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noun
- A large omnivorous mammal, related to the dog and raccoon, having shaggy hair, a very small tail, and flat feet; a member of family Ursidae, particularly of subfamily Ursinae.
- (colloquial) An animal that resembles a bear, such as a koala bear, koala or ant bear.
- (finance) An investor who sells commodities, securities or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices.
- Bears look for over-priced securities to sell short.
- (rfv-sense) (finance) A market in which prices are falling.
- (colloquial) A problem that is very difficult to solve.
- (slang) A large hairy man, especially one who is gay.
verb (bears, bearing, bore, or, archaic, bare, born, borne, or, archaic, yborn)
- (transitive) To carry something.
- 2005, w:Plato, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. w:Stephanus pagination, 234b.
- : imitations that the same name as the things
- (transitive) To be equipped with something.
- the right to arms
- (transitive) To declare as testimony.
- The jury could see he was bearing false witness.
- (transitive) To put up with something.
- (transitive) To give birth to someone or something.
- In Troy she becomes Paris' wife, bearing him several children, all of whom die in infancy.
- (transitive) To produce or yield something, such as fruit or crops.
- (intransitive) To be in a specific direction from the observer"s position.
- The harbour bears North by Northeast.
adjective
- (finance, investments) Characterized by or believing to benefit of declining prices in securities markets.
- The great market starting in 1929 scared a whole generation of investors.
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proper noun
- (star) A bright-red supergiant intrinsic variable star, the second brightest star in the constellation Orion; Alpha (α) Orionis. It is the tenth brightest star in the nighttime, and one of the largest stars known.
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proper noun
- (constellation) A bright circumpolar asterism of the northern sky, said to resemble a ladle or cart. It is part of the constellation Ursa Major and includes the stars Mizar, Dubhe, and Alkaid.
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noun (plural binaries)
- (context, mathematics, computing) (uncountable) The base-2 number system, which uses only the digits 0 and 1.
- (computing) An executable computer file.
- (astronomy) A star system consisting of only two stars.
adjective (not comparable)
- Being in a state of one of two mutually exclusive conditions, such as on or off, true or false, 6 or not 6, or the presence or absence of an electrical pulse.
- Binary states are often abstracted as 1 and 0 in computer science.
- Concerning logic whose subject matter concerns binary states.
- (context, arithmetic, computing) Concerning numbers and mathematical calculations using the binary number system.
- Having two equally important parts.
- binary star
- binary poison
- Related to something with two parts.
- A distribution is a statistical distribution with only two categories.
- (computing): Refers to data consisting of arbitrary values, as opposed to that which can be interpreted as plain or ASCII text.
- He downloaded the distribution for Linux, then burned it to DVD.
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noun (pl=birds of paradise)
- (zoology) Any of various passerine birds of the family Paradisaeidae native to Oceania. In many of the species the breeding plumage of the males is brightly coloured.
- (botany): A showy tropical flower of the genus Strelitzia, native to Madagascar.
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noun
- (astronomy) a hypothesized white dwarf that has cooled down and no longer emit visible light
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noun - (star) a very hot and very luminous star that emits visible light in the blue portion of the spectrum
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noun
- (astronomy) a unusually hot and blue star in globular clusters
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noun (bodies)
- The physical structure of a human or animal seen as one single organism.
- I saw them walking from a distance, their bodies strangely angular in the dawn light.
- The fleshly or corporeal nature of a human, as opposed to the spirit or soul.
- The is driven by desires, but the soul is at peace.
- A corpse.
- Her was found at four o'clock, just two hours after the murder.
- The torso, the main structure of a human or animal frame excluding the extremity, extremities (limbs, head, tail).
- The boxer took a blow to the .
- The largest or most important part of anything, as distinct from its appendages or accessory, accessories.
- The bumpers and front tyres were ruined, but the of the car was in remarkable shape.
- (archaic) The section of a dress extending from the neck to the waist, excluding the arms.
- Penny was in the scullery, pressing the of her new dress.
- An organisation, company or other authoritative group.
- The local train operating company is the managing for this section of track.
- A group of men or people having a common purpose or opinion; a mass.
- I was escorted from the building by a of armed security guards.
- A unified collection of details, knowledge or information.
- We have now amassed a of evidence which points to one conclusion.
- Any physical object or material thing.
- All bodies are held together by internal forces.
- Substance; physical presence.
- We have given to what was just a vague idea.
- Comparative viscosity, solidity or substance (in wine, colours etc.).
- The rioja, sadly, lacked .
- (programming) The code of a subroutine, contrasted to its signature and parameters.W:Subroutine, W
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noun
- Any extraterrestrial body that collides with Earth
- An extremely bright meteor
- A fireball
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noun
- the region of the magnetosphere in which the solar wind slows from supersonic to subsonic
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noun
- (star):a star that is typically about the volume of the planet Jupiter, which has mass approaching that of a star, but insufficient to ignite its elements and cause it to burn as a true star, except that of deuterium, and sometimes lithium.
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