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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
pear
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
prickly pear
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
prickly
▪ He was an old countryman with a betel-ravaged mouth, the cancerous tongue sticking helplessly out like a crimson prickly pear.
▪ Heading up an orange-dirt trail, she passes prickly pear cactus and yucca.
▪ Did Zenaida burn up, poisoned herself by the robe of prickly pear?
▪ Harsh fortresses of prickly pears and shard grass and dead branches block off all escape.
▪ We could see grassy tracks winding through the fields between stone walls and hedges of prickly pear.
▪ When they thinned out he headed for the cherry blossoms, then magnolia, chinaberry, pecan, walnut and prickly pear.
▪ With an Epilady you don't end up with a prickly pear.
▪ Dance off that burnt passion fruit tart with fresh mango and prickly pear to get a head start on 2001 resolutions.
■ NOUN
shape
▪ I had put on around a stone during the year and I was beginning to take on the traditional pear shape.
▪ The thing stayed where it was: a small, grey, pear shape made of some doughy material.
tree
▪ All varieties of plum, apple, and pear trees, grew in unison.
▪ Q: I bought two Bartlett pear trees.
▪ It must be a blackbird she could hear in the pear tree.
▪ Under a pear tree in the far comer of the orchard was a picturesque timber built shed.
▪ With some memory, perhaps, of childhood, I had planted a pear tree outside the window.
▪ When the arbour collapsed, when the pear tree blew over, they cleared the wreckage and left Nature to it.
▪ Really, it was a small orchard, with some apple and pear trees and untended grass.
▪ How the leaves which still clung to the branches of the pear tree were silvered on their undersides.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Add the tomatoes and their juice along with the drained pear halves.
▪ Bartlett pears are susceptible to fire blight.
▪ Heading up an orange-dirt trail, she passes prickly pear cactus and yucca.
▪ I thought they was pears at first and I got excited, cos I like pears, but they wasn't.
▪ If the pears are quite firm simmer in a large saucepan for 20-30 minutes until tender.
▪ Now she could feel him, a bulge like a pear.
▪ You may wish to leave the softer peel on a peach, but remove the tougher peel of a pear or apple.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pear

Pear \Pear\ (p[^a]r), n. [OE. pere, AS. peru, L. pirum: cf. F. poire. Cf. Perry.] (Bot.) The fleshy pome, or fruit, of a rosaceous tree ( Pyrus communis), cultivated in many varieties in temperate climates; also, the tree which bears this fruit. See Pear family, below. Pear blight.

  1. (Bot.) A name of two distinct diseases of pear trees, both causing a destruction of the branches, viz., that caused by a minute insect ( Xyleborus pyri), and that caused by the freezing of the sap in winter.
    --A. J. Downing.

  2. (Zo["o]l.) A very small beetle ( Xyleborus pyri) whose larv[ae] bore in the twigs of pear trees and cause them to wither.

    Pear family (Bot.), a suborder of rosaceous plants ( Pome[ae]), characterized by the calyx tube becoming fleshy in fruit, and, combined with the ovaries, forming a pome. It includes the apple, pear, quince, service berry, and hawthorn.

    Pear gauge (Physics), a kind of gauge for measuring the exhaustion of an air-pump receiver; -- so called because consisting in part of a pear-shaped glass vessel.

    Pear shell (Zo["o]l.), any marine gastropod shell of the genus Pyrula, native of tropical seas; -- so called from the shape.

    Pear slug (Zo["o]l.), the larva of a sawfly which is very injurious to the foliage of the pear tree.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pear

Old English pere, peru "pear," common West Germanic (Middle Dutch, Middle Low German pere, Old High German pira, bira, Dutch peer), from Vulgar Latin *pera, variant of Latin pira, plural (taken for fem. singular) of pirum "pear," a loan word from an unknown source. It likely shares an origin with Greek apion "pear," apios "pear tree."

Wiktionary
pear

n. 1 An edible fruit produced by the pear tree, similar to an apple but elongated towards the stem. 2 (''also'' '''pear tree''') A type of fruit tree (''Pyrus communis''). 3 The wood of the pear tree. 4 choke pear (a torture device).

WordNet
pear
  1. n. sweet juicy gritty-textured fruit available in many varieties

  2. Old World tree having sweet gritty-textured juicy fruit; widely cultivated in many varieties [syn: pear tree, Pyrus communis]

Wikipedia
Pear (Užice)

Pear ( Serbian Cyrillic: Пеар) is a village located in the Užice municipality of Serbia. In the 2002 census, the village had a population of 537.

Category:Užice Category:Populated places in Zlatibor District

PEAR

The PHP Extension and Application Repository, or PEAR, is a repository of PHP software code. Stig S. Bakken founded the PEAR project in 1999 to promote the re-use of code that performs common functions. The project seeks to provide a structured library of code, maintain a system for distributing code and for managing code packages, and promote a standard coding style. Though community-driven, the PEAR project has a PEAR Group which serves as the governing body and takes care of administrative tasks. Each PEAR code package comprises an independent project under the PEAR umbrella. It has its own development team, versioning-control and documentation.

Pear (disambiguation)

A pear is a tree of the genus Pyrus and the fruit of that tree, edible in some species

Pear may refer to:

  • Guacamole, a fruit that is referred to as "pear" in certain countries
  • Pear-shaped, a metaphorical term with several meanings, all in reference to the shape of a (European) pear, i.e. tapering towards the top

Pear or Pears may also refer to:

  • Pear, West Virginia, a community in the United States
  • Pears Cyclopaedia, a one-volume encyclopædia published in the United Kingdom
  • Pears (surname)
  • Pear, a human Female body shape
  • Pear Tree House, a Civil defence control centre in London
  • PearPC, an open-source PowerPC emulator
  • Choke pear (torture) or Pear of Anguish, an implement of torture
  • Pear (Užice), a village in the vicinity of Užice, Serbia
  • Pears soap, a brand of soap
  • Worcestershire County Cricket Club, who have the traditional nickname of the 'Pears', based on their badge and the Worcestershire county emblem of a pear tree or three black pears
  • Pear people, an indigenous group in Cambodia and Thailand
  • Pear language, an endangered Mon-Khmer language of Cambodia
  • Pear (color), a shade of green
  • Pear (Annoying Orange), a character in Annoying Orange
  • Pear (company), a sponsorship and fundraising company

PEAR may stand for:

  • PHP Extension and Application Repository, a computer programming framework and distribution system for PHP code components
  • polymerase-endonuclease amplification reaction
  • Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab, a now disbanded program which attempted to study the paranormal
  • Processing Engine ARchive, a standard format for packaging UIMA components
  • Province de L'Eglise Anglicane au Rwanda, the French name for the Anglican Church of Rwanda
Pear (company)

Pear is an online sponsorship and grassroots fundraising platform that connects local groups with national brands through social engagements. It enables businesses to advertise through hyperlocal sponsorship programs; for example, the Mondelez International brand, Ritz Bits, sponsoring youth soccer teams or Allstate sponsoring groups in specific community markets.

Local organizations and teams earn custom apparel, donations, or other services provided by brands, through completing online tasks, such as liking a brand’s Facebook page or watching a short YouTube video. For every online task completed, the group is awarded funds towards their specific fundraising goal. There are over 300 kinds of groups and organizations that can use Pear: events, college groups, professional organizations, clubs and more.

Pear was founded by Jared Golden and Amish Tolia in 2009 as the Apparel Media Group. They developed the idea when they ran a campus apparel company in school and often heard from campus groups that they would like a brand to sponsor them. The company raised $1.8 million by the end of 2011, and was acquired by CustomInk in 2012.

Usage examples of "pear".

These juices, together with those of the pear, the peach, the plum, and other such fruits, if taken without adding cane sugar, diminish acidity in the stomach rather than provoke it: they become converted chemically into alkaline carbonates, which correct sour fermentation.

Who would not give back the luscious pear and peach to their native acritude, rather than subject the highest forms of vegetable life to such irreverence?

So inventing by the light of inner consciousness alone, he worked up tiny doses of the grey ambergris into mutton fat, coloured it faintly pink with cochineal insects he caught on the prickly pear hedges, added a little crude borax as a preservative, and so produced a cosmetic that was no better and little worse than the thousand other nostrums of its kind in daily use elsewhere.

The banks were lined with flowering peach, and chiching trees with violet flowers growing directly from the trunks and branches, and behind them was a shady bamboo grove, and then the pear trees, and then a thousand apricot trees that were flaming with a million scarlet blossoms.

Xylomelum pyriforme or native pear trees with their wooden fruit and unpleasant odour, and the Goodenia ovata with its dark serrated leaves and yellow flowers and the Pittosporum and Sassafras were all clasped together and held close by native jasmine, and up through it all the cabbage and bangalow palms and the Eucalyptus microcorys or tallow wood and the Swamp Mahogany or robusta of the eucalyptus genus stood into the humid air.

There was everywhere a bewildering mass of fruit blossom--apple, plum, pear, cherry.

The maid had set out five bone china plates holding salads that combined Bibb lettuce, avocado slices, and wedges of ripe pear with a crumbling of Gorgonzola.

Zero looked at Bowler, who nodded gravely as he bit into a pear himself.

South American plant, this botanical insecticide was discovered in the early 1940s and has proved good for control of codling moths in apple, pear and quince trees.

He nibbles on the salad nicoise, he polishes off the galantine, and he uncurls the spiral pears!

From the bark of the stem and root of the apple, pear and plum trees, a glucoside is to be obtained in small crystals, which possesses the peculiar property of producing artificial diabetes in animals to whom it is given.

No sign that human life had ever existed out here between the thorny lechuguilla and prickly pear flats encouraged her.

Lizzie explained that mirliton was a vegetable pear and alligator pears were avocados.

You recall your delight in conversing with the nurseryman, and looking at his illustrated catalogues, where all the pears are drawn perfect in form, and of extra size, and at that exact moment between ripeness and decay which it is so impossible to hit in practice.

There were rounded plums and oval indeterminate fruit, some long and fluted like a banana, others ovular and end-swollen like a ripe alligator pear.