Ware vs Wareroom - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) The state of being aware; heed.
(uncountable, usually, in combination) Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use.
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(in the plural) See wares .
(uncountable) Pottery or metal goods.
(countable, archaeology) A style or genre of artifact.
(Ireland) Crockery
(obsolete, or, dialectal) To beware of something.
(obsolete) wary; cautious
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(obsolete, UK, dialect) seaweed
(nautical) To wear, or veer.
a room used for storing or displaying goods or wares
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, passage=But the curse of a most fluent pen, and of a numerous auditory, to whom his words were oracles, was upon him; and seventy volumes, more or less, which Cotta issued from his wareroom , are for the library of the Germans now, and for the selection of judicious editors hereafter. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1916, author=Fannie Hurst, title=Every Soul Hath Its Song, chapter=, edition=
, passage=On the ground floor of a dim house in a dim street, which by the contrivance of its occupants had been converted from its original role of dark and sinister dining-room to wareroom for a dozen or more perambulators on high, rubber-tired wheels, Alphonse Michelson and Gertie Dobriner stood in conference with a dark-wrappered figure, her blue-checked apron wound muff fashion about her hands. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1922, author=Harriette Brower, title=The World's Great Men of Music, chapter=, edition=
, passage=He made friends with a young apprentice who took him sometimes to a piano wareroom in the city, where he was allowed to play his little tunes on a fine piano. }}
As nouns the difference between ware and wareroom
is that ware is the state of being aware; heed while wareroom is a room used for storing or displaying goods or wares.As an adjective ware
is aware.As a verb ware
is to beware of something.As a proper noun Ware
is a town in Hertfordshire, England.ware
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) .Usage notes
Replaced by intensified form aware.Derived terms
* bewareNoun
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Etymology 2
(etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en-noun)- damascene ware''', ''tole ' ware
Derived terms
* (Corded Ware culture) * -wareEtymology 3
From (etyl) warianVerb
(war)Adjective
(en adjective)- Of whom be thou ware also.
- He is ware enough; he is wily and circumspect for stirring up any sedition.
Derived terms
* waryEtymology 4
From (etyl) .Noun
Derived terms
* ware gooseEtymology 5
Verb
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