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WARE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Commodities offered for sale

Example:

that store offers a variety of products

Synonyms:

merchandise; product; ware

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("ware" is a kind of...):

commodity; good; trade good (articles of commerce)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ware"):

piece goods; yard goods (merchandise in the form of fabrics sold by the yard)

top of the line (the best (most expensive) in a given line of merchandise)

inventory; stock (the merchandise that a shop has on hand)

software package; software product (merchandise consisting of a computer program that is offered for sale)

dreck; schlock; shlock (merchandise that is shoddy or inferior)

release (merchandise issued for sale or public showing (especially a record or film))

refill (a commercial product that refills a container with its appropriate contents)

number (an item of clothing)

business line; line; line of business; line of merchandise; line of products; product line (a particular kind of product or merchandise)

irregular; second (merchandise that has imperfections; usually sold at a reduced price without the brand name)

ironmongery (the merchandise that is sold in an ironmonger's shop)

generic (any product that can be sold without a brand name)

feature (an article of merchandise that is displayed or advertised more than other articles)

contraband (goods whose importation or exportation or possession is prohibited by law)

cargo; consignment; freight; lading; load; loading; payload; shipment (goods carried by a large vehicle)

Holonyms ("ware" is a part of...):

mercantile establishment; outlet; retail store; sales outlet (a place of business for retailing goods)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Articles of the same kind or material; usually used in combination: 'silverware', 'software'

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("ware" is a kind of...):

article (one of a class of artifacts)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ware"):

woodenware (ware for domestic use made of wood)

tableware (articles for use at the table (dishes and silverware and glassware))

metalware (household articles made of metal (especially for use at table))

article of commerce (an article that is offered for sale)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spend extravagantly

Example:

waste not, want not

Synonyms:

consume; squander; ware; waste

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "ware" is one way to...):

drop; expend; spend (pay out)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "ware"):

drink; tope (drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic)

dissipate; fool; fool away; fritter; fritter away; frivol away; shoot (spend frivolously and unwisely)

luxuriate; wanton (become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously)

lavish; shower (expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns)

overspend (spend at a high rate)

fling; splurge (indulge oneself)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Credits

 Context examples: 

At first the trade went well; for many people, seeing such a beautiful woman, went to buy her wares, and paid their money without thinking of taking away the goods.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Across his thighs was a wooden board, and scattered over it all manner of slips of wood and knobs of brick and stone, each laid separate from the other, as a huckster places his wares.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then watch out, he thought—'ware shoal, everybody!

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Good wares, fine wares, said she; laces and bobbins of all colours.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“Do you think that a cavalier's arm is to be bought like a packman's ware. By St. Paul! I have little doubt that this fellow hath some very good cause to hold you in hatred.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was with regret that he ceased from writing to study, that he ceased from study to go to the library, that he tore himself away from that chart-room of knowledge or from the magazines in the reading-room that were filled with the secrets of writers who succeeded in selling their wares.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

They lived on this as long as it lasted; and then her husband bought a fresh lot of ware, and she sat herself down with it in the corner of the market; but a drunken soldier soon came by, and rode his horse against her stall, and broke all her goods into a thousand pieces.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“Oh, holy Virgin, 'ware the ale!” and slapping his hands to his injury, he flitted off into the darkness, amid a shout of laughter, in which the vanquished joined as merrily as the victor.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)