What's the difference between fare and rare?

Fare


Definition:

  • (n.) To go; to pass; to journey; to travel.
  • (n.) To be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circummstances or train of events, fortunate or unfortunate; as, he fared well, or ill.
  • (n.) To be treated or entertained at table, or with bodily or social comforts; to live.
  • (n.) To happen well, or ill; -- used impersonally; as, we shall see how it will fare with him.
  • (n.) To behave; to conduct one's self.
  • (v.) A journey; a passage.
  • (v.) The price of passage or going; the sum paid or due for conveying a person by land or water; as, the fare for crossing a river; the fare in a coach or by railway.
  • (v.) Ado; bustle; business.
  • (v.) Condition or state of things; fortune; hap; cheer.
  • (v.) Food; provisions for the table; entertainment; as, coarse fare; delicious fare.
  • (v.) The person or persons conveyed in a vehicle; as, a full fare of passengers.
  • (v.) The catch of fish on a fishing vessel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Head chef Christopher Gould (a UK Masterchef quarter-finalist) puts his own stamp on traditional Spanish fare with the likes of mushroom-and-truffle croquettes and suckling Málaga goat with couscous.
  • (2) The female survival figures were better than the male, and older patients fared far worse then younger ones.
  • (3) One problem is that it seems fares are going up several times a year.
  • (4) Yet it appears that younger patients fared better than older ones.
  • (5) Mary Creagh, the shadow transport secretary, said: "Over the last three years David Cameron has failed to stand up for working people, allowing train companies to hit passengers with inflation-busting fare rises of up to 9%.
  • (6) We’re meant to get into a choreographed huff about train fares.
  • (7) Train companies are making passengers pay disproportionate penalties for having the wrong ticket and criminalising people who have no intention of dodging fares, a government watchdog has warned.
  • (8) But many customers have been impressed by the speed of the technology and cheapness of the fares, and the company’s valuation continues to rise.
  • (9) Those patients who were treated seemed to fare better than those not treated.
  • (10) "The soaring cost of air travel will ultimately be a small factor in increased rail fares, as the ONS said plane tickets pushed the inflation index higher.
  • (11) Anthony Smith, Passenger Focus chief executive, said: "These fare increases were being sought by a company that was in a very different financial position.
  • (12) This week, East Midlands Trains more than doubled the cost of some peak-time trains to London, arguing those fares were too cheap.
  • (13) A survey of radiologic technologists in North Carolina shows that, in general, technologists fare better economically when working in hospitals than in radiologists' offices.
  • (14) The patients on active drug fared no better than those on placebo.
  • (15) Buy carnet tickets Carnets were introduced by First Capital Connect to offer slightly lower fares to those who travel into London two or three times a week, but not enough to make it cost-effective to buy a season ticket.
  • (16) For those making an early getaway, air fares were up by 7% and boat journeys went up 5.2%.
  • (17) Val Shawcross, Labour's transport spokeswoman on the London assembly, said the anticipated loss of revenue almost matched the £60m the mayor, who chairs Transport for London, had raised by increasing bus fares in the capital.
  • (18) In Spain the government is taking the drastic step of cutting speed limits on motorways and cutting train fares , as the unrest in Libya threatens the country's oil supplies.
  • (19) Gene frequencies were compared with previous data and all European populations studied so fare agreed with the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium.
  • (20) He says he missed the appointment because he did not have enough money for the bus fare.

Rare


Definition:

  • (a.) Early.
  • (superl.) Nearly raw; partially cooked; not thoroughly cooked; underdone; as, rare beef or mutton.
  • (superl.) Not frequent; seldom met with or occurring; unusual; as, a rare event.
  • (superl.) Of an uncommon nature; unusually excellent; valuable to a degree seldom found.
  • (superl.) Thinly scattered; dispersed.
  • (superl.) Characterized by wide separation of parts; of loose texture; not thick or dense; thin; as, a rare atmosphere at high elevations.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Guillain Barré syndrome following herpes zoster is rare and only 25 cases have been reported to date.
  • (2) Hypothyroidism complicated by spontaneous hyperthyroidism is an interesting but rare occurrence in the spectrum of autoimmune thyroid disorders.
  • (3) Oculomotor paresis with cyclic spasms is a rare syndrome, usually noticeable at birth or developing during the first year of life.
  • (4) The frequency of rare fragile sites was studied among 240 children in special schools for subnormal intelligence (IQ 52-85).
  • (5) Surgical repair of the rheumatologic should however, is performed rarely, and should be reserved for the infrequent cases that do not respond to medical therapy.
  • (6) Cor triatriatum (CT) is a rare congenital defect, surgically correctable, and sometimes difficult to diagnose by cardiac catheterization.
  • (7) During this period he developed autoimmune haemolytic anaemia, a rare complication of myelofibrosis.
  • (8) One rare case of blind-ending branch originating in the upper third of the ureter are described.
  • (9) This analysis demonstrated that more than 75% of cosmids containing a rare restriction site also contained a second rare restriction site, suggesting a high degree of CpG-rich restriction site clustering.
  • (10) These are rare tumours comparable to abdominal desmoid tumours.
  • (11) They can rarely be detected spontaneously but most often are provoked.
  • (12) A rare case of an extradural brucellosis granuloma in the thoracic region is presented.
  • (13) Massive osteoplastic bone tumor in hepatocellular carcinoma is very rare.
  • (14) Aneurysmal bone cyst is an uncommon benign lesion that rarely presents in the craniofacial region.
  • (15) Axons emerge from proximal dendrites within 50 microns of the soma, and more rarely from the soma, in a tapering initial segment, commonly interrupted by one or two large swellings.
  • (16) Useful studies on the relationship between these acute lesions and peptic ulceration are rare.
  • (17) calcium tung-state, rare-earths compounds, double halogenides.
  • (18) Spontaneous reports of suspected adverse reactions may be the only way of revealing very rare events but they present great difficulties of rational interpretation.
  • (19) Metastatic tumors of the small bowel from extra-abdominal sites are rare.
  • (20) Perinephric abscess is a rare condition; it may be acute, but can take a chronic and atypical course as a result of incomplete treatment with antibiotics.