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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.

Bere


Definition:

  • (n.) Barley; the six-rowed barley or the four-rowed barley, commonly the former (Hord. vulgare).
  • (v. t.) To pierce.
  • (n.) See Bear, barley.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An epidemiological study of the prevalence of refractive errors was made of the Eskimo population of the Norton Sound and Bering Straits region of Alaska.
  • (2) The scientists said strong winds in mid-March finally helped push the ice out across the Barents and Bering seas.
  • (3) He began writing his first novel while on night watch in port, taking its title – Williwaw – from the sudden winds of the Bering Sea which create devastating tidal waves and can swamp a ship.
  • (4) The Pentagon has confirmed the presence of five Chinese naval vessels in the Bering Sea between Russia and Alaska, which Barack Obama is currently visiting .
  • (5) managing director of the Kamchatka-Bering Sea Ecoregion Program — are staunchly against drilling in biologically rich environments such as Bristol Bay.
  • (6) The helminthological investigations were conducted from May 6 to May 28, 1972 in the Karaginsk Gulf of the Bering Sea.
  • (7) The movement of one group can be traced across the Bering land bridge into North America and all the way to Chile.
  • (8) The implication was that there was a semi-regular exchange of animals between the two continents (across what is now the Bering Strait) resulting in multiple small radiations in each place.
  • (9) The seropositive animals were widely dispersed along the margins of the eastern Pacific basin, from the Bering Sea to the Santa Barbara Channel.
  • (10) A 4-year study of Northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) leptospirosis in the Bering Sea has shown that in newborn pups Leptospira pomona is associated with a multiple hemorrhage syndrome.
  • (11) We are aware of the five People’s Liberation Army Navy (Plan) ships in the Bering Sea,” said Commander Bill Urban, a Pentagon spokesman, confirming a story first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
  • (12) This could deliver schemes such as Uckfield-Lewes, Bristol-Portishead, Skipton-Colne, Statford-upon-Avon-Honeybourne, Southampton-Hythe, Bere Alston-Okehampton and at least a score of other long-desired reopenings, each of which would generate significant new journey opportunities around the country and be obvious vote-winners in the constituencies affected.
  • (13) Slingo told the MPs that there is "increasing evidence in the last few months of that depletion of ice, in particular in the Bering and Kara seas, can plausibly impact on our winter weather and lead to colder winters over northern Europe".
  • (14) Helminthiasis foci are localized in seaside biotopes on the Sea of Japan, the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea.
  • (15) The route, which used to be known as the North-east passage, runs along the Russian Arctic coast from Murmansk on the Barents Sea, along Siberia, to the Bering Strait.
  • (16) The seropositive pinnipeds were dispersed widely along the margins of the eastern Pacific rim, from the Bering Sea to the Santa Barbara Channel.
  • (17) It is suggested that the route of migrations was across the Bering Land Bridge, and further, that the migrations occurred during the period from late Oligocene to middle Miocene, 20-25 million years ago.
  • (18) An epidemiological study of the occurrence of angle-closure glaucoma was made under the Eskimos population of the Norton Sound and Bering Straits region of Alaska.
  • (19) Margaret Williams is the Managing Director of World Wildlife Fund's Kamchatka-Bering Sea Ecoregion Program, which is working on an international conservation strategy for this region.
  • (20) They are intrigued, not by its cargo, but by its route – for the Yong Sheng is headed in the opposite direction from the Netherlands and sailing towards the Bering Strait that separates Russia and Alaska.

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