different between sear vs skar

English

Alternative forms

• sere
• sare

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /si??/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /s??(?)/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English sere, seer, seere, from Old English s?ar, s?ere (“dry, sere, sear, withered, barren”), from Proto-Germanic *sauzaz (“dry”), from Proto-Indo-European *sh?ews- (“dry, parched”) (also reconstructed as *h?sews-). Cognate with Dutch zoor (“dry, rough”), Low German soor (“dry”), German sohr (“parched, dried up”), dialectal Norwegian søyr (“the desiccation and death of a tree”), Lithuanian sa?sas (“dry”), Homeric Ancient Greek ???? (aûos, “dry”). Doublet of sere and sare.

Adjective

sear (comparative searer or more sear, superlative searest or most sear)

1. Dry; withered, especially of vegetation.

Etymology 2

From Middle English seren, seeren, from Old English s?arian (“to become sere, to grow sear, wither, pine away”), from Proto-West Germanic *sau??n (“to dry out, become dry”); compare also Proto-Germanic *sauzijan? (“to make dry”). Related to Old High German s?r?n (“to wither, wilt”). See Etymology 1 for more cognates. The use in firearms terminology may relate to French serrer (“to grip”).

Verb

sear (third-person singular simple present sears, present participle searing, simple past and past participle seared)

1. (transitive) To char, scorch, or burn the surface of (something) with a hot instrument.
2. To wither; to dry up.

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3. (transitive, figuratively) To make callous or insensible.
4. (transitive, figuratively) To mark permanently, as if by burning.

   The events of that day were seared into her memory.

Translations

Noun

sear (plural sears)

1. A scar produced by searing
2. Part of a gun that retards the hammer until the trigger is pulled.

Translations

Anagrams

• AREs, ARSE, Ares, EARs, ERAs, Ersa, SERA, ares, arse, ears, eras, rase, reas, sare, sera

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??r/

Adjective

sear

1. eastern, east

Synonyms

• an ear

Antonyms

• siar

West Frisian

Adjective

sear

1. painful

Inflection

Further reading

• “sear (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Alternative forms

• skare

Etymology

From the root of scare.

Adjective

skar (comparative more skar, superlative most skar)

1. (Britain, Scotland, dialect) wild; timid; shy

Anagrams

• AKRs, Kars, Sark, arks, kars, ksar, sark

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?s????]

Verb

skar

1. past tense of skære

Latvian

Verb

skar

1. 2nd person singular present indicative form of skart
2. 3rd person singular present indicative form of skart
3. 3rd person plural present indicative form of skart
4. 2nd person singular imperative form of skart
5. (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of skart
6. (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of skart

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

skar

1. simple past of skjære

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

skar

1. past tense of skjera and skjere

Etymology 2

From Old Norse skarð, from Proto-Germanic *skard?. Cognates include English shard.

Alternative forms

• skard (alternative spelling)

Noun

skar n (definite singular skaret, indefinite plural skar, definite plural skara)

1. a mountain pass; a navigable ravine

   Synonyms: fjellovergang, pass

2. a shard
3. a notch, chink, gap

Etymology 3

From Old Norse skarsl. Related to skjera (“to cut”).

Noun

skar n (definite singular skaret, indefinite plural skar, definite plural skara)

1. snuff of a candle (the burnt part of a wick)

   Synonym: snart

Etymology 4

From Old Norse sk?r f, from Proto-Germanic *skar?. Related to skjera (“to cut”). Cognates include English share.

Noun

skar n (definite singular skaret, indefinite plural skar, definite plural skara)

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Etymology 5

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

skar

1. present tense of ska

References

• “skar” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• kras, raks, rask

Old Norse

Verb

skar

1. first/third-person singular past indicative active of skera

Swedish

Verb

skar

1. past tense of skära.

Anagrams

• Rask, arks, kars, rask