Were

[were]

To be is to exist, or to take place. As Hamlet best put it: "To be or not to be, that is the question."

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To wear. See 3d Wear.


v. t. & i.
To wear. See 3d Wear.

n.
A weir. See Weir.

v. t.
To guard; to protect.


The imperfect indicative plural, and imperfect subjunctive singular and plural, of the verb be. See Be.

n.
A man.

n.
A fine for slaying a man; the money value set upon a man's life; weregild.


Were

Were , v. t. & i. To wear. See 3d Wear. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Were

Were, n. A weir. See Weir. [Obs.] Chaucer. Sir P. Sidney.

Were

Were, v. t. [AS. werian.] To guard; to protect. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Were

Were . [AS. wre (thou) wast, wron (we, you, they) were, wre imp. subj. See Was.] The imperfect indicative plural, and imperfect subjunctive singular and plural, of the verb be. See Be.

Were

Were , n. [AS. wer; akin to OS. & OHG. wer, Goth. wa'a1r, L. vir, Skr. v'c6ra. Cf. Weregild, and Werewolf.] 1. A man. [Obs.] 2. A fine for slaying a man; the money value set upon a man's life; weregild. [Obs.]
Every man was valued at a certain sum, which was called his were.

To wear. See 3d Wear.

A weir. See Weir.

To guard; to protect.

The imperfect indicative plural, and imperfect subjunctive singular and plural, of the verb be. See Be.

A man.

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Usage Examples

'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments.

'Allen Gregory' came about because we wanted an animated show and we were just tossing around some ideas about me playing a 7-year-old. We thought that would be cool, because we couldn't do that in real life.

A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!'

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

Misspelled Form

Were, Were, ere, Were, Wwere, W3ere, W4ere, Wrere, Wsere, Wdere, Wwre, W3re, W4re, Wrre, Wsre, Wdre, Wewre, We3re, We4re, Werre, Wesre, Wedre, Weere, We4re, We5re, Wetre, Wefre, Weee, We4e, We5e, Wete, Wefe, Weree, Wer4e, Wer5e, Werte, Werfe, Werwe, Wer3e, Wer4e, Werre, Werse, Werde, Werw, Wer3, Wer4, Werr, Wers, Werd, Werew, Were3, Were4, Werer, Weres, Wered.

Other Usage Examples

A few years ago, kids from poor areas in France were asked to draw items of food. For a chicken, they drew a drumstick. For a fish, they drew a fish stick. Those are extremes, but there is a lot that needs to be done to help children discover good food.

'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' is a good one because it not only turned out, I think, to be a really funny movie but it was also a delight to shoot. We were in the South of France, working with Glenne Headly and Michael Caine and Frank Oz the director - who were just fun.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten,' he does not say 'My men were beaten.'

'Get a Job' is about all the rich kids we knew when we were younger, kids who never had jobs but always had money for partying or getting their hair done.

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

'Vegas' was something very close to me. I had such a blast doing that. I'm still a little upset that we never really got to shoot that final episode. So many people were invested in it. I'll always be sad about that.

A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer. The axles were in a hopeless state, and the missing wheel was shattered into pieces.

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