(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.
Barebacked
Definition:
(a.) Having the back uncovered; as, a barebacked horse.
Example Sentences:
(1) As illustrated by our big old teenage pregnancy rate, doing it "properly" seems to have come to mean "going in bareback", and that's not good.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lakota youth riders of the “Horse Nation” gallop bareback at Standing Rock.
(3) This is amid what many see as an increasing normalisation of “bareback” sex, with many pointing to its almost standard depiction in pornography, to websites such as BarebackRT.com and to mobile phone dating apps that enable users to search for unprotected sex.
(4) He was so puny, not like the macho pictures you see of him riding a horse bareback, or fishing barechested," she said.
(5) But Joanna Page heaving-bosomed and bareback with David Tennant will do.
(6) The Good Life lifestyle she has described of her children running free in woods around their Devon smallholding, of growing their own food, of keeping chickens and riding ponies bareback, has been dissected and found badly wanting.
(7) There isn’t anything inherently wrong with enjoying bareback sex; regardless of what the moral police want us to believe.
(8) A lot of discussion has focused on the extremes – that people taking Truvada will go out on the town and have bareback sex all the time.
(9) Knight graduated from being her father’s sharpshooter dummy (he allegedly shot her twice when they were performing) to a circus stuntwoman, bareback horse-rider and pistol-spinning markswoman.
(10) I know how to prevent infection, I know how you are supposed to use a condom all the time, but I know that’s not always true in the real world, for me at least.” He’s also hopeful that widespread use of Prep could reduce the stigma that “bareback” or condomless sex is bad and that people who do it are therefore bad.
(11) There's also a fiftysomething male horse fanatic from Baltimore, and an outdoorsy, thirtysomething German girl, who has just arrived to work for the season from her adopted home of Andalucía, where she regularly rides bareback.
(12) Kimmerston Riding Centre (two-hour trip: adults £90, 13-15-year-olds £80, under-12s £70) in Northumberland offers experienced riders the chance to gallop along the golden sands of Holy Island, with the option of a bareback swim in the North Sea for the brave.
(13) I have stopped to photograph horses – eight or 10 of them, tiny to my distant eye, chestnut brown and somehow perfect – standing against the sky high above me, gazing west and looking wild and ready to be ridden by Native Americans, bareback and fast.
(14) You would have no idea that the bareback Cooper cuddle was his idea ("Within half an hour they brought in a nudity waiver for me to sign, just in case I changed my mind").