Meaning of bear | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A large, generally omnivorous mammal (a few species are purely carnivorous or herbivorous), having shaggy fur, a very small tail, and flat feet; a member of the family Ursidae.
   countable, uncountable
2. A large, generally omnivorous mammal (a few species are purely carnivorous or herbivorous), having shaggy fur, a very small tail, and flat feet; a member of the family Ursidae. The meat of this animal
3. A surname.
4. Alternative spelling of bere (“barley”).
   alt-of, alternative, uncountable
5. Alternative spelling of bere (“pillowcase”).
   alt-of, alternative, uncountable
6. The meat of this animal.
   uncountable
7. The meat of this animal
8. The constellation Ursa Major.
9. To prove to be right or justified; confirm: The test results bear out our claims.
10. A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
11. A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
12. A male given name.
13. To withstand stress, difficulty, or attrition: The patient bore up well during the long illness.
14. An investor who sells commodities, securities, or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices.
    countable, uncountable
15. An investor who sells commodities, securities, or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices
16. To have an association with or relevance to: That remark bears no relation to the matter at hand.
17. A state policeman
18. A state policeman (short for Smokey Bear).
    US, countable, slang, uncountable
19. To be similar to; appear or function like.
20. A large, hairy man, especially one who is homosexual.
    countable, slang, uncountable
21. To come to a satisfactory conclusion or to fruition.
22. A koala (bear).
    Australia, countable, uncountable
23. To hold in one's mind; remember: Bear in mind that bridges freeze before roads.
24. A portable punching machine.
    countable, uncountable
25. Characterized by falling prices: a bear market.
26. A block covered with coarse matting, used to scour the deck.
    countable, uncountable
27. bring to bear , to force to have an impact: to bring pressure to bear on union members to end a strike.
28. The fifteenth Lenormand card.
    countable, uncountable
29. A speculator on a stock exchange who buys expecting prices to decrease. Compare bull.
    Compare
30. Something difficult or tiresome; a burden or chore.
    US, colloquial, countable, uncountable
31. To be pertinent:appertain, apply, concern, pertain, refer, relate.

Equivalents

Examples

“We had barbecued bear for dinner.”

“One evening about this time, when his Lordship did me the honour to sup at my lodgings with Dr. Robertson and several other men of literary distinction, he regretted that Johnson had not been educated with more refinement, and lived more in polished society. 'No, no, my Lord, (said Signor Baretti,) do with him what you would, he would always have been a bear.'”

“This accompt has been made to appear a bull accompt, i.e. that the bulls cannot take their stock. The fact is the reverse; it is a bear accompt, but the bears, unable to deliver their stock, have conjointly banged the market, and pocketed the tickets, to defeat the rise and loss that would have ensued to them by their buying on a rising price on the accompt day […]”

“By the time we got into Tulsa Town We had eighty-five trucks in all But there's a roadblock up on the cloverleaf And them bears was wall-to-wall. Yeah, them smokies is thick as bugs on a bumper They even had a bear in the air. I says, "Callin' all trucks, this here's the Duck. We about to go a-huntin' bear."”

“'The bear's pulling somebody off there at 74,' reported someone else.”

“He was listening for reports of Kojaks with Kodaks, or bear sightings (cop alerts) at his front door (ahead of him), especially plain wrappers (unmarked police cars) parked at specific yardsticks (mile-markers) taking pictures […]”

“Bears are usually hunky, chunky types reminiscent of railroad engineers and former football greats.”

“Bear sought by masculine white male, 30, 5'8", 165 lbs, for weekly safe encounter. I'm in a long-term relationship and seek outside fun. You: tall, masculine, over 200 lbs, discreet, moustache.”

“I have everything it takes to be a bear: broad shoulders, full beard, semibald pate, and lots of body hair. But I don't want to be a fetish.”

“There are numerous social organizations for bears in most parts of the United States. Lesbians don't have such prominent sexual subcultures as gay men, although, as just mentioned, some lesbians are into BDSM practices.”

“Bunyip Bluegum was a tidy bear, he objected to whisker soup[.]”

“That window can be a bear to open.”

“"This was a real bear to refinish. You can't believe how hard it was right here to get a thousand years of crud out of this carving."”

“There are several plots of those species of barley called big, which is six-rowed barley; or bear, which is four-rowed, cultivated.”

“Bigg or bear, with four grains on the ear, was the kind of barley.”

“Two stacks of beare, of xx boules,”

“[…] one wheat stack, one half-stack of corn, and a little hay, all standing in the barnyard; four stacks of bear in the barn, about three bolls of bear lying on the barn floor, two stacks of corn in the barn, […]”

“Your Horses are Getting Pease Straw, and looking very well. The 2 Stacks of Bear formerly mentioned as Put in by Mr Bookless is not fully dressed as yet so that I cannot say at present what Quantity they may Produce .”

“And, according to this, one of my Neighbours made a Bag, like a Pillow-bear, of the ordinary six-penny yard Cloth, and boiled his Hops in it half an Hour; then he took them out, and put in another Bag of the like Quantity of fresh Hops, […]”

“ij payer of schete, ij pelows wt the berys,”

“1641.—14 yards of femble cloth, 12s. ; 8 yards of linen, 6s. 8d. ; 20 yards of harden, 10s. ; 5 linen sheets, 1l. ; 7 linen pillow bears, 8s. ; 2 femble sheets and a line hard sheet, 10s. ; 3 linen towels, 4s. ; 6 lin curtains and a vallance, 12s. ; […]”

“I give to my Grand Child Lidea Carpenter the Coverlid that her mother spun and my pillow bear and a pint Cup & my great Pott that belongs to the Pott and Trammels.”

“[…] a man's eyes played him false, sitting him before tables proper with damask and pewter, leading him to fall into beds gracious with small and large feather beds for softness and pillowed luxuriously under pretty checked linen pillow bears.”

“But he must ever watch the northern Bear, Who from her frozen height with jealous eye Confronts the Dog and the Hunter in the south, And is alone not dipt in Ocean's stream.”

“Liam Payne, a former member of the boyband One Direction, has died after falling from the third floor of a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, according to local police. Payne, who was 31, leaves behind his seven-year-old son, Bear.”

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