What's the difference between bear and pessimist?

Bear


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To support or sustain; to hold up.
  • (v. t.) To support and remove or carry; to convey.
  • (v. t.) To conduct; to bring; -- said of persons.
  • (v. t.) To possess and use, as power; to exercise.
  • (v. t.) To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription.
  • (v. t.) To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name.
  • (v. t.) To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbor
  • (v. t.) To endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer.
  • (v. t.) To gain or win.
  • (v. t.) To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc.
  • (v. t.) To render or give; to bring forward.
  • (v. t.) To carry on, or maintain; to have.
  • (v. t.) To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
  • (v. t.) To manage, wield, or direct.
  • (v. t.) To behave; to conduct.
  • (v. t.) To afford; to be to; to supply with.
  • (v. t.) To bring forth or produce; to yield; as, to bear apples; to bear children; to bear interest.
  • (v. i.) To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness.
  • (v. i.) To suffer, as in carrying a burden.
  • (v. i.) To endure with patience; to be patient.
  • (v. i.) To press; -- with on or upon, or against.
  • (v. i.) To take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring matters to bear.
  • (v. i.) To relate or refer; -- with on or upon; as, how does this bear on the question?
  • (v. i.) To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.
  • (v. i.) To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect to something else; as, the land bears N. by E.
  • (n.) A bier.
  • (n.) Any species of the genus Ursus, and of the closely allied genera. Bears are plantigrade Carnivora, but they live largely on fruit and insects.
  • (n.) An animal which has some resemblance to a bear in form or habits, but no real affinity; as, the woolly bear; ant bear; water bear; sea bear.
  • (n.) One of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called respectively the Great Bear and the Lesser Bear, or Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.
  • (n.) Metaphorically: A brutal, coarse, or morose person.
  • (n.) A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market.
  • (n.) A portable punching machine.
  • (n.) A block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the deck.
  • (v. t.) To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to bear a railroad stock; to bear the market.
  • (n.) Alt. of Bere

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Competition with the labelled 10B12 MAb for binding to the purified antigen was demonstrated in sera of tumor-bearing and immune rats.
  • (2) The recent rise in manufacturing has been welcomed by George Osborne as a sign that his economic policies are bearing fruit.
  • (3) These data indicate that RNA faithfully transfers "suppressive" as well as "positive" types of immune responses that have been reported previously for lymphocytes obtained directly from tumour-bearing and tumour-immune animals.
  • (4) The results indicate that OA-bearing macrophages primed T cells and generated helper T cells, whereas the culture of normal lymphocytes with soluble OA in the absence of macrophages generated suppressor T cells.
  • (5) However, when conjugated to an antigen-bearing cell, a "non-antigen bearing" cell was labeled near the cell interaction area.
  • (6) The form of the harvested crop, varietal characteristics and annual growing conditions have less bearing.
  • (7) With this system, a brain region loaded with fura-2 was illuminated by a rotating disc bearing three different interference filters of 340, 360 and 380 nm at a rate of 600 rpm.
  • (8) A significant decrease in response to two mitogens (PHA, Con-A) was seen in tumor-bearing rats concomitantly with the tumor growth.
  • (9) An age- and education-matched group of women with no family history of FXS was asked to predict the seriousness of problems they might encounter were they to bear a child with a handicapping condition.
  • (10) F pili could be seen on cells of the latter strain but not on those of the parental strain or the strain bearing pColVF54 luminal diameter r. Pili other than F pili were not seen on cells of the strains bearing pF54 in either form.
  • (11) The clinical and roentgenographic features of xanthogranulomatosis bear a close resemblance to those seen in two fibrosclerosing syndromes: sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy and retroperitoneal fibrosis.
  • (12) Even though there are variations among equipment bearing the same model number it was considered worthwhile to make available relative cavitational and temperature data.
  • (13) Increased amino acid incorporation into hepatic proteins in tumor-bearing animals and also probably in cancer patients is due to a net increased hepatic protein synthesis, probably not confined to acute-phase reactants only.
  • (14) In experiments using double and triple chamber cultures it was demonstrated that suppressive macrophages from advanced T8-Guérin tumor (diameter 5--6.5 cm) bearing rats produced a dialysable factor which suppressed the killer activity of lymphocytes from non-advanced T8-Guérin tumor (diameter 0.5--0.7 cm) bearing rats, as well as from nonadvanced h 18R tumor bearing rats and from Ehrlich ascites bearing mice, against T8-Guérin ascitic cells and, respectively, against h 18R ascitic and Ehrlich ascitic cells.
  • (15) A method for constructing Ti plasmids bearing multiple copies of a sequence integrated in tandem is described.
  • (16) All smooth strains of Brucella bear two lipopolysaccharide (LPS) antigens in a ratio that defines the classification of strains in serovars, A (A greater than M), M (M greater than A) and A.M (A = M).
  • (17) Ovarian venous concentrations of these four steroids from the side draining the tumor-bearing ovary were increased in 40 to 80% of the women.
  • (18) The authors studied the localization of neocarzinostatin (NCS) in cultured cells and in tumor-bearing rats by means of immunofluorescent staining.
  • (19) Women who first give birth at ages 16 and younger are more likely to bear a second child within the next two years (26 percent) than are women who have their first child at ages 17-18 (20 percent) or at ages 19-22 (22 percent).
  • (20) The Guardian neglects to mention 150,000 privately owned guns or that Palestinians are banned from bearing arms.

Pessimist


Definition:

  • (n.) One who advocates the doctrine of pessimism; -- opposed to optimist.
  • (n.) One who looks on the dark side of things.
  • (a.) Alt. of Pessimistic

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A rather pessimistic wind is blowing over cancer chemotherapy, while a not very objective enthusiasm for second generation immunotherapy is raising its head.
  • (2) We challenge this pessimistic approach, and describe here our experience with seven patients with solid tumors, in whom pericardial effusion was diagnosed; one of them is described in detail.
  • (3) Verbally abused children were more angry and more pessimistic about their future.
  • (4) Has recently sounded pessimistic about the prospects for a full post-Copenhagen treaty: "You should not have too many expectations."
  • (5) Two groups, one institutionalized and the other noninstitutionalized but without formal activities, were described as being disengaged: e.g., withdrawn socially, self-absorbed, as well as powerless, pessimistic, and depressed.
  • (6) It is concluded that the heretofore pessimistic outlook regarding complete quadriplegia is unwarranted and that a more aggressive approach may result in a better functional outcome.
  • (7) "What our study has shown is that this applies similarly to dogs – that a 'glass half full' dog is less likely to be anxious when left alone than one with a more 'pessimistic' nature."
  • (8) "It's like watching a bullfight," says one Conservative backbench pessimist.
  • (9) The agency hopes it can later extend the work to urban rivers outside London, but is pessimistic that parts of the Fleet might one day be released to public view.
  • (10) It is a totally unrealistic, pessimistic vision about what this country can achieve."
  • (11) Rehabilitation of patients with chronic respiratory disease has tended to be neglected in the past, partly because of a generally pessimistic view of their prospects.
  • (12) Another important factor is the lack of motivation shown by attending physicians to detect less obvious cases of alcohol dependence as they feel pessimistic about dealing with this condition.
  • (13) Predictions based on very early assessment are, therefore, often unduly pessimistic.
  • (14) If we’re being pessimistic about it, the whole idea of the euro has been weakened and maybe we’ll look back and see this as the beginning of the end of that ideal.” She reflected a pessimistic feeling among Germans, whether financial experts or ordinary folk on the street, that the whole of Europe had taken a battering over the negotiations, one from which it would take time to recover; and the strong belief that the very same politicians would once again find themselves in a huddle over the same issue a few months down the line.
  • (15) A substantial number of people who start small businesses have no qualifications beyond secondary school, he says, and, worse, may have no technical or business management training Peter Strong, of the Small Business Association , is less pessimistic.
  • (16) The estimated overall risk difference remained negative even when all patients in the sclerotherapy group with an unknown survival status were pessimistically considered dead at the end of the follow-up period.
  • (17) In the pessimistic case, UK income falls by 3.1%, or £50bn a year.” More business leaders lined up on Thursday to voice their concerns that the UK economy will be a significant casualty of a decision to leave the EU, including Sir Martin Sorrell, chief executive of the advertising firm WPP.
  • (18) It is a measure of how pessimistic the MPC has become that even a one percentage point lowering in the assumed policy rate profile was deemed insufficient to offset the bad news on demand.
  • (19) The only thing maintaining the flow of migrants is that nobody reads the Daily Mail until they arrive, and only then do they realise how coarse and brutal our politics have become, how pessimistic.
  • (20) Women and more pessimistic parents were more distressed.