The bear laughed and joined his companion, and the torpedo thundered away. This may be done by taking the humming tone and bringing to bear upon it a strong pressure of energy. The left heel followed like lightning, and the right paw also slipped, letting the bear again fall heavily on the ice below. The bear watched him narrowly with its wicked little eyes, though it did not see fit to cease its paw-licking.
In addition to the idioms beginning with bear. New Word List Word List. Save This Word! See synonyms for bear on Thesaurus. I can hardly bear to see her suffering so.
Verb Phrases. We could talk until we're blue in the face about this quiz on words for the color "blue," but we think you should take the quiz and find out if you're a whiz at these colorful terms. Idioms about bear. Bear, stand, endure refer to supporting the burden of something distressing, irksome, or painful. Bear and stand are close synonyms and have a general sense of withstanding: to bear a disappointment well; to stand a loss. Endure implies continued resistance and patience in bearing through a long time: to endure torture.
Borne is the past participle in all senses that do not refer to physical birth: The wheatfields have borne abundantly this year. Brown bears in Alaska gorge on spawning salmon, plucking them from the water or catching them right out of the air as they jump.
Among the biggest threats to all species of bears is habitat loss, especially from logging, agriculture, and growing human populations. Bears are killed out of concern for human safety or in retaliation for hunting livestock or crop-raiding. Some species of bears, including Asiatic black bears and sun bears, are also threatened by the illegal wildlife trade.
Bear bile, which is produced in the gall bladder, is an important ingredient in traditional Chinese medicine. Asiatic black bears and sun bears may be poached for their gall bladders, paws, skins, and other parts.
Sometimes American black bears are also targeted for the same reasons. Climate change is also a significant threat, especially polar bears. Melting sea ice poses an existential threat to polar bears. All rights reserved. Common Name: Bears.
Scientific Name: Ursidae. Type: Mammals. Diet: Omnivore. Size: 4 to 8 feet tall. Weight: 60 to 1, pounds. See all of National Geographic's videos about bears here. Share Tweet Email. Go Further. Phrasal verbs bear down.
The brokerage , which has been a persistent bear in recent months , switched its recommendation from sell to hold. The bears are driven by bad economic news from Japan, such as July's 2. Compare bull. See also bear market. Examples of bear. The fitness consequences of bearing domatia and having the right ant partner: experiments with protective and non-protective ants in a semi-myrmecophyte. From the Cambridge English Corpus. The iconography of fresco decorations in the same halls bears out and reinforces the difference of emphasis.
That to me represents lack of understanding of the very special knowledge that is brought to bear. For many, trust was borne out of positive experience from past referrals. Electrostatic potential between surfaces bearing ionizable groups in ionic equilibrium with physiologic saline solution. It should be borne in mind that the scale is a screen for depressive symptoms rather than a diagnostic instrument. It is worth bearing in mind, however, that their subjects were university students.
His perceptions are certainly borne out by my own experience of visiting the building. In some cases, arguments bear semantic properties that, typically, require that they bear a direct grammatical function, but in these cases they do not. In fact, although the discipline he imposed in his factory was a severe one, it was born of a desire to improve his workmen's lot.
The children were interested in the bear and wanted to hear ' him ' reply. Indeed, prompt-the control delimiter-was "born" twice for radically different reasons. Infants were healthy with no known developmental delays and were born full-term weeks with normal birth weights 2.
Four patients had been born prematurely and had ductal ligation soon after birth. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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