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REAR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The side that goes last or is not normally seen
Example:
he wrote the date on the back of the photograph
Synonyms:
back; rear
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("rear" is a kind of...):
side (an extended outer surface of an object)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rear"):
after part; poop; quarter; stern; tail (the rear part of a ship)
empennage; tail; tail assembly (the rear part of an aircraft)
Antonym:
front (the side that is seen or that goes first)
Derivation:
rear (located in or toward the back or rear)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
Example:
are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?
Synonyms:
arse; ass; backside; behind; bottom; bum; buns; butt; buttocks; can; derriere; fanny; fundament; hind end; hindquarters; keister; nates; posterior; prat; rear; rear end; rump; seat; stern; tail; tail end; tooshie; tush
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("rear" is a kind of...):
body part (any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity)
Holonyms ("rear" is a part of...):
body; torso; trunk (the body excluding the head and neck and limbs)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The back of a military formation or procession
Example:
infantrymen were in the rear
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("rear" is a kind of...):
formation (an arrangement of people or things acting as a unit)
Domain category:
armed forces; armed services; military; military machine; war machine (the military forces of a nation)
Antonym:
head (the front of a military formation or procession)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer
Example:
it was hidden in the rear of the store
Synonyms:
back; rear
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("rear" is a kind of...):
place; position (the particular portion of space occupied by something)
Derivation:
rear (located in or toward the back or rear)
Sense 5
Meaning:
The side of an object that is opposite its front
Example:
his room was toward the rear of the hotel
Synonyms:
back end; backside; rear
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("rear" is a kind of...):
face; side (a surface forming part of the outside of an object)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rear"):
nape; nucha; scruff (the back side of the neck)
rearward (direction toward the rear)
Antonym:
front (the side that is forward or prominent)
Derivation:
rear (located in or toward the back or rear)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Located in or toward the back or rear
Example:
on the rearward side
Synonyms:
rear; rearward
Classified under:
Similar:
back (related to or located at the back)
Derivation:
rear (the side that goes last or is not normally seen)
rear (the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer)
rear (the side of an object that is opposite its front)
III. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they rear ... he / she / it rears
Past simple: reared
Past participle: reared
-ing form: rearing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Construct, build, or erect
Example:
Raise a barn
Synonyms:
erect; put up; raise; rear; set up
Classified under:
Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing
Hypernyms (to "rear" is one way to...):
build; construct; make (make by combining materials and parts)
Domain category:
building; construction (the act of constructing something)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Stand up on the hind legs, of quadrupeds
Example:
The horse reared in terror
Synonyms:
rear; rise up
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "rear" is one way to...):
straighten (get up from a sitting or slouching position)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rear"):
rear back (rear backwards on its hind legs)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Sense 3
Meaning:
Cause to rise up
Synonyms:
erect; rear
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "rear" is one way to...):
bring up; elevate; get up; lift; raise (raise from a lower to a higher position)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rear"):
pitch; set up (erect and fasten)
cock up; prick; prick up (raise)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 4
Meaning:
Look after a child until it is an adult
Example:
bring up children
Synonyms:
bring up; nurture; parent; raise; rear
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Cause:
grow up (become an adult)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rear"):
fledge (feed, care for, and rear young birds for flight)
cradle (bring up from infancy)
foster (bring up under fosterage; of children)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
rearing (helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community)
rearing (the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Rise up
Example:
The building rose before them
Synonyms:
lift; rear; rise
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Hypernyms (to "rear" is one way to...):
appear; look; seem (give a certain impression or have a certain outward aspect)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rear"):
hulk; loom; predominate; tower (appear very large or occupy a commanding position)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Context examples:
Look to the front, and you'll find no difference; look to the rear, and there it is still.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Around one-third of all food grown and reared for humans is lost during production and transport, or wasted in households and during industrial food processing, they said.
(Model shows pathway to feeding the world, SciDev.Net)
Wolf Larsen stooped, coolly, to the Cockney, and pressed with thumb and finger at the rear of the jaws and below the ears.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The bear advanced clumsily a couple of steps, reared up, and gave vent to a tentative growl.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Mr Shepherd answered for his being of a gentleman's family, and mentioned a place; and Anne, after the little pause which followed, added—He is a rear admiral of the white.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
If you have not, you are not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a considerable part in the history of the country.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There was not one family among their acquaintance who had reared and supported a boy accidentally found at their door—not one young man whose origin was unknown.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
The researchers gave the mice an antibiotic cocktail designed to wipe out a broad spectrum of bacteria in the gut and by rearing them in a germ-free environment.
(In uveitis, bacteria in gut may instruct immune cells to attack the eye, NIH)
His charitable kindness had been rearing a prime comfort for himself.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
He led the way to a small chamber in the rear of the Throne Room, and they all followed him.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
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