rare

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ɹɛə/|/ɹɛː/    美 /ɹɛɚ/|/ɹɛɹ/|/ɹeː/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A scarce or uncommon item.
    — Most of the time, you do this by trading low-valued rares for more valuable ones or trading uncommons for rares. Other times it's trading cards that are in print for ones that are out of print, or low-value rares for good uncommons.
动词 v.
  1. To rear, rise up, start backwards. US,intransitive
    — Frank pretended to rare back as if bedazzled, shielding his eyes with a forearm.
  2. To rear, bring up, raise. US,transitive
    — Here I have to say that I was walking along dark-hearted, my nose out of joint about Audie's notice of her, for just as quickly as my feelings kindled, my old envy rared.
形容词 adj.
  1. Very uncommon; scarce.
    — Black pearls are very rare and therefore very valuable.
  2. Particularly of meat, especially beefsteak: cooked very lightly, so the meat is still red.
    — Then Curds and Cream, the Flow'r of Country Fare, / And new-laid Eggs, which Baucis’ buſie Care / Turn’d by a gentle Fire, and roaſted rare.
  3. Early. obsolete
    — The men, that sway / In work of those tools that so fit our state, / Are rude mechanicals, that rare and late / Work in the market-place;
  4. Small in number (but not unusual); infrequent; sparse.
    — The anterior and posterior skin of the upper chest and shoulders demonstrated irregularly jagged borders with areas of soot and charring focally. The soft and bony tissues underlying the borders were markedly damaged by presumed explosive injuries. There were rare abrasions and contusions of the chest and upper extremities. The lower extremities demonstrated rare abrasions and contusions as well as severe lacerations of the anteromedial knees with underlying fractures of the distal aspects of the femora (Image 4).
  5. Thin; of low density.
  6. Good; enjoyable. UK,slang
    — Sees her reflection in a butcher shop. She finds it all quite rare That her meat's all vanity fair.
  7. Cool; excellent. US,slang
    — I whistled for a cab and when it came near / The license plate said ‘fresh’ and it had dice in the mirror. / If anything I could say that this cab was rare.

词形变化

rarer comparative rarest superlative rares plural rarer comparative more rare comparative rarest superlative most rare superlative reer alternative,UK rere alternative,UK rares present,singular,third-person raring participle,present rared participle,past rared past more rare comparative most rare superlative

词汇关系

近义词
dearthy few and far between geason infrequent in short supply rare raresome scant scantling scarce selcouth seld seldom selly superrare uncommon unfrequent
反义词
common widespread
下位词
strange unique
衍生词
in rare form nonrare on rare form rare animal rare as a four-leaf clover rare as hen's teeth rare as rocking horse shit rare bird rare earth rare earth element rare-earth element rare earth magnet rare earth metal rare earth mineral rare gas rare groove rareish rareness rarepair raresome rare spring-sedge rarify semirare superrare ultrarare unrare vanishingly rare
相关词
rarity rarefy rareness For the adverb (e.g. rarely) see Thesaurus:occasionally frequency

词源

词源 1
From Middle English rare, from Old French rare, rere (“rare, uncommon”), from Latin rārus (“loose, spaced apart, thin, infrequent”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“friable, thin”). Displaced native English geason (“rare, scarce”) (from Middle English gesen, from Old English gǣsne); and largely displaced Middle English seld (“rare, uncommon”) (from Old English selden) and Middle English seldscene (“rare, rarely seen, infrequent”) (from Old English seldsēne)
hence modern English seld
词源 2
From a dialectal variant of rear, from Middle English rere, from Old English hrēr, hrēre (“not thoroughly cooked, underdone, lightly boiled”), from hrēran (“to move, shake, agitate”), from Proto-Germanic *hrōzijaną (“to stir”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱroHs- (“to mix, stir, cook”). Related to Old English hrōr (“stirring, busy, active, strong, brave”). More at rear.
词源 3
Variant of rear.
词源 4
Compare rather, rath.
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