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rare meaning

EN[ɹɛə] [ɹɛəɹ] [-ɛə(r)]
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WRare
  • Rare is a British video game developer located in Twycross, Leicestershire. The company was established in 1985 by 'Ultimate Play the Game' founders Tim and Chris Stamper.
  • In 2002, the company was purchased by Microsoft and has since focused on developing games exclusively for Microsoft video game consoles. Notable releases include Kameo: Elements of Power, Viva Piñata, and Kinect Sports.
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    Definition of rare in English Dictionary

  • VerbSGraresPRraringPT, PPrared
    1. (US, intransitive) To rear, rise up, start backwards.
      1. (US, transitive) To rear, bring up, raise.
      2. AdjectiveCOMrarerCOMmore rareSUPrarestSUPmost rare
        1. (cooking, particularly meats) Cooked very lightly, so the meat is still red (in the case of steak or beef in the general sense).
          1. Very uncommon; scarce.
            1. Black pearls are very rare and therefore very valuable. ‎
          2. (of a gas) Thin; of low density.
            1. (obsolete) early.
            2. More Examples
              1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
                • They make the interesting suggestion that since cattle are rare in Kigezi christyi has had to abandon its zoophilism and become anthropophilic.
                • Walking in the meadow he is coming across a rare flower.
                • Mysterious bluejets can be seen with the naked eye from the ground, but they are rare and difficult to spot.
              2. Used in the Beginning of Sentence
                • Rare instances of misconduct or instances of irreproducibility are translated into concerns that science is broken.
              3. Used in the Ending of Sentence
                • Prismatic or subprismatic blade and bladelet cores are extremely rare.
                • Persistence of the vitellointestinal duct as a whole or part of it leads to a wide variety of anomalies–Meckel's diverticulum is the commonest lesion and a PVID is the rarest.
                • Metal phosphates that are templated by transition-metal complexes are rare.
            • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
              1. Adjectives
                • Verbs
                  • Intransitive verbs
                    • Transitive verbs
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                  1. fr rare
                  2. en rarely
                  3. en rarefied
                  4. en rarebit
                  5. en rarefy
                  Source: Wiktionary

                  Meaning of rare for the defined word.

                  Grammatically, this word "rare" is an adjective. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.
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