bare

«bare» in Mova's school dictionary: not covered by clothes, like bare feet or bare arms — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

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 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

• 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

• 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.
• A moth's caterpillar often makes a silk cocoon before it changes, but a butterfly's caterpillar makes a bare chrysalis.
• When people forget these helpers, things go wrong, as in the 1930s Dust Bowl, when bare ploughed soil simply blew away.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «bare» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.