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Definition: Bare |
BareAdjective1. Denuded of leaves; "the bare branches of winter". 2. Completely unclothed; "bare bodies"; "naked from the waste up"; "a nude model". 3. Lacking in amplitude or quantity; "a bare livelihood"; "a scanty harvest"; "a spare diet". 4. Without the natural or usual covering; "a bald spot on the lawn"; "bare hills". 5. Not having a protective covering; "unsheathed cables"; "a bare blade". 6. Just barely adequate or within a lower limit; "a bare majority"; "a marginal victory". 7. Apart from anything else; without additions or modifications; "only the bare facts"; "shocked by the mere idea"; "the simple passage of time was enough"; "the simple truth". 8. Lacking a surface finish such as paint; "bare wood"; "unfinished furniture". 9. Providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape". 10. : having extraneous everything removed including contents; "the bare walls"; "the cupboard was bare". 11. : showing ground without the usual covering of grass; "a carefully swept bare yard around the house". Verb1. Lay bare; "bare your breasts"; "bare your feelings". 2. Make public; "She aired her opinions on welfare". 3. Lay bare; "denude a forest". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "bare" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A. To cut coal by hand; to hole by hand b. The uncased portion of borehole. Also called called barefoot; blank; naked; open; open hole. See also:blank hole c. To remove overburden d. Eng. To strip or cut by the side of a fault, boundary, etc.; to makebare. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Nudity is the state of wearing no clothing. It is sometimes used to refer to wearing significantly fewer clothes than expected by the conventions of a particular culture and situation, and in particular exposing the bare skin of intimate parts. The term topless is sometimes used to describe the lack of clothing covering the breasts.
The nude is also a genre of representational art, especially painting and sculpture, that depicts people without clothes on.
Overview
Once the universal state of mankind prior to the invention of clothing, nudity is now rare in the presence of others.
Acceptance of nudity and required levels of clothing vary greatly with time and culture; it also depends on whether other people are present, and if so, who. Some nudity is unavoidable when bathing or going to the toilet, but these can and often are done in private.
Nudity in front of a sexual partner is widely accepted, but even here there may be restrictions. For example, only at the time and place of sex, or with subdued lighting, or covered by a sheet or blanket.
Nudity in front of strangers of the same sex is often more accepted than in front of those of the opposite sex, for example in open showers, common changing rooms, etc. Urinals may have partitions between them to avoid the partial nudity of men to be visible by other men. How common they are varies with the country.
On one extreme some people view nudity as sinful or otherwise wrong except in such unavoidable cases, while other people, such as nudists assert that nudity is the natural state that should ideally be always acceptable in public.
Cultural and Religious Views of Nudity
In some hunter-gatherer cultures in warm climates, near-complete nudity was (at least until the introduction of European culture) standard practice for both men and women. However, this was not always the case. For example, native Americans were generally quite prim where nudity was concerned. A notable exception were the Chumash Indians of southern California who were nudists: men were usually naked, women were often topless.
At the most extreme end of the spectrum, one finds some strict interpretations of Islam that require women to cover their entire bodies, including the face (see burka), on threat of severe punishment.
In the West, standards of what constitutes indecent exposure vary widely. In the early 20th century, exposure of male nipples was considered indecent at some beaches. In general and across cultures, most restrictions are found for exposure of those parts of the human body that put in evidence sexual arousal or sexual dimorphism between male and female adults. Therefore, sex organs and women's breasts are often covered.
In the United States of America, exposure of female nipples is still not usually allowed in public; public breastfeeding, since the exposure it involves is functional, may be looked upon more mildly, but still it is sometimes considered problematic. However, courts in some North American jurisdictions—including Ontario and New York State—have legalized the exposure of women's nipples on equal protection grounds (see United States Constitution/Amendment Fourteen). The movement of "topfree equality" promotes equal rights for woman to have no clothing above the waist; the term "topfree" rather than "topless" is used to avoid the sexual connotation of the latter.
In some Northern European countries (for instance Germany, Finland, and the Netherlands), saunas and Spa towns with mixed-sex nudity exist, while in other countries these places always strictly separate the sexes.
Since the mid-20th century designated topless, clothing-optional and strictly-nude beaches have come into vogue. Topless sunbathing is considered acceptable on the beaches of France, Spain and most of the rest of Europe (and even in many outdoor swimming pools); however, exposure of the genitals is restricted to nudist areas.
It is common in many cultures for children's nudity to not be seen as being particularly disturbing until they reach puberty, or more restrictively, until a younger age. Social sensibilities towards the nudity of children have become far more restrictive in many developed countries over the past two decades, while conversely the nudity of adults has become far more acceptable in many of the same places. Newfound social-awareness about paedophilia and child pornography has instilled in cultures concerns over dangers and negativity with child-nudity; the nude form of children has come to hold negative sexual-connotations, while previously prepubescents would often be viewed as being innately asexual. For example, in New Zealand in previous decades the appearance of photographs of naked minors in newspapers and magazines was socially acceptable, whereas the publication of the same depictions nowadays would almost invariably invoke horror and revulsion amongst the readership.
Nudity is closely associated with sexuality in most cultures where some level of body modesty is expected (in that, nudity is considered to be immodest). This is evidenced by the existence of striptease in these cultures. As an effect of Catholic cultural heritage, in Latin cultures the common sense of modesty does not generally admit genital nudity, but the definition of what is lewd has changed and women's breasts are now commonly exposed or depicted without scandal.
According to the Book of Genesis of the Bible, the first two humans ever, Adam and Eve, were nude at first, but after a transgression against God's rules (the original sin), no longer felt comfortable like that and made aprons of fig leaves.
In the past, the Roman Catholic Church organized the so-called fig-leaf campaign to cover nudity in art, starting from the works of Renaissance artist Michelangelo (see Michelangelo Buonarroti for details). Islam prohibits any illustrations of human beings so the question does not arise there. (There have been exceptions to this rule in some Islamic societies, but apparently none involving nudity.)
Some people enjoy public nudity in a non-sexual context. This movement is known as nudism, or naturism, and often practiced in reserved places that used to be called nudist camps but are now properly referred to as nudist (or naturist) resorts, beaches or clubs.
Exploitation of Nudity
Streaking is running naked through a non-nudist public place, usually for fun.
Nudity has sometimes been used to attract more attention to a public protest, a tactic used by the Doukhobors in the early 20th century, and later (particularly from the 1960s onwards) used more widely. Modern slogans include "Disrobe for disarmament", "Nudes, not nukes!", "Naked For Peace", "Dare 2 Bare 4 Freedom + Peace", "I'd rather go naked than wear fur!" and "I Got Rid Of My Bush! Read My Lips - No To War!"
Sometimes the phrase "extreme nudity" is used, implying that the absence of clothing is very special (either good or bad).
Nudity in the Media
Images of partial and full nudity are used in advertising to draw additional attention. In the case of attractive models this attention is due to the visual pleasure the images provide, in other cases it is rather due to the relative rareness of the images. Nudity tends to be carefully dosed to avoid that the advertising company is associated with being indecent or unrefined. There are also limits on what advertising media such as magazines allow. This has given light to the saying "sex sells."
The portrayal of nudity in motion pictures has long been controversial. Because several early films of the silent era featured rampant full nudity and acts bordering on pornography, scenes of nudity were forbidden in mainstream American films by the Hayes Code from the 1930s until the 1960s when the MPAA film rating system was instituted. Since then, many films have featured various levels of nudity, however full frontal nudity (especially featuring male anatomy) is still rare in American cinema. Full nudity has gained much wider acceptance in European cinema, where the audience perceive non-pornographic nudity as comparably less controversial than excessively depictured violence. Nudity in a sexual, but non-pornographic, context has however in many European countries remained on the fringe of what is socially aceptable for public shows, although the limits have been pushed during the 20th century.
Noteworthy films which have featured nudity, and thus gained some controversy at the time of release, include:
Broadcast television and most "basic cable" outlets in the United States have been more reluctant to display nudity in most cases, the exception being PBS. A few series in the 1990s, including NYPD Blue have occasionally used partial nudity. Nude scenes from theatrically released films are usually edited out, obscured in some fashion (such as, digital imagery may be used to clothe nude actors) for television viewing. Several premium cable services such as HBO and Showtime gained popularity for, among other things, presenting uncut films. In addition, they have produced series that do not shy away from nude scenes, including Sex and the City and The Sopranos.
- Romeo and Juliet (dir. Franco Zeffirelli 1968)
- Women in Love (dir. Ken Russell 1969)
- Last Tango in Paris (dir. Bernardo Bertolucci 1972)
- Blue Velvet (dir. David Lynch 1986)
- Basic Instinct (dir. Paul Verhoeven 1992)
- The Piano (dir. Jane Campion 1993)
Nudity occasionally presents itself in other forms of media as well, often with attending controversy. Album cover art featuring nude photographs by performers such as Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Blind Faith, and Jane's Addiction have stirred controversy over the years.
For images of nudity (not necessarily pornography) the most extreme form is "full-frontal" nudity, referring to the fact that the front side of the crotch is exposed. Frequently images of nude people do not go that far and photos are deliberately composed, and films edited, such that in particular no genitalia are seen, as if the camera failed to see them by chance.
Nudity in art, also publicly displayed, is rather common and more accepted than public nudity of real people. For example, a statue or painting representing a nude person may be displayed in public places where actual nudity is not allowed. However, there is also much art depicting a nude person with some piece of cloth seemingly by chance covering the genitals.
On the Internet, especially on websites featuring images well known people, the terms "Nude" or Nudity" has often been used (some would say misused) to signify indecent exposure; for example a photo of an otherwise fully clothed woman with a nipple exposed. See also: Nude celebrities on the Internet.
See also: Indecent exposure, Mooning, Nudism, Nudity in Sports, Original sin, Barenaked Ladies band
External Links
- Streaking information: http://www.streaking.co.uk/erica.htm
- Naked for Peace
- Spencer Tunick: art photos of public mass nudity
The term naked is also used for having no fur, like The Naked Ape, naked mole rat, and figuratively, like naked truth. In Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Books the animals frequently refer to Mowgli as being naked, meaning furless, but this draws the reader's attention to the fact that he is also naked in the other sense.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Nudity."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
BARE | English | Brazilian Agricultural Research Enterprise | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: BareSynonyms: au naturel(p) (adj), bald (adj), bare(a) (adj), barren (adj), bleak (adj), denudate (adj), denuded (adj), desolate (adj), marginal (adj), mere(a) (adj), naked (adj), nude (adj), scanty (adj), simple(a) (adj), spare (adj), stark (adj), stripped (adj), unfinished (adj), unsheathed (adj), air (v), denude (v), publicise (v), publicize (v), strip (v). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: unbacked (metallurgy). |
| Antonym: sheathed (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Difficulty | Fish in troubled waters, buffet the waves, swim against the stream, scud under bare poles. |
Disclosure | Verb: disclose, discover, dismask; draw the veil, draw aside the veil, lift the veil, raise the veil, lift up the veil, remove the veil, tear aside the veil, tear the curtain; unmask, unveil, unfold, uncover, unseal, unkennel; take off the seal, break the seal; lay open, lay bare; expose; open, open up; bare, bring to light. |
Acknowledge, allow, concede, grant, admit, own, own up to, confess, avow, throw off all disguise, turn inside out, make a clean breast; show one's hand, show one's cards; unburden one's mind, disburden one's mind, disburden one's conscience, disburden one's heart; open one's mind, lay bare one's mind, tell a piece of one's mind; unbosom oneself, own to the soft impeachment; say the truth, speak the truth; turn King's (or Queen's) evidence; acknowledge the corn. | |
Divestment | Verb: divest; uncover; (cover; ); denude, bare, strip; disfurnish; undress, disrobe; (dress, enrobe; ); uncoif; dismantle; put off, take off, cast off; doff; peel, pare, decorticate, excoriate, skin, scalp, flay; expose, lay open; exfoliate, molt, mew; cast the skin. |
In a state of nature, in nature's garb, in the buff, in native buff, in birthday suit; in puris naturalibus; with nothing on, stark naked, stark raving naked; bald as a coot, bare as the back of one's hand; out at elbows; barefoot; bareback, barebacked; leafless, napless, hairless. | |
Adjective: divested; Verb: bare, naked, nude; undressed, undraped; denuded; exposed; in dishabille; bald, threadbare, ragged, callow, roofless. | |
Eventuality | Noun: eventuality, event, occurrence, incident, affair, matter, thing, episode, happening, proceeding, contingency, juncture, experience, fact; matter of fact; naked fact, bare facts, just the facts; phenomenon; advent. |
Improbability | Noun: improbability, unlikelihood; unfavorable chance, bad chance, ghost of a chance, little chance, small chance, poor chance, scarcely any chance, no chance; bare possibility; long odds; incredibility. |
Insufficiency | Slack, at a low ebb; empty, vacant, bare; short of, out of, devoid of, bereft of; denuded of; dry, drained. |
Noun: insufficiency; inadequacy, inadequateness; incompetence; (impotence); deficiency; (incompleteness); imperfection; shortcoming; paucity; stint; scantiness; (smallness); none to spare, bare subsistence. | |
Manifestation | Explicit, overt, patent, express; ostensible; open, open as day; naked, bare, literal, downright, undisguised, exoteric. |
Simplicity | Unadorned, bare, unornamented, undecked, ungarnished, unarranged, untrimmed, unvarnished. |
Smallness | Mere, simple, sheer, stark, bare; near run. |
Supposition | Inkling, suggestion, hint, intimation, notion, impression; bare supposition, vague supposition, loose supposition, loose suggestion. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | My daddy once caught a bullet with his bare hand (Rush Hour; writing credit: Jim Kouf) So what does it feel like to kill a man with your bare hands (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary) I'll never wiggle my bare butt in public again (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) I could kill a man right now with my bare hands (The Invisible Man; writing credit: Craig Silverstein; Jonathan Glassner) With a man who's the best, with guns, with knives, with his bare hands (First Blood; writing credit: David Morrell; Michael Kozoll) | |
Lyrics | It was empty cold and bare (Smoke on the Water; performing artist: Deep Purple) Standing in my bare feet (Cold Day In July; performing artist: Dixie Chicks) Now the stage is bare and I’m standing there (Are You Lonesome Tonight?; performing artist: Elvis Presley) Then you bare it and you tear it (Epic; performing artist: Faith No More) My skin is bare (Take A Picture; performing artist: Filter) | |
Tongue Twisters | Bright blows the broom on the brook's bare brown banks. (references; author: unknown) I cannot bear to see a bear bear down upon a hare. When bare of hair he strips the hare, right there I cry, "Forbear! (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Bare Witness (2002) Skulle det dukke opp flere lik er det bare å ringe (1970) Bare et liv - historien om Fridtjof Nansen (1968) Una Pistola per cento bare (1968) The Bride Stripped Bare (1967) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Planting anchor for Radio Acoustic Ranging hydrophone Must have been warm - note bare foot helping push anchor away from ship. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | The ribs of a once mighty ship bare on the "Graveyard of the Atlantic.". Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Indications of the coming spring melt - bare hills, pools of water, bare hands. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Weasel traveling through the snow with bare tundra in background Weasel driver - Lieutenant Commander Francis X. Popper. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Vegetation catching hold on bare lava rock. Credit: Small World. |  | Field workers whose bare hands come in contact with the water of infected streams are required to rinse ... with alcohol immediately. / [WHO photo]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | "I gar lovte far a ga tur. I dag bare sover han". Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Loading drill on one of the ship's 5"/51 secondary battery guns, 1915. Note projectile, bagged powder charge, rammer, opened gun breech mechanism, sighting telescope on left side of gun, and telephone "talker" standing near the gun. Also note that one of the guncrewmen has bare feet. Credit: NAVY. |
 | A bare half hour, perhaps, left for her homework / Steele. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Pot clay kneaded with bare feet. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Bare Light" by Alex Furr Commentary: "Bare light in our living room after we painted. Was a very eerie place with no furniture or lamp shades etc..." | "Bare light" by Bobbie Osborne Commentary: "No desciption, other than it's a bare light bulb." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Play | Caption |
 | Bubble; pop; future; space; science fiction; breach; bare; break in; break out; broach; burst; bust in; come apart; crack; disclose; display; disrupt; expand; expose; fissure; free; gap; gape; hole; jimmy; kick in; lacerate; lance; penetrate; perforate; p. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Caius Cornelius Tacitus | Whatever is unknown is taken for marvelous; but now the limits of Britain are laid bare. |
Matthew Arnold | Bald as the bare mountain tops are bald, with a baldness full of grandeur. |
Robert Burns | When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare. |
Tupper | The mines of knowledge are often laid bare by the hazel-wand of chance. |
Winston Churchill | We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | So little power does the bare act of begetting give a man over his issue; if all his care ends there, and this be all the title he hath to the name and authority of a father. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | It laid bare the hypocritical apologies of economists. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Its legs and feet, most delicately formed, were, like those upper members, bare. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | So the child flew away like a bird, and, making bare her small white feet, went pattering along the moist margin of the sea. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He saw the plateau of Mont Saint Jean suddenly laid bare, and the front of the English army disappear |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The next day he sat at his table in the bare upper room for many hours |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | His legs were crossed and one bare foot extended nearly as high as his head |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | In previous years I had often gone prospecting over some bare hillside, where a pitch pine wood had formerly stood, and got out the fat pine roots |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | If possible, do not sleep on the bare ground. (references) | |
Discourage nail-biting and scratching bare anal areas. (references) | ||
Yet another variation is known as MHC Class II Deficiency or Bare Lymphocyte Syndrome. (references) | ||
Business | Companies in this market segment do not resort to the services of an architect and endeavor to buy the bare essentials, without much regard for esthetics. (references) | |
In many case car manufacturers had to modify models destined for the Greek market fitting smaller engines and selling them bare of many of features, that were offered as standard in other markets. (references) | ||
Economic History | Vietnam | Warehouses in Vietnam often consist of little more than raw storage space with the bare minimum of environmental control, handling and security equipment. (references) |
Angola | In sharp contrast to a bleak picture of devastation and bare subsistence is expanding oil production, now almost half of GDP and 90% of exports, at 800,000 barrels a day. (references) | |
Ukraine | The breakup of the Soviet Union resulted in the severe dislocation of supply and distribution networks, and many Ukrainian consumers found themselves with bare shelves and widespread shortages of basic goods. (references) | |
Human Rights | Guyana | Some such jails are bare, overcrowded, and damp. (references) |
Zimbabwe | Police blindfolded him, interrogated him about the MDC, kicked and beat him all over his body, including his genitals, with sticks and bare hands. (references) | |
Niger | No investigation into the death of President Bare occurred by year's end, and an investigation is unlikely to be authorized by the National Assembly under its current majority party. (references) | |
Political Economy | Afghanistan | The dislocations associated with more than 20 years of fighting, together with years of severe drought, have reduced the country's economy to a bare subsistence level. (references) |
Trade | Mauritius | Imports of the following items are prohibited: ball valve bottles, caps for toy guns, recapped tires, white phosphorous matches, certain firecrackers, kerosene stoves, water scooters, ivory and tortoise shell, underwater fishing guns, candy in the form of cigarettes, toy crash helmets, cigarette papers, used motor vehicle spare parts, electric water heaters with bare elements, portable electric lamps, teething rings, rolling machines (other than industrial-type rolling machines) for cigarette manufacturing, blue asbestos and its products, and items containing chlorofluorocarbons (CFC). A detailed list is available from the Embassy. (references) |
Worker Rights | Latvia | The monthly legally mandated minimum wage is approximately $98 (60 lats), far below the amount that trade union officials describe as the bare minimum necessary for survival; it does not provide a decent standard of living for a worker and family. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be. His chief occupation is extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earh and Canada. When the world was young and Man was new, And everything was pleasant, Distinctions Nature never drew 'Mongst kings and priest and peasant. We're not that way at present, Save here in this Republic, where We have that old regime, For all are kings, however bare Their backs, howe'er extreme Their hunger. And, indeed, each has a voice To accept the tyrant of his party's choice. A citizen who would not vote, And, therefore, was detested, Was one day with a tarry coat (With feathers backed and breasted) By patriots invested. "It is your duty," cried the crowd, "Your ballot true to cast For the man o' your choice." He humbly bowed, And explained his wicked past: "That's what I very gladly would have done, Dear patriots, but he has never run." Apperton Duke |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Carol Channing | You bare your heart and soul and body to possible axe murderers, to hitmen, to crazy people, to somebody. You bear it and do it anyway. It's the only way. And I have done it since the fourth grade. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Buchanan | 1857-1861 | The bare reference to a single consideration will be conclusive on this point. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We cannot accept a world in which part of humanity lives on the cutting edge of a new economy, and the rest live on the bare edge of survival. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Bare" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 96.10% of the time. "Bare" is used about 2,381 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 96.1% | 2,289 | 3,878 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.14% | 51 | 47,619 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.72% | 41 | 53,521 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.04% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 2,381 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "bare" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Bare | Last name | 2,000 | 6,373 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "bare". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Ira | N/A | Biblical | Making bare |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "bare": a bare living ♦ bare board ♦ bare bones ♦ bare booth ♦ bare chance ♦ bare essentials ♦ bare executor ♦ bare faced ♦ bare hull ♦ bare living ♦ bare metal ♦ bare necessities ♦ bare necessities of life ♦ bare of ♦ bare one's head ♦ bare one's heart ♦ bare one's heart to smb. ♦ bare one's teeth ♦ bare owner ♦ bare place ♦ bare possibility ♦ bare proprietor ♦ bare smb.'s heart to smb. ♦ bare stand ♦ bare subsistence ♦ bare supposition ♦ bare the roots of ♦ become bare ♦ believe smb.'s bare word ♦ dress with a bare midriff ♦ earn a bare living ♦ eke out a bare existence ♦ grow bare ♦ have one's head bare ♦ in one's bare skin ♦ lay bare ♦ lay bare corruption ♦ lay up bare ♦ laying bare ♦ leg bare ♦ little bare monkey ♦ scrape bare ♦ scud under bare poles ♦ sleep on the bare ground ♦ strip bare ♦ the bare fact ♦ thread bare ♦ To lay bare ♦ type bare ♦ under bare poles ♦ with one's bare hands. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "bare": bare-armed, bare-arsed, bare-ass, bare-assed, bare-as-you-dare, bare-back, bare-backed, bare-banked, bare-bodied, bare-bone, bare-boned, bare-bones, bare-bottomed, bare-branched, bare-breasted, bare-chested, bare-earth, bare-face, bare-faced, bare-fisted, bare-foot, bare-footed, bare-gnawn, bare-handed, bare-headed, bare-knuckle, bare-knuckled, bare-knuckles, bare-legged, bare-looking, bare-necked, bare-root, bare-rooted, bare-shelves, bare-shouldered. | |
Ending with "bare": laying-bare, leaf-bare, thread-bare, winter-bare. | |
Containing "bare": ride bare-backed. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
bare foot | 1,664 | bare foot celebrity | 178 |
bare | 1,365 | bare essential make up | 169 |
bare escentuals | 1,128 | bare foot resort | 162 |
bob bare foot | 891 | bare naked | 159 |
bare mineral | 871 | teen bare foot | 143 |
robert bare foot | 705 | bare mineral make up | 137 |
bob bare foot coral calcium | 558 | dr bare foot | 128 |
bare essential | 557 | bare boob | 121 |
bare breast | 509 | bare foot cruise | 119 |
coral calcium robert bare foot | 448 | bare girl | 116 |
bare foot contessa | 419 | bare wench project | 116 |
bare butt | 308 | bare foot calcium | 115 |
annie bare lennox | 294 | bare woman | 113 |
bare ass | 287 | bare foot sandal | 112 |
bare foot landing | 216 | dr robert bare foot | 111 |
bare bottom | 216 | bobby bare | 101 |
bare necessity | 200 | bob bare foot calcium | 101 |
bare foot girl | 192 | bare calcium coral dr foot | 99 |
bare bottom spanking | 186 | bare leg | 99 |
bare foot supreme plus | 183 | bare pussy | 93 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "bare"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | bosh (bladdery, blank, empty, fiddling, gassy, hollow, hot air, idle, inane, milk and water, open, thin, trifling, unoccupied, vacant, vacuous, void, white), zhvesh (defoliate, denude, disarray, dismantle, disrobe, divest, doff, Hull, lay off, remove, scutch, shed, strip, strip naked, unclothe, undress), zbuloj (belie, bewray, blurt out, bring out, bring to light, catch, contrive, descry, detect, develop, disclose, discover, disinter, distil, distill, divine, divulge, enucleate, explore, ferret, ferret about, ferret out, find, find out, hit, hunt down, invent, look out, open, proclaim, puzzle out, rat, reconnoiter, reconnoitre, reveal, rummage, trace, uncloak, uncover, uncurtain, unearth, unlock, unveil), nxjerr në shesh (bring to light, exhume, proclaim, reveal, uncover), minimal (basic, minimal, minimum, narrow), lakuriq (in the state of nature, mother naked, naked, nude, sky-clad, stark naked, uncovered), i zhveshur (bald, bleak, defoliate, dry, leafless, naked, nude, treeless, unclad, undressed), i thjeshtë (abecedarian, artless, austere, chaste, childlike, common, easy, elementary, enlisted, folksy, foolproof, Hick, home-bred, homely, homespun, humble, inelaborate, informal, ingenuous, inornate, mere, modest, native, natural, neat, not mingled, onefold, ordinary, plain, prime, primitive, private, pure, quotidian, rude, russet, rustic, simple, unaffected, unassuming, unceremonious, unpretending, unpretentious, unsophisticated, very), gollomesh (bald, naked, nude). (various references) | |
Arabic | فضى بسريرة نفسه, كشف عن (develop, disclose, discover, rummage, unbosom, unroll), كشف (bring to light, detect, disclose, disclosure, discover, divulge, expose, exposure, find out, lay bare, lay open, lift, make known, open, remove, reveal, revelation, show up, take off, uncover, unearth, unfold, unveil), مجرد (absolute, abstract, just, mere, merely, naked), حاسر الرأس (bare-headed, hatless, unbonneted), عار (black eye, denuded, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, dishonour, humiliation, ignominy, mortification, naked, nude, obloquy, outrage, reflection, reflexion, reproach, scandal, shame, stark naked, starkers, taint, unclad, uncovered), ضئيل جدا (iota), صريح (bluff, candid, categorical, communicative, crude, direct, downright, expansive, explicit, flat, forthcoming, forthright, frank, genuine, guileless, honest, ingenuous, open, open-hearted, outright, outspoken, overt, palpable, plain, plain spoken, plump, point blank, pronounced, raw, round, simple-hearted, steady, straight, straightforward, transparent, unreserved, unvarnished), خلو (vacancy), أعزل (armless, barehanded, naked, unarmed, weaponless), أبدى (exercise, exhibit, manifest, mark), ظاهر للعيان. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | гол (bald, callow, goal, harsh, naked, nude, raw, unfledged, ungloved), открит (above board, bleak, demonstrative, discovered, exposed, free for all, ingenuous, obvious, open, open air, openhearted, outspoken, overt, public, straight, straightforward, transparent, unclosed, uncovered, unscreened, unshaded, wind swept), откривам (descry, detect, dig up, disclose, discover, disinter, espy, expose, find, find out, inaugurate, initiate, lay bare, lay open, lead off, locate, open, pick out, pry out, recover, reopen, reveal, rout out, rout up, run down, spot, strike, unclose, uncover, unearth, unveil), оголвам (dismantle, uncover, undress), непокрит (exposed, naked, unclad), едва достатъчен, празен (airy, airy fairy, barren, blank, empty, hollow, idle, inane, light, loose, piffling, pithless, purposeless, sounding, superficial, uncharged, unsubstantial, untenanted, vacant, vacuous, vain, void, yeasty), изтъркан (hack, hackneyed, napless, old hat, outworn, platitudinous, played out, raunchy, shabby, stale, stereotypical, threadbare, time worn, trite, twice-told, warmed-over, well worn, worn out). (various references) | |
Catalan | nu (naked, nude). (various references) | |
Chinese | 赤裸裸 (naked), 赤 (naked, red, scarlet), 光秃 (Baldness, Bareness). (various references) | |
Czech | bosý (barefoot, barefooted), tasit, tìsný (close, near, pokey, Strait, tight), suchý (arid, bald, dead, desiccated, droughty, dry, hacking, matter of fact, pedestrian, sear, sere, torrid, wry), prázdný (blank, clean, disused, empty, hollow, inane, light, meaningless, unoccupied, vacant, vacuous, vapid, void, windy), odkrýt (detect, discover, enucleate, expose, open, take off, uncover), odřený (chafed, raw, scratched, sore), obnažit (denude, dismantle, draw, expose, uncover), obnažený (denudative, drawn, exposed, nude, uncovered), nahý (drawn, in the nude, naked, nude, undressed), holý (bald, bleak, hard, naked, stark, undiluted, utter). (various references) | |
Danish | nøgen (naked, nude). (various references) | |
Dutch | onopgesmukt (naked, nude), onbedekt (naked, nude), naakt (naked, nude), bloot (mere, naked, nude, sole, solitary). (various references) | |
Esperanto | nuda (naked, nude). (various references) | |
Faeroese | nakin (naked, nude). (various references) | |
Farsi | لخت (Lax, Naked, Nude, Picked, Stodgy), ساده (Bald, Downright, Explicit, Homespun, Idiot, Inexpensive, Plain, Positive, Simple, Slick, Unaadorned, Unaffected, Unassuming, Unceremonious, Unmeaning, Untutored), عاری (Devoid), عریان (Bald, Naked, Nude, Unaadorned), اشکارکردن (Air, Announce, Disclose, Display, Light, Quarry, Reveal, Unbonnet, Uncover, Unfold, Unhood), اشکار (Apparent, Conspicuous, Evident, Explicit, Manifest, Obvious, Open, Out, Overt, Palpable, Plain, Signal), برهنه کردن (Denude, Disrobe, Strip, Uncover). (various references) | |
Finnish | alaston (naked, nude, uncovered, undressed). (various references) | |
French | nu, dénudé. (various references) | |
Frisian | bleat (naked, nude), neaken (naked, nude). (various references) | |
German | nackt (blunt, buff, callow, naked, nakedly, nude, nudely, plain, raw, stark), bloß (alone, exclusively, just, mere, merely, naked, nude, only, pure, purely, sheer, simply, sole, solely, solitary, very), kahl (bald, baldly, barren, bleak, featherless, leafless, naked, shaved, shorn, stark), entblößen (denude, divest, draw, expose, reveal, to bare, to denude, to divest, uncover, unsheathe). (various references) | |
Greek | γυμνός (bleak, naked, stark). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מצומצם (accurate, contracted, limited, narrow, reduced, scanty, scarce, skimpy), שפוי (incline, slope, smooth, tilt), עירום (buff, in the nude, naked, nakedness, nudity, unclad), ערום (naked, nude, stripped), חשוף (bareness, exposed, exposure, laying bare, naked, opening, stripped, uncovered). (various references) | |
Hungarian | puszta (barren, bleak, desert, mere, prairie, pure, sheer, waste), meztelen (have nothing on, naked, nude, scuddy, skinless, unclad), kopár (bald, barren, bleak, stark, treeless), csupasz (bald, naked, nude, pure, smooth). (various references) | |
Indonesian | telanjang (naked, nude, undress), memperlihatkan (attest, bespeale, disclose), kosong (blank, nonexistent, vacuous), gundul (bald, leafless), calang. (various references) | |
Italian | nudo (naked, nude, plain, stripped), denudare (denude, divest, strip, undress). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 裸 (naked, nude), 丸出し (broad, exposed, undisguised). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | まるだし (broad, exposed, undisguised), はだか (naked, nude). (various references) | |
Korean | 벌거벗는. (various references) | |
Lombard | biòtt (naked, nude). (various references) | |
Manx | roostey (debunk, deprive, exposure, hull, peel, peeling, rifle, rind, rob, strip, strip of a girl, stripping, unbark), rooishtey (decorticate, defoliate; emergence, undress), meayllaghey (bald, damp, depilate, depilation, flatten, put back), lommey (clip, clip as sheep, strip), loamey (baring), lhome (arid, bald, fleshless, leafless, meagre, naked, neat, nude, scraggy, severe, spare), baarey (clip, cut, dress, paring knife, poll, prune, shave). (various references) | |
Papiamen | sunú (naked, nude). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | arebay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | nu (naked, |
