wear (noun)

impairment resulting from long use

"the tires showed uneven wear"

clothing, article of clothing, vesture, wear, wearable, habiliment (noun)

a covering designed to be worn on a person's body

wear, wearing (verb)

the act of having on your person as a covering or adornment

"she bought it for everyday wear"

wear, have on (verb)

be dressed in

"She was wearing yellow that day"

wear, bear (verb)

have on one's person

"He wore a red ribbon"; "bear a scar"

wear (verb)

have in one's aspect; wear an expression of one's attitude or personality

"He always wears a smile"

wear, wear off, wear out, wear down, wear thin (verb)

deteriorate through use or stress

"The constant friction wore out the cloth"

wear (verb)

have or show an appearance of

"wear one's hair in a certain way"

wear, hold out, endure (verb)

last and be usable

"This dress wore well for almost ten years"

break, wear, wear out, bust, fall apart (verb)

go to pieces

"The lawn mower finally broke"; "The gears wore out"; "The old chair finally fell apart completely"

tire, wear upon, tire out, wear, weary, jade, wear out, outwear, wear down, fag out, fag, fatigue (verb)

exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress

"We wore ourselves out on this hike"

wear, put on, get into, don, assume (verb)

put clothing on one's body

"What should I wear today?"; "He put on his best suit for the wedding"; "The princess donned a long blue dress"; "The queen assumed the stately robes"; "He got into his jeans"

wear (Noun)

(in combination) clothing (such as footwear)

wear (Noun)

damage to the appearance and/or strength of an item caused by use over time

wear (Noun)

fashion

wear (Verb)

To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.

wear (Verb)

To have or carry on one's person habitually, consistently; or, to maintain in a particular fashion or manner.

wear (Verb)

To bear or display in one's aspect or appearance.

wear (Verb)

To overcome one's reluctance and endure a (previously specified) situation.

wear (Verb)

To eat away at, erode, diminish, or consume gradually; to cause a gradual deterioration in; to produce (some change) through attrition, exposure, or constant use.

wear (Verb)

To undergo gradual deterioration; become impaired; be reduced or consumed gradually due to any continued process, activity, or use.

wear (Verb)

To exhaust, fatigue, expend, or weary.

wear (Verb)

To last or remain durable under hard use or over time; to retain usefulness, value, or desirable qualities under any continued strain or long period of time; sometimes said of a person, regarding the quality of being easy or difficult to tolerate.

wear (Verb)

(in the phrase "wearing on (someone)") To cause annoyance, irritation, fatigue, or weariness near the point of an exhaustion of patience.

wear (Verb)

To pass slowly, gradually or tediously.

wear (Verb)

To bring (a sailing vessel) onto the other tack by bringing the wind around the stern (as opposed to tacking when the wind is brought around the bow); to come round on another tack by turning away from the wind.

Wear (ProperNoun)

A river in the county of Tyne and Wear in north east England. The city of Sunderland is found upon its banks.

Wear

In materials science, wear is erosion or sideways displacement of material from its "derivative" and original position on a solid surface performed by the action of another surface. Wear is related to interactions between surfaces and more specifically the removal and deformation of material on a surface as a result of mechanical action of the opposite surface. The need for relative motion between two surfaces and initial mechanical contact between asperities is an important distinction between mechanical wear compared to other processes with similar outcomes. The definition of wear may include loss of dimension from plastic deformation if it is originated at the interface between two sliding surfaces. However, plastic deformation such as yield stress is excluded from the wear definition if it doesn't incorporates a relative sliding motion and contact against another surface despite the possibility for material removal, because it then lacks the relative sliding action of another surface. Impact wear is in reality a short sliding motion where two solid bodies interact at an exceptional short time interval. Previously due to the fast execution, the contact found in impact wear was referred to as an impulse contact by the nomenclature. Impulse can be described as a mathematical model of a synthesised average on the energy transport between two travelling solids in opposite converging contact. Cavitation wear is a form of wear where the erosive medium or counter-body is a fluid. Corrosion may be included in wear phenomenons, but the damage is amplified and performed by chemical reactions rather than mechanical action.

wear

Wear is the erosion of material from a solid surface by the action of another material.