The Wordsmith Dictionary

bare-knuck le |ˈbɛr ˌnəkəl |(also bare-knuckled or bare-knuckles ) ▶adjective [ attrib. ] (of a boxer or boxing match ) without gloves. • informal with no scruples or reservations: an apostle of bare-knuckled capitalism.

barelegged

bare leg ged |ˈbe (ə )rˌlegid ˈbɛrlɛɡəd | ▶adjective & adverb without a covering on the legs: barelegged models strutted down the runway.

barely

bare ly |ˈbe (ə )rlē ˈbɛrli | ▶adverb 1 only just; almost not: she nodded, barely able to speak | [ as submodifier ] : a barely perceptible pause. • only a short time before: they had barely sat down when forty policemen swarmed in. 2 in a simple and sparse way: their barely furnished house. 3 archaic openly; explicitly.

Barenboim, Daniel

Bar en boim, Daniel |ˈbarənˌboim ˈbɛrənbɔɪm | (1942 –), Argentine-born pianist and conductor; husband of Jacqueline du Pré. He was musical director of the Orchestre de Paris 1975 –88 and of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra 1991 –2006.

Barents, Willem

Bar ents, Willem |ˈbarənts, ˈbär -ˈbɛrənts | (died 1597 ), Dutch explorer. The leader of several expeditions in search of the Northeast Passage to Asia, Barents discovered Spitsbergen and reached Novaya Zemlya.

Barents Sea

Bar ents Sea a part of the Arctic Ocean north of Norway and Russia, bounded on the west by Svalbard, on the north by Franz Josef Land, and on the east by Novaya Zemlya.

Oxford Dictionary

bare

bare |bɛː | ▶adjective 1 (of a person or part of the body ) not clothed or covered: he was bare from the waist up | she padded in bare feet towards the door. • without the appropriate, usual, or natural covering: leaf fall had left the trees bare | bare floorboards. • without the appropriate or usual contents: a bare cell with just a mattress. • (bare of ) devoid of; without. 2 without addition; basic and simple: he outlined the bare essentials of the story. • [ attrib. ] only just sufficient: the bare minimum of furniture. • [ attrib. ] surprisingly small in number or amount: all you need to get started with this program is a bare 10K bytes of memory. ▶verb [ with obj. ] uncover (a part of the body or other thing ) and expose it to view: he bared his chest to show his scar. PHRASES bare all take off all of one's clothes and display oneself to others. the bare bones the basic facts about something, without any detail: the bare bones of the plot. • the very lowest level of resources necessary: his squad is already down to the bare bones and has now been hit by a flu bug. bare one's fangs (of an animal ) bare its teeth aggressively: the snake reared up before her, baring its fangs. bare one's soul reveal one's innermost secrets and feelings to someone. bare one's teeth show one's teeth, typically when angry. with one's bare hands without using tools or weapons. DERIVATIVES bareness noun ORIGIN Old English bær (noun ), barian (verb ), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch baar .

bareback

bare |back |ˈbɛːbak | ▶adjective & adverb on an unsaddled horse or donkey: [ as adj. ] : a bareback circus rider | [ as adv. ] : she's riding bareback.

barebacking

bare ¦back |ing ▶noun [ mass noun ] vulgar slang the practice of having anal intercourse without a condom.

bareboat

bare |boat ▶adjective relating to or denoting a boat or ship hired without a crew: bareboat charters.

Barebones Parliament

barefaced

bare |faced |bɛːˈfeɪst | ▶adjective 1 shameless and undisguised: a barefaced lie. 2 having an uncovered face.

barefoot

barefoot |ˈbɛəfʊt |(also barefooted |-ˈfʊtɪd |) ▶adjective & adverb wearing nothing on the feet: [ as adv. ] : I won't walk barefoot.

barefoot doctor

bare |foot doc ¦tor ▶noun a paramedical worker with basic medical training working in a rural district in China.

barège

barège |bəˈreɪʒ | ▶noun [ mass noun ] a light, silky dress fabric resembling gauze, typically made from wool. ORIGIN French, named after the village of Barèges in SW France, where it was originally made.

barehand

bare hand |ˈbe (ə )rˌhand ˈbɛrhænd | ▶verb (in baseball ) field with one's bare hand.

barehanded

bare |hand ¦ed ▶adjective & adverb with nothing in or covering one's hands. • carrying no weapons.

bareheaded

bare |head ¦ed |bɛːˈhɛdɪd | ▶adjective & adverb without a covering for one's head.

Bareilly

Bareilly |bəˈreɪli | an industrial city in northern India, in Uttar Pradesh; pop. 825,100 (est. 2009 ).

bare-knuckle

bare-knuckle (also bare-knuckled ) ▶adjective (of a boxer or boxing match ) without gloves. • informal with no scruples or reservations: an apostle of bare-knuckle capitalism.

barelegged

bare leg ged |ˈbe (ə )rˌlegid ˈbɛrlɛɡəd | ▶adjective & adverb without a covering on the legs: barelegged models strutted down the runway.

barely

bare ¦ly |ˈbɛːli | ▶adverb 1 only just; almost not: she nodded, barely able to speak | [ as submodifier ] : a barely perceptible pause. • only a very short time before: they had barely sat down before forty policemen swarmed in. 2 in a simple and sparse way: their barely furnished house. 3 archaic openly; explicitly.

Barenboim, Daniel

Barenboim, Daniel |ˈbarənbɔɪm | (b.1942 ), Israeli pianist and conductor, musical director of the Orchestre de Paris 1975 –88 and of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra 1991 –2006. In 1967 he married the cellist Jacqueline du Pré.

Barents, Willem

Barents, Willem |ˈbarənts | (d.1597 ), Dutch explorer. The leader of several expeditions in search of the North-East Passage to Asia, Barents discovered Spitsbergen and reached Novaya Zemlya, off the coast of which he died.

Barents Sea

Bar |ents Sea a part of the Arctic Ocean to the north of Norway and Russia, bounded to the west by Svalbard, to the north by Franz Josef Land, and to the east by Novaya Zemlya.

American Oxford Thesaurus

bare

bare adjective 1 a giggling bare infant in her arms: naked, unclothed, undressed, uncovered, stripped, having nothing on, nude, in the nude, stark naked; informal without a stitch on, buck-naked, butt-naked, mother-naked, in one's birthday suit, in the raw, in the altogether, in the buff. ANTONYMS clothed. 2 a bare room: empty, unfurnished, cleared; stark, austere, spartan, unadorned, unembellished, unornamented, plain. ANTONYMS furnished, embellished. 3 a cupboard bare of food: empty of, devoid of, bereft of; without, lacking, wanting, free from. ANTONYMS containing. 4 a bare landscape: barren, bleak, exposed, desolate, stark, arid, desert, lunar; treeless, deforested, bald. ANTONYMS lush. 5 the bare facts: plain, essential, fundamental, basic, straightforward, simple, pure, stark, bald, cold, hard, brutal, harsh. 6 a bare lead in the race: mere, no more than, simple; slim, slight, slender, paltry, minimum. ANTONYMS comfortable. ▶verb he bared his arm: uncover, strip, lay bare, undress, unclothe, denude, expose. ANTONYMS cover. CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD See naked . These notes show fine distinctions in meaning between closely related synonyms to help you find the best word.

barefaced

barefaced adjective a barefaced lie: flagrant, blatant, glaring, obvious, undisguised, unconcealed, naked; shameless, unabashed, unashamed, impudent, audacious, unblushing, brazen.

barely

barely adverb former hurricane Patricia was barely at tropical storm force: hardly, scarcely, just, only just, narrowly, by a very small margin, by the narrowest of margins, by the skin of one's teeth, by a hair's breadth, by a nose; almost not; informal by a whisker. ANTONYMS easily.

Oxford Thesaurus

bare

bare adjective 1 he was bare from the waist up: naked, unclothed, undressed, uncovered, stripped, with nothing on, in a state of nature, disrobed, unclad, undraped, exposed; nude, in the nude, stark naked; French au naturel; informal without a stitch on, in one's birthday suit, in the raw, in the altogether, in the buff, as naked as the day one was born, in the nuddy, mother naked; Brit. informal starkers; Scottish informal in the scud, scuddy; N. Amer. informal bare-assed, buck naked; Austral. informal bollocky; Brit. vulgar slang bollock-naked. ANTONYMS clothed. 2 a bare room: empty, emptied, unfurnished, vacant, clear, cleared, free, stark, austere, spartan, unadorned, unembellished, unornamented, unfussy, plain. ANTONYMS furnished, embellished. 3 bare floorboards: uncovered, uncarpeted, unpainted, unvarnished; stripped; polished, sealed. 4 a cupboard bare of food: empty of, emptied of, without, lacking, devoid of, bereft of, wanting, deprived of, destitute of, free from. ANTONYMS containing. 5 a bare landscape: barren, bleak, exposed, desolate, stark, arid, desert, denuded, lunar; treeless, forestless, without vegetation, defoliated; unsheltered, unprotected, unshielded; rare unwooded. ANTONYMS lush. 6 Herodotus did not record just the bare facts: straightforward, plain, simple, basic, pure, essential, fundamental, stark, bald, cold, hard; truthful, realistic, true to life; brutal, harsh; explicit, unequivocal, unambiguous, unexaggerated, unadorned, unembellished, undisguised, unveiled, unvarnished, unqualified; informal warts and all. 7 the bare minimum | a bare majority: mere, no more than, no better than, just a, only a, simple, sheer, very, basic; slim, slight, slender, paltry, skimpy, minimum, trifling. ANTONYMS comfortable. ▶verb he bared his arm: uncover, strip, lay bare, undress, unclothe, denude, unveil, unmask; expose, expose to view, reveal; display, put on display, put on show, exhibit. ANTONYMS cover. CHOOSE THE RIGHT WORD bare, naked, nude See naked . These notes show fine distinctions in meaning between closely related synonyms to help you find the best word.

barefaced

barefaced adjective a barefaced lie: flagrant, blatant, glaring, obvious, undisguised, unconcealed, overt, open, transparent, patent, evident, manifest, palpable, unmistakable; shameless, unabashed, unashamed, without shame, impudent, insolent, audacious, unembarrassed, unblushing, brazen, brass-necked, brash, bold, unrepentant; archaic arrant.

barely

barely adverb we barely got home in time: hardly, scarcely, just, only just, narrowly, by the skin of one's teeth, by a hair's breadth, by a very small margin, by the narrowest of margins, by a nose; almost not; informal by a whisker. ANTONYMS easily.

Duden Dictionary

Barège

Ba rè ge Substantiv, maskulin , der |baˈrɛːʒə |der Barège; Genitiv: des Barèges nach dem französischen Ort Barèges durchsichtiges Seidengewebe

Bareinlage

Bar ein la ge Substantiv, feminin Finanzwesen , die |B a reinlage | Einlage 8b in Form von Bargeld

Barenboim

Ba ren boim Eigenname |B a renboim |israelischer Pianist und Dirigent

Bärendienst

Bä ren dienst Substantiv, maskulin , der |B ä rendienst |in der Wendung jemandem einen Bärendienst erweisen /leisten in guter Absicht etwas tun, was einem anderen, zu dessen Nutzen es gedacht war, schadet vielleicht nach der Fabel »Der Bär und der Gartenliebhaber « von La Fontaine, in der der Bär diensteifrig eine Fliege von der Nase des Gärtners verscheucht, ihn dabei aber tötet

Bärendreck

Bä ren dreck Substantiv, maskulin süddeutsch, österreichisch, schweizerisch , der |B ä rendreck |Lakritze

Bärenfang

Bä ren fang Substantiv, maskulin , der |B ä renfang |Likör aus Bienenhonig

Bärenfell

Bä ren fell Substantiv, Neutrum , das |B ä renfell |Fell eines Bären

Bärenführer

Bä ren füh rer Substantiv, maskulin , der |B ä renführer |1 früher jemand, der mit einem Tanzbären umherzieht 2 umgangssprachlich scherzhaft Fremdenführer den Bärenführer für jemanden abgeben, spielen

Bärenführerin

Bä ren füh re rin Substantiv, feminin , die |B ä renführerin |weibliche Form zu Bärenführer 2

bärenhaft

bä ren haft Adjektiv |b ä renhaft |stark, plump, ungeschickt (wie ein Bär )

Bärenhaut

Bä ren haut Substantiv, feminin , die |B ä renhaut |Bärenfell auf der Bärenhaut liegen umgangssprachlich abwertend faulenzen, faul sein in Humanistenkreisen des 16. Jahrhunderts aufgrund von Tacitus' »Germania « [Kap. 15 ] aufgestellte Behauptung über die Lebensweise der alten Germanen während des verregneten Urlaubs lagen sie viel auf der faulen Bärenhaut

Bärenhäuter

Bä ren häu ter Substantiv, maskulin , der |B ä renhäuter |zuerst Soldatenschimpfwort, ursprünglich = einer, der nicht kämpft, sondern auf der Bärenhaut liegt 1 ohne Plural Name einer Märchengestalt 2 veraltet Faulpelz

Bärenhunger

Bä ren hun ger Substantiv, maskulin umgangssprachlich , der |B ä renh u nger |großer Hunger

Bärenjagd

Bä ren jagd Substantiv, feminin , die |B ä renjagd |Jagd auf Bären

Bärenklau

Bä ren klau Substantiv, feminin oder Substantiv, maskulin , die oder der |B ä renklau |die Bärenklau; Genitiv: der Bärenklau, Plural: die Bärenklau oder der Bärenklau; Genitiv: des Bärenklaus, Plural: die Bärenklau 1 Kraut oder Strauch mit großen, gespaltenen Blättern, Dornen in den Blattachseln und weißen, blassvioletten oder bläulichen Blüten (meist Steppen- und Wüstenpflanze ); Akanthus 2 (in vielen Arten auf Wiesen und an Rainen vorkommendes ) kräftiges, Stauden bildendes Doldengewächs

Bärenkraft

Bä ren kraft Substantiv, feminin , die |B ä renkraft |meist im Plural sehr große, ungewöhnliche körperliche Kraft mit seinen Bärenkräften zerbrach er das Eisengitter

Bärenlauch

Bä ren lauch Substantiv, maskulin , der |B ä renlauch | so viel wie Bärlauch

Bärenmarkt

Bä ren markt Substantiv, maskulin Börsenwesen , der |B ä renmarkt |zu Bär 3 durch fallende Börsenkurse gekennzeichneter [Aktien ]markt 2

bärenmäßig

bä ren mä ßig Adjektiv umgangssprachlich |b ä renmäßig |sehr [gut, stark ]

Bärennatur

Bä ren na tur Substantiv, feminin , die |B ä rennatur |sehr robuste körperliche Verfassung

bärenruhig

bä ren ru hig Adjektiv umgangssprachlich |b ä renr u hig |sehr ruhig

bärenstark

bä ren stark Adjektiv umgangssprachlich |b ä renst a rk |sehr stark 1 1, 6, 8

Bärentatze

Bä ren tat ze Substantiv, feminin , die |B ä rentatze |1 Tatze des Bären 2 Bärenklau

Bärentraube

Bä ren trau be Substantiv, feminin , die |B ä rentraube |Heidekrautgewächs mit eiförmigen, meist ledrigen Blättern, glockigen Blüten und beerenartigen Früchten

Bärentraubenblättertee

Bä ren trau ben blät ter tee Substantiv, maskulin , der |B ä rentraubenblättertee |

Barentssee

Ba rents see , Ba rents-See Eigenname , die Barents-See |B a rentssee B a rents-See |die; Genitiv: der Barentssee die; Genitiv: der Barents-See nach dem niederländischen Seefahrer W. Barents Teil des Nordpolarmeeres

Bärenzucker

Bä ren zu cker Substantiv, maskulin österreichisch , der |B ä renzucker |Lakritze

Bares

Ba res substantiviertes Adjektiv, Neutrum umgangssprachlich das Bare /Bares; des Baren Bargeld sie will Bares sehen

Barett

Ba rett Substantiv, Neutrum , das |Bar e tt |das Barett; Genitiv: des Barett [e ]s, Plural: die Barette, selten: Baretts mittellateinisch barrettum, birretum, zu lateinisch birrus = Überwurf mit Kapuze an den Seiten versteifte, flache Kopfbedeckung ohne Rand (auch als Teil der Amtstracht von Professoren, Richtern u. a.)

French Dictionary

barème

barème n. m. nom masculin Recueil de tableaux numériques comportant des calculs tout faits. : Le barème des versements hypothécaires. Note Orthographique bar èm e.

Spanish Dictionary

baremación

baremación nombre femenino 1 Acción de establecer un baremo de evaluación :se debe encontrar un adecuado método de baremación para escoger a las familias que entran en el programa de viviendas gratuitas .2 Efecto de establecer un baremo de evaluación .

baremar

baremar verbo transitivo Aplicar un baremo :se han baremado las chozas que quedan y en un plazo de dos años se dará a la mayoría de familias una vivienda gratuita .

baremo

baremo nombre masculino 1 Conjunto de normas establecidas convencionalmente para evaluar algo :alguna de las personas tendrán que desalojar estas viviendas por no reunir las condiciones impuestas por el baremo .2 Lista de tarifas :los baremos base del cálculo para fijar las tarifas de las comisiones los elabora una entidad autónoma .3 Cuaderno o tabla de cuentas ya realizadas .ETIMOLOGÍA Préstamo (s. xix ) del francés barème , alteración del apellido de B. Françoise Barrême (1640 -1703 ), matemático francés encargado de la Cámara de las Cuentas de París y autor de Les Comptes-Faits du grand commerce (1670 ), obra compuesta por un conjunto de cálculos en forma de tablas numéricas .

barestesia

barestesia nombre femenino Sensibilidad de los tejidos y los órganos a las variaciones de presión .

bareto

bareto nombre masculino Esp coloquial Bar, en especial el de poca categoría :durante unos meses se les vio vagabundear por la ciudad y mendigar en los baretos de la Plaza Mayor .

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

bare

bare 1 /beə r / (! bearと同音 ) (副 )barely 形容詞～r ; ～st 1 裸の , 裸体の ; むき出しの (!人体や物 (の一部 )が服やカバーなどで覆われていないこと; →naked , nude ) ▸ with (one's ) bare hands (武器などを使わず )素手で ▸ in one's bare feet はだしで ▸ The man's arms were bare .男の腕はむき出しだった 2 〈木が〉葉のない, 〈土地が〉植物 [木々 ]のない ▸ bare branches [rocks ]枯れ枝 [緑のない岩場 ]3 (表面が )覆われていない, むき出しの, 装飾のない ▸ a bare floor カーペットのない床 ▸ a bare bulb 裸電球 4 〈部屋が〉家具のない, 〈たんすなどが〉空っぽの (empty ); «…が » ない «of » ▸ a bare fridge 空の冷蔵庫 ▸ The room was bare (of ornament ).その部屋は (飾りけがなく )がらんとしていた .5 〖名詞の前で〗ほんのわずかの〈数量など〉; 最も基本的な, これ以上欠かせない (!しばしば最上級で; 比較級は用いない ) ▸ the bare (st ) necessities [essentials, minimum ]最低限必要なもの [必須のもの, 最低限の量 ]▸ a bare living ぎりぎりの生活 ▸ a bare six percent ほんの6 \%.6 〖名詞の前で〗赤裸々な , ありのままの〈事実詳細など〉▸ the bare facts 飾りのない事実 ▸ a bare desire 露骨な欲望 [要求 ]l à y A b á re [b á re A ]｟書｠A 〈物〉をむき出しにする ; A 〈隠された物事事実など〉を暴露する, 公にする .動詞他動詞〈体の一部〉をむき出しにする; 〈物〉を見せる; 〈感情〉をさらけ出す ▸ He bared his arm and showed his strength .彼は片腕をあらわにして強さを示した b à re one's s ó ul [h é art ]｟主に文｠【人に】心情を吐露する, 告白する «to » .b à re one's t é eth (脅すようにして )歯をむき出しにする .～̀ b ó nes 〖the ～〗【話などの】要点, 骨子 «of » .～̀ inf í nitive 〘文法〙原形不定詞〘toなしの不定詞〙.b á re ness 名詞

bare

bare 2 動詞｟古｠bear 1 の過去形 .

bareback

b á re b à ck b á re b à cked /-t /形容詞副詞 (馬の背に )鞍（くら）を置かない [置かずに ], 裸馬の [で ].

barefaced

b à re f á ced /-t /形容詞〖名詞の前で〗1 厚かましい, 恥知らずの, しらじらしい〈うそなど〉.2 素顔の, 素面（すめん）の ; ひげのない .

barefacedly

b à re f á c ed ly /-ɪdli /副詞厚かましくも, 恥知らずにも .

barefoot

b á re f ò ot b á re f ò ot ed /-ɪd /形容詞副詞素足の [で ]▸ go barefoot はだしで過ごす

barehanded

b à re h á nd ed /-ɪd /副詞形容詞 1 素手で [の ].2 武器 [手段 ]なしで [の ].

bareheaded

b à re h é ad ed /-ɪd /形容詞副詞帽子をかぶらない [で ].

bare(-)legged

b à re (-)l é gged 形容詞副詞脚に何もはいていない [はかずに ], 靴下 [ストッキング ]なしの [で ].

barely

bare ly /béə r li /〖もとは「赤裸々に」〗副詞比較なし 1 かろうじて , やっと (only just ); ほとんど …ない (!否定の意味がさらに強い場合はhardly, scarcelyを用いる; →hardly コーパスの窓 ) ▸ She barely escaped .彼女はやっとのことで逃げた ▸ be barely able to [can barely ] walk 歩くのがやっとだ ▸ be barely visible どうにか見える ▸ I barely know him .彼のことはかろうじて知っている程度だ .2 〖数量の前で〗ちょうど, せいぜい ▸ Barely 30 percent of the voters supported the government .投票者のせいぜい30 \%しか政府を支持しなかった 3 乏しく ▸ a barely furnished living room ろくに家具もない居間 4 まもなく , …するとすぐに (hardly, scarcely )▸ I had barely got seated when the phone rang .着席したとたんに電話が鳴った .