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Definitions for wear
wɛərwear
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Princeton's WordNet
wearnoun
impairment resulting from long use
"the tires showed uneven wear"
clothing, article of clothing, vesture, wear, wearable, habilimentnoun
a covering designed to be worn on a person's body
wear, wearingverb
the act of having on your person as a covering or adornment
"she bought it for everyday wear"
wear, have onverb
be dressed in
"She was wearing yellow that day"
wear, bearverb
have on one's person
"He wore a red ribbon"; "bear a scar"
wearverb
have in one's aspect; wear an expression of one's attitude or personality
"He always wears a smile"
wear, wear off, wear out, wear down, wear thinverb
deteriorate through use or stress
"The constant friction wore out the cloth"
wearverb
have or show an appearance of
"wear one's hair in a certain way"
wear, hold out, endureverb
last and be usable
"This dress wore well for almost ten years"
break, wear, wear out, bust, fall apartverb
go to pieces
"The lawn mower finally broke"; "The gears wore out"; "The old chair finally fell apart completely"
tire, wear upon, tire out, wear, weary, jade, wear out, outwear, wear down, fag out, fag, fatigueverb
exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress
"We wore ourselves out on this hike"
wear, put on, get into, don, assumeverb
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"
Wiktionary
wearnoun
(in combination) clothing (such as footwear)
wearnoun
damage to the appearance and/or strength of an item caused by use over time
wearnoun
fashion
wearverb
To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.
wearverb
To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner.
wearverb
To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.
wearverb
To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.
I know you don't like working with him, but you'll just have to wear it.
wearverb
To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce (some change) through attrition, exposure, or constant use.
wearverb
To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due to any continued process, activity, or use.
The tiles were wearing thin due to years of children's feet.
wearverb
To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.
wearverb
To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or desirable qualities under any continued strain or long period of time; sometimes said of a person, regarding the quality of being easy or difficult to tolerate.
wearverb
(in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue, or weariness near the point of an exhaustion of patience.
Her high pitched voice is really wearing on me lately.
wearverb
To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.
wearverb
To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed to tacking when the wind is brought around the bow); to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind.
Wearnoun
A river in the county of Tyne and Wear in north east England. The city of Sunderland is found upon its banks.
Etymology: werian from wazjanan, from wes-. Cognate to वस्ते, Ancient Greek ἕννυμι, Latin vestis, Albanian vesh, Old Armenian զգենում, gwisgo, waš-.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Wearnoun
Etymology: from the verb.
It was th’ inchantment of her riches
That made m’ apply t’ your crony witches;
That in return would pay th’ expence,
The wear and tear of conscience. Hudibras.They will force themselves through flood-gates, or over wears, hedges or stops in the water. Izaak Walton, Angler.
To Wearverb
Preterite wore, participle worn.
Etymology: weran , Sax.
O wicked world! one that is well nigh worn to pieces with age, to show himself a young gallant. William Shakespeare.
Protogenes could lay his colours so artificially, that one being worn off, a fresh should succeed to the number of five. Henry Peacham.
Waters wear the stones. Job xiv. 19.
An hasty word, or an indiscreet action does not presently dissolve the bond, but that friendship may be still found at heart; and so outgrow and wear off these little distempers. Robert South, Sermons.
They have had all advantages to the making them wise unto salvation, yet suffer their manhood to wear out and obliterate all those rudiments of their youth. Decay of Piety.
’Tis time must wear it off; but I must go. Dryden.
No differences of age, tempers, or education can wear it out, and set any considerable number of men free from it. John Tillotson, Sermons.
Theodosius exerted himself to animate his penitent in the course of life she was entering upon, and wear out of her mind groundless fears. Joseph Addison, Spectator.
What masks, what dances,
To wear away this long age of three hours. William Shakespeare.In most places, their toil is so extreme as they cannot endure it above four hours; the residue they wear out at coites and kayles. Richard Carew, Survey of Cornwall.
Wisest and best men full oft beguil’d,
With goodness principl’d, not to reject
The penitent, but ever to forgive,
Are drawn to wear out miserable days. John Milton.To his name inscrib’d, their tears they pay,
Till years and kisses wear his name away. Dryden.Kings titles commonly begin by force,
Which time wears off and mellows into right. Dryden.This pale and angry rose
Will I for ever wear. William Shakespeare, Henry VI.Why art thou angry? ——
That such a slave as this should wear a sword,
Who wears not honesty. William Shakespeare, King Lear.What is this
That wears upon his baby brow the round
And top of sovereignty. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.I am the first-born son of him, that last
Wore the imperial diadem of Rome. William Shakespeare.Their adorning, let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold. 1 Pet. iii. 3.
Eas’d the putting off
These troublesome disguises which we wear. John Milton.He ask’d what arms the swarthy Memnon wore;
What troops he landed. John Dryden, Virg. Æneid.This is unconscionable dealing, to be made a slave, and not know whose livery I wear. John Dryden, Spanish Friar.
On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore. Alexander Pope.
Such an infectious face her sorrow wears,
I can bear death, but not Cydaria’s tears. Dryden.Trials wear us into a liking of what possibly, in the first essay, displeased us. John Locke.
A man who has any relish for true writing, from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him, wears himself into the same manner. Joseph Addison, Spectator.
He shall wear out the saints. Dan. vii. 25.
This very rev’rent letcher, quite worn out
With rheumatisms, and crippled with his gout. John Dryden.To Wearverb
Thou wilt surely wear away. Exod. xviii. 18.
In those who have lost their sight when young, in whom the ideas of colours having been but slightly taken notice of, and ceasing to be repeated, do quite wear out. John Locke.
Thus wore out night, and now the herald lark
Left his ground-nest, high tow’ring to descry
The Morn’s approach, and greet her with his song. John Milton.If passion causes a present terror, yet it soon wears off; and inclination will easily learn to slight such scarecrows. John Locke.
The difficulty will every day grow less and wear off, and obedience become easy and familiar. John Rogers, Sermons.
Wikipedia
wear
Wear is the erosion of material from a solid surface by the action of another material.
ChatGPT
wear
Wear refers to the damage or degradation that occurs to an object, substance or material due to continuous or repeated use or exposure over time. This process can result in the object becoming thinner, smoother, or less functional. It can also refer to the act of using clothing or accessories on your body.
Webster Dictionary
Wearnoun
same as Weir
Wearverb
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
Wearverb
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
Wearverb
to have or exhibit an appearance of, as an aspect or manner; to bear; as, she wears a smile on her countenance
Wearverb
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
Wearverb
to impair, waste, or diminish, by continual attrition, scraping, percussion, on the like; to consume gradually; to cause to lower or disappear; to spend
Wearverb
to cause or make by friction or wasting; as, to wear a channel; to wear a hole
Wearverb
to form or shape by, or as by, attrition
Wearverb
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
Wearverb
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
Wearnoun
the act of wearing, or the state of being worn; consumption by use; diminution by friction; as, the wear of a garment
Wearnoun
the thing worn; style of dress; the fashion
Wearnoun
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
Wearnoun
a fence of stakes, brushwood, or the like, set in a stream, tideway, or inlet of the sea, for taking fish
Wearnoun
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
Etymology: [OE. weren, werien, AS. werian to carry, to wear, as arms or clothes; akin to OHG. werien, weren, to clothe, Goth. wasjan, L. vestis clothing, vestire to clothe, Gr. "enny`nai, Skr. vas. Cf. Vest.]
Wikidata
Wear
In materials science, wear is erosion or sideways displacement of material from its "derivative" and original position on a solid surface performed by the action of another surface. Wear is related to interactions between surfaces and more specifically the removal and deformation of material on a surface as a result of mechanical action of the opposite surface. The need for relative motion between two surfaces and initial mechanical contact between asperities is an important distinction between mechanical wear compared to other processes with similar outcomes. The definition of wear may include loss of dimension from plastic deformation if it is originated at the interface between two sliding surfaces. However, plastic deformation such as yield stress is excluded from the wear definition if it doesn't incorporates a relative sliding motion and contact against another surface despite the possibility for material removal, because it then lacks the relative sliding action of another surface. Impact wear is in reality a short sliding motion where two solid bodies interact at an exceptional short time interval. Previously due to the fast execution, the contact found in impact wear was referred to as an impulse contact by the nomenclature. Impulse can be described as a mathematical model of a synthesised average on the energy transport between two travelling solids in opposite converging contact. Cavitation wear is a form of wear where the erosive medium or counter-body is a fluid. Corrosion may be included in wear phenomenons, but the damage is amplified and performed by chemical reactions rather than mechanical action.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Wear
wār, 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. [A.S. werian, to wear; Ice. verja, to cover, Goth. wasjan.]
Wear
wēr, n. another spelling of weir.
Wear
wēr, v.t. (obs.) to guard, ward off: to guide. [A.S. werian, to guard, from root of wary.]
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
wear
See WEIR.--To wear. (See VEER.)
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
WEAR
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Wear is ranked #9366 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Wear surname appeared 3,473 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Wear.
90.5% or 3,146 total occurrences were White.
3.7% or 129 total occurrences were Black.
2.5% or 87 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1.6% or 56 total occurrences were of two or more races.
0.9% or 34 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
0.6% or 21 total occurrences were Asian.
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'wear' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #2753
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'wear' in Written Corpus Frequency: #984
Verbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'wear' in Verbs Frequency: #153
Anagrams for wear »
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of wear in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of wear in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
Examples of wear in a Sentence
We love our teams and want to support them to the best of our abilities. It's not just about the clothes we wear, but the attitude that we carry as well.
... but it will be very gradual and deliberate. And of course were taking steps to make sure were in compliance with state and local regulations, and NFL and CDC guidelines. That means primarily employees that must be in the office to do their jobs : people who need to access files that are only at the office ; maintenance workers ; trainers ; and technology workers. Those people will have their temperature taken when entering the building and must wear personal protective equipment. The Colts have set up one-way hallways with arrows on the carpet pointing to the proper direction, and there will be limits on how many people can be in rooms at the same time. Coach Frank Reich was realistic about a full return to the training complex. The guys who have been hurt, who have been coming into the building, keep coming in and rehabbing and doing their thing, other than that, as soon as we can get more players in the building we want that to make up for a little bit of lost time. The sooner we can get together and get out there working, the better it will be. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones took part in an owners conference call from the teams practice facility, The Star. About two dozen staffers were present at the complex. The Steelers are doing a soft reopening Tuesday mainly for medical personnel and rehabbing players. They expect to ramp up use of their facility next week under league guidelines. As the Cardinals reopen, only essential staffers will be involved, far fewer than the 75 allowed at the facility. The Super Bowl champion Chiefs also opted for a soft opening, as did the Falcons, with only about 15 people at their complex on Tuesday. Those numbers will increase over the next week.
Ill make a judgment shortly, but we would prefer that people who are unable to wear masks do not attend. I think its best for them.
When we talked in 2004, he shared with me that he had stopped wearing the high heeled boots he used to wear when I was in the band, he had these wedge platform sneakers that were custom made for him. He mentioned that he had been experiencing some pain and discomfort and the shoes really helped.
Every now and then, but you know, I don’t wear makeup, and I wear glasses. In life, I can’t see very well. I don’t mean to be incognito… but every now and then someone will [stop me to discuss the ‘How I Met Your Mother’ finale], the finale was very divisive, but I think that’s because everybody was so passionate.
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- لَبِسَ, ارتدىArabic
- насі́ць, панасі́цьBelarusian
- portarCatalan, Valencian
- mít, opotřebit se, mít na sobě, opotřebeníCzech
- på, haveDanish
- anhaben, tragen, AbnutzungGerman
- nyiEwe
- surporti, portiEsperanto
- llevar, fatigar, ropa, desgasteSpanish
- jantziBasque
- پوشیدنPersian
- pitää, jiipata, kulua, väsyttää, käyttää, olla yllään, kuluminen, asuFinnish
- porter, user, usureFrench
- skuorreWestern Frisian
- iompairIrish
- पहननाHindi
- hordHungarian
- կրել, մաշվել, հագնելArmenian
- metar, tedar, fatigar, portar, vestaroIdo
- indossare, portare, abbigliamento, usuraItalian
- 被る, 掛ける, 擦り切れる, 履く, 着る, 疲労, 服, 着物Japanese
- ស្លៀកពាក់, ពាក់Khmer
- 입다Korean
- vestio, induendumLatin
- pakaiMalay
- ဝတ်, ရုံBurmese
- vermoeien, dragen, uitputten, aanhebben, sleet, kledij, slijtage, kledingDutch
- portarOccitan
- nosić, ubraniePolish
- اغوستلPashto, Pushto
- trajar, usar, vestir, vestemPortuguese
- portar, purtar, purterRomansh
- purta, haine, uzură, îmbrăcăminteRomanian
- быть одетым в, надевать, изнашиваться, надеть, носить, изно́сRussian
- nòsiti, но̀ситиSerbo-Croatian
- vända undan vinden, slitas, bära, trötta ut, ha på sig, klädsel, slitageSwedish
- kuvaaSwahili
- สวม, ใส่, ครอง, สวมใส่Thai
- giymekTurkish
- پہنناUrdu
- đeo, đi, mặcVietnamese
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