bear vs off

bear

verb
  • Of a weapon, to be aimed at an enemy or other target. 

  • To carry upon one's person, especially visibly; to be equipped with. 

  • To endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in. 

  • To wear. 

  • To carry (offspring in the womb), to be pregnant (with). 

  • To have or display (a mark or other feature). 

  • To display (a particular heraldic device) on a shield or coat of arms; to be entitled to wear or use (a heraldic device) as a coat of arms. 

  • To present or exhibit (a particular outward appearance); to have (a certain look). 

  • To have (a name, title, or designation). 

  • To possess or enjoy (recognition, renown, a reputation, etc.); to have (a particular price, value, or worth). 

  • To have (interest or a specified rate of interest) stipulated in its terms. 

  • To have (an appendage, organ, etc.) as part of the body; (of a part of the body) to have (an appendage). 

  • To carry or hold in the mind; to experience, entertain, harbour (an idea, feeling, or emotion). 

  • To feel and show (respect, reverence, loyalty, etc.) to, towards, or unto a person or thing. 

  • To possess inherently (a quality, attribute, power, or capacity); to have and display as an essential characteristic. 

  • To have (a relation, correspondence, etc.) to something else. 

  • To give (written or oral testimony or evidence); (figurative) to provide or constitute (evidence or proof), give witness. 

  • To have (a certain meaning, intent, or effect). 

  • To behave or conduct (oneself). 

  • To possess and use, to exercise (power or influence); to hold (an office, rank, or position). 

  • To carry or convey, literally or figuratively. 

  • To support or sustain; to hold up. 

  • To endure or withstand (hardship, scrutiny, etc.); to tolerate; to be patient (with). 

  • To admit or be capable of (a meaning); to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change. 

  • To carry on, or maintain; to have. 

  • To push, thrust, press. 

  • To take effect; to have influence or force; to be relevant. 

  • To give birth to (someone or something) (may take the father of the direct object as an indirect object). 

  • To sustain, or be answerable for (blame, expense, responsibility, etc.). 

  • To warrant, justify the need for. 

  • To produce or yield something, such as fruit or crops. 

  • To afford, to be something to someone, to supply with something. 

  • To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere). 

noun
  • The meat of this animal. 

  • A state policeman (short for Smokey Bear). 

  • A portable punching machine. 

  • An investor who sells commodities, securities, or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices. 

  • A block covered with coarse matting, used to scour the deck. 

  • A large, generally omnivorous mammal (a few species are purely carnivorous or herbivorous), related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and flat feet; a member of the family Ursidae. 

  • Something difficult or tiresome; a burden or chore. 

  • The fifteenth Lenormand card. 

  • A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person. 

  • A large, hairy man, especially one who is homosexual. 

adj
  • Characterized by declining prices in securities markets or by belief that the prices will fall. 

off

verb
  • To kill. 

  • To switch off. 

noun
  • Beginning; starting point. 

adv
  • Offstage. 

  • Used in various other ways specific to individual idiomatic phrases, e.g. bring off, show off, put off, tell off, etc. See the entry for the individual phrase. 

  • Into a state of non-operation or non-existence. 

  • So as to remove or separate, or be removed or separated. 

  • In a direction away from the speaker or other reference point. 

adj
  • Inoperative, disabled. 

  • On the side furthest from the kerb (the right-hand side if one drives on the left). 

  • Inappropriate; untoward. 

  • Circumstanced. 

  • Cancelled; not happening. 

  • Disgusting, repulsive, abhorrent. 

  • Presently unavailable. 

  • Started on the way. 

  • Rancid, rotten, gone bad. 

  • Less than normal, in temperament or in result. 

  • The off front wheel came loose. 

  • Not fitted; not being worn. 

  • Designating a time when one is not performing to the best of one's abilities. 

  • In, or towards the half of the field away from the batsman's legs; the right side for a right-handed batsman. 

  • Far; off to the side. 

  • Designating a time when one is not strictly attentive to business or affairs, or is absent from a post, and, hence, a time when affairs are not urgent. 

prep
  • Placed after a number (of products or parts, as if a unit), in commerce or engineering. 

  • Removed or subtracted from. 

  • Used to indicate the location or direction of one thing relative to another, implying adjacency or accessibility via. 

  • Out of the possession of. 

  • Detached, separated, excluded or disconnected from; away from a position of attachment or connection to. 

  • Used to express location at sea relative to land or mainland. 

  • No longer wanting or taking. 

  • Not positioned upon, or away from a position upon. 

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