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# bald

«bald» in Mova's school dictionary: **having little or no hair on the head: "my grandad is bald"** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (bald, balder, baldest); verb (bald, balds, balded, balding — rare, mostly "balding")

### meaning for a pupil

1) Bald means having little or no hair on the head: "my grandad is bald". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bald/#m1)

2) Bald can mean without the usual covering: "bald tyres" have their grooves worn down and are dangerous. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bald/#m2)

3) A bald statement or fact is plain and simple, with no extra detail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bald/#m3)

4) Balding means losing hair. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bald/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and descriptions, bald is a common feature of characters. In science, the bald eagle is not really bald: it has white head feathers. In road safety, bald tyres are dangerous and illegal. Phrases: go bald, bald patch, bald eagle, bald tyres, bald as a coot.

### examples

- My grandpa is bald and wears a cap in the sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bald/#x1)
- Dad has a bald patch on top of his head. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bald/#x2)
- The bald eagle is the bird of the United States. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bald/#x3)
- Bald tyres are dangerous on wet roads. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bald/#x4)
- He started going bald in his twenties. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bald/#x5)
- The bald fact is that we lost. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bald/#x6)
- A BALD KNIGHT, who wore a wig, went out to hunt. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bald/#x7)

### note

Do not confuse bald (no hair) with bold (brave; thick letters) or bawled (cried loudly) — "bawled" sounds the same as bald. Calling someone "baldy" can be rude.

### In the corpora

- [Kind words soften the truth: wrinkles become "laughter lines" and a balding man is "thinning on top".](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/9-age-looks-and-size/1/)
- ["Thinning on top" is a polite way to say going bald.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/9-age-looks-and-size/11/)
- ["Follically challenged" is a joking way to say bald; follicles are the tiny holes hairs grow from.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/9-age-looks-and-size/12/)
- [And if a man's hair be fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/LEV.350/)
- [For every head is bald, and every beard clipped; upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.1273/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bald» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bald/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.