bare

Significat

Adj

1. Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.
2. Naked, uncovered.
3. Having no supplies.
4. Having no decoration.
5. Having had what usually covers (something) removed.
6. (slang) A lot or lots of.
7. With head uncovered; bareheaded.
8. Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
9. Mere; without embellishment.
10. Threadbare, very worn.
11. Not insured.

Adv

1. Barely.
2. (slang) Very; significantly.
3. (slang) Without a condom.

Noun

1. The surface, the (bare) skin.
2. Surface; body; substance.
3. That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.

Verb

To uncover; to reveal.

Verb

simple past of bear

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/bɛə(ɹ)/

Etimologia

From Middle English bare, bar, from Old English bær (“bare, naked, open”), from Proto-West Germanic *baʀ, from Proto-Germanic *bazaz (“bare, naked”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰosós, from *bʰos- (“bare, barefoot”).
Cognate with Scots bare, bair (“bare”), Saterland Frisian bar (“bare”), West Frisian baar (“bare”), Dutch bar (“bare”), German bar (“bare”), Swedish bar (“bare”), Icelandic ber (“bare”), Lithuanian basas (“barefoot, bare”), Polish bosy (“barefoot”).