rear
US: /ˈɹɪɹ/
UK: /ɹˈiə/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
rear /riə/- danh từ
- bộ phận đằng sau, phía sau
- the garden is at the rear of the house: khu vườn ở đằng sau nhà
- (quân sự) hậu phương (đối với tiền tuyến)
- (quân sự) hậu quân
- to bring (close up the rear: đi ở đoạn cuối, đi cuối cùng
- to take (attack) the enemy in the rear: tấn công phía sau lưng địch
- to hang on the rear of the enemy: bám sát địch
- to hang on the rear of enemy: bám sát địch
- đoạn đuôi, đoạn cuối (đám rước...)
- (thông tục) nhà xí, cầu tiêu
- bộ phận đằng sau, phía sau
- tính từ
- ở đằng sau, ở phía sau, ở cuối
- rear wheel: bánh sau
- rear waggons: những toa cuối
- ở đằng sau, ở phía sau, ở cuối
- ngoại động từ
- ngẩng lên, đưa lên; lên (giọng)
- to rear one's head: ngẩng đầu lên
- to rear a hand: giơ tay, đưa tay lên
- to rear one's voice: lên giọng
- dựng, xây dựng
- to rear a statue: dựng một bức tượng
- nuôi, nuôi nấng, nuôi dạy
- to rear children: nuôi dạy con
- nuôi, chăn nuôi; trồng
- to rear cattle: nuôi trâu bò
- to rear plants: trồng cây
- ngẩng lên, đưa lên; lên (giọng)
- nội động từ
- lồng lên, chồm lên, dựng lên (ngựa...)
- ((thường) + up) giận dữ đứng dậy
- nhô cao lên (đỉnh núi)
Advanced English dictionary
noun, adjective, verb+ noun
1 (usually the rear) [sing.] the back part of sth: A trailer was attached to the rear of the truck. + There are toilets at both front and rear of the plane. + A high gate blocks the only entrance to the rear. - BACK
2 (also rear end) [C, usually sing.] (informal) the part of the body that you sit on
Synonym: BOTTOM
a kick in the rear + He spends all day sitting on his rear end in front of a computer.
Idioms: bring up the rear to be at the back of a line of people, or last in a race: David was the first to reach the summit, followed by Pat, leaving Fergus to bring up the rear.
+ adjective [only before noun] at or near the back of sth: front and rear windows + the rear entrance of the building
+ verb
1 [VN] [often passive] ~ sb/sth (on sth) to care for young children or animals until they are fully grown
Synonym: BRING SB UP, RAISE
She reared a family of five on her own. + Lions usually manage to rear about half the number of cubs born to them.
2 [VN] to breed or keep animals or birds, for example on a farm: to rear poultry / cattle
3 [V] ~ (up) (of an animal, especially a horse) to raise itself on its back legs, with the front legs in the air: The horse reared, throwing its rider.
4 [V] (of sth large) to seem to lean over you, especially in a threatening way: The great bulk of the building reared up against the night sky.
Idioms: sth rears its (ugly) head if sth unpleasant rears its head or rears its ugly head, it appears or happens
Phrasal Verbs: rear sb/sth on sth [usually passive] to give a person or an animal a particular type of food, entertainment, etc. while they are young: I was the son of sailors and reared on stories of the sea.
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 back (part), end, hind part, Nautical stern, Colloq tail (end), fag-end, US and Canadian tag end:
The rear of the column was attacked as it marched through the defile. We took seats at the rear of the auditorium
2 hindquarters, posterior, rump, buttocks, Colloq bottom, behind, backside, rear end, Slang Brit arse, bum, US and Canadian ass, tokus, tochis; Babytalk US and Canadian tushie or tushy or tush, hinie:
As he left, he felt someone give him a pat on the rear.
adj.
3 back, last, end, rearmost, Nautical aft, after, stern:
The rear window is all misted over. The troop was bringing up the rear echelon.
v.
1 raise, bring up, care for, nurture, nurse; cultivate, educate, train; breed, produce:
They reared six children in that tiny house. Is this where they rear Aberdeen Angus cattle?
2 erect, raise, build, put up, construct, fabricate, create:
The family reared an elaborate mausoleum in memory of Lord Percy.
3 raise, lift, put up, upraise, uplift, hold up:
He said that élitism was rearing its ugly head again, and that equality of opportunity was proving a myth.
Collocation
VERB + REAR
bring up
Three drummers brought up the rear (= were last in the parade).
| attack (sb/sth) from
PREP.
at the ~
The socket for the printer cable is located at the rear of the computer.
| from the ~, in the ~
The radio is loudest in the rear of the car.
| to/towards the ~
A high gate blocks the only entrance to the rear.
Concise dictionary
rears|reared|rearing|rearer|rearestrɪr /rɪənoun
+the back of a military formation or procession
+the side of an object that is opposite its front
+the part of something that is furthest from the normal viewer
+the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
+the side that goes last or is not normally seen
verb
+stand up on the hind legs, of quadrupeds
+bring up
+rise up
+cause to rise up
+construct, build, or erect
adj.
+located in or toward the back or rear
