bald
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bald
bare; without hair: When he grew older, he became bald.
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bald
(bôld)adj. bald·er, bald·est
1. Lacking hair on the head.
2. Lacking a natural or usual covering: a bald spot on the lawn.
3. Lacking treads: a bald tire.
4. Zoology Having white feathers or markings on the head, as in some birds or mammals.
5. Lacking ornamentation; unadorned.
6. Undisguised; blunt: a bald statement of policy.
[Middle English balled, probably from bal, ball; see ball1. Sense 4, perhaps partly of Celtic origin; akin to Welsh bal, having a white streak on the forehead (of horses), Irish ball, spot, mark, and English blaze, white mark on the face of an animal; see blaze2.]
bald′ly adv.
bald′ness n.
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bald
(bɔːld)adj
1. (Anatomy) having no hair or fur, esp (of a man) having no hair on all or most of the scalp
2. lacking natural growth or covering
3. plain or blunt: a bald statement.
4. bare or simple; unadorned
5. (Zoology) Also: baldfaced (of certain birds and other animals) having white markings on the head and face
6. (Automotive Engineering) (of a tyre) having a worn tread
[C14 ballede (literally: having a white spot); related to Danish bǣldet, Greek phalaros having a white spot]
ˈbaldish adj
ˈbaldly adv
ˈbaldness n
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bald
(bɔld)adj.
1. having little or no hair on the scalp.
2. destitute of some natural growth or covering: a bald mountain.
3. plain: a bald prose style.
4. undisguised: a bald lie.
5. having white on the head: the bald eagle.
6. (of a tire) having the tread worn away.
v.i. 7. to become bald.
[1250–1300; Middle English ball(e)d, akin to Welsh bal, Greek phaliós having a white spot]
bald′ish, adj.
bald′ly, adv.
bald′ness, n.
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Verb | 1. | bald - grow bald; lose hair on one's head; "He is balding already" |
Adj. | 1. | bald - with no effort to conceal; "a barefaced lie" |
2. | bald - lacking hair on all or most of the scalp; "a bald pate"; "a bald-headed gentleman" hairless - having no hair or fur; "a Mexican Hairless is about the size of a fox terrier and hairless except for a tufts on the head and tail" | |
3. | bald - without the natural or usual covering; "a bald spot on the lawn"; "bare hills" bare - lacking its natural or customary covering; "a bare hill"; "bare feet" |
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bald
adjective
1. hairless, smooth, bare, shorn, clean-shaven, tonsured, depilated, glabrous (Biology), baldheaded, baldpated The man's bald head was beaded with sweat.
2. plain, direct, simple, straight, frank, severe, bare, straightforward, blunt, rude, outright, downright, forthright, unadorned, unvarnished, straight from the shoulder The bald truth is that he's just not happy.
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Translations
أَصْلَعأصْلَعبِدون ريشصَريح، جـاف
plešatýsjetýstrohýbezsrstýholý
skaldetutilsløret
kalva
kalju
ćelav
kopasztar
sköllótturumbúîalaushárlaus
頭のはげた
대머리의
be užuolankųnepagražintasnuplikęsnuplikimasnusišėręs
bez spalvāmkailsneizpušķotsplikpaurains
plešivý
plešast
ćelav
flintskalligskallig
ล้าน
hói đầu
bald
[bɔːld]A. ADJ (balder (compar) (baldest (superl)))
1. (= hairless) [person, head] → calvo; (= shaven) → pelado
bald patch (on head) → calva f, claro m; (on animal) → calva f
he can't spend much on the barber's, with that bald head of his → con lo calvo que está no puede gastar mucho en peluquería
to go bald → quedarse calvo
(as) bald as an egg or a coot → más calvo que una bola de billar
bald patch (on head) → calva f, claro m; (on animal) → calva f
he can't spend much on the barber's, with that bald head of his → con lo calvo que está no puede gastar mucho en peluquería
to go bald → quedarse calvo
(as) bald as an egg or a coot → más calvo que una bola de billar
2. (= worn) [tyre] → desgastado, gastado; [lawn] → pelado
bald patches on the lawn/carpet → calvas fpl en el césped/la alfombra
bald patches on the lawn/carpet → calvas fpl en el césped/la alfombra
3. (= unadorned) [statement] → directo, sin rodeos; [style] → escueto
these are the bald facts → estos son los hechos sin más
these are the bald facts → estos son los hechos sin más
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bald
[ˈbɔːld] adjCollins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
bald
adj (+er)
person → kahl, glatzköpfig; head, tree → kahl; bird → federlos; he is bald → er hat eine Glatze; to go bald → eine Glatze bekommen, kahl werden; he is going bald at the temples → er hat Geheimratsecken; bald patch → kahle Stelle
style, statement → knapp
(liter: = bare, denuded) → kahl
bald
:bald-faced
adj (US) lie → unverfroren, unverschämt, schamlos
baldheaded
adj → kahl- or glatzköpfig
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bald
[bɔːld] adj (person) → calvo/a; (tyre) → liscio/a; (statement) → asciutto/a; (style) → spoglio/ato go bald → perdere i capelli
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
bald
(boːld) adjective1. (of people) with little or no hair on the head. a bald head; He is going bald (= becoming bald).
2. (of birds, animals) without feathers, fur etc. a bald patch on the dog's back.
3. bare or plain. a bald statement of the facts.
ˈbaldness nounˈbalding adjective
becoming bald.
ˈbaldly adverb in a plain or bare way. He answered her questions baldly.
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bald
→ أَصْلَع plešatý skaldet kahl φαλακρός calvo kalju chauve ćelav calvo 頭のはげた 대머리의 kaal skallet łysy careca лысый flintskallig ล้าน kel hói đầu 光秃的Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
bald
a. calvo-a, sin pelo
franco-a, espontáneo-a, escueto-a.
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bald
adj calvoEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.