decrease gradually or bit by bit
Used in a Sentence
pare
How to use pare in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for pare.
Editorial note
After 7 years I have 59 and I honestly need to pare that way down.
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Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
decrease gradually or bit by bit
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of pare gathered in one view.
cut small bits or pare shavings from; "whittle a piece of wood"
strip the skin off; "pare apples"
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for pare.
verb
decrease gradually or bit by bit
verb
cut small bits or pare shavings from; "whittle a piece of wood"
See also: whittle
verb
strip the skin off; "pare apples"
verb
remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size; "pare one's fingernails"; "trim the photograph"; "trim lumber"
See also: trim
Example sentences
After 7 years I have 59 and I honestly need to pare that way down.
Feedly will either have to evolve and find a bigger market, or pare down the cost of hosting the majority of Google Reader expats.
But the way this no-fly list is constructed, it will continue to increase year-by-year, without any incentive to pare the numbers back.
The Linux kernel is used in a lot of different devices, this is true, but it's also a lot leaner than the Windows one. Although efforts have been made to pare down what Windows is, it's still got a footprint gigantically bigger than Linux.
Don't use promotional language in your SOW, don't talk yourself up, pare back descriptions of functionality as far as you can reasonably pare them, write sterile and boring copy.
Maybe Google will pare down the runtime in the future, maybe they will figure out a way to exclude parts of it which are not needed, but right now they are just making the default technical choice that just about all compilers make.
Someone went to a meeting one day, heard about a new fraud technique, told a junior analyst to run a SQL query and figure out which B2C accounts at this line of business had anomalously high numbers of incoming transfers, and BCC had 20x~50x the mean, so I was identified as one of a few hundred accounts to pare to reduce risk.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use pare in a sentence?
After 7 years I have 59 and I honestly need to pare that way down.
What does pare mean?
decrease gradually or bit by bit
What part of speech is pare?
pare is commonly used as verb.