Baer

[ bair ]

/ bɛər /

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noun

Karl Ernst von

[kahrl urnst von, fuhn], /kɑrl ɜrnst vɒn, fən/, 1792–1876, Estonian zoologist and pioneer embryologist.

Max, 1909–59, U.S. boxer: world heavyweight champion 1934.

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How to use Baer in a sentence

“If there is a new complaint and if the judge accepts it, we are still at the beginning of a years-long process,” Baer says.
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Capitol Factory’s Baer believes Texas investors think about loss prevention more than their peers in Silicon Valley.
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Baer, the Arizona artist, said she had heard that Clinton reads a book a day.
Inside the World of Hillary Superfans|David Freedlander|April 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It has all the complexity of a really superb abstract painting, by Malevich, say, or maybe Jo Baer.
Art at the Scrim-age Line|Blake Gopnik|July 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST

The president was sitting at his desk; Don Baer and Mark Gearan, his communications chief, were standing across.
The Funniest WHCD Speech Bill Clinton Never Delivered|Mark Katz|April 26, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Baer began to make notes on his napkin, determined to dedicate an episode of the new season's show to this issue.
Why Are These Rapes Still Unsolved?|Linda Fairstein|September 28, 2010|DAILY BEAST
“No, Peter [Orzag] did not put this idea forward,” says his spokesman Kenneth Baer.
Are These Breasts Deductible?|Sandra McElwaine|July 30, 2009|DAILY BEAST
Mr. Petherick says, that the Baer tribe carry a different kind of iron missile from the Neam-Nams.
The Evolution of Culture|Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers
This, at any rate, was von Baer's opinion, who assigns to Pander the glory of the discovery of the germ-layers.
Form and Function|E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
It was to one of the German transcendentalists that von Baer owed the impulse to study development.
Form and Function|E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
One important consequence for morphology results from von Baer's laws of differentiation within the type.
Form and Function|E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell
Baer at once brings us face to face with the solution of the problem attempted in the Meckel-Serres law.
Form and Function|E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

Medical definitions for Baer (1 of 2)

Baer

[ bâr ]

Karl Ernst von 1792-1876

Estonian-born German naturalist and pioneer embryologist who discovered (1827) the mammalian egg in the ovary. He later described the process by which the fertilized egg develops first into germ layers and then into different organs and tissues.

Medical definitions for Baer (2 of 2)

BAER

abbr.

brainstem auditory evoked response