English Dictionary

wearing

/ˈwɛɹɪŋ/

adj

(not comparable) Intended to be worn. / Causing tiredness; trying to a person's patience. / Causing erosion. / That wears (deteriorate through use), and may eventually wear out.

She is wearing a beautiful dress.

意味（1）

(not comparable) Intended to be worn.

Clothes used to be called wearing apparel.

意味（2）

Causing tiredness; trying to a person's patience.

[The biography] also displays a rather wearing fidelity to chronology that gives rise to too many summer holidays at the beginning of the book and too many royalty statements towards the end.

意味（3）

Causing erosion.

意味（4）

That wears (deteriorate through use), and may eventually wear out.

Comparison of the four bogie designs shows that the Rugby-built A.E.I. bogie has the least number of components and a minimum of metallic wearing surfaces.