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bald

bare; without hair: When he grew older, he became bald.

Not to be confused with:

balled – wound into a ball: She balled the yarn.

bawled – shouted; sobbed loudly: The baby bawled when his lollipop was taken away.

bald

(bôld)

adj. bald·er, bald·est

1. Lacking hair on the head.

2. Lacking a natural or usual covering: a bald spot on the lawn.

3. Lacking treads: a bald tire.

4. Zoology Having white feathers or markings on the head, as in some birds or mammals.

5. Lacking ornamentation; unadorned.

6. Undisguised; blunt: a bald statement of policy.

[Middle English balled, probably from bal, ball; see ball¹. Sense 4, perhaps partly of Celtic origin; akin to Welsh bal, having a white streak on the forehead (of horses), Irish ball, spot, mark, and English blaze, white mark on the face of an animal; see blaze².]

bald′ly adv.

bald′ness n.

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bald

(bɔːld)

adj

1. (Anatomy) having no hair or fur, esp (of a man) having no hair on all or most of the scalp

2. lacking natural growth or covering

3. plain or blunt: a bald statement.

4. bare or simple; unadorned

5. (Zoology) Also: baldfaced (of certain birds and other animals) having white markings on the head and face

6. (Automotive Engineering) (of a tyre) having a worn tread

[C14 ballede (literally: having a white spot); related to Danish bǣldet, Greek phalaros having a white spot]

ˈbaldish adj

ˈbaldly adv

ˈbaldness n

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

bald

(bɔld)
adj.

1. having little or no hair on the scalp.

2. destitute of some natural growth or covering: a bald mountain.

3. plain: a bald prose style.

4. undisguised: a bald lie.

5. having white on the head: the bald eagle.

6. (of a tire) having the tread worn away.

v.i.

7. to become bald.

[1250–1300; Middle English ball(e)d, akin to Welsh bal, Greek phaliós having a white spot]

bald′ish, adj.

bald′ly, adv.

bald′ness, n.

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Verb	1.	bald - grow bald; lose hair on one's head; "He is balding already" grow, turn - pass into a condition gradually, take on a specific property or attribute; become; "The weather turned nasty"; "She grew angry"
Adj.	1.	bald - with no effort to conceal; "a barefaced lie" barefaced overt, open - open and observable; not secret or hidden; "an overt lie"; "overt hostility"; "overt intelligence gathering"; "open ballots"
	2.	bald - lacking hair on all or most of the scalp; "a bald pate"; "a bald-headed gentleman" bald-headed, bald-pated hairless - having no hair or fur; "a Mexican Hairless is about the size of a fox terrier and hairless except for a tufts on the head and tail"
	3.	bald - without the natural or usual covering; "a bald spot on the lawn"; "bare hills" denudate, denuded bare - lacking its natural or customary covering; "a bare hill"; "bare feet"

bald

adjective

1. hairless, smooth, bare, shorn, clean-shaven, tonsured, depilated, glabrous (Biology), baldheaded, baldpated The man's bald head was beaded with sweat.

2. plain, direct, simple, straight, frank, severe, bare, straightforward, blunt, rude, outright, downright, forthright, unadorned, unvarnished, straight from the shoulder The bald truth is that he's just not happy.

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bald

adjective

1. Without the usual covering:

bare, naked, nude.

2. Without addition, decoration, or qualification:

bare, dry, plain, simple, unadorned, unvarnished.

Translations

أَصْلَعأصْلَعبِدون ريشصَريح، جـاف

plešatýsjetýstrohýbezsrstýholý

skaldetutilsløret

kahl unverblümt glatzköpfig

φαλακρός

kalva

calvo pelado sencillo desnudo escueto

kalju

chauve incessamment lisse sans ornements

ćelav

kopasztar

sköllótturumbúîalaushárlaus

calvo pelato spoglio disadorno esplicito

頭のはげた

대머리의

be užuolankųnepagražintasnuplikęsnuplikimasnusišėręs

bez spalvāmkailsneizpušķotsplikpaurains

kaal

skallet usmykket utilslørt enkel flintskallet

łysy

careca calvo

лысый плешивый

plešivý

plešast

ćelav

flintskalligskallig

ล้าน

keltüysüzyalın çıplak dazlak

hói đầu

光秃的无掩饰的无毛的秃头的

bald

[bɔːld]

A. ADJ (balder (compar) (baldest (superl)))

1. (= hairless) [person, head] → calvo; (= shaven) → pelado
bald patch (on head) → calva f, claro m; (on animal) → calva f
he can't spend much on the barber's, with that bald head of his → con lo calvo que está no puede gastar mucho en peluquería
to go bald → quedarse calvo
(as) bald as an egg or a coot → más calvo que una bola de billar

2. (= worn) [tyre] → desgastado, gastado; [lawn] → pelado
bald patches on the lawn/carpet → calvas fpl en el césped/la alfombra

3. (= unadorned) [statement] → directo, sin rodeos; [style] → escueto
these are the bald facts → estos son los hechos sin más

B. CPD bald eagle N → águila f de cabeza blanca

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

bald

[ˈbɔːld] adj

[person, head] → chauve
to go bald → perdre ses cheveux
to have a bald spot, to have a bald patch → avoir un début de calvitie, avoir une calvitie naissante

[tyre] → lisse
bald patch
This tyre has a bald patch → Ce pneu est en partie lisse.

(= blunt) [statement, truth] → simplebald eagle n → aigle m d'Amérique

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

bald

adj (+er)

person → kahl, glatzköpfig; head, tree → kahl; bird → federlos; he is bald → er hat eine Glatze; to go bald → eine Glatze bekommen, kahl werden; he is going bald at the temples → er hat Geheimratsecken; bald patch → kahle Stelle

(Aut: = worn) bald tyre (Brit) or tire (US) → abgefahrener Reifen

style, statement → knapp

(liter: = bare, denuded) → kahl

bald

bald-faced

adj (US) lie → unverfroren, unverschämt, schamlos

baldheaded

adj → kahl- or glatzköpfig

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

bald

[bɔːld] adj (person) → calvo/a; (tyre) → liscio/a; (statement) → asciutto/a; (style) → spoglio/a
to go bald → perdere i capelli

bald

(boːld) adjective

1. (of people) with little or no hair on the head. a bald head; He is going bald (= becoming bald).

2. (of birds, animals) without feathers, fur etc. a bald patch on the dog's back.

3. bare or plain. a bald statement of the facts.

ˈbaldness noun

ˈbalding adjective

becoming bald.

ˈbaldly adverb

in a plain or bare way. He answered her questions baldly.

bald

→ أَصْلَع plešatý skaldet kahl φαλακρός calvo kalju chauve ćelav calvo 頭のはげた 대머리의 kaal skallet łysy careca лысый flintskallig ล้าน kel hói đầu 光秃的

bald

a. calvo-a, sin pelo

franco-a, espontáneo-a, escueto-a.

bald

adj calvo

References in classic literature ?

Confound him, he wearied me with arguments to show that in anything like a fair market he would have fetched twenty-five dollars, sure -- a thing which was plainly nonsense, and full or the baldest conceit; I wasn't worth it myself.

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It was another thirteen-hour stretch (including an hour's "nooning.") It was over the barrenest chalk-hills and through the baldest canons that even Syria can show.

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Because the actor showed up with the baldest of heads, rivalling even Prince William's pate for lack of hair,reports The Mirror.

Everyone is saying the same thing about Tom Hardy's royal wedding look; "Tom Hardy being at the Royal Wedding makes me hope he is only speaking in his Bane voice the entire time," wrote one

As the cops or soldiers or whatever skulked around our group suspiciously, he gave it the ol' "one more try," landing to cheers, then rolling directly to the feet of the biggest and baldest of the security force.

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In Vin Diesel ,Jason Statham and Dwayne Johnson, the film has three of the shiniest, baldest, most artificially bronzed men in Hollywood.

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What I wanted to know was this: Why the hell does the baldest man on TV wear a blue hygiene hat whenever he visits a factory?

I'm not sure Gregg in a hygiene hat is really my cap of tea

One need not be so idealistically irrational as a modern psychologist, in order to admit that the very shape and sound of words do make a difference, even in the baldest prose, as they do in the most beautiful poetry.

Serious humor: The play of style and thought in G.K. Chesterton's essays

[...] [and Arthur reads the scene thus:] '[??]urstendaei wes Baldulf cnihten alre baldest; | nu he stant on hulle and Auene bihalde[eth], | hu lige[eth] i [thorn]an straeme stelene fisces; | mid sweorde bigeorede heore sund is awemmed; | heore scalen wleote[eth] swulc gold-fa[??]e sceldes; | [thorn]er fleote[eth] heore spiten swulc hit spaeren weoren.

Arthurian Eco-conquest in Geoffrey of Monmouth, Wace, and La[??]amon

As Joyce tells Budgen, in "Ithaca" the reader will "know everything and know it in the baldest coldest way" (257).

Ulysses, the poetics of tragedy, and a new mimesis

Andersen had to die so that other giant corporations could continue living, even when committing the baldest and most egregious crimes.

Get out of jail free: how prosecutors and courts collude to keep corrupt executives from doing prison time

He habitually engages in provocations such as calling the Islamic world "Mohammedan," the baldest of Orientalist insults, and characterizes non-Arab Muslims as "doubly colonized, doubly removed from themselves" ([1991] 2002, 508).

Gurnah and Naipaul: intersections of Paradise and A Bend in the River

194 reads: "Although Tim Redman argues forcefully that this canto contributes nothing particularly new to Pound's poem and is not, in the context of his work, unusually shocking, I believe it does offer the baldest, the most direct expression of the ambivalences and contradictions underlying Pound's utopian vision.