Difference between Rear and Rare

What is the difference between Rear and Rare?

Rear as an adjective is being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost; as, the rear rank of a company. while Rare as an adjective is very uncommon; scarce.

Rear

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Being behind, or in the hindmost part; hindmost; as, the rear rank of a company.

Part of speech: adverb

Definition: early; soon

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The back or hindmost part; that which is behind, or last on order; - opposed to front. Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest. The buttocks, a creature's bottom

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To raise physically; to lift up; to cause to rise, to elevate. To construct by building; to set up; as, to rear defenses or houses; to rear one government on the ruins of another. To raise spiritually; to lift up; to elevate morally. To lift and take up. To bring up to maturity, as offspring; to educate; to instruct; to foster. To breed and raise; as, to rear cattle (cattle-rearing). To rouse; to strip up. To rise up on the hind legs, as a bolting horse. To sodomize

Rare

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Very uncommon; scarce.Cooked very lightly, so the meat is still red (in the case of steak or beef in the general sense).

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To rear, rise up, start backwards.To rear, bring up, raise.

Example sentence: Rare is the union of beauty and purity.

We hope you now know whether to use Rear or Rare in your sentence.

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