Borne vs Beared - What's the difference?

borne | beared |

As verbs the difference between borne and beared

is that borne is past participle of lang=en while beared is past tense of bear.

As an adjective borne

is carried, supported.

borne

English

Adjective

(-)

carried, supported.

* 1901 -

In the last rays of the setting sun, you could pick out far away down the reach his beard borne high up on the white structure, foaming up stream to anchor for the night.

* 1881: ", Poems , page 44

When, bright with purple and with gold,
Come priest and holy cardinal,
And borne above the heads of all
The gentle Shepherd of the Fold.

* c.2000 - , II

Irving is further required, as a matter of practice, to spell out what he contends are the specific defamatory meanings borne by those passages.

Derived terms

* airborne * waterborne

Verb

(head)

* 1907 , , The Dust of Conflict chapter 21 [http://openlibrary.org/works/OL4429277W]

*:“Can't you understand that love without confidence is a worthless thing—and that had you trusted me I would have borne any obloquy with you.”

Synonyms

* endured

Anagrams

* English irregular past participles ----

beared

English

Verb

(head)

(bear)

* 1996 , Jules Tygiel, The Great Los Angeles Swindle , page 124:

The sudden emergence of a bull market generated panic among brokers who had "beared " or "shorted" the stock.

* Jack London, Hearts of Three

For see, except where your holdings are concerned, the market is reasonable and right. But take your holdings. There's Frisco Consolidated. There is neither sense nor logic that it should be beared this way.

Usage notes

* This form is found especially in the finance sense. In most other senses, the past tense bore and past participle borne are generally preferred.