When you wear something such as clothes, shoes, or jewellery, you have them on your body or on part of your body.

If you wear your hair or beard in a particular way, you have it cut or styled in that way.

If you wear a particular expression, that expression is on your face and shows the emotions that you are feeling.

You use wear to refer to clothes that are suitable for a certain time or place. For example, evening wear is clothes suitable for the evening.

Wear is the amount or type of use that something has over a period of time.

Wear is the damage or change that is caused by something being used a lot or for a long time.

If something wears, it becomes thinner or weaker because it is constantly being used over a long period of time.

You can use wear to talk about how well something lasts over a period of time. For example, if something wears well, it still seems quite new or useful after a long time or a lot of use.

If one person in a couple, especially the woman, wears the pants, or in British English wears the trousers, they are the one who makes all the decisions.

If your patience or temper is wearing thin, you are becoming annoyed and are likely to get angry soon.

If you say that something is wearing thin, you mean that people do not find it funny or interesting any more and are becoming annoyed with it, because they have seen or heard it so many times.

If you say that someone is the worse for wear, you mean that they are tired, ill, or in a bad state because they have been very active, been through a difficult experience, or been drinking alcohol.