fare /ˈfær, ˈfɛr/
  C車費,船費;C乘客,旅客;U伙食(vi.)過活,遭遇;吃,進食
  Fare v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fared p. pr. & vb. n. Faring.]
  1. To go; to pass; to journey; to travel.
  So on he fares, and to the border comes
  Of Eden.   --Milton.
  2. To be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circummstances or train of events, fortunate or unfortunate; as, he fared well, or ill.
     So fares the stag among the enraged hounds.   --Denham.
     I bid you most heartily well to fare.   --Robynson (More's Utopia).
     So fared the knight between two foes.   --Hudibras.
  3. To be treated or entertained at table, or with bodily or social comforts; to live.
     There was a certain rich man which . . . fared sumptuously every day.   --Luke xvi. 19.
  4. To happen well, or ill; -- used impersonally; as, we shall see how it will fare with him.
     So fares it when with truth falsehood contends.   --Milton.
  5. To behave; to conduct one's self. [Obs.]
     She ferde [fared] as she would die.   --Chaucer.
  Fare n.
  1. A journey; a passage. [Obs.]
     That nought might stay his fare.   --Spenser.
  2. The price of passage or going; the sum paid or due for conveying a person by land or water; as, the fare for crossing a river; the fare in a coach or by railway.
  3. Ado; bustle; business. [Obs.]
     The warder chid and made fare.   --Chaucer.
  4. Condition or state of things; fortune; hap; cheer.
     What fare? what news abroad ?   --Shak.
  5. Food; provisions for the table; entertainment; as, coarse fare; delicious fare. “Philosophic fare.”
  6. The person or persons conveyed in a vehicle; as, a full fare of passengers.
  7. The catch of fish on a fishing vessel.
  Bill of fare. See under Bill.
  Fare indicator or Fare register, a device for recording the number of passengers on a street car, etc.
  Fare wicket. (a) A gate or turnstile at the entrance of toll bridges, exhibition grounds, etc., for registering the number of persons passing it. (b) An opening in the door of a street car for purchasing tickets of the driver or passing fares to the conductor.
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  fare
       n 1: an agenda of things to do; "they worked rapidly down the
            menu of reports" [syn: menu]
       2: the sum charged for riding in a public conveyance [syn: transportation]
       3: a paying (taxi) passenger
       4: the food and drink that are regularly consumed
       v 1: proceed or get along; "How is she doing in her new job?";
            "How are you making out in graduate school?"; "He's come
            a long way" [syn: do, make out, come, get along]
       2: eat well