(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.
Plain
Definition:
(v. i.) To lament; to bewail; to complain.
(v. t.) To lament; to mourn over; as, to plain a loss.
(superl.) Without elevations or depressions; flat; level; smooth; even. See Plane.
(superl.) Open; clear; unencumbered; equal; fair.
(superl.) Not intricate or difficult; evident; manifest; obvious; clear; unmistakable.
(superl.) Void of extraneous beauty or ornament; without conspicious embellishment; not rich; simple.
(superl.) Not highly cultivated; unsophisticated; free from show or pretension; simple; natural; homely; common.
(superl.) Free from affectation or disguise; candid; sincere; artless; honest; frank.
(superl.) Not luxurious; not highly seasoned; simple; as, plain food.
(superl.) Without beauty; not handsome; homely; as, a plain woman.
(superl.) Not variegated, dyed, or figured; as, plain muslin.
(superl.) Not much varied by modulations; as, a plain tune.
(adv.) In a plain manner; plainly.
(a.) Level land; usually, an open field or a broad stretch of land with an even surface, or a surface little varied by inequalities; as, the plain of Jordan; the American plains, or prairies.
(a.) A field of battle.
(v.) To plane or level; to make plain or even on the surface.
(v.) To make plain or manifest; to explain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Findings on plain X-ray of the abdomen, using the usual parameters of psoas and kidney shadows in the Nigerian, indicate that the two communities studied are similar but urinary calculi and urinary tract distortion are significantly more prominent in the community with the higher endemicity of urinary schistosomiasis.
(2) Plain radiographs should be the initial screening modality for a suspected foreign body.
(3) The radiologic findings on conventional examinations (plain films and cholangiograms) in a large group of patients with proven hepatobiliary tuberculosis are reviewed.
(4) In a double-blind trial, 50 patients with subcostal incisions performed for cholecystectomy or splenectomy, received 10 ml of either 0.5% bupivacaine plain or physiological saline twice daily by wound perfusion through an indwelling drainage tube for 3 days after operation.
(5) In conjunction with the development of a computerized goal-oriented record system at Forest Hospital Des Plaines, Illinois, research staff developed a psychiatric goal list from goal statements most frequently used at the hospital.
(6) These patients will generally require a plain roentgenographic examination with subsequent scintography, MRI, CT, laboratory work, and biopsy as indicated by any positive findings during the diagnostic work-up.
(7) The ultrasonographic features, the findings of plain abdominal X-ray studies, and of intravenous urography are described.
(8) CZP reduced the incidence of convulsions only after the larger dose, but plain solvent (propylene glycol, ethanol, water) was equally effective.
(9) Forty-six percent of the plain abdominal radiographs were suspected for cecal volvulus, but only 17 percent were diagnostic.
(10) But perhaps the most striking example of how differently much of the world sees London – and the importance of religion – from the way the city plainly sees itself came from the US, where Donald Trump caused uproar with a call for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the country.
(11) Shenhua Watermark Coal, a subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned Shenhua Group, is waiting for final approval from Hunt for a $1.2bn open-cut coalmine on the edge of the plains, a little more than three kilometres from Hamparsum’s property.
(13) Tension pneumocephalus was diagnosed by computed tomography (CT) scan and plain skull X-ray.
(14) This time, the syndrome was observed on adult cattle reared in the Accra Plains (Ghana) and infected by S. typhimurium.
(15) Plain abdominal radiography demonstrated calcification in three patients and evidence of Thorotrast (thorium dioxide) deposition in one.
(16) The absence of a visible fracture on plain skull radiographs does not exclude a fracture, and those patients with clinical signs of a fracture should be treated appropriately and further investigations performed.
(17) The success of correction was evaluated on plain radiographs using A P and "false profile" views as well as by CT.
(18) (7) Histologically, in the chick, the wall of the truncus and the conus contain cardiac muscle as late as stage 28, but from then on the walls of the truncus are transformed into connective tissue and plain muscle.
(19) The tumor was palpable on physical examination, but not apparent on plain radiographs.
(20) Trout fishing is excellent in both, and after they fall over the edge of the Piedmont Plateau to the Atlantic Coastal Plain, the lower stretches of both waterways boil into class-2 and -3 whitewater for kayakers and canoeists.