Rare

7 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rare \Rare\ (r[^a]r), a. [Cf. {Rather}, {Rath}.]
     Early. [Obs.]
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           Rude mechanicals that rare and late
           Work in the market place.                --Chapman.


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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rare \Rare\, a. [Compar. {Rarer} (r[^a]r"[~e]r); superl.
     {Rarest}.] [Cf. AS. hr[=e]r, or E. rare early. [root]18.]
     Nearly raw; partially cooked; not thoroughly cooked;
     underdone; as, rare beef or mutton.
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           New-laid eggs, which Baucis' busy care
           Turned by a gentle fire, and roasted rare. --Dryden.
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     Note: This word is in common use in the United States, but in
           England its synonym {underdone} is preferred.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Rare \Rare\, a. [Compar. {Rarer} (r[^a]r"[~e]r); superl.
     {Rarest}.] [F., fr. L. rarus thin, rare.]
     1. Not frequent; seldom met with or occurring; unusual; as, a
        rare event.
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     2. Of an uncommon nature; unusually excellent; valuable to a
        degree seldom found.
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              Rare work, all filled with terror and delight.
                                                    --Cowley.
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              Above the rest I judge one beauty rare. --Dryden.
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     3. Thinly scattered; dispersed.
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              Those rare and solitary, these in flocks. --Milton.
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     4. Characterized by wide separation of parts; of loose
        texture; not thick or dense; thin; as, a rare atmosphere
        at high elevations.
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              Water is nineteen times lighter, and by consequence
              nineteen times rarer, than gold.      --Sir I.
                                                    Newton.
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     Syn: Scarce; infrequent; unusual; uncommon; singular;
          extraordinary; incomparable.
  
     Usage: {Rare}, {Scarce}. We call a thing rare when but few
            examples, specimens, or instances of it are ever to be
            met with; as, a rare plant. We speak of a thing as
            scarce, which, though usually abundant, is for the
            time being to be had only in diminished quantities;
            as, a bad harvest makes corn scarce.
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                  A perfect union of wit and judgment is one of
                  the rarest things in the world.   --Burke.
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                  When any particular piece of money grew very
                  scarce, it was often recoined by a succeeding
                  emperor.                          --Addison.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  rare
       adj 1: not widely known; especially valued for its uncommonness; "a
              rare word"; "rare books"
       2: recurring only at long intervals; "a rare appearance";
          "total eclipses are rare events"
       3: not widely distributed; "rare herbs"; "rare patches of gree
          in the desert"
       4: marked by an uncommon quality; especially superlative or
          extreme of its kind; "what is so rare as a day in
          June"-J.R.Lowell; "a rare skill"; "an uncommon sense of
          humor"; "she was kind to an uncommon degree" [syn: {uncommon}]
       5: having low density; "rare gasses"; "lightheaded from the
          rarefied mountain air" [syn: {rarefied}, {rarified}]
       6: (of meat) cooked a short time; still red inside; "rare roast
          beef"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  235 Moby Thesaurus words for "rare":
     a cut above, above, admirable, adulterated, ahead, airy,
     almost unheard-of, another, ascendant, at a premium, attenuate,
     attenuated, atypical, beguiling, better, bewildering, boyish,
     breakaway, capping, celebrated, cheeseparing, chinchy, chintzy,
     choice, chosen, collectable, conspicuous, crude, cut, dainty,
     delicate, diaphanous, dilute, diluted, distinguished, eclipsing,
     elegant, else, eminent, enigmatic, esteemed, estimable, ethereal,
     exceeding, excellent, excelling, exceptional, exiguous, exquisite,
     extraordinary, fabulous, fallen, fantastic, fascinating, few, fine,
     fine-drawn, finer, finespun, first-class, first-rate, flimsy,
     frail, gaseous, gauzy, girlish, good, gossamer, gracile, greater,
     higher, in ascendancy, in short supply, in the ascendant,
     incomparable, incomprehensible, inconceivable, incredible,
     infrequent, insubstantial, lacy, light, limited, major, marked,
     marvelous, matchless, meager, memorable, miraculous, miserly,
     misty, niggardly, noble, not done, not that sort, not the same,
     not the type, notable, noteworthy, occasional, of a sort,
     of another sort, of choice, of mark, of sorts, offbeat, one up on,
     other, other than, otherwise, out of print, out of season,
     out of stock, outlandish, outstanding, over, papery,
     passing strange, peculiar, peerless, phenomenal, piddling, poor,
     prestigious, prodigious, prominent, puzzling, rarefied, raw,
     recherche, red, remarkable, rememberable, reputable, rivaling,
     saignant, salient, scant, scanty, scarce, scattered, scrimping,
     scrimpy, seldom, seldom met with, seldom seen, select, sensational,
     signal, singular, skimping, skimpy, slender, slenderish, slight,
     slight-made, slim, slimmish, slinky, slow, small, sodden, sparse,
     special, sporadic, spotty, sprinkled, stingy, strange, striking,
     stupendous, subtile, subtle, sui generis, super, superior,
     superlative, surpassing, svelte, sylphlike, telling, tenuous, thin,
     thin-bodied, thin-set, thin-spun, thinned, thinned-out, thinnish,
     threadlike, tight, topping, transcendent, transcendental,
     transcending, unbaked, unboiled, uncommon, uncompact, uncompressed,
     uncooked, uncustomary, undercooked, underdone, undreamed-of,
     unexpected, unfamiliar, unforgettable, unfrequent, unheard-of,
     unimaginable, unique, unordinary, unparalleled, unprecedented,
     unsubstantial, unthinkable, unthought-of, unusual, unwonted, upper,
     vague, vaporous, wasp-waisted, watered, watered-down, watery, weak,
     willowy, windy, wiredrawn, wispy, wonderful, wondrous
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  RARE
       Reseaux Associes pour la Recherche Europeenne (org.)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  RARE
       
          {Reseaux Associes pour la Recherche Europeenne}