Definitions
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- noun Plural form of
wear . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
wear .
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Examples
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I have two great books that give me inspiration as the term wears on.
Archive 2007-12-01 The List Writer 2007
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I have two great books that give me inspiration as the term wears on.
Packed lunches The List Writer 2007
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But now e-mails get you any time of day or night - sillier as the term wears on.
Pink or purple? 2006
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The label wears the logos of Kirkland Signature (Costco’s in-house brand), Disney, and the USDA Organic certification, all set in a peaceful blue sky above a field featuring Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger, ’Roo and a unnamed bluebird (in the banner labeling the crackers “Organic”) gamboling about happily.
Kirkland Signature Disney Organic Animal Crackers - Vanilla jkd 2007
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The label wears the logos of Kirkland Signature (Costco’s in-house brand), Disney, and the USDA Organic certification, all set in a peaceful blue sky above a field featuring Pooh, Piglet, Eeyore, Tigger, ’Roo and a unnamed bluebird (in the banner labeling the crackers “Organic”) gamboling about happily.
Archive 2007-09-01 jkd 2007
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The most outlandish is a get-up Mr. Laurin wears to play golf.
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The dark blue suit he wears is one he bought two years ago, at the boy's section of a department store on Magazine Street when he launched his long-shot bid for office.
Joseph Cao, the unlikely congressman from New Orleans Steve Hendrix 2010
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Jean Crain wears such pretty dresses with such detail and her mother does too.
Modest Feminine Dress From the Pages of 1990 Victoria Magazine 2009
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Does TP really have nothing better to report on than polls such as this, or what Sarah Palin wears, or what tea-partiers may have said to a politician?
Think Progress » More Americans have a ‘favorable’ opinion of the IRS than of the Tea Party. 2010
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The scene was recreated for a photograph on the spot: the white headpiece Mr. Santos wears is his shirt and the "pen" in his hand is a vulture 's feather.
A Modern Marat 2010
GHibbs commented on the word wears
Has someone confused it with the plural of the noun 'ware' which sounds the same 'wares'?
For me 'wear' as a noun is singular only, and having looked the definitions given for wear as a noun I see no place for a singular and plural version.
Perhaps someone could give a good example. I looked at over 1000 examples here, but with the exception of the name of a fragrance they were all verbs.'>Really! A noun plural 'wears' that is the plural of 'wear'?
Has someone confused it with the plural of the noun 'ware' which sounds the same 'wares'?
For me 'wear' as a noun is singular only, and having looked the definitions given for wear as a noun I see no place for a singular and plural version.
Perhaps someone could give a good example. I looked at over 1000 examples here, but with the exception of the name of a fragrance they were all verbs.
December 7, 2011
hernesheir commented on the word wears
GHibbs: One learns to take Wiktionary definitions with a grain of salt. Some of them seem to have been machine-compiled from the Internet using words spelled correctly or otherwise. Wordnik doesn't necessarily discriminate. Think of these sorts of entries as part of the big messy thing we call written language. I haven't seen "wears" used as a substantive in the plural. Likely someone somewhere tweeted or wrote online something like "house wears" instead of" housewares", a bot picked it up, and Wiktionary put a definition to it.
December 7, 2011
yarb commented on the word wears
You should probably check another 1,000 examples, just to be sure.
December 7, 2011
rolig commented on the word wears
I could imagine "wear" being used as a count noun in a situation where someone was comparing the durability of different items (their various "wears" after a year of use, for instance), but it's hardly elegant English. It is simply a matter of count-nouning the already existent deverbal noun "wear".
December 7, 2011