Bear vs Horse - What's the difference?
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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, :
* {{quote-book, 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, chapter=The Tutor's Daughter, Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, page=266
, passage=In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.}}
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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):
(lb) Of, like, or closely associated with the animal Equus ferus caballus.
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# Cavalry soldiers (sometimes capitalized when referring to an official category).
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# The chess piece representing a knight, depicted as a man in a suit of armor and often on a horse, hence the nickname.
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#(lb) A large person.
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#(lb) A timber frame shaped like a horse, which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
(lb) Equipment with legs.
#In gymnastics, a piece of equipment with a body on two or four legs, approximately four feet high with two handles on top.
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#A frame with legs, used to support something.
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Equipment.
#A rope stretching along a yard, upon which men stand when reefing or furling the sails; footrope.
#A breastband for a leadsman.
#An iron bar for a sheet traveller to slide upon.
#A jackstay.
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(lb) A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse (said of a vein) is to divide into branches for a distance.
(lb) The sedative, antidepressant, and anxiolytic drug morphine, chiefly when used illicitly.
*1962 , , 00:15:20
*:Check that shirt. I got a couple of jolts of horse stashed under the collar
(lb) An informal variant of basketball in which players match shots made by their opponent(s), each miss adding a letter to the word "horse", with 5 misses spelling the whole word and eliminating a player, until only the winner is left. Also HORSE, H-O-R-S-E or (see ).
To frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around".)
* (rfdate) Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (script)
* (rfdate) Ted Lawson, Thirty Seconds over Tokyo :
To provide with a horse.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To get on horseback.
* 1888 , :
To sit astride of; to bestride.
* 1608 , , II. i. 203:
(of a male horse) To copulate with (a mare).
To take or carry on the back.
* S. Butler
To place on the back of another person, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.
* 1963 , Charles Harold Nichols, Many Thousand Gone
(uncountable, slang, dated) Heroin.
In transitive terms the difference between bear and horse
is that bear is to give birth to someone or something may take the father of the direct object as an indirect object while horse is to provide with a horse.In intransitive terms the difference between bear and horse
is that bear is to endure with patience; to be patient while horse is to frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around"..In obsolete terms the difference between bear and horse
is that bear is to gain or win while horse is to get on horseback.As nouns the difference between bear and horse
is that bear is 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 subfamily: Ursinae while horse is Of, like, or closely associated with the animal Equus ferus caballus.As verbs the difference between bear and horse
is that bear is to endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in while horse is to frolic, to act mischievously. (Usually followed by "around"..As an adjective bear
is characterized by or believing to benefit of declining prices in securities markets.As a proper noun Bear
is {{surname|lang=en}.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
citation
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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.
Usage notes
* The past participle of bear'' is usually ''borne : ** He could not have borne that load. ** She had borne five children. ** This is not to be borne ! * However, when bear'' means "to give birth to" (literally or figuratively), the passive past participle is ''born : ** She was born on May 3. ** Born three years earlier, he was the eldest of his siblings. ** "The idea to create [the Blue Ridge Parkway] was born in the travail of the Great Depression ." (Tim Pegram, The Blue Ridge Parkway by Foot: A Park Ranger's Memoir , ISBN 0786431407, 2007, page 1) * Both spellings are used in the construction born(e) to someone (as a child): ** He was born(e) to Mr. Smith. ** She was born(e) to the most powerful family in the city. ** "[M]y father was borne to a Swedish mother and a Norwegian father, both devout Lutherans." (David Ross, Good Morning Corfu: Living Abroad Against All Odds , ISBN 1452450323, 2009)Derived terms
* bear down * bear down on * bear fruit * bear in mind * bear out * bear up * bear with * bear witness * bring to bear * not bear thinking about * outbearStatistics
*horse
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) horse, hors, from (etyl) . (cognates) Cognate with (etyl) . Related to hurry.Noun
(en noun)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.
Usage notes
* The noun can be used attributively in compounds and phrases to add the sense of large and / or coarseSynonyms
* (animal) horsie, nag, steed * (gymnastic equipment) pommel horse, vaulting horse * (chesspiece) knightHyponyms
* (animal) colt, foal, filly, gelding, palomino, pony, stallionDerived terms
* change horses in midstream * cutting horse * dark horse * don't look a gift horse in the mouth * * flog a dead horse / beat a dead horse * from the horse's mouth * get off one's high horse * hold one's horses * horse and carriage * horseback * horse-breaker * horse-chestnut * horse-drawn * horse face * horsefeathers * horseflesh * horsefly * horsely * horse latitudes * horselaugh * horseman * horsemanship * horse of a different color * horse opera * horse pill * horseplay * horsepower * horse race * horse racing * horseradish * horse sense * horses for courses * horseshit * horseshoe * horse-stinger * horse trading * horsewhip * horsey, horsy, horsie * hung like a horse * I could eat a horse * one-horse race * one-horse town * pack horse, packhorse * plowhorse, ploughhorse * pommel horse * rocking horse * saddle horse * sawhorse * sea horse, seahorse * straight from the horse's mouth * sumpter horse * swap horses in midstream * vaulting horse * warhorse * willing horse * workhorse * work like a horseSee also
(kinds of horse by physical attributes) * stallion, sire, ridgeling, gelding * mare, dame * colt, yearling * filly, foal * pony (kinds of horse by employment) * sumpter, rowney * palfrey * charger, destrier * brumby, mustang (related terms) * knight, cavalier, cavalry, chivalry * equid, equine * gee, haw, giddy-up, whoa * hoof, mane, tail, withers * gallop, canter, walk, trot * neigh, whinny * tandem, team, chariot, cart, wagon * ungulate * *Verb
(hors)- "Genghis Khan! Abe Lincoln! That’s funny until someone gets hurt."
But Genghis Khan and Lincoln keep horsing around.
- I told him that if I passed out before we got to a hospital I wanted him to see to it that no quack horsed around with my leg.
- being better horsed , outrode me
- He horsed himself well.
- Stalls, bulks, windows / Are smothered up, leads filled, and ridges horsed / With variable complexions, all agreeing / In earnestness to see him.
- the keeper, horsing a deer
- So they brought him out and horsed him upon the back of Planter George, and whipped him until he fell quivering in the dust.
Derived terms
* horse around * unhorseEtymology 2
Noun
(-)- Alright, mate, got any horse ?