Tear
A partially vitrified bit of clay in glass.
A drop of the limpid, saline fluid secreted, normally in small amount, by the lachrymal gland, and diffused between the eye and the eyelids to moisten the parts and facilitate their motion. Ordinarily the secretion passes through the lachrymal duct into the nose, but when it is increased by emotion or other causes, it overflows the lids.
Something in the form of a transparent drop of fluid matter; also, a solid, transparent, tear-shaped drop, as of some balsams or resins.
That which causes or accompanies tears; a lament; a dirge.
To separate by violence; to pull apart by force; to rend; to lacerate; as, to tear cloth; to tear a garment; to tear the skin or flesh.
Hence, to divide by violent measures; to disrupt; to rend; as, a party or government torn by factions.
To rend away; to force away; to remove by force; to sunder; as, a child torn from its home.
To pull with violence; as, to tear the hair.
To move violently; to agitate.
To divide or separate on being pulled; to be rent; as, this cloth tears easily.
To move and act with turbulent violence; to rush with violence; hence, to rage; to rave.
The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure.
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Tear Quotations
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
Ronald Reagan
You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.
Aldous Huxley
Smiles form the channels of a future tear.
Lord Byron
For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
Lord Byron
The dew of compassion is a tear.
Lord Byron
The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to "tear down this wall," a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire.
Mitt Romney
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.
Victor Hugo
It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.
Franz Kafka
To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble.
Aeschylus
Dreams are like paper, they tear so easily.
Gilda Radner
I'm a guy, but I'm not afraid to cry. Not all of the time. But when I'm watching a movie, I'll sometimes shed a tear, especially 'Moulin Rouge'.
Zac Efron
If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
Victor Borge
We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
George Sand
Our job is to sell our clients' merchandise... not ourselves. Our job is to kill the cleverness that makes us shine instead of the product. Our job is to simplify, to tear away the unrelated, to pluck out the weeds that are smothering the product message.
William Bernbach
I've been getting pretty focused about that recently, and even considered doing a masters degree to polish up the craft. I've been pretty lucky in that I seem to have found people online who are willing to constructively tear it apart for me, and indicate its weaknesses.
David Knopfler
We either accept weaknesses in good people or we have to tear pages out of the Bible.
Robert Duvall
Kids are all computer-savvy. Sit down and write to your parents on the computer. And just say, I have some questions and I'm scared. There's some stuff I don't know and I really need to talk to you about sex. Tear it off and put it on their pillow. They'll read it.
Sue Johanson
Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.
Brigham Young
Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress.
Charles Kettering
He gave to misery (all he had) a tear.
Thomas Gray
Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around.
Raymond E. Feist
One thing that makes art different from life is that in art things have a shape... it allows us to fix our emotions on events at the moment they occur, it permits a union of heart and mind and tongue and tear.
Marilyn French
That should be our test regarding immigrants. Those who come to America to tear it down or live off of others should not be welcomed.
Marvin Olasky
I involve myself in an organisation called Tear Fund.
Cliff Richard
I'm empathetic to a fault. I really do - embarrassingly enough - tear up when someone squishes a bug in front of me.
Kristen Bell
The stones tear like flesh, rather than breaking. Although what happens is violent, it is a violence that is in stone. A tear is more unnerving than a break.
Andy Goldsworthy
Critics themselves, they used to tear me up.
Mickey Spillane
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Tear Translations
tear in Afrikaans is traan
tear in Dutch is vaneenscheuren, doorscheuren
tear in Italian is crepatura, lacrima
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