To carry or bear upon the person; to bear upon
one's self, as an article of clothing, decoration, warfare,
bondage, etc.; to have appendant to one's body; to have on; as, to
wear a coat; to wear a shackle. [1913 Webster] What compass will
you wear your farthingale? --Shak. [1913 Webster] On her white
breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss, and
infidels adore. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
To have or exhibit an appearance of, as an aspect
or manner; to bear; as, she wears a smile on her countenance. "He
wears the rose of youth upon him." --Shak. [1913 Webster] His
innocent gestures wear A meaning half divine. --Keble. [1913
Webster]
To use up by carrying or having upon one's self;
hence, to consume by use; to waste; to use up; as, to wear clothes
rapidly. [1913 Webster]
To impair, waste, or diminish, by continual
attrition, scraping, percussion, on the like; to consume gradually;
to cause to lower or disappear; to spend. [1913 Webster] That
wicked wight his days doth wear. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] The
waters wear the stones. --Job xiv.
[1913 Webster]
To cause or make by friction or wasting; as, to
wear a channel; to wear a hole. [1913 Webster]
To form or shape by, or as by, attrition. [1913
Webster] Trials wear us into a liking of what, possibly, in the
first essay, displeased us. --Locke. [1913 Webster] To wear
away, to consume; to impair, diminish, or destroy, by gradual
attrition or decay. To wear
off, to diminish or remove by attrition or slow decay; as, to
wear off the nap of cloth. To wear on
or To
wear upon, to wear. [Obs.] "[I] weared upon my gay scarlet
gites [gowns.]" --Chaucer. To wear
out. (a) To consume, or render useless, by attrition or decay;
as, to wear out a coat or a book. (b) To consume tediously. "To
wear out miserable days." --Milton. (c) To harass; to tire. "[He]
shall wear out the saints of the Most High." --Dan vii.
(d) To waste the strength of; as, an old man worn
out in military service. To
wear the breeches. See under Breeches. [Colloq.] [1913
Webster]
Wore \Wore\, imp. of Wear. [1913 Webster]
Wore \Wore\, imp. of Ware. [1913 Webster]
Word Net
wore See wearwear
Noun
1 impairment resulting from long use; "the tires
showed uneven wear"
3 the act of having on your person as a covering
or adornment; "she bought it for everyday wear" [syn: wearing]
Verb
1 be dressed in; "She was wearing yellow that
day" [syn: have on]
2 have on one's person; "He wore a red ribbon";
"bear a scar" [syn: bear]
3 have in one's aspect; wear an expression of
one's attitude or personality; "He always wears a smile"
4 deteriorate through use or stress; "The
constant friction wore out the cloth" [syn: wear off,
wear
out, wear
thin]
5 have or show an appearance of; "wear one's hair
in a certain way"
7 go to pieces; "The lawn mower finally broke";
"The gears wore out"; "The old chair finally fell apart completely"
[syn: break, wear out,
bust, fall
apart]
8 exhaust or tire through overuse or great strain
or stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike" [syn: tire, wear upon,
tire
out, weary, jade, wear out,
outwear, wear down,
fag out,
fag, fatigue] [ant: refresh]
9 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" [syn: put on, get into,
don, assume] [also: worn, wore]
English
Pronunciation
- /'woɻ/
Verb
wore"Write once, run anywhere" (WORA), or sometimes
Write once, run everywhere (WORE), is a slogan created by Sun
Microsystems to illustrate the cross-platform
benefits of the
Java language. Ideally, this means Java can be developed on any
device, compiled into a standard bytecode and be expected to run
on any device equipped with a Java
virtual machine (JVM). The installation of a JVM or Java
interpreter on chips, devices or software packages has become an
industry standard practice.
This means a programmer can develop code on a PC
and can expect it to run on Java enabled cell phones,
as well as on routers and
mainframes
equipped with Java, without any adjustments. This is intended to
save software developers the effort of writing a different version
of their software for each platform
or operating
system they intend to deploy on.
The catch is that since there are multiple
JVM
implementations, on top of a wide variety of different operating
systems such as Windows,
Linux,
Solaris,
NetWare,
HP-UX, and
Mac OS,
there can be subtle differences in how a program may execute, which
may require an application to be tested on various target
platforms. This has given rise to the joke among Java developers,
"Write Once, Debug Everywhere". Another joke, "Write Once, Get
Disappointed Everywhere", arose among J2ME developers, also
due to the subtle differences of the applications run in different
implementations of JVM in mobile devices.
However, for a developer, the abstraction layer that Java provides
is usually more convenient than recompiling software for each
combination of operating system and architecture that it should run
on and still represents a significant reduction in work when
developing and supporting an application on multiple
platforms.
References
See also
wore in Catalan: Escriu un cop, executa
arreu
wore in Japanese: Write once, run
anywhere