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bared

bɛrd
WordNet
Stage actor Arashi Rikan II in the role of Matsuemon (Higuchi Jirô Matsuemon), with bare feet in a pine tree. Army banners in the background. Scene from the play 'Hiragana seisuiki', performed at the Naka Theater in the fifth month of 1834.
Stage actor Arashi Rikan II in the role of Matsuemon (Higuchi Jirô Matsuemon), with bare feet in a pine tree. Army banners in the background. Scene from the play 'Hiragana seisuiki', performed at the Naka Theater in the fifth month of 1834.
  1. (adj) bared
    having the head uncovered "caught bareheaded by the downpour","with bared head"
Illustrations
Seated Mary with the Christ Child on her lap and a bare breast. The child John the Baptist gives Christ a bird under the watchful eye of Saint Anne. Below the scene is a Latin quote from the Bible: Proverbs 8.
Seated Mary with the Christ Child on her lap and a bare breast. The child John the Baptist gives Christ a bird under the watchful eye of Saint Anne. Below the scene is a Latin quote from the Bible: Proverbs 8.
The Druze Emir Fakardin sits on his knees bare-headed and begs Sultan Murat IV for his life. All around him members of the court of Murat IV. The sultan is impressed by his plea and decides to spare his life.
The Druze Emir Fakardin sits on his knees bare-headed and begs Sultan Murat IV for his life. All around him members of the court of Murat IV. The sultan is impressed by his plea and decides to spare his life.
A shepherdess, known as "The Beautiful Shepherdess." Young woman as a shepherdess with bare breasts in a falling dress, flowers in her hair and a shepherd's crook.
A shepherdess, known as 'The Beautiful Shepherdess'
Saint Jerome kneeling bare-chested by an open book on a rock. Here are also his hat and an inkstand. Two more books on the floor. The lion lies to the left behind.
Saint Jerome kneeling bare-chested by an open book on a rock. Here are also his hat and an inkstand. Two more books on the floor. The lion lies to the left behind.
Interior with a mother with her children. A young woman sits bare-breasted by a window, on her lap a child with a windmill in her hand. A boy looks in through the window. There is a dog at the cradle and a water pump at the back of the room.
A mother with her children
Mountain landscape with bare rocks and pine trees, on the left a group of people with a dog
Mountain scenery
Standing woman with a bare upper body and a writing table in her hands. Perhaps the personification of Arithmetica. Part of a series of four allegorical female figures (SK-A-3424/3427).
Woman with writting table
Standing woman with bare breasts pouring water into a pitcher. Probably the personification Temperantia. Part of a series of four allegorical female figures (SK-A-3424/3427).
Woman with pitcher
Quotations
Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.
Mark Twain
Fran Lebowitz
All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
Fran Lebowitz
John Major
I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs.
John Major
Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut and a shave
Samuel Hoffenstein
I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy.
Tom Petty
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil Gibran
Idioms

Bare your heart - If you bare your heart to someone, you tell them your personal and private feelings. ('Bare your soul' is an alternative form of the idiom.)

Usage in the news

The first cold day is filled with sledding and snowballs, and the icicle hanging from the nose of a town statue is barely there. publishersweekly.com

As Joshua Spooner stumbled home on March 1, 1778, he could barely make out his feet hitting the gutted, frozen ground. masslawyersweekly.com

He was barely 20, walked like a pirate and threw words like "anarchy" into the wind. smithsonianmag.com

Kaetlyn Osmond barely stopped smiling as she signed autographs, posed for pictures, and talked to reporters Saturday. times-gazette.com

In a hilarious and heated debate in the world of cocktails, love won over hate today – but barely. nola.com

Many of the features she heralded to students were barely functional or didn't exist. villagevoice.com

The Cardinals won 6-2 to win the series after barely escaping elimination during Thursday's Game 6. newstribune.com

Their figures barely cause for a second look. kcet.org

Barely four years ago, Paul Greengrass was some British guy making socially conscious movies about the Irish troubles. ashingtonpost.com

Looking through our eyeglass of American History, we note that The US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has barely addressed the Third Amendment, because the problem of troops forcing themselves into our homes for refuge hasn't happened. officer.com

Prices at grocery stores barely changed. money.cnn.com

Barely over a month ago, Monica Pope unveiled her newest restaurant creation – Sparrow Bar + Cookshop – in Houston's Fourth Ward. texasmonthly.com

The ink was barely dry on Wednesday's edition when I started hearing from the naysayers: We've got to get Mifflin County out of the Mid-Penn Conference. lewistownsentinel.com

A deep, athletic USC basketball team that bared little resemblance to last season made its debut Friday night at Galen Center. dailybreeze.com

Mencken said that Puritanism was "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy," he was barely grazing the iceberg of the titanic fundamentalism to come. ashingtonpost.com

Usage in scientific papers

Figure 14. a) Creating an analogous cold ‘energy’ using Tc and Nc /Nw does not correlate at all with L60 in contrast to Fig. 12b. b) Multiplying the cold ‘energy’ by dust mass to create the cold luminosity is only barely dependent on L60 via the relationship between dust mass and luminosity.
The SCUBA Local Universe Galaxy Survey II. 450 micron data - evidence for cold dust in bright IRAS Galaxies

This theory uses for a bare Green function (GF) the appropriate mean-field oneelectron GF.
Activation Energy in a Quantum Hall Ferromagnet and Non-Hartree-Fock Skyrmions

In the work of Ref. 7 both n = 0 and n = 1 LL’s are used for the presentation of the bare one-electron GF.
Activation Energy in a Quantum Hall Ferromagnet and Non-Hartree-Fock Skyrmions

For simplicity, we now set all bare cumulants except B to zero.
Functional renormalization group at large N for random manifolds

If αsy ≥ 1 the bare dipole will become dressed with additional left-moving gluons so that O2 would not represent a physical dipole.
A Simple Derivation of the JIMWLK Equation

Usage in literature

There were no footprints on the few bare patches of snow. "The Camp in the Snow" by William Murray Graydon

The floor, on which a smaller child was playing, was bare except for a few rag rugs, but shining. "Land of the Burnt Thigh" by Edith Eudora Kohl

The tide was low, leaving bare the curious caves and headlands along shore, and I secured a number of excellent snapshots. "Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906" by Lucy Maud Montgomery

The little white-curtained room was bareness and neatness itself. "Robert Elsmere" by Mrs. Humphry Ward

He could barely make out the syllables. "Stubble" by George Looms

She wore pale green chiffon with floating sleeves that left her arms bare. "Black Oxen" by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

She was rolling the potatoes into a heap on to the bare table. "The Manxman A Novel - 1895" by Hall Caine

The woman lived in the house in which Susan had her bare room. "In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim" by Frances Hodgson Burnett

It was May and the keen light raked her room, laying its bareness still more bare. "The Creators" by May Sinclair

A ship under bare poles and her helm a-lee, driving from wind and sea, stern foremost. "The Sailor's Word-Book" by William Henry Smyth

Usage in poetry
But now life's face beholden
Seemed bright as heaven's bare brow
With hope of gifts withholden
But now.
"Change" by Algernon Charles Swinburne Author object (28)
Bronze of the blackest shade,
An element man-made,
Shaping upright the bare
Clear gouts of water in air.
"Roman Fountain" by Louise Bogan
Bare fields and icebound streams,
Sunshine in fitful gleams,
May smile
Beguile,
And dispel poets' dreams.
"Charming May" by John Hartley
With barely stifled sigh
That porter drooped his head,
With teardrops in his eye,
"A many, sir," he said.
"The Troubadour" by William Schwenck Gilbert Author object (717)
She wasna frae her chamber
A step but barely three,
When up and at her richt hand
There stood Man's Enemy.
"The Laird Of Waristoun" by Andrew Lang Author object (36)
But does he call me verily?
To have me does he care?
Why should he seek my poverty,
My selfishness so bare?
"In The Night" by George MacDonald Author object (244)