Meaning of wear | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Clothing.
   in-compounds, uncountable
2. A river in the counties of County Durham and Tyne and Wear, north east England. The cities of Durham and Sunderland are situated upon its grand banks.
3. Dated form of weir.
   alt-of, dated
4. use
5. Damage to the appearance and/or strength of an item caused by use over time.
   uncountable
6. usage; habit
7. Fashion.
   uncountable
8. wear (degradation)
9. Wearing.
   uncountable
10. first-person singular present indicative of usar

Equivalents

Examples

“footwear; outdoor wear; maternity wear”

“Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a most strange, as for me it was a most fortunate, thing.”

“Motley's the onely weare.”

“It is obvious, of course, that a cylinder so applied is not for constant wear, and it is not intended in any way to correct any error of refraction, but is used merely as an exercise for a few minutes at a time at repeated intervals. In case of Oblique Astigmatism the wearing of the correction will frequently fail to give satisfaction when complicated by oblique muscular trouble, […]”

“Prolonged wear of the interceptor body armor outer tactical vest (OTV) is frequently blamed for common complaints of neck and shoulder pain. […] Even if patients improved after a period of light duty and shoulder rehabilitation, many complained of pain after returning to OTV wear when their shoulders again became the focal point of weight distribution.”

“Softer crystals are best reserved for occasional wear, whereas harder crystals can be worn every day.”

“Cool and clear, cool and clear, / By shining shingle, and foaming wear;”

“The train then proceeded along the wagonway in the direction of the Wear.[…] The ladies remained at the house, while the men walked to the staith on the Wear, and were shown the process of unloading the wagons into the keels by means of the coal-drop.”

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