(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.
Starkers
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) A unilateral UK move would create even starker problems of domestic and international presentation, particularly if such action were to contrast with continued congressional reluctance to fund modernisation.” It observed that the military chiefs of staff believed the only effective and credible deterrent to Soviet use of chemical weapons was “the ability to retaliate in kind”.
(2) but it is hard to imagine that they will unite the nation in the way they did in the past, for they have been bought at the cost of making Brazil's injustices starker than ever.
(3) But the disconnect between the report’s recommendations and reality was only made starker as senior government figures refused to guarantee the rights of the 3 million EU citizens in the UK, further fuelling fears that have arisen since 23 June.
(4) As Brown and Simpson point out, Scoop still has much to offer to journalists and general readers, but a word of warning – it is littered with racist terms which will offend modern sensibilities (though that racism is far starker in Waugh in Abyssinia than in Scoop).
(5) One of the MPs' main conclusions was that inequalities long evident across companies in the UK were even starker in the financial sector.
(6) America finds itself today in a period of extreme political polarisation, in which the differences between the two parties have perhaps rarely – if ever – been starker.
(7) It is hard to think of a starker failure in domestic government since the poll tax.
(8) Cohn was his Virgil who guided him through the netherworlds of New York influence,” he added, “which led to Trump, among others, who was not much of a power broker at the time.” Stone, in an interview with the Washington Post, put it in even starker terms: “I think, to a certain extent, Donald learned how the world worked from Roy, who was not only a brilliant lawyer, but a brilliant strategist who understood the political system and how to play it like a violin.” Murdoch and Trump were still coming up in the world, but Cohn was approaching the height of his power.
(9) The slowdown in labor productivity has been even starker.
(10) Against a backdrop of record youth unemployment and graduate debt, the moral case is even starker.
(11) These statistics are even starker for minority teens, who comprise about 70% of the students at schools with SBHCs at them.
(12) His language is much starker than the tone adopted by the prime minister, who aims to revive his premiership this autumn by explaining how he will help struggling families through the downturn.
(13) The contrast between the ugly pigeons and the pretty swallow could hardly be starker or more telling.
(14) The pre-crisis slowdown is likely to have been even starker if we looked only at working-age households."
(15) And if race is added to class, the gap is starker still.
(16) In March the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published the volume on adaptation of its fifth assessment report , confirming in starker terms forecasts first outlined by scientists in 1990.
(17) Focusing more specifically on the benefit system, the contrast becomes even starker.
(18) The difference with the general population is even starker when it comes to specific health issues.
(19) No, the starker conclusion is that it is not so much a particular generation as a particular stratum of society that will be hardest hit: the children of the middle classes – those whose parents are too well off to qualify for state help, but whose means are not sufficient to guarantee a comfortable life.
(20) The contrast between the deep cuts to public services in the name of austerity and the increase in the MoD’s budget in the name of security could not be starker.