What's the difference between bale and bare?

Bale


Definition:

  • (n.) A bundle or package of goods in a cloth cover, and corded for storage or transportation; also, a bundle of straw / hay, etc., put up compactly for transportation.
  • (v. t.) To make up in a bale.
  • (v. t.) See Bail, v. t., to lade.
  • (n.) Misery; calamity; misfortune; sorrow.
  • (n.) Evil; an evil, pernicious influence; something causing great injury.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I can’t believe it was disallowed,” Bale admitted.
  • (2) In the 55th minute Ivanovic dispossessed Bale and beat Ricketts before sliding the ball across to give Tadic a simple finish.
  • (3) The ball's lost, but Tiago gifts it back to Bale, who makes for the Atlético area with great purpose.
  • (4) Another was a mock-up of a speeding ticket for Mr G Bale, Campeón de Copa, for overtaking recklessly, crossing a continuous white line.
  • (5) However, the Real Madrid forward Bale and Arsenal playmaker Ramsey missed those three games through injury, and Allen insists their presence makes a massive difference to Wales .
  • (6) The first controversy came in the 19th minute, when Bale tore into the penalty area on to Tom Huddlestone's through ball and felt Sebastian Larsson's arm in his back.
  • (7) Aaron Ramsey, who scored the opening goal and set up Bale for the third, was outstanding, Joe Allen delivered another imperious performance in centre midfield and then there was that wonderful moment when Neil Taylor, of all people, popped up with the second goal.
  • (8) Hal Robson-Kanu, whose persistence on the left led to the free-kick that Wales profited from to take the lead, would have added a second goal five minutes later if he had showed the same cool head as Bale.
  • (9) Bale was more than 30 yards from goal when he started lining up the shot.
  • (10) He tried it in November 2014 in Belgium and, although Wales got a precious point and drew 0-0, Bale spent too long waiting for the ball that never came.
  • (11) That raised doubts over Bale’s availability for the trip to Anfield, as well as this weekend’s El Clásico with Barcelona , although Madrid have said for now they will keep an eye on the player.
  • (12) Neymar, it said, was a "crack" or superstar; Bale was a "catacrack", a disaster.
  • (13) Wales continued to push forward and gained reward late on when Vokes applied the finishing touch to a flowing move involving Bellamy and Bale.
  • (14) It was no surprise that Bale was behind the breakthrough.
  • (15) I know I am under a lot of pressure, but I am happy to face it.” The fee makes Rodriguez the fourth most expensive transfer of all time after Real’s £86m for Gareth Bale and £80m for Cristiano Ronaldo, and Barcelona’s £75m for Luis Suárez.
  • (16) On Monday, prosecutors told the judge, Col Jeffery Nance, that they hope to play a recording of the phone call, among others, to show a lack of remorse on Bales's part.
  • (17) The Holocaust set the moral, ethical and geopolitical parameters within which the western world lives, influenced international institutions, sits balefully on the shoulders of writers and artists, and is never entirely absent from our minds.
  • (18) Bale's camp had already worked out a package with Madrid that meant he would sign a six-year contract, with an annual salary close to €10m a year net, or £8.5m.
  • (19) More and more people, machines and fabric bales were crammed inside until the load-bearing columns cracked apart.
  • (20) It was a stunning turnaround, driven by the runs of Bale and, in particular, the craft of Ramsey.

Bare


Definition:

  • (a.) Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.
  • (a.) With head uncovered; bareheaded.
  • (a.) Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
  • (a.) Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager.
  • (a.) Destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished or scantily furnished; -- used with of (rarely with in) before the thing wanting or taken away; as, a room bare of furniture.
  • (a.) Threadbare; much worn.
  • (a.) Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare majority.
  • (n.) Surface; body; substance.
  • (n.) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
  • (a.) To strip off the covering of; to make bare; as, to bare the breast.
  • () Bore; the old preterit of Bear, v.
  • () of Bear

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Environment groups Environment groups that have strongly backed low-carbon power have barely wavered in their opposition to nuclear in the last decade, although their arguments now are now much about the cost than the danger it might pose.
  • (2) Moderately differentiated tumor revealed a wider range of nucleus size, less clustering (coefficient--3.59) and more hyperchromatic (70.1%) and "bare" (49.4%) nuclei and large nucleoli (22.2%).
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats have suffered a dramatic slump in support as a result of their role in the coalition and are now barely ahead of the Greens with an average rating of about 8% in the polls.
  • (4) At the bottom is a tiny harbour where cafe Itxas Etxea – bare brick walls and wraparound glass windows – is serving txakoli, the local white wine.
  • (5) Some antibodies and other proteins bind tightly to nitrocellulose and dissociation of these proteins by Tween 20 is barely detectable.
  • (6) In a barely-noticed submission to the government's Environmental Audit Committee, the London borough of Hounslow, the airport's near neighbours, said the airport was: breaching the World Health Organisation's guidelines for the levels for noise in people's bedrooms; breaching the EU guidelines for levels of nitrogen dioxide; and breaching British standards on the noise experienced by children in classrooms.
  • (7) For a writer barely out of his teens when it was published, in 1946, the book was an unusual achievement.
  • (8) Saving for a deposit is near impossible while paying extortionate rents for barely habitable flatshares.
  • (9) The relatively small reservoir and the maintenance of a minimum flow of water on the trunk river means the plant will work on average at barely 40% of its 11,200MW capacity.
  • (10) I have in the past predicted anger, as the consequences of the recession for public spending become clear; I think the process of expressing that anger has barely begun.
  • (11) She walks past stack after stack of books kept behind metal cages, the shelves barely visible in the dim light from the frosted-glass windows.
  • (12) Dual-positive CD4+CD8+ T cells (which were barely detectable in normal adults), CD4-CD8+ T cells and B cells transiently reached supranormal levels during recovery.
  • (13) But Sir Hayden Phillips's proposals are stalemated by Labour determination to cap spending and the Tory desire to cap Labour's unions funding while leaving their own flow of funds barely affected.
  • (14) In Golgi-Cox-impregnated coronal sections of albino rat brains at 1, 4, 26, 24, 30, 60 and 90 days it is presented the evolution of the spine-less, bare initial zone ("nude zone", NZ) at the proximal apical main dendrites of the layer V pyramidal neurons in the somatosensory and anterior limbie cortex.
  • (15) Average earnings are forecast to grow just 2.4% in 2017, meaning they will be barely rising in real terms.
  • (16) The police officers guarding the entrance to Japan's nuclear evacuation zone barely glance at Yukio Yamamoto's permit before waving him through.
  • (17) An additional 30 cm of clay covered the tailings on one plot and each plot was subdivided into bare soil and vegetated subplots.
  • (18) In order to avoid the drawbacks of the cutting end of the bare optic fibers, it may be covered with sapphire optics which conducts well laser energy.
  • (19) In addition the bare central backbone showed transverse striations.
  • (20) In a third experiment, rats were unilaterally gonadectomized and blood samples were obtained at various intervals for 48 h. Following unilateral gonadectomy there was a significant transient increase in FSH levels in male or female MSG-treated rats as compared to their 0 h values; however, the absolute levels attained were barely equal to the basal concentrations observed in the saline-treated control rats.

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