Midgetnoun
(originally) A little sandfly.
Midgetnoun
(loosely) Any small swarming insect similar to the mosquito; a midge
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A normally proportioned person with small stature, usually defined as reaching an adult height less than 4'10".
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(sometimes derogatory) Any short person.
Midgetnoun
(attributively) A small version of something; miniature.
Midgetnoun
A minute bloodsucking fly.
Midgetnoun
A very diminutive person having normal proportions of the body parts; compare dwarf.
Midgetnoun
a person who is abnormally small
Midgetadjective
very small;
Midget
Midget (from midge, a sand fly) is a term for a person of unusually short stature that is considered by some to be pejorative. While not a medical term, it has been applied to persons of unusually short stature, often with dwarfism, a medical condition with a number of causes including achondroplasia, and particularly proportionate dwarfism.
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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.
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(figuratively) A rough, unmannerly, uncouth person.
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(finance) An investor who sells commodities, securities, or futures in anticipation of a fall in prices.
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A state policeman short for smokey bear.
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(slang) A large, hairy man, especially one who is homosexual.
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(engineering) A portable punching machine.
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(nautical) A block covered with coarse matting, used to scour the deck.
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(cartomancy) The fifteenth Lenormand card.
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(colloquial) Something difficult or tiresome; a burden or chore.
Bearverb
To endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in.
Bearverb
(transitive) To support or sustain; to hold up.
Bearverb
(transitive) To carry something.
Bearverb
(transitive) To be equipped with (something).
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(transitive) To wear or display.
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To declare as testimony.
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(ambitransitive) To put up with something.
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(transitive) To give birth to someone or something may take the father of the direct object as an indirect object.
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(ambitransitive) To produce or yield something, such as fruit or crops.
Bearverb
(intransitive) To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere).
Bearverb
(intransitive) To veer slightly in one direction (left or right, usually at a fork in the road)
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(intransitive) To suffer, as in carrying a burden.
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(intransitive) To endure with patience; to be patient.
Bearverb
To press.
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Of a weapon, to be aimed at an enemy or other target.
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To take effect; to have influence or force; to be relevant.
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(transitive) To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.
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To conduct; to bring (a person).
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(transitive) To possess and use (power, etc.); to exercise.
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(transitive) To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbour.
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To gain or win.
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(transitive) To sustain, or be answerable for (blame, expense, responsibility, etc.).
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(transitive) To carry on, or maintain; to have.
Bearverb
(transitive) To admit or be capable of (a meaning); to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
Bearverb
To behave or conduct (oneself).
Bearverb
(transitive) To afford; to be (something) to; to supply with.
Bearadjective
Characterized by declining prices in securities markets or by belief that the prices will fall.
Bearverb
To support or sustain; to hold up.
Bearverb
To support and remove or carry; to convey.
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To conduct; to bring; - said of persons.
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To possess and use, as power; to exercise.
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To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription.
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To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name.
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To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbor
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To endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer.
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To gain or win.
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To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc.
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To render or give; to bring forward.
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To carry on, or maintain; to have.
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To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
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To manage, wield, or direct.
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To afford; to be to; to supply with.
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To bring forth or produce; to yield; as, to bear apples; to bear children; to bear interest.
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To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness.
Bearverb
To suffer, as in carrying a burden.
Bearverb
To endure with patience; to be patient.
Bearverb
To press; - with on or upon, or against.
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To take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring matters to bear.
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To relate or refer; - with on or upon; as, how does this bear on the question?
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To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.
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To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect to something else; as, the land bears N. by E.
Bearverb
To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to bear a railroad stock; to bear the market.
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A bier.
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Any species of the genus Ursus, and of the closely allied genera. Bears are plantigrade Carnivora, but they live largely on fruit and insects.
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An animal which has some resemblance to a bear in form or habits, but no real affinity; as, the woolly bear; ant bear; water bear; sea bear.
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One of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called respectively the Great Bear and the Lesser Bear, or Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.
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Metaphorically: A brutal, coarse, or morose person.
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A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market.
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A portable punching machine.
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A block covered with coarse matting; - used to scour the deck.
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Barley; the six-rowed barley or the four-rowed barley, commonly the former (Hordeum hexastichon or Hordeum vulgare).
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massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws
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an investor with a pessimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to fall and so sells now in order to buy later at a lower price
Bearverb
have;
Bearverb
give birth (to a newborn);
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put up with something or somebody unpleasant;
Bearverb
move while holding up or supporting;
Bearverb
bring forth,
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take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person;
Bearverb
contain or hold; have within;
Bearverb
bring in;
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have on one's person;
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behave in a certain manner;
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have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices;
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support or hold in a certain manner;
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be pregnant with;
Bear
Bears are carnivoran mammals of the family Ursidae. They are classified as caniforms, or doglike carnivorans.