ware — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

1. Goods or a type of goods offered for sale or use.

   Uso

   • nei composti
   • non numerabile
   • usually

   Esempi

   Astbury was the more successful and made frequent journeys to London, where he sold his ware and obtained further orders.

   Altri esempi (1)

   On Sunday, a Mr. Stephen Muturi Kamau, aged 20 years, was shot dead at Dandora while he was selling his ware. This is a well known hawker. He has been hawking his ware in Dandora.

   What in the world am I going to do with tarnished silver ware? The deeper I dig, I pull out more silver with carved handles.

   Altri esempi (1)

   Artisans sell their ware in the historic district at the lower level of the Soldier's Barracks.

2. See wares.

   Uso

   • in-plural
   • non numerabile
   • usually

3. Pottery or metal goods.

   Uso

   • non numerabile
   • usually

   Esempi

   damascene ware, tole ware

4. A style or genre of artifact.

   Uso

   • numerabile
   • usually

5. Crockery.

   Uso

   • Ireland
   • non numerabile
   • usually

Aggettivo

1. Aware.

   Uso

   • poetico

   Esempi

   And in like wise as she said so they departed, that neither the king nor none of his council were ware of their departing.

   Altri esempi (1)

   But here thou canst not handle aught, neither make the folk ware of thee, not though thou shout thy throat hoarse. For thou and I walk here impalpable and invisible, as it were two dreams walking.

Verbo

1. To be ware or mindful of something.

   Uso

   • dialectal
   • obsoleto

   Esempi

   1450, Palladius on Husbondrieː Ware the horn and heels lest they fling a flap to thee.

   c. 1450, Who Ðat Liste Lokeː Ware avoutrer untrue; Such love was never good ne may be true.

   Altri esempi (2)

   c. 1470, The Macro Playsː ‘Ware that!’ quoth Ser Wyly.

   Ware cleaners.

2. To protect or guard (especially oneself); to be on guard, be wary.

   Uso

   • obsoleto

   Esempi

   Ware thee.

Aggettivo

1. Wary; cautious.

   Uso

   • obsoleto

   Parole correlate

   ward

   Esempi

   He is ware inough; he is wilye, and circumſpect for ſtirring vp any ſedition.

   Of whom be thou ware also.

   Altri esempi (1)

   Be he quite wary, as wood is ware of fire, as thigh of bramble or of thistle, he, who may be thinking to mislead these beeves or to mispossess this cattle.

Sostantivo

1. Seaweed; drift seaweed; seawrack.

   Uso

   • uso britannico
   • dialectal
   • obsoleto

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (3)

   On many of the farms in East Lothian, from 100 to 120 Imperial acres are annually manured with sea-ware; and when I mention that 30 double-cart loads are spread on 1 acre, you may conceive the labour incurred in carting from 3000 to 3600 loads during a short season; for it is only in winter that the ware is cast ashore by storms,[…]

   The said farm, having been possessed […] in the deed of 12th July 1794, with the privilege of taking ware from the sea-shore for the use of the farm, and having been let by them to a tenant in 1804, with "liberty of the droven sea-ware, along with the other tenants of the Elie barony, for manuring the farm," […]

   Each ware-strand, or beach where drift-weed comes to land, is set apart for a certain number of tenants on the estate to which it belongs, and each 'brook of ware' as it comes ashore is divided among these tenants, usually in proportion to their rents.

Sostantivo

1. Spring, springtime.

   Uso

   • Northern-England
   • Scotland

Verbo

1. Old eye dialect spelling of were.

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (1)

   Againſt this ther ware many objections made by the creditors, viz., that quoad the 9000 lƀ. a year contained in his contract of marriage, they ware præferable, being præferable and prior creditors, and ſo he was ſucceſſor titulo lucrativo poſt contractum debitum; and as to the 6000 lƀ. per annum added, 1^(o.) before that letter they had a jus quæſitum by the ſignitor; 2^(do.) They had rights præferable.

   c. 1815, Mary Woody, A true account of Nayomy Wise A larg concors ware standing round

Sostantivo

1. articles of the same kind or material; usually used in combination: ‘silverware’, ‘software’

   Termini più generali

   article

2. items for sale to the individual consumer

   Sinonimi

   merchandiseproduct

   Termini più generali

   commoditytrade goodgood

   Esempi

   good business depends on having good merchandise

   that store offers a variety of products

Verbo

1. spend extravagantly

   Sinonimi

   consumesquanderwaste

   Termini più generali

   spendexpenddrop

   Esempi

   waste not, want not