wear
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
wear
n 1: impairment resulting from long use; "the tires showed
uneven wear"
2: a covering designed to be worn on a person's body [syn:
{clothing}, {article of clothing}, {vesture}, {wear},
{wearable}, {habiliment}]
3: the act of having on your person as a covering or adornment;
"she bought it for everyday wear" [syn: {wear}, {wearing}]
v 1: be dressed in; "She was wearing yellow that day" [syn:
{wear}, {have on}]
2: have on one's person; "He wore a red ribbon"; "bear a scar"
[syn: {wear}, {bear}]
3: have in one's aspect; wear an expression of one's attitude or
personality; "He always wears a smile"
4: deteriorate through use or stress; "The constant friction
wore out the cloth" [syn: {wear}, {wear off}, {wear out},
{wear down}, {wear thin}]
5: have or show an appearance of; "wear one's hair in a certain
way"
6: last and be usable; "This dress wore well for almost ten
years" [syn: {wear}, {hold out}, {endure}]
7: go to pieces; "The lawn mower finally broke"; "The gears wore
out"; "The old chair finally fell apart completely" [syn:
{break}, {wear}, {wear out}, {bust}, {fall apart}]
8: exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or
stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike" [syn: {tire},
{wear upon}, {tire out}, {wear}, {weary}, {jade}, {wear out},
{outwear}, {wear down}, {fag out}, {fag}, {fatigue}] [ant:
{freshen}, {refresh}, {refreshen}]
9: put clothing on one's body; "What should I wear today?"; "He
put on his best suit for the wedding"; "The princess donned a
long blue dress"; "The queen assumed the stately robes"; "He
got into his jeans" [syn: {wear}, {put on}, {get into},
{don}, {assume}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Wear \Wear\, v. i.
1. To endure or suffer use; to last under employment; to bear
the consequences of use, as waste, consumption, or
attrition; as, a coat wears well or ill; -- hence,
sometimes applied to character, qualifications, etc.; as,
a man wears well as an acquaintance.
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2. To be wasted, consumed, or diminished, by being used; to
suffer injury, loss, or extinction by use or time; to
decay, or be spent, gradually. "Thus wore out night."
--Milton.
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Away, I say; time wears. --Shak.
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Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou and this
people that is with thee. --Ex. xviii.
18.
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His stock of money began to wear very low. --Sir W.
Scott.
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The family . . . wore out in the earlier part of the
century. --Beaconsfield.
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{To wear off}, to pass away by degrees; as, the follies of
youth wear off with age.
{To wear on}, to pass on; as, time wears on. --G. Eliot.
{To wear weary}, to become weary, as by wear, long
occupation, tedious employment, etc.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Wear \Wear\, n.
1. The act of wearing, or the state of being worn;
consumption by use; diminution by friction; as, the wear
of a garment.
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2. The thing worn; style of dress; the fashion.
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Motley 's the only wear. --Shak.
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3. The result of wearing or use; consumption, diminution, or
impairment due to use, friction, or the like; as, the wear
of this coat has been good.
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{Wear and tear}, the loss by wearing, as of machinery in use;
the loss or injury to which anything is subjected by use,
accident, etc.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Weir \Weir\ (w[=e]r), Wear \Wear\,n. [OE. wer, AS. wer; akin to
G. wehr, AS. werian to defend, protect, hinder, G. wehren,
Goth. warjan; and perhaps to E. wary; or cf. Skr. v[.r] to
check, hinder. [root]142. Cf. {Garret}.]
1. A dam in a river to stop and raise the water, for the
purpose of conducting it to a mill, forming a fish pond,
or the like.
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2. A fence of stakes, brushwood, or the like, set in a
stream, tideway, or inlet of the sea, for taking fish.
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3. A long notch with a horizontal edge, as in the top of a
vertical plate or plank, through which water flows, --
used in measuring the quantity of flowing water.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Wear \Wear\ (w[^a]r), v. t. [Cf. {Veer}.] (Naut.)
To cause to go about, as a vessel, by putting the helm up,
instead of alee as in tacking, so that the vessel's bow is
turned away from, and her stern is presented to, the wind,
and, as she turns still farther, her sails fill on the other
side; to veer.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Wear \Wear\, v. t. [imp. {Wore} (w[=o]r); p. p. {Worn}
(w[=o]rn); p. pr. & vb. n. {Wearing}. Before the 15th century
wear was a weak verb, the imp. & p. p. being {Weared}.] [OE.
weren, werien, AS. werian to carry, to wear, as arms or
clothes; akin to OHG. werien, weren, to clothe, Goth. wasjan,
L. vestis clothing, vestire to clothe, Gr. "enny`nai, Skr.
vas. Cf. {Vest}.]
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1. To carry or bear upon the person; to bear upon one's self,
as an article of clothing, decoration, warfare, bondage,
etc.; to have appendant to one's body; to have on; as, to
wear a coat; to wear a shackle.
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What compass will you wear your farthingale? --Shak.
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On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore,
Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore. --Pope.
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2. To have or exhibit an appearance of, as an aspect or
manner; to bear; as, she wears a smile on her countenance.
"He wears the rose of youth upon him." --Shak.
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His innocent gestures wear
A meaning half divine. --Keble.
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3. To use up by carrying or having upon one's self; hence, to
consume by use; to waste; to use up; as, to wear clothes
rapidly.
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4. To impair, waste, or diminish, by continual attrition,
scraping, percussion, on the like; to consume gradually;
to cause to lower or disappear; to spend.
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That wicked wight his days doth wear. --Spenser.
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The waters wear the stones. --Job xiv. 19.
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5. To cause or make by friction or wasting; as, to wear a
channel; to wear a hole.
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6. To form or shape by, or as by, attrition.
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Trials wear us into a liking of what, possibly, in
the first essay, displeased us. --Locke.
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{To wear away}, to consume; to impair, diminish, or destroy,
by gradual attrition or decay.
{To wear off}, to diminish or remove by attrition or slow
decay; as, to wear off the nap of cloth.
{To wear on} or {To wear upon}, to wear. [Obs.] "[I] weared
upon my gay scarlet gites [gowns.]" --Chaucer.
{To wear out}.
(a) To consume, or render useless, by attrition or decay;
as, to wear out a coat or a book.
(b) To consume tediously. "To wear out miserable days."
--Milton.
(c) To harass; to tire. "[He] shall wear out the saints of
the Most High." --Dan vii. 25.
(d) To waste the strength of; as, an old man worn out in
military service.
{To wear the breeches}. See under {Breeches}. [Colloq.]
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
302 Moby Thesaurus words for "wear":
abate, abide, ablate, ablation, about ship, abrade, abrase,
abrasion, abrasive, act a part, affect, apparel, array, assume,
atomization, attire, attrition, back and fill, bark, bate,
be dressed in, be eaten away, be infinitely repetitive, be tedious,
bear away, bear off, bear to starboard, beat, beat about,
bedizenment, bide, box off, break, breakup, bring about,
bring round, buffing, burn out, burnishing, cant, cant round,
carry on, cast, cast about, chafe, chafing, change course,
change the heading, clothes, clothing, come about, consume,
consume away, continue, continue to be, corrode, corrosion,
costume, counterfeit, crumble, crumbling, debilitate, decay,
decline, decomposition, decrease, defeat time, defy time,
degradation, deliquesce, deplete, depreciate, detrition, die away,
dilapidation, diminish, disintegration, disjunction,
disorganization, dissipate, dissolution, dive, do a bit, do in,
do up, double a point, drag on, drain, dramatize, drapery, dress,
dressing, dribble away, drop, drop off, duds, dwell, dwindle, ebb,
endure, enervate, erase, erasure, erode, erosion, exhaust, exist,
extend, fag, fag out, fake, fall, fall away, fall off, fashion,
fatigue, fatigues, feathers, feign, fetch about, fig, file, filing,
flag, fray, frazzle, fret, fretting, gall, galling, garb, garments,
gear, glut, gnaw, gnaw away, go about, go on, go on forever, grate,
graze, grazing, grind, grinding, guise, gybe, habiliment, habit,
harass, have on, heave round, histrionize, hold, hold on, hold out,
incoherence, investiture, investment, irk, jade, jibe,
jibe all standing, keep, keep on, knock out, knock up, languish,
last, last long, last out, lessen, let up, limation, linen, live,
live on, live through, maintain, make out like, melt away,
miss stays, overact, overfatigue, overstrain, overtire, overweary,
pall, perdure, perennate, persist, play, play a part, play a scene,
playact, plummet, plunge, ply, polishing, poop, poop out, pretend,
prevail, prostrate, put about, put back, put on, put on airs, rags,
raiment, rasp, rasping, ravages of time, raze, remain, resolution,
robes, round a point, rub away, rub off, rub out, rubbing away,
run, run low, run on, sag, sandblasting, sanding, satiate, scour,
scouring, scrape, scraping, scratch, scratching, scrub, scrubbing,
scuff, sham, sheer, shift, shining, shrink, simulate, sink, skin,
slew, smoothing, sport, sportswear, squander, stand, stay, stay on,
style, subside, subsist, survive, sustain, swerve, swing round,
swing the stern, tack, tail off, tarry, tatter, threads,
throw about, tide over, tire, tire out, tire to death, togs,
toilette, trim, turn, turn back, use, use up, veer, vestment,
vesture, wane, waste, waste away, weaken, wear and tear, wear away,
wear down, wear off, wear on, wear out, wear ragged, wear ship,
wear well, wearing apparel, wearing away, weary, weather,
weathering, wilt, wind, yaw
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