrade Carnivora, but they live largely on fruit and insects.

(n.) An animal which has some resemblance to a bear in form or habits, but no real affinity; as, the woolly bear; ant bear; water bear; sea bear.

(n.) One of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called respectively the Great Bear and the Lesser Bear, or Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.

(n.) Metaphorically: A brutal, coarse, or morose person.

(n.) A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market.

(n.) A portable punching machine.

(n.) A block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the deck.

(v. t.) To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to bear a railroad stock; to bear the market.

(n.) Alt. of Bere

Checker: Mimi

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Uphold, support, sustain, hold up.[2]. Carry, transport, convey, waft.[3]. Possess, have, hold.[4]. Endure, suffer, undergo, brook, tolerate, abide, put up with, bear with, take patiently or easily, have patience with, submit to.[5]. Admit, permit, allow, admit of, be capable of.[6]. Maintain, keep up, carry on.[7]. Entertain, cherish, harbor.[8]. Be answerable for, be charged with.[9]. Produce, yield.[10]. Generate, beget, bring forth, give birth to.[11]. Exhibit, utter, show, give.

v. n. [1]. Suffer, submit.[2]. Press, push, be oppressive.[3]. Be fruitful, be prolific.[4]. [Rare.] Imply, intimate.[5]. (Naut.) Be situated (with respect to the point of compass).

n. Bruin.

Edited by Ervin

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Carry, lift, transport, convey, maintain, uphold, suffer, undergo, support,tolerate, waft, yield, sustain, hold, harbor, entertain, fill, enact, endure,admit, produce, generate

ANT:Drop, refuse, decline, resign, expel, eject, resist, repel, protest, resent,reject

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Definition

n. a heavy quadruped of the order Carnivora with long shaggy hair and hooked claws: any rude rough or ill-bred fellow: one who sells stocks for delivery at a future date anticipating a fall in price so that he may buy first at an advantage—opp. to Bull: the old phrase 'a bearskin jobber' suggests an origin in the common proverb 'to sell the bearskin before one has caught the bear' (hence To bear to speculate for a fall): (astron.) the name of two constellations the Great and the Little Bear.—ns. Bear′-ber′ry a trailing plant of the heath family a species of the Arbutus; Bear′bine a species of convolvulus closely allied to the bindweed; Bear′-gar′den an enclosure where bears are kept; a rude turbulent assembly.—adj. Bear′ish like a bear.—ns. Bear′ishness; Bear′-lead′er a person who leads about a bear for exhibition: the tutor or governor of a youth at the university or on travel; Bear's′-breech a common name for plants of the genus Acanthus; Bear's′-ear a common English name for the auricula; Bear's′-foot a species of hellebore; Bear′skin the skin of a bear: a shaggy woollen cloth for overcoats: the high fur cap worn by the Guards in England; Bear′-ward a warden or keeper of bears.

n. barley applied in Scotland to the now little grown variety Hordeum hexastichon.

v.t. to carry or support: to endure: to admit of: to be entitled to: to afford: to import: to manage: to behave or conduct one's self: to bring forth or produce.—v.i. to suffer: to be patient: to have reference to: to press (with on or upon): to be situated:—pr.p. bear′ing; pa.t. bōre; pa.p. bōrne (but the pa.p. when used to mean 'brought forth' is born).—adj. Bear′able that may be borne or endured.—n. Bear′ableness.—adv. Bear′ably.—ns. Bear′er one who or that which bears esp. one who assists in carrying a body to the grave: a carrier or messenger; Bear′ing behaviour: situation of one object with regard to another: relation: that which is borne upon an escutcheon: (mach.) the part of a shaft or axle in contact with its supports; Bear′ing-cloth the mantle or cloth in which a child was carried to the font; Bear′ing-rein the fixed rein between the bit and the saddle by which a horse's head is held up in driving and its neck made to arch.—Bear hard (Shak.) to press or urge; Bear in hand (Shak.) to keep in expectation to flatter one's hopes; To bear a hand to give assistance; To bear away to sail away; To bear down (with upon or towards) to sail with the wind; To bear out to corroborate; To bear up to keep up one's courage; To bear up for (a place) to sail towards; To bear with to make allowance for; To be borne in (upon the) mind to be forcibly impressed upon it; To bring to bear to bring into operation (with against upon); To lose one's bearings to become uncertain as to one's position.

Editor: Samantha