What's the difference between lear and mear?

Lear


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To learn. See Lere, to learn.
  • (n.) Lore; lesson.
  • (a.) See Leer, a.
  • (n.) An annealing oven. See Leer, n.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Nobody is sure what dangerous chemical imbalance this would create but the Fiver is convinced we'd all be dust come October or November, the earth scorched, with only three survivors roaming o'er the barren landscape: Govan's answer to King Lear, ranting into a hole in the ground; a mute, wild-eyed pundit, staring without blinking into a hole in the ground; and a tall, irritable figure standing in front of the pair of them, screaming in the style popularised by Klaus Kinski, demanding they take a look at his goddamn trouser arrangement, which he has balanced here on the platform of his hand for easy perusal, or to hell with them, for they are no better than pigs, worthless, spineless pigs.
  • (2) In both strains the growth rates of rats fed LEAR and corn oils were similar; growth rates with HEAR oil diets were much lower than the other oils.
  • (3) The fractional and molar rates of LCAT were higher after sunflower and peanut oil diets and decreased significantly after LEAR oil and milk fat diets.
  • (4) Lear also listed 15 different types of aids or devices to which charges, or contributions from patients, might be applied.
  • (5) Many such pieces of equipment are never returned by patients once they have finished with them and so cannot be reused, increasing costs at a time when money is tight, Lear said.
  • (6) Like Goneril and Regan competing to offer false compliments to Lear, they covered the leader they had doomed with hypocritical praise.
  • (7) His choice of collaborators and repertory served the puritanical rigour that illuminated his productions there, as well as with Joint Stock and the National Theatre, from landmark new plays, such as Edward Bond’s Saved (1965) and Lear (1972), to revelatory versions of classics, including a 1963 production of The Recruiting Officer with Laurence Olivier and Maggie Smith.
  • (8) This led directly to Briers working with Branagh on many subsequent projects: as a perhaps too likeable Malvolio ("My best part, and I know it," he said) in an otherwise wintry Twelfth Night at the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, in 1987, and on a world tour with the Renaissance company as a ropey King Lear (the set really was a mass of ropes, the production dubbed "String Lear") and a sagacious, though not riotously funny, Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
  • (9) His stage work included two memorable Shakespearean kings – Leontes in The Winter’s Tale at the National Theatre in 1988, and Lear at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2011 – and one quasi-Shakespearean ruler: a future King Charles III in Mike Bartlett’s blank-verse fantasy about the succession to the throne of the current Prince of Wales.
  • (10) Anne-Marie Duff taking on one of the biggest roles in American playwriting, a long-awaited musical by Tori Amos and a gala night celebrating the theatre's history are all on the menu for the National Theatre's 50th anniversary year – not to mention the prospect of Sam Mendes returning to the stage to direct Simon Russell Beale in King Lear early in 2014.
  • (11) With many younger playwrights now asking how they can move out of the studio theatre and reclaim the larger stages, Lear - with its epic story and stark images - seemed to offer some pointers towards a way out of the narrowness of so much small-scale new writing.
  • (12) For that we can thank screenwriter Barrie Keefe (“sense of history... Londoner”), who in these years was making a series of runs at the King Lear legend – here and in his plays Black Lear and King Of England – and found a clear political, historical and social context in which to strip this cockney king of everything he has.
  • (13) I did one of Edmund's speeches from King Lear for Sir Laurence Olivier and Bill Gaskill.
  • (14) King Lear was the first he read and, he says, "it kind of changed my perspective on race, on the world, on everything".
  • (15) But he rose rapidly through the ranks to play Oberon in Peter Hall's 1962 Midsummer Night's Dream, the Antipholus of Ephesus in Clifford Williams's classic bare-boards Comedy of Errors in the same year, and Edmund in the international tour of Peter Brook's King Lear (1964).
  • (16) The former age in conformity to societal expectations, often displaying an inability to affect the outcome of events; the latter (e.g., Lear and Falstaff), deviating from these behavioral norms, dominate the action of their respective plays.
  • (17) As well as Saved, he staged Bond’s The Sea, Lear and Early Morning at the Royal Court.
  • (18) You could hear the howls of grief between the lines - yet he had denied himself, and us, a Lear.
  • (19) It comes out of the amateur rep tradition of actors thinking: "Well, I'm only 26, but I'll put on a beard and have a go at King Lear."
  • (20) King Lear, imprisoned at the end of the play with his daughter Cordelia, tells her that they will become “God’s spies”.

Mear


Definition:

  • (n.) A boundary. See Mere.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One of the 3 cases of non-bacterial prostatitis on Meares & Stamey's method was diagnosed as non-bacterial prostatitis, but the other two cases were diagnosed as urethritis.
  • (2) As director, he used his business associate Vladimir Oplanchuk, then nominee director Edward Petre-Mears in Nevis.
  • (3) Mear, who is chief executive of the Walton centre NHS foundation trust in Liverpool says: "I had been thinking about becoming a chief executive and I think that the diagnostic element of the programme gave me the clarity I was after.
  • (4) Ray Mears is working with LateRooms.com to host a Destination Inspiration event ( inspiration.laterooms.com ) The Amazon, Peru, Ed Stafford Ed Stafford In early 2008 I set off to try to become the first man to walk the length of the Amazon.
  • (5) I think it was called Ray Mears ’s World of Interiors, or something.
  • (6) So begins the final shootout between Pendleton and her one-time nemesis Anna Meares of Australia, usually unfairly billed as the Bad to Pendleton's Good, (the role of the Ugly would be played by the UCI commissaires).
  • (7) He told us: "Sarah Petre-Mears has acted as nominee for BVI [British Virgin islands] companies which this company has formed … As far as we are concerned, she has acted as a genuine nominee."
  • (8) Forty-four per cent of patients referred with symptoms of prostatitis did not have any aerobic bacteria at the prostatic level in sufficient number for the diagnosis bacterial prostatitis according to Meares and Stamey and form thus a third group.
  • (9) Mears said temperatures would reach close to 30C in the south-east, with 29C predicted on Sunday, compared to a July average of 19.4C.
  • (10) The most popular programme on BBC2 was Ray Mears: Northern Wildness, about Canada, which drew 2 million viewers and a 7% share, at 8pm.
  • (11) Mears said the high pressure was a result of "the jet stream [being] where it's supposed to be at this time of year.
  • (12) Both prostate catheter and Meares & Stamey's method were performed by crossover method in 11 patients who were highly suspected of chronic prostatitis based on symptoms and physical findings.
  • (13) Mears bought Care UK’s homecare business in 2015.
  • (14) The council has signed a partnership with Mears Group to “regenerate” seven of MK’s 1970s estates over the next 15 years.
  • (15) Meanwhile, care firm Mears Care, which made a loss last year and received an inter-company credit of around £27m in 2015, has paid out £15.8m to its parent company Mears Group over the last five years.
  • (16) (Meares 1971) A simple method of treatment under local anaesthesia is described.
  • (17) Salem's Lot as proxy for EveryTown USA (twinned with Hidden Darkness); Mark as the overly bright kid we all wish we'd been at his age; and, biggest of all, Ben Mears as the hampered writer, ruined by life, trying to write but faced with a reality that's more dangerous than anything in his mind.
  • (18) Pendleton has looked untroubled throughout the tournament so far and could well face Anna Meares in the final after the Australian made it through to the final four as well.
  • (19) Survival with Ray Mears, in which the former BBC presenter tracked leopards in Namibia, had 2.355 million (10.8%) in the 7pm hour on ITV1.
  • (20) Marco Pierre White's Kitchen Burnout and Survival, hosted by Ray Mears, complete the quartet of shows hoping to bask in the reflected glow.

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