bear

Meaning

Noun

1. A large, generally omnivorous mammal (a few species are purely carnivorous or herbivorous), related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and flat feet; a member of the family Ursidae.
2. A large, generally omnivorous mammal (a few species are purely carnivorous or herbivorous), related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and flat feet; a member of the family Ursidae.
3. A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person.
4. An investor who sells commodities, securities, or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices.
5. (slang) A state policeman (short for Smokey Bear).
6. (slang) A large, hairy man, especially one who is homosexual.
7. A koala (bear).
8. A portable punching machine.
9. A block covered with coarse matting, used to scour the deck.
10. The fifteenth Lenormand card.
11. (colloquial) Something difficult or tiresome; a burden or chore.

Verb

To endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in.

Adj

Characterized by declining prices in securities markets or by belief that the prices will fall.

Verb

1. To carry or convey, literally or figuratively.
2. To carry or convey, literally or figuratively.
3. To carry or convey, literally or figuratively.
4. To carry or convey, literally or figuratively.
5. To carry or convey, literally or figuratively.
6. To carry or convey, literally or figuratively.
7. To carry or convey, literally or figuratively.
8. To carry or convey, literally or figuratively.
9. To carry or convey, literally or figuratively.
10. To carry or convey, literally or figuratively.
11. To carry or convey, literally or figuratively.
12. To carry or convey, literally or figuratively.
13. To carry or convey, literally or figuratively.
14. To carry or convey, literally or figuratively.
15. To carry or convey, literally or figuratively.
16. To carry or convey, literally or figuratively.
17. To carry or convey, literally or figuratively.
18. To carry or convey, literally or figuratively.
19. (obsolete) To carry or convey, literally or figuratively.
20. (obsolete) To carry or convey, literally or figuratively.
21. To carry or convey, literally or figuratively.
22. To support, sustain, or endure.
23. To support, sustain, or endure.
24. To support, sustain, or endure.
25. To support, sustain, or endure.
26. To support, sustain, or endure.
27. To support, keep up, or maintain.
28. To support, keep up, or maintain.
29. To press or impinge upon.
30. To press or impinge upon.
31. To press or impinge upon.
32. To produce, yield, give birth to.
33. To produce, yield, give birth to.
34. To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere).
35. (obsolete) To gain or win.

Pronounced as (IPA)

/bɛə(ɹ)/

Etymology

From Middle English bere, from Old English bera, from Proto-West Germanic *berō, from Proto-Germanic *berô (compare West Frisian bear, Dutch beer, German Bär, Danish bjørn).
etymology notes
This is generally taken to be from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“shining, brown”) (compare Tocharian A parno, Tocharian B perne (“radiant, luminous”), Lithuanian bė́ras (“brown”)), related to brown, bruin, and beaver.
On this theory, the Germanic languages replaced the older name of the bear, *h₂ŕ̥tḱos, with the epithet "brown one", presumably due to taboo avoidance; compare Russian медве́дь (medvédʹ, “bear”, literally “honey-eater”).
However, Ringe (2006:106) doubts the existence of a root *bʰer- meaning "brown" ("an actual PIE word of [the requisite] shape and meaning is not recoverable") and suggests that a derivation from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰwer- (“wild animal”) "should therefore perhaps be preferred", implying a Germanic merger of *ǵʰw and *gʷʰ (*gʷʰ may sometimes result in Germanic *b, perhaps e.g. in *bidjaną, but it also seems to have given the g in gun and the w in warm).

Sentences

The friendly giant bear waved goodbye .