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noun

Tear n. The act of tearing, or the state of being torn; a rent; a fissure.

Wear and tear. See under Wear, n.

Wear n.

The act of wearing, or the state of being worn; consumption by use; diminution by friction; as, the wear of a garment.

The thing worn; style of dress; the fashion. "Motley 's the only wear."

The result of wearing or use; consumption, diminution, or impairment due to use, friction, or the like; as, the wear of this coat has been good.

Wear and tear, the loss by wearing, as of machinery in use; the loss or injury to which anything is subjected by use, accident, etc.

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Etymology of 'Wear and tear'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Wear and tear" Quotes from Famous Books

... each day they stand wear and tear, and each new person they satisfy, is another day and another voice towards showing they do correspond to something that is so far ...

— First and Last Things • H. G. Wells

... frozen down to its rocky bottom—a dead stream of solid white from source to mouth. The she-wolf was trotting wearily along, her mate well in advance, when she came upon the overhanging, high clay-bank. She turned aside and trotted over to it. The wear and tear of spring storms and melting snows had underwashed the bank and in one place had made a small cave out of ...

— White Fang • Jack London

... Mr. Chuggins. "And it is saving me a lot of trouble and wear and tear. When your friends tell you jokes about your car they don't expect you to ask ...

— More Toasts • Marion Dix Mosher

... have floors that can be used either way, with rugs or without, with matting, with carpets, or with nothing at all but their own unadorned loveliness. Those in the chambers, where there is not much wear and tear, may be of common clear pine, and we can paint or stain a border around the edges. The others ought to be of harder wood, and, as they will last as long as we shall need floors, we can afford to have them cost rather more than a good carpet, perhaps thirty ...

— The House that Jill Built - after Jack's had proved a failure • E. C. Gardner

... dressed in "linsey woolsey," while the boys of all ages wore buckskin pantaloons and hickory shirts. Now, buckskin is well calculated to stand the wear and tear of even a robust boy. Yet there were awkward drawbacks. The legs of the pantaloons absorbed too much moisture from the dew-bedecked grass and they would stretch out to almost any length. The boy, therefore, must roll them up at the bottom. Arrived at school, however, the drying ...

— Reminiscences of a Pioneer • Colonel William Thompson

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