Word Finder - wearing

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To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.

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He's wearing some nice pants today.  She wore her medals with pride.  Please wear your seatbelt.  Can you wear makeup and sunscreen at the same time?  He was wearing his lunch after tripping and falling into the buffet.

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To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner.

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He wears eyeglasses.  She wears her hair in braids.

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To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.

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She wore a smile all day.  He walked out of the courtroom wearing an air of satisfaction.

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(with "it") To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.

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I know you don't like working with him, but you'll just have to wear it.

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To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce (some change) through attrition, exposure, or constant use.

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You're going to wear a hole in the bottom of those shoes.  The water has slowly worn a channel into these rocks.  Long illness had worn the bloom from her cheeks.  Exile had worn the man to a shadow.

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To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due to any continued process, activity, or use.

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The tiles were wearing thin due to years of children's feet.

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To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.

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His neverending criticism has finally worn my patience.  Toil and care soon wear the spirit.  Our physical advantage allowed us to wear the other team out and win.

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To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or desirable qualities under any continued strain or long period of time; sometimes said of a person, regarding the quality of being easy or difficult to tolerate.

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Don't worry, this fabric will wear. These pants will last you for years.  This color wears so well. I must have washed this sweater a thousand times.  I have to say, our friendship has worn pretty well.  It's hard to get to know him, but he wears well.

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(in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue, or weariness near the point of an exhaustion of patience.

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Her high pitched voice is really wearing on me lately.

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(of time) To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.

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wear on, wear away.  As the years wore on, we seemed to have less and less in common.

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To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed to tacking when the wind is brought around the bow); to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind. Also written "ware". Past: weared, or wore/worn.

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• gybe

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To guard; watch; keep watch, especially from entry or invasion.

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To defend; protect.

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To ward off; prevent from approaching or entering; drive off; repel.

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to wear the wolf from the sheep

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To conduct or guide with care or caution, as into a fold or place of safety.

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The mechanical process of eroding or grinding.

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The act by which something is worn.

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formal crown-wearings

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That which is worn; clothes; garments.

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Intended to be worn

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Clothes used to be called wearing apparel

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Causing tiredness

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Causing erosion

I see you're not wearing black today.

Whatever Alex was wearing, Jonathan was usually dressed the same.

I'm wearing her underthings, too.

He was wearing a hoodie and dressed in black, including gloves.

He was wearing a hooded sweat shirt and gloves.

He was wearing a shirt and his unfastened necktie was hanging in my face.

I imitated this action, even wearing his spectacles, thinking they might help solve the mystery.

Does that mean I'm supposed to change, or that what I'm wearing is considered casual?

She was attached to the arm of good-looking man wearing a business suit.

Death was a dark, towering, muscular figure in the living area of her apartment, clothed in black and wearing an expression that mirrored what she felt.

He had just noticed that the king was wearing poor Charlot's Sunday suit instead of his own.

He had just entered, wearing an embroidered court uniform, knee breeches, and shoes, and had stars on his breast and a serene expression on his flat face.

Besides, it was time to replace some of the things she'd been wearing since before they were married.

Anyway, what's so terrible about a woman wearing pants?

He.s wearing a collar.

Wearing her rich attire, and accompanied by her maid, who carries a bag of provisions, she goes over to the hostile camp, where she is at once conducted to the general, whose suspicions are disarmed by the tales she invents.

The weft surface is the face or wearing surface of the cloth.

Two chantry priests were to say daily mass wearing black amices bearing the arms of Montfort and Montacute.

One was about five feet six inches tall wearing a dark colored balaclava, black and white top and dark bottoms.

The wearing of the ancient costumes was forbidden by the ukaz of the 4th of January 1700; thenceforth Saxon or Magyar jackets and French or German hose were prescribed.

This is an undulating plain which has been produced by the wearing away of weak sandstones, &c. On the north and west borders of this plain are two parts of a chain of semi-detached and usually rounded hills, known as the South Mountains.

Pennsylvania has no homestead law, but the property of a debtor amounting to $300 in value, exclusive of the wearing apparel of himself and family and of all Bibles and school-books in use, is exempt from levy and sale on execution or by distress for rent; and the exemption extends to the widow and children unless there is a lien on the property for purchase money.

The monks were, strictly speaking, penitents wearing the cowl, and not allowed to take a part in church government.

In all probability the surplice is no more than an expansion of the ordinary liturgical alb, due to the necessity for wearing it over thick furs.

The amice was worn first simply as a shoulder-cloth, but at the end of the 9th century the custom grew up of putting it on over the head and of wearing it as a hood, either while the other vestments were being put on or, according to the various uses of local churches, during part of the Mass, though never during the canon.

That for the thin-walled water mains must combine strength with the fluidity needed to enable it to run freely into its narrow moulds; that for most machinery must be soft enough to be cut easily to an exact shape; that for hydraulic cylinders must combine strength with density lest the water leak through; and that for car-wheels must be intensely hard in its wearing parts, but in its other parts it must have that shock-resisting power which can be had only along with great softness.

It was, historically, only a personal nickname of Geoffrey, as was " Beauclerc " of his father-in-law (Henry I.) and " Curtmantel " of his son (Henry II.), and was derived from his wearing in his cap a sprig of the broom (genet) plant, "which in early summer makes the open country of Anjou and Maine a blaze of living gold."

Being frequently under the necessity of wearing shabby coats and dirty shirts, he became a confirmed sloven.

Ammon is figured of human form, wearing on his head a plain deep circlet from which rise two straight parallel plumes, perhaps representing the tail feathers of a hawk.

The most celebrated statue of Hera was the chryselephantine work of Polyclitus, made for the Heraeum at Argos soon after 423 s.c. It is fully described by Pausanias, who says that Hera was seated on a throne, wearing a crown (crTEg5avos), and carrying a sceptre in one hand and a pomegranate in the other.

He discharged his duties with so much spirit and so conscientiously that he ultimately gained the esteem of Frederick William, who no longer feared that he would leave the crown to one unworthy of wearing it.

An interesting, rather fantastic, portrait of a blonde girl wearing a wide cap, now in the Berlin museum, is dated 1507 and may have been done in the early months of that year at Venice.

In some districts there are peculiar customs, such as the wearing of small silver nose-rings, seen in El-Jofra.

Together with costume it is necessary to study the methods of wearing the hair, for each race adopts a different method.

The wearing of whiskers while shaving the chin was a Mogul fashion of the 17th and 18th centuries and is now seldom seen except among Deccani Mahommedans.

It was formerly fastened with strings, but now with the ghundi (the old form of button) and tukmah or loop. In southern India, Gujarat and in the United Provinces the arid is much the same as to length and fit as the English shirt; as the traveller goes northward from Delhi to the Afghan border he sees the kurta becoming longer and looser till he finds the Pathan wearing it almost to his ankles, with very full wide sleeves.

As a general rule the wearing of paijamas is the chief distinction between Mussulman and Hindu women.

Another style is wearing it in a knot after the ancient Grecian fashion; it is always worn smooth in front and parted in the middle.

When the Parsis were first admitted into India, certain conditions were imposed upon them by the Hindus; among others they were not to eat beef, and they were to follow the Hindu custom of wearing a top-knot of hair.

In the following year, Mandi was menaced by a far more dangerous revolt, led by a sectary, known generally as Mokanna, or "the veiled one," because he always appeared in public wearing a mask.

The caliph himself, wearing the mantle and the staff of the Prophet, then went out against him, and after a vigorous resistance he was beaten by Mowaffaq, who had the command of the troops, and fled to Jondisapur in Khuzistan, where he died three years later, leaving his empire to his brother `Amr. This prince maintained himself in power till the year 900, when he was beaten and taken prisoner by Isma`il b.

The family library, family pictures, school books, a seat or pew in a house of worship, a lot in a burial ground, necessary wearing apparel, a limited amount of furniture and household utensils, some of a farmer's domestic animals and agricultural implements, and the wages of a labouring man who is a householder are exempt from levy or distress.

Schiele has invented a pivot which preserves its original figure by wearing equally at all points in a direction parallel to its axis.

Chief amongst these are the Brahmans who minister for" unclean "Sudras and lower castes, including the makers and dealers in spirituous liquors; as well as those who officiate at the great public shrines or places of pilgrimage where they might be liable to accept forbidden gifts, and, as a matter of fact, often amass considerable wealth; and those who officiate as paid priests at cremations and funeral rites, when the wearing apparel and bedding of the deceased are not unfrequently claimed by them as their perquisites.

Kali, on the other hand, the most terrible of the goddess's forms, has a special service performed to her, at the Kali-puja, during the darkest night of the succeeding month; when she is represented as a naked black woman, four-armed, wearing a garland of heads of giants slain by her, and a string of skulls round her neck, dancing on the breast of her husband (Mahakala), with gaping mouth and protruding tongue; and when she has to be propitiated by the slaughter of goats, sheep and buffaloes.

The custom of wearing the cassock under the vestments is traceable in England to about the year 1400.

His earliest championship of protection was a resolution introduced by him in the Kentucky legislature (1808) which favoured the wearing by its members of home-made clothes; and one in the United States Senate (April 1810), on behalf of home-grown and home-made supplies for the United States navy, but only to the point of making the nation independent of foreign supply.

But in spite of du Junca's emphasis on the mask, it is in reality very questionable whether the wearing of a mask was an unusual practice.

In Aeschylus, the Erinyes are represented as awful, Gorgon-like women, wearing long black robes, with snaky locks, bloodshot eyes and claw-like nails.

There is a thin close-woven cloth made and used as garments among the females of the aboriginal tribes near the foot of the Himalayas, and in various localities a cloth of pure jute or of jute mixed with cotton is used as a sheet to sleep on, as well as for wearing purposes.