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单词 pare
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Definition of pare in English:

pare

verb pɛːpɛr
[with object]
  • 1Trim (something) by cutting away its outer edges.

    Carlo pared his thumbnails with his knife
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Being a consummate realist, Joyce reports what he observes and then nonchalantly pares his fingernails, as Stephen suggests in the speculative remarks at the end of A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man.
    • As soon as the nails were soft, I pared them right back.
    Synonyms
    cut (off), trim (off), peel (off), shave (off), strip (off), clip (off), skin
    technical decorticate, excoriate
    1. 1.1 Cut off (the outer skin) of something.
      pare off the rind using a peeler
      Example sentencesExamples
      • My brand new trainers were completely wrecked with the imprints of red hot nails all over them, and it took me hours that afternoon to pare off all the blackened rubber with a knife to keep my parents from finding out.
      • Doctors take up knives and pare off flesh and bone.
      • Barrett has the ability to really pare away the onion skins of the individual to show the true man inside.
      • So he needed a thin section, for much the same reason that the microscopist pares off a thin sliver of tissue for investigation.
    2. 1.2 Reduce (something) in size, extent, or quantity in a number of small successive stages.
      union leaders publicly pared down their demands
      we pared costs by doing our own cleaning
      Example sentencesExamples
      • When he wrote the play, his intention was that there should be no excess and so each scene is pared down to exactly what he wants to say.
      • Balanchine's works were pared down; the excess was gone.
      • And so, what might have been a great interview, had it been pared down and edited, became… well, surreal.
      • Requests for large quantities of food were pared down to more practical servings.
      • Some pictures look like they were pared down to a few economical strokes, while others seem to have been insistently added to, and still others explode into calligraphic drawing.
      • The play has been pared down significantly from the original production two years ago in Toronto.
      • Although you spend the entirety of the game within the confines of one of the three controllable vehicles, the vehicle simulation aspect is pared down somewhat, playing more like a third-person shooter.
      • If pizza is going to be the kitchen's focus, a better crust (at least one white one) is necessary, and the ingredients need to be pared down.
      • The beauty of short stories is that they're pared down, more like a poem.
      • The online version is pared down from the print unless you want to pay £1.50, so I'll have to write about my favourite bits another time when I've got the magazine with me.
      • Her prose is pared down to the bone, scarce on imagery and mostly journalistic.
      • And while the army and police force were pared down, and in the case of the police their uniforms updated, the men did not change.
      • The boot's plastic cuff has been pared down so that, while it still cradles the heel and lower leg, it now allows for some forward flex.
      • Gradually, as a summer of physical hardship and anxiety and Stalinist betrayals gives way to the wholesale fight for survival, her language is pared down, as is her focus.
      • Her designs are pared down to a Ming-meets-modernism simplicity.
      • They are pared down, almost parenthetical, and yet they occasionally elevate mundane impressions, especially of his daily life in a New York loft, giving them a lullaby tenderness.
      • Her written requirements were pared down to writing half an essay, half a biography, and half of everything they initially required.
      • That extra cost might have meant other aspects of the clinic's work having to be pared down.
      • It would be the defendant's early application that the writ be pared down to a considerable extent to put it in terms that are able to be properly defended and pleaded to.
      Synonyms
      reduce, diminish, decrease, cut, cut back/down, make cutbacks in, whittle away/down, salami-slice, trim, slim down, prune, lower, lessen, retrench, curtail

Derivatives

  • parer

  • noun ˈpɛːrə
    • That's why John Alexander has gathered around him a group of cheese parers, to slice and dice everything Nine does to make it more profitable by cutting costs, lifting revenue and margins.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Accordingly, fine and decorative arts reside in the Luce Center next to apple parers and segments of the Atlantic Cable.
      • Margaret B. Johnson from Alabama City, Alabama, patented a very interesting ear corn parer (no.935,517, on 28 September 1909, Figure 19).
      • Whatever varieties you use, an apple corer/ sectioner or one of those old-fashioned crank parers will speed up the process.
      • I had just about had it with our current selection of parers.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French parer 'adorn, prepare', also 'peel, trim', from Latin parare 'prepare'.

  • apparatus from early 17th century:

    This is a Latin word, from apparare ‘make ready for’, from parare ‘make ready’. Other words going back to parare include disparate (Late Middle English), ‘prepared apart’; pare (Middle English); prepare (Late Middle English) ‘prepare in advance’; and separate (Late Middle English) from se- ‘apart’ and parare.

Rhymes

affair, affaire, air, Altair, Althusser, Anvers, Apollinaire, Astaire, aware, Ayer, Ayr, bare, bear, bêche-de-mer, beware, billionaire, Blair, blare, Bonaire, cafetière, care, chair, chargé d'affaires, chemin de fer, Cher, Clair, Claire, Clare, commissionaire, compare, concessionaire, cordon sanitaire, couvert, Daguerre, dare, debonair, declare, derrière, despair, doctrinaire, éclair, e'er, elsewhere, ensnare, ere, extraordinaire, Eyre, fair, fare, fayre, Finisterre, flair, flare, Folies-Bergère, forbear, forswear, foursquare, glair, glare, hair, hare, heir, Herr, impair, jardinière, Khmer, Kildare, La Bruyère, lair, laissez-faire, legionnaire, luminaire, mal de mer, mare, mayor, meunière, mid-air, millionaire, misère, Mon-Khmer, multimillionaire, ne'er, Niger, nom de guerre, outstare, outwear, pair, parterre, pear, père, pied-à-terre, Pierre, plein-air, prayer, questionnaire, rare, ready-to-wear, rivière, Rosslare, Santander, savoir faire, scare, secretaire, share, snare, solitaire, Soufrière, spare, square, stair, stare, surface-to-air, swear, Tailleferre, tare, tear, their, there, they're, vin ordinaire, Voltaire, ware, wear, Weston-super-Mare, where, yeah
 
 

Definition of pare in US English:

pare

verbperpɛr
[with object]
  • 1Trim (something) by cutting away its outer edges.

    Carlo pared his thumbnails with his knife
    Example sentencesExamples
    • As soon as the nails were soft, I pared them right back.
    • Being a consummate realist, Joyce reports what he observes and then nonchalantly pares his fingernails, as Stephen suggests in the speculative remarks at the end of A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man.
    Synonyms
    cut, cut off, trim, trim off, peel, peel off, shave, shave off, strip, strip off, clip, clip off, skin
    1. 1.1 Cut off the outer skin of (something)
      pare off the rind using a peeler
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Doctors take up knives and pare off flesh and bone.
      • My brand new trainers were completely wrecked with the imprints of red hot nails all over them, and it took me hours that afternoon to pare off all the blackened rubber with a knife to keep my parents from finding out.
      • Barrett has the ability to really pare away the onion skins of the individual to show the true man inside.
      • So he needed a thin section, for much the same reason that the microscopist pares off a thin sliver of tissue for investigation.
    2. 1.2 Reduce (something) in size, extent, quantity, or number, usually in a number of small successive stages.
      union leaders publicly pared down their demands
      we pared costs by doing our own cleaning
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It would be the defendant's early application that the writ be pared down to a considerable extent to put it in terms that are able to be properly defended and pleaded to.
      • Requests for large quantities of food were pared down to more practical servings.
      • Balanchine's works were pared down; the excess was gone.
      • And so, what might have been a great interview, had it been pared down and edited, became… well, surreal.
      • The online version is pared down from the print unless you want to pay £1.50, so I'll have to write about my favourite bits another time when I've got the magazine with me.
      • When he wrote the play, his intention was that there should be no excess and so each scene is pared down to exactly what he wants to say.
      • And while the army and police force were pared down, and in the case of the police their uniforms updated, the men did not change.
      • The boot's plastic cuff has been pared down so that, while it still cradles the heel and lower leg, it now allows for some forward flex.
      • Gradually, as a summer of physical hardship and anxiety and Stalinist betrayals gives way to the wholesale fight for survival, her language is pared down, as is her focus.
      • The beauty of short stories is that they're pared down, more like a poem.
      • If pizza is going to be the kitchen's focus, a better crust (at least one white one) is necessary, and the ingredients need to be pared down.
      • Her written requirements were pared down to writing half an essay, half a biography, and half of everything they initially required.
      • Although you spend the entirety of the game within the confines of one of the three controllable vehicles, the vehicle simulation aspect is pared down somewhat, playing more like a third-person shooter.
      • They are pared down, almost parenthetical, and yet they occasionally elevate mundane impressions, especially of his daily life in a New York loft, giving them a lullaby tenderness.
      • The play has been pared down significantly from the original production two years ago in Toronto.
      • Her prose is pared down to the bone, scarce on imagery and mostly journalistic.
      • Some pictures look like they were pared down to a few economical strokes, while others seem to have been insistently added to, and still others explode into calligraphic drawing.
      • Her designs are pared down to a Ming-meets-modernism simplicity.
      • That extra cost might have meant other aspects of the clinic's work having to be pared down.
      Synonyms
      reduce, diminish, decrease, cut, cut back, cut down, make cutbacks in, whittle away, whittle down, salami-slice, trim, slim down, prune, lower, lessen, retrench, curtail

Origin

Middle English: from Old French parer ‘adorn, prepare’, also ‘peel, trim’, from Latin parare ‘prepare’.

 
 
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