Ant-bear
(n.) An edentate animal of tropical America (the Tamanoir), living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga. |
Bear
(v. t.) To support or sustain |
Bear
(v. t.) To support and remove or carry |
Bear
(v. t.) To conduct |
Bear
(v. t.) To possess and use, as power |
Bear
(v. t.) To sustain |
Bear
(v. t.) To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction |
Bear
(v. t.) To possess mentally |
Bear
(v. t.) To endure |
Bear
(v. t.) To gain or win. |
Bear
(v. t.) To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc. |
Bear
(v. t.) To render or give |
Bear
(v. t.) To carry on, or maintain |
Bear
(v. t.) To admit or be capable of |
Bear
(v. t.) To manage, wield, or direct. |
Bear
(v. t.) To behave |
Bear
(v. t.) To afford |
Bear
(v. t.) To bring forth or produce |
Bear
(v. i.) To produce, as fruit |
Bear
(v. i.) To suffer, as in carrying a burden. |
Bear
(v. i.) To endure with patience |
Bear
(v. i.) To press |
Bear
(v. i.) To take effect |
Bear
(v. i.) To relate or refer |
Bear
(v. i.) To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect. |
Bear
(v. i.) To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect to something else |
Bear
(n.) A bier. |
Bear
(n.) Any species of the genus Ursus, and of the closely allied genera. Bears are plantigrade Carnivora, but they live largely on fruit and insects. |
Bear
(n.) An animal which has some resemblance to a bear in form or habits, but no real affinity |
Bear
(n.) One of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called respectively the Great Bear and the Lesser Bear, or Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. |
Bear
(n.) Metaphorically: A brutal, coarse, or morose person. |
Bear
(n.) A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market. |
Bear
(n.) A portable punching machine. |
Bear
(n.) A block covered with coarse matting |
Bear
(v. t.) To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in |
Bear
(n.) Alt. of Bere |
Bear's-breech
(n.) See Acanthus, n., 1. |
Bear's-breech
(n.) The English cow parsnip (Heracleum sphondylium) |
Bear's-ear
(n.) A kind of primrose (Primula auricula), so called from the shape of the leaf. |
Bear's-foot
(n.) A species of hellebore (Helleborus foetidus), with digitate leaves. It has an offensive smell and acrid taste, and is a powerful emetic, cathartic, and anthelmintic. |
Bear's-paw
(n.) A large bivalve shell of the East Indies (Hippopus maculatus), often used as an ornament. |
Cold-short
(a.) Brittle when cold |
Exchange
(n.) The act of giving or taking one thing in return for another which is regarded as an equivalent |
Exchange
(n.) The act of substituting one thing in the place of another |
Exchange
(n.) The thing given or received in return |
Exchange
(n.) The process of setting accounts or debts between parties residing at a distance from each other, without the intervention of money, by exchanging orders or drafts, called bills of exchange. These may be drawn in one country and payable in another, in which case they are called foreign bills |
Exchange
(n.) A mutual grant of equal interests, the one in consideration of the other. Estates exchanged must be equal in quantity, as fee simple for fee simple. |
Exchange
(n.) The place where the merchants, brokers, and bankers of a city meet at certain hours, to transact business. In this sense often contracted to 'Change. |
Exchange
(n.) To part with give, or transfer to another in consideration of something received as an equivalent |
Exchange
(n.) To part with for a substitute |
short sale
short selling | sale of securities or commodity futures not owned by the seller (who hopes to buy them back later at a lower price) |
| short covering | the purchase of securities or commodities by a short seller to close out a short sale |
incentive option
incentive stock option | an option granted to corporate executives if the company achieves certain financial goals |
auction
auction sale
vendue | the public sale of something to the highest bidder |
| exchange | (chess) the capture by both players (usually on consecutive moves) of pieces of equal value, the endgame began after the exchange of queens |
| exchange | (chess) gaining (or losing) a rook in return for a knight or bishop, black lost the exchange |
| bear hug | a takeover bid so attractive that the directors of the target company must approve it or risk shareholder protest |
substitution
exchange commutation | the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another: he sent Smith in for Jones but the substitution came too late to help |
| exchange transfusion | slow removal of a person's blood and its replacement with equal amounts of a donor's blood |
split stock split
split up | an increase in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity, they announced a two-for-one split of the common stock |
reverse split
reverse stock split
split down | a decrease in the number of outstanding shares of a corporation without changing the shareholders' equity |
whist
long whist
short whist | a card game for four players who form two partnerships, a pack of cards is dealt and each side scores one point for each trick it takes in excess of six |
technical analysis
technical analysis of stock trends | (stock exchange) analysis of past price changes in the hope of forecasting future price changes |
shortstop
short | the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base |
| bear hug | a wrestling hold with arms locked tightly around the opponent |
nap
catnap
cat sleep
forty winks
short sleep
snooze | sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed) |
| short division | the operation of division in which the sequence of steps is performed without writing them out |
inventory
inventorying
stocktaking
stock-taking | making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand, an inventory may be necessary to see if anything is missing, they held an inventory every month |
stocktake
stock-take | an instance of stocktaking, the auditor did not attend the stocktake or check the valuations |
| stock issue | (corporation law) the authorization and delivery of shares of stock for sale to the public or the shares thus offered at a particular time |
exchange
interchange | reciprocal transfer of equivalent sums of money (especially the currencies of different countries), he earns his living from the interchange of currency |
| hard sell | forceful and insistent advertising |
| soft sell | suggestive or persuasive advertising |
| exchange | the act of giving something in return for something received, deductible losses on sales or exchanges of property are allowable |
selling
merchandising
marketing | the exchange of goods for an agreed sum of money |
| sale | a particular instance of selling, he has just made his first sale, they had to complete the sale before the banks closed |
| sell | the activity of persuading someone to buy, it was a hard sell |
| sale | the general activity of selling, they tried to boost sales, laws limit the sale of handguns |
sale cutate sale
sales event | an occasion (usually brief) for buying at specially reduced prices, they held a sale to reduce their inventory, I got some great bargains at their annual sale |
car boot sale
boot sale | an outdoor sale at which people sell things from the trunk of their car |
clearance sale
inventorylearance sale | a sale to reduce inventory |
| fire sale | a sale of merchandise supposedly damaged by fire |
| fire sale | a sale of assets at very low prices typically when the seller faces bankruptcy |
garage sale
yard sale | an outdoor sale of used personal or household items held on the seller's premises |
| going-out-of-business sale | a sale of all the tangible assets of a business that is about to close, during the Great Depression going-out-of-business sales were very common |
rummage sale
jumble sale | a sale of donated articles |
| white sale | a sale of household linens |
| exchange interchange | the act of changing one thing for another thing, Adam was promised immortality in exchange for his disobedience, there was an interchange of prisoners |
rally
exchange | (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes, after a short rally Connors won the point |
| bear cub | a young bear |
sedge wren short-billed marsh wren
Cistothorus platensis | small American wren inhabiting wet sedgy meadows |
harrier eagle
short-toed eagle | any of numerous large Old World hawks intermediate in some respects between typical hawks and typical eagles |
koala
koala bear
kangaroo bear
native bear
Phascolarctos cinereus | sluggish tailless Australian arboreal marsupial with grey furry ears and coat, feeds on eucalyptus leaves and bark |
livestock
stock
farm animal | any animals kept for use or profit |
short-tailed shrew
Blarina brevicauda | North American shrew with tail less than half its body length |
aardvark
ant bear anteater Orycteropus afer | nocturnal burrowing mammal of the grasslands of Africa that feeds on termites, sole extant representative of the order Tubulidentata |
| German short-haired pointer | liver or liver-and-white hunting dog developed in Germany,
pointer and
bloodhound |
| bear | massive plantigrade carnivorous or omnivorous mammals with long shaggy coats and strong claws |
brown bear
bruin Ursus arctos | large ferocious bear of Eurasia |
Syrian bear
Ursus arctos syriacus | yellowish-grey Syrian brown bear |