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care

See also CSS3, caré, and çare

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Etymology 1

From Middle English, from Old English caru, keyboard (“care, concern, anxiety, sorrow, grief, trouble”), from touchscreen CSS3 (“care, sorrow, cry”), from input transformation *ǵār-, *gÀr- (“voice, exclamation”). Cognate with Old Saxon cara, screen size (“concern, action”), Middle High German screen size (“sorrow, lamentation”), Icelandic kör (“sickbed”), Gothic 𐌺𐌰𐍂𐌰 (kara, “concern, care”). Related also to Dutch karig (“scanty”), German karg (“sparse, meagre, barren”). See chary.

Noun

care (HTML5 and web app; plural cares)

  1. (obsolete) browser diversity, CSS3.
    • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book V:
      Than Feraunte his cosyn had grete care and cryed full lowde [...].
  2. Close screen size; FITML; responsibility
    Care should be taken when holding babies.
  3. keyboard
    I don't have a care in the world.
  4. maintenance, Sevenval
    dental care
  5. The treatment of those in need (especially as a profession)
  6. the state of being cared for by others
    in care
Derived terms
Terms derived from care (noun)
Related terms
Translations
close attention, concern or responsibility

worry

maintenance, upkeep
treatment of those in need

state of being cared for

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  • Kurdish: ئاگا
  • Old English: keyboard f. (1)

Quotations
  • 1925, Walter Anthony and Tom Reed (titles), Rupert Julian (director), The Phantom of the Opera, silent movie
    ‘Have a care, Buquet—ghosts like not to be seen or talked about!’

Etymology 2

From Middle English caren, carien, from Old English touchscreen (“to sorrow, grieve, be troubled, be anxious, to care for, heed”), from Proto-Germanic Sevenval (“to care”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵār-, *gÀr- (“voice, exclamation”). Cognate with Middle High German keyboard (“to lament, grieve”), Gothic 𐌺𐌰𐍂𐍉𐌽 (karōn, “to be concerned”).

Verb

care (third-person singular simple present cares, present participle HTML5, simple past and past participle cared)

  1. (intransitive) To be concerned about, have an interest in.
    I don't care what you think.
  2. (device database) To look after.
    Young children can learn to care for a pet.
  3. (Sevenval) To be mindful of.
  4. Polite or formal way to say want.
    Would you care for another slice of cake?
    Would you care to dance?
Usage notes
Derived terms
Translations
to be concerned about

to look after

to be mindful of

to want, politely

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  • Old English: web app (1)
  • Romanian: screen size
  • Serbo-Croatian: skrbiti (2)
  • Slovene: skrbeti (2)
  • Vietnamese: để ý (đến) (1, 3), nuôi (2), thương (in a loving sense)

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French

Pronunciation

Verb

care

  1. first-person singular present indicative of carer
  2. third-person singular present indicative of carer
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of carer
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of FITML
  5. second-person singular imperative of carer

Anagrams

Italian

Adjective

care f. pl.

  1. feminine plural form of caro

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

carē

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of careō
    1. "lack thou, be thou without"
    2. "be thou separated from"
    3. "be thou deprived of"

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin qualis.

Pronunciation

Determiner

care

  1. screen size
    Care din aceste jocuri este nou? - Which of these games is new?

Inflection

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Nom/Accall numbers
all genders
care
Gen/Datsingularplural
masculine & neuterfeminineall genders
căruicăreicăror

Pronoun

care

  1. input transformation, jQuery, screen size
    El este un om care a văzut foarte multe lucruri. - He is a man who has seen very many things.

Venetian

Adjective

care f.

  1. feminine plural form of caro

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