Care
[keə] or [kɛr]
Definition
(noun.) activity involved in maintaining something in good working order; 'he wrote the manual on car care'.
(noun.) the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something; 'no medical care was required'; 'the old car needs constant attention'.
(noun.) attention and management implying responsibility for safety; 'he is in the care of a bodyguard'.
(noun.) a cause for feeling concern; 'his major care was the illness of his wife'.
(verb.) feel concern or interest; 'I really care about my work'; 'I don't care'.
(verb.) provide care for; 'The nurse was caring for the wounded'.
Editor: Shanna--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.
(n.) Charge, oversight, or management, implying responsibility for safety and prosperity.
(n.) Attention or heed; caution; regard; heedfulness; watchfulness; as, take care; have a care.
(n.) The object of watchful attention or anxiety.
(n.) To be anxious or solicitous; to be concerned; to have regard or interest; -- sometimes followed by an objective of measure.
Editor: Nell
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Anxiety, carefulness, solicitude, concern, trouble, perplexity.[2]. Caution, heed, regard, attention, circumspection, watchfulness, vigilance.[3]. Charge, oversight, superintendence, direction, management.
v. n. [1]. Be anxious, be solicitous, feel concerned, be troubled, worry one's self.[2]. Be inclined, be disposed.[3]. Have regard.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Attention, pains, anxiety, concern, trouble, circumspection, regard,solicitude, caution, prevention, custody, preservation, thrift, heed,foresight, wariness, economy, prudence
ANT:Inattention, neglect, disregard, carelessness, indifference, temerity,remissness, improvidence, unguardedness, incaution
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Definition
n. anxiety heedfulness: charge oversight: the object of anxiety.—v.i. to be anxious: to be inclined: to have regard.—adjs. Care′-crazed (Shak.) crazed or broken with care and solicitude; Care′ful full of care: heedful: (B.) anxious: (Spens.) dreadful.—adv. Care′fully.—n. Care′fulness.—adj. Care′less without care: heedless unconcerned.—ns. Care′lessness; Care′-tak′er one put in charge of anything esp. of an Irish farm from which a tenant has been evicted.—adj. Care′worn worn or vexed with care.—Take care to be careful or cautious; Take care of to look after with care.
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Examples
- Yes, but such care could have been furnished by any one of us. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- He has just been saying that he doesn't care to speak of it. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The ice, you see, was broken between us--and I thought I would take care, on the next occasion, that Mr. Betteredge was out of the way. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- But in the better grades of material the printing is well done, and the color designs are fairly fast, and a little care in the laundry suffices to eliminate any danger of fading. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Then you don't care for him in the way it is evident he begins to care for you? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Then she said, with a slight touch of irritation: I don't care to accept a portrait from Paul Morpeth. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- But you care for Maria. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The motley of people under his rule knew little of him and cared less. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Thus, broadly, the manufacturing end of the problem of introduction was cared for. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I neither was crushed nor elated by her lands and gold; I thought not of them, cared not for them. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Their opinions clashed; and indeed, she had never perceived that he had cared for her opinions, as belonging to her, the individual. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Bob, I thought you cared nothing about our _lourdauds de paysans_. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She spoke with difficulty, and I perceived that she regretted the necessity of death, even more than she cared to confess. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But I suppose I've lived too independently; at any rate, I want to do what you all do--I want to feel cared for and safe. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- But we were not caring for these things --they did not interest us in the least. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- This it is, her not caring about you, which gives her such a soft skin, and makes her so much taller, and produces all these charms and graces! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- It is time to think of our visitors, said Maria, still feeling her hand pressed to Henry Crawford's heart, and caring little for anything else. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I had my doubts of their caring so very much for Morgan ap-Kerrig in India and China, but of course I never expressed them. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- There is nothing in the elementary study of botany which cannot be introduced in a vital way in connection with caring for the growth of seeds. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Attention means caring for a thing, in the sense of both affection and of looking out for its welfare. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- There is a commencement of caring for every one. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- For no one cares for what one cannot half do. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Is it not, by its noble cares and sublime results, the one best calculated to fill the void left by uptorn affections and demolished hopes? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The trembling hand may have said, with some expression, 'Think of me, think how I have worked, think of my many cares! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Were this my last hour of power, it should be an hour sacred to revenge and to pleasure--let new cares come with to-morrow's new day. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Where's the use of looking nice, when no one sees me but those cross midgets, and no one cares whether I'm pretty or not? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Yes, if she cares to. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
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