Mare vs Rare - What's the difference?
mare | rare |
An adult female horse.
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A foolish woman.
*2007 , Hester Browne, Little Lady, Big Apple
*:The silly mare phoned your mother, talking about applying for a mortgage, and we don't want that, do we?
(obsolete, outside, dialects) A type of evil spirit thought to sit on the chest of a sleeping person; also the feeling of suffocation felt during sleep; a nightmare.
(UK, colloquial) (Shortening of (nightmare)) A nightmare; a frustrating or terrible experience.
(planetology) A dark, large circular plain; a “sea”.
(planetology) On Saturn's moon Titan, a large expanse of what is thought to be liquid hydrocarbons.
(cooking, particularly meats) Cooked very lightly, so the meat is still red (in the case of steak or beef in the general sense).
* Dryden
Very uncommon; scarce.
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(US) To rear, rise up, start backwards.
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 328:
(US) To rear, bring up, raise.
(obsolete) early
* Chapman
As a noun mare
is tide (periodic change of sea level).As an adjective rare is
(cooking|particularly meats) cooked very lightly, so the meat is still red (in the case of steak or beef in the general sense) or rare can be very uncommon; scarce or rare can be (obsolete) early.As a verb rare is
(us|intransitive) to rear, rise up, start backwards.mare
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) mare, mere, from (etyl) mere, . Alternative etymology cites derivation via (etyl) mere, miere'', from (etyl) ), from (etyl) ''markos'' (compare (etyl) march), from Iranian ''marikas'' (compare Old Persian ''marikas'' 'male, manly'), from ''maryas'' (compare Avestan ''mairya'' 'man; male animal'); akin to Sanskrit ''máryas 'young man; stallion'. More at marry.Noun
(en noun)Antonyms
* stallion and gelding refer to adult male horses (a colt refers to an immature one)Coordinate terms
* (adult female horse) foal and filly refer to younger horses, pony can refer to adult horses of either gender under a certain height.Etymology 2
From (etyl) mare, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- I'm having a complete mare today.
Derived terms
* (l) * (l)Etymology 3
From (etyl) .Noun
(maria)Anagrams
* English heteronyms ----rare
English
Etymology 1
From a dialectal variant of rear, from (etyl) rere, from (etyl) . More at (l).Alternative forms
* (l), (l) (UK)Adjective
(en-adj)- New-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy care / Turned by a gentle fire, and roasted rare .
Synonyms
* (cooked very lightly) sanguinaryAntonyms
* (cooked very lightly) well doneDerived terms
* medium-rareEtymology 2
From (etyl) rare, from (etyl) rare, .Adjective
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Synonyms
* (very uncommon) scarce, selcouth, seld, seldsome, selly, geason, uncommonAntonyms
* (very uncommon) commonDerived terms
* rare bird * rare earth mineralEtymology 3
Variant of rear .Verb
(rar)- Frank pretended to rare back as if bedazzled, shielding his eyes with a forearm.
Usage notes
* (rft-sense) Principal current, non-literary use is of the present participle raring' with a verb in "'''raring''' to". The principal verb in that construction is ''go''. Thus, '''''raring''' to go'' ("eager (to start something)") is the expression in which '''''rare is most often encountered as a verb.Etymology 4
Compare rather, rath.Adjective
(en adjective)- Rude mechanicals that rare and late / Work in the market place.