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Definitions for bald
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. bald, barefacedadjective

    with no effort to conceal

    "a barefaced lie"

  2. bald, bald-headed, bald-patedadjective

    lacking hair on all or most of the scalp

    "a bald pate"; "a bald-headed gentleman"

  3. bald, denuded, denudateverb

    without the natural or usual covering

    "a bald spot on the lawn"; "bare hills"

  4. baldverb

    grow bald; lose hair on one's head

    "He is balding already"

Wiktionary

  1. baldnoun

    A mountain summit or crest that lacks forest growth despite a warm climate conducive to such, as is found in many places in the Southern Appalachian Mountains.

  2. baldverb

    to become bald

  3. baldadjective

    Having no hair, fur or feathers.

  4. baldadjective

    Of tyres: whose surface is worn away.

  5. baldadjective

    Of a statement: empirically unsupported.

  6. Etymology: From balþaz, whence also Old Saxon bald, Old High German bald, Old Norse ballr.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Baldadjective

    Etymology: bal, Welch.

    Neither shall men make themselves bald for them. Jer. xvi. 6.

    I find it remarked by Marchetti, that the cause of baldness in men is the dryness of the brain, and its shrinking from the skull; he having observed, that in bald persons, under the bald part, there was a vacuity between the skull and the brain. John Ray.

    He should imitate Cæsar, who, because his head was bald, covered that defect with laurels. Joseph Addison, Spect. №. 232.

    Under an oak, whose boughs were moss’d with age,
    And high top bald with dry antiquity. William Shakespeare, As you like it.

    He is set at the upper end o’ th’ table; but they stand bald before him. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

    Hobbes, in the preface to his own bald translation of the Ilias, begins the praise of Homer when he should have ended it. John Dryden, Fables, Preface.

    And that, though labour’d, line must bald appear,
    That brings ungrateful musick to the ear. Thomas Creech.

    What should the people do with these bald tribunes?
    On whom depending, their obedience fails
    To th’ greater bench. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

Wikipedia

  1. Bald

    Bald is a song by the English rock band The Darkness.

ChatGPT

  1. bald

    Bald refers to the lack or absence of hair on a part of the body, typically referring to the scalp of a person. It can naturally occur due to aging or can be a result of certain medical conditions or treatments.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Baldadjective

    destitute of the natural or common covering on the head or top, as of hair, feathers, foliage, trees, etc.; as, a bald head; a bald oak

  2. Baldadjective

    destitute of ornament; unadorned; bare; literal

  3. Baldadjective

    undisguised

  4. Baldadjective

    destitute of dignity or value; paltry; mean

  5. Baldadjective

    destitute of a beard or awn; as, bald wheat

  6. Baldadjective

    destitute of the natural covering

  7. Baldadjective

    marked with a white spot on the head; bald-faced

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Bald

    bawld, adj. without hair (feathers, &c.) on the head (or on other parts of the body): bare, unadorned, destitute of literary grace: paltry, trivial: undisguised.—ns. Bald′-coot, popular name for the coot, from its pure white wide frontal plate: a monk—also Bald′icoot; Bald′-ea′gle, a common but inaccurate name for the American white-headed eagle, used as the national emblem.—adj. Bald′-faced, having white on the face, as a horse.—n. Bald′head, a person bald on the head.—adjs. Bald′-headed; Bald′ish, somewhat bald.—adv. Bald′ly.—ns. Bald′ness; Bald′pate, one destitute of hair: a kind of wild-duck.—adjs. Bald′pate, Bald′pated, destitute of hair. [Orig. 'shining,' 'white,' Ir. and Gael. bàl, 'white' spot; but perh. conn. with ball in the sense of 'rounded,' whence 'smooth,' 'hairless.']

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Entomology

  1. Bald

    without hair or other surface vestiture: see bare.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. BALD

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Bald is ranked #29261 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Bald surname appeared 809 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Bald.

    87.1% or 705 total occurrences were White.
    6.4% or 52 total occurrences were Black.
    3.2% or 26 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.8% or 15 total occurrences were Asian.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of bald in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of bald in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of bald in a Sentence

  1. Kellan Baker:

    We think this language is very problematic. We know that the way these exclusions operate in practice,' certain' means' all we can get away with,' this is a back-door way of maintaining an exclusion without having the kind of bald-faced exclusion that invites all but the laziest of regulators to intervene.

  2. Teruko Nishiguchi:

    At the office, my Osaka (Kansai) colleague made fun of another colleague from Chiba (Kanto) who is bald, he joked, 'Where is your hair? So bald!' and that shocked the bald guy.

  3. The Forest Service:

    Sometimes Mother Nature can be harsh and disappoint us with our human hopes, getting a glimpse into the daily lives of this beautiful bald eagle pair has been a real treat. Bald eagles have a very strong fidelity to their nest sites.

  4. Andrew Hain:

    I have a little emoji of a bald guy with a bit of facial growth giving a thumbs up, and so every hour or so I try and send that emoji to her and she knows that I'm OK, we get into some places and there's not a lot of reception and you know, we've got a sort of thing in place that no news is good news, if she doesn't hear from me. So, we've got plans around it to try and put her mind at ease.

  5. Shawnlei Breeding:

    Bald eagles inspire a lot of passion in their fans, they become like family to the people who watch them.

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