bare
IPA: bˈɛr
noun
- (‘the bare’) The surface, the (bare) skin.
- Surface; body; substance.
- (architecture) That part of a roofing slate, shingle, tile, or metal plate, which is exposed to the weather.
- A surname.
- A suburb of Morecambe, Lancaster district, Lancashire, England, served by Bare Lane railway station (OS grid ref SD4564).
verb
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To uncover; to reveal.
adjective
- Minimal; that is or are just sufficient.
- Naked, uncovered.
- Having no supplies.
- Having no decoration.
- Having had what usually covers (something) removed.
- (MLE, MTE, Yorkshire, slang, not comparable) A lot or lots of.
- With head uncovered; bareheaded.
- Without anything to cover up or conceal one's thoughts or actions; open to view; exposed.
- (figuratively) Mere; without embellishment.
- Threadbare, very worn.
- Not insured.
adverb
- (dialect) Barely.
- (MLE, slang) Very; significantly.
- (slang) Without a condom.
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Examples of "bare" in Sentences
- The bare facts are in the treaty.
- In the first act, the tree is bare.
- The pilot barely avoided the burst.
- She is lethargic and barely responsive.
- He sounds hoarse and is barely audible.
- That is the bare bones of the issue to me.
- The opinion is inferior to the bare facts.
- A grudging apology is barely the beginning.
- It regards the lifetime of the bare proton.
- That barely scratches the surface of the revolution.
- Professional development in bare Swing nowadays is something really odd.
- Lucia came outside in bare feet with a tablecloth tied around her neck like a superhero.
- And you're standing here in bare feet in your long trousers that are hiked up and you're saying, who would let me near him?
- In what I call bare assent, there is no time-element in the feeling of belief, though there may be in the content of what is believed.
- Did she have a full Brazilian before she set sail on her cruise and learn since her shipwreck that bare is not the fashion here in Illyria?
- After what she described as a bare-bones Christmas, she said she looked over her household finances and realized they might lose their home.
- Yonkers Mayor Phil Amicone Wednesday released what he termed a bare-bones proposed budget that will avoid doomsday job, school and service cuts, but will h ...