bare
part of speech
adjective (bare, barer, barest); verb (bare, bares, bared, baring)
meaning for a pupil
1) Bare means not covered by clothes, like bare feet or bare arms. tree →
2) Bare means empty or with nothing on it, like a bare room or bare trees in winter. tree →
3) Bare means just the smallest amount, as in the bare minimum. tree →
4) To bare something means to show it by uncovering it, like an animal baring its teeth. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Open and treeless. Balaam goes to a bare height, which means a bare hilltop. In the primary lessons: In everyday life and safety, walking in bare feet on hot sand, glass or stony ground can hurt; and «with your bare hands» means without tools or gloves. In science, trees are bare in winter when they have lost their leaves, and bare soil can be washed away by rain. In nature safety, an animal baring its teeth is warning you to back away. «The bare minimum» means the least you can do.
examples
- And Balaam said unto Balak: 'Stand by thy burnt-offering, and I will go; peradventure the LORD will come to meet me; and whatsoever He showeth me I will tell thee.' And he went to a bare height. (Torah NUM.23.3, JPS 1917) tree →
- Thy bow is made quite bare; sworn are the rods of the word. (Prophets HAB.3.9, JPS 1917) tree →
- A fool hath no delight in understanding, but only that his heart may lay itself bare. (Writings PRO.18.2, JPS 1917) tree →
- The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and strippeth the forests bare; and in His temple all say: 'Glory.' (Writings PSA.29.9, JPS 1917) tree →
- Don't walk on the beach in bare feet; there may be glass. tree →
- The trees are bare in winter. tree →
- The cupboard was bare; there was no food left. tree →
- He lifted the heavy box with his bare hands. tree →
- The dog bared its teeth and growled. tree →
- Her room had bare white walls. tree →
- He did the bare minimum of homework. tree →
- She ran out with her little bare feet. tree →
note
Homophone trap: «bare» (uncovered) and «bear» (the animal, or to carry/put up with) sound the same. «Barefoot» = with bare feet. «Barely» means only just (I could barely see). Verb forms: bared, baring (drop the e).
In the corpora
- Thy bow is made quite bare; sworn are the rods of the word.
- A fool hath no delight in understanding, but only that his heart may lay itself bare.
- Film sets are built to look real only from where the camera points; behind, they are often bare wood.
- Baby hares are born furry with open eyes and can hop soon after birth, while baby rabbits are born bare and blind underground.
- A spider monkey's tail grips a branch like a fifth hand, with ridged bare skin on the tip like a fingerprint.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «bare» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.