Fruit vs Bear - What's the difference?
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(botany) The seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful/colorful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.
Any sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit, even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or sweetish vegetables, such as rhubarb, that resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were a fruit.
An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or advantageous result.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Isaiah iii. 10
* Macaulay
Offspring from a sexual union.
* Shakespeare
(colloquial, derogatory, dated) A homosexual or effeminate man.
A large omnivorous mammal, related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and flat feet; a member of family Ursidae, particularly of subfamily .
(figuratively) A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person.
(finance) An investor who sells commodities, securities
(slang, US) A state policeman (short for smokey bear).
* 1976 June, CB Magazine , Communications Publication Corporation, Oklahoma City, June 40/3:
(slang) A large, hairy man, especially one who is homosexual.
* 1990 , "Bears, gay men subculture materials" (publication title, , Collection Level Periodical Record):
* 2004 , Richard Goldstein, Why I'm Not a Bear'', in ''The Advocate , number 913, 27 April 2004, page 72:
* 2006 , Simon LeVay, Sharon McBride Valente, Human sexuality :
(engineering) A portable punching machine.
(nautical) A block covered with coarse matting, used to scour the deck.
(finance) To endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in.
(finance, investments) Characterized by or believing to benefit of declining prices in securities markets.
To support or sustain; to hold up.
To carry something.
* (rfdate), (Shakespeare):
* 2005 , Lesley Brown, translator, :
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To be equipped with (something).
To wear or display.
To declare as testimony.
To put up with something.
To give birth to someone or something (may take the father of the direct object as an indirect object).
(ambitransitive) To produce or yield something, such as fruit or crops.
* (rfdate), (John Dryden)
To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere).
To suffer, as in carrying a burden.
* (rfdate) (Alexander Pope):
To endure with patience; to be patient.
* (rfdate) (John Dryden):
To press; with on'', ''upon'', or ''against .
* (rfdate) (Addison):
To take effect; to have influence or force.
To relate or refer; with on'' or ''upon .
To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.
* (rfdate) (Nathaniel Hawthorne):
(obsolete) To conduct; to bring (a person).
* (rfdate) (Shakespeare):
To possess and use (power, etc.); to exercise.
* (rfdate) Bible, Esther 1.22:
To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbour.
* (rfdate) (Shakespeare):
(obsolete) To gain or win.
* (rfdate) (Francis Bacon):
* (rfdate) (Latimer):
To sustain, or be answerable for (blame, expense, responsibility, etc.).
* (rfdate) Bible, Isaiah 53:11:
* (rfdate) (John Dryden):
To carry on, or maintain; to have.
* (rfdate) (John Locke):
To admit or be capable of; to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
* (rfdate) (Jonathan Swift):
To manage, wield, or direct; to behave or conduct (oneself).
* (rfdate) (Shakespeare):
* (rfdate) (Shakespeare):
To afford; to be (something) to; to supply with.
* (rfdate) (Alexander Pope):
As a noun fruit
is (botany) the seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful/colorful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.As a verb fruit
is to produce fruit.As a pronoun bear is
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English
(wikipedia fruit)Noun
(see for discussion of plural )- While cucumber is technically a fruit , one would not usually use it to make jam.
- Fruit salad is a simple way of making fruits into a dessert.
- His long nights in the office eventually bore fruit when his business boomed and he was given a raise.
- the fruit of rashness
- They shall eat the fruit of their doings.
- The fruits of this education became visible.
- The litter was the fruit of the union between our whippet and their terrier.
- King Edward's fruit , true heir to the English crown
Usage notes
* In the botanical and figurative senses, is usually treated as uncountable: *: a bowl of fruit'''''; ''eat plenty of '''fruit'''''; ''the tree provides '''fruit . * is also sometimes used as the plural in the botanical sense: *: berries, achenes, and nuts are all fruits'''''; ''the '''fruits of this plant split into two parts. * When is often used as a singulative. * In senses other than the botanical or figurative ones derived from the botanical sense, the plural is fruits. * The culinary sense often does not cover true fruits that are savoury or used chiefly in savoury foods, such as tomatoes and peas. These are normally described simply as vegetables.Derived terms
* bear fruit * fruitcake * fruit cocktail * fruit of one's loins * * fruit of the union * fruitage * fruitarian * fruitful * fruitless * fruit salad * fruit tree * fruity * grapefruit * jackfruit * passion fruit * Sharon fruit * star fruit, starfruit * stone fruitSee also
* for a list of fruitsExternal links
* (Fruit) * (List of fruits) 1000 English basic words ----bear
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) ). (etymology notes) This is generally taken to be from (etyl) ), related to (m) and (m). The Germanic languages replaced the older name of the bear, , with the epithet "brown one", presumably due to taboo avoidance; compare (etyl) , literally “honey-eater”. However, Ringe (2006:106) doubts the existence of a root *b?er- meaning "brown" ("an actual PIE word of [the requisite] shape and meaning is not recoverable") and suggests that a derivation from (etyl) "should therefore perhaps be preferred", implying a Germanic merger of *??w'' and ''*g??'' (''*g??'' may sometimes result in Germanic ''*b'', perhaps e.g. in '''', but it also seems to have given the ''g'' in ''gun'' and the ''w'' in ''warm .)Noun
(en noun)- ‘The bear's pulling somebody off there at 74,’ reported someone else.
- I have everything it takes to be a bear : broad shoulders, full beard, semibald pate, and lots of body hair. But I don't want to be a fetish.
- There are numerous social organizations for bears in most parts of the United States. Lesbians don't have such prominent sexual subcultures as gay men, although, as just mentioned, some lesbians are into BDSM practices.
Synonyms
* (large omnivorous mammal) see * see * (police officer) seeAntonyms
* (investor who anticipates falling prices) bullDerived terms
* ant bear * Atlas bear * bear cat/bearcat * bear claw * bear cub * bear grass * bear hug * bear market * bearish * bearly * bear pit * bear's breech * bear spread * beartrap/bear trap * bear walker * black bear * brown bear * cat bear * cave bear * dancing bear * does a bear shit in the woods * Etruscan bear * Gobi bear * Great Bear * grizzly bear * gummy bear * honey bear * koala bear * kodiak bear/Kodiak bear * Little Bear * loaded for bear * mama bear * mamma bear * moon bear * native bear * panda bear * polar bear * she-bear * sloth bear * spectacled bear * sun bear * teddy bear * washing bear * water bear * white bear * wooly bear/woolly bearVerb
(en verb)- to bear a railroad stock
- to bear the market
Adjective
(-)- The great bear market starting in 1929 scared a whole generation of investors.
See also
* ursine * *References
* Donald A. Ringe, From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic'' (2006), ''Linguistic history of English, vol. 1 , Oxford: Oxford University Press (ISBN 0-19-955229-0)Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
- This stone bears most of the weight.
- I'll bear your logs the while.
- imitations that bear the same name as the things
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- the right to bear arms
- The shield bore a red cross.
- The jury could see he was bearing''' false '''witness .
- I would never move to Texas—I can't bear heat.
- Please bear with me as I ramble on and on about nothing very important, such as that time when I was in Montana and I may have seen a mountain lion, but it was pretty far off and it was raining—the weather, not the lion—and the car broke down...
- In Troy she becomes Paris’ wife, bearing him several children, all of whom die in infancy.
- this age to blossom, and the next to bear
- The harbour bears north by northeast.
- By my readings, we're bearing due south, so we should turn about ten degrees east.
- Great Falls bears north of Bozeman.
- Man is born to bear .
- I cannot, cannot bear .
- These men bear hard on the suspected party.
- to bring matters to bear
- How does this bear on the question?
- Her sentence bore that she should stand a certain time upon the platform.
- Bear them to my house.
- Every man should bear rule in his own house.
- the ancient grudge I bear him
- Some think to bear it by speaking a great word.
- She was found not guilty, through bearing of friends and bribing of the judge.
- He shall bear their iniquities.
- somewhat that will bear your charges
- the credit of bearing a part in the conversation
- In all criminal cases the most favourable interpretation should be put on words that they can possibly bear .
- Thus must thou thy body bear .
- Hath he borne himself penitently in prison?
- His faithful dog shall bear him company.