What does bear mean

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bear

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

bear

I.verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a compass bearing/reading (=a direction shown by a compass)

▪ We took a compass bearing to ensure we were walking in the right direction.

ball bearing

bear a scarformal (= have it on your body)

▪ He still bore the scars of its teeth on his leg.

bear a slogan (=have a slogan printed on something)

▪ a badge bearing a campaign slogan

bear a/some similarity to sth (=be like something)

▪ The murder bore a striking similarity to another shooting 25 miles away.

bear claw

bear hug

bear little/no resemblance to sb/sth

▪ He bore little resemblance to the photograph in the newspaper.

bear market

bear no relation to reality (=not match what is really happening or true)

▪ His vision of European politics bears no relation to reality.

bear no/little relationship to sth

▪ The allegations bore no relationship to the facts.

bear resentment (=feel it)

▪ My father's favourite was my younger sister, and I'd always borne him some resentment for this.

bear responsibility for sth (=be responsible for something bad)

▪ Developed countries must bear much of the responsibility for environmental problems.

bear signs of sth (=have signs)

▪ The bed was neatly made and bore no signs of having been slept in.

Bear Stearns

bear the hallmark of

▪ Their performance did not bear the hallmark of European champions.

bear the suspense

▪ She couldn’t bear the suspense a moment longer.

bear/carry a grudge

▪ Wallace said the rumors had been started by someone who bore a grudge against him.

bear/carry a watermark

▪ The sheet bears the watermark ‘1836’.

bear/carry/shoulder the burden (=be responsible for something)

▪ At the age of 16, Suzy bore the burden of providing for her family.

bear/have a resemblance to sb/sth

▪ People said he bore a striking resemblance to the President.

bear/hold etc no grudge

▪ He insisted that he held no grudge against Taylor.

bearing in mind (=because of)

▪ More money should be given to housing, bearing in mind the problem of homelessness.

bore...malice (=did not feel any malice towards her)

▪ James bore her no malice .

bore...the stamp of (=had)

▪ The speech borethe stamp of authority.

bring pressure to bear on sb (=put pressure on them)

▪ These groups have brought pressure to bear on the government.

can’t bear the thought of sth

▪ I can’t bear the thought of you being hurt.

carry/bear scars (=to suffer from feelings of fear or sadness )

▪ These children will carry their emotional scars with them for the rest of their lives.

full bore

▪ Kate took a huge slice and was going at it full bore.

grizzly bear

have...crosses to bear

▪ I feel sorry for you, but we all have our crosses to bear.

hold/bear sth aloft

▪ He emerged, holding a baby aloft.

meet/bear the cost of sth (=pay for something, especially with difficulty)

▪ His family were unable to meet the cost of his operation.

not stand up to scrutiny/not bear scrutiny (=be found to have faults when examined)

▪ Such arguments do not stand up to careful scrutiny.

polar bear

teddy bear

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADVERB

hardly

▪ She could hardly bear to listen to them, smiling Clyde, amiable Harvey, fat Marlene.

▪ Heartrending, Rob thought; he could hardly bear to look.

▪ The two sides of the equation did not balance and she could hardly bear the implications of that.

▪ I am so homesick I can hardly bear it.

▪ At school the next day I hurt so much I could hardly bear to stay sitting down.

▪ I remember being filled with such excitement I could hardly bear it.

▪ What that will do to Strachan's nerves hardly bears thinking about.

▪ He could hardly bear to go on.

■ NOUN

brunt

▪ A recent report showed how older workers bear the brunt of economic recession.

▪ It will bear the brunt of the estimated $ 1 billion cost for the changes on Okinawa.

▪ The depot is bearing the brunt of a package of cost cutting measures across three sites.

▪ Southern California, where the banks had the most overlap, will bear the brunt of the cuts.

▪ He thought that the garrison of Richmond ought now to bear the brunt of the fighting.

▪ Millions of carers argue that they bear the brunt of the job ... without recognition, or proper payment.

▪ Retailers are in the immediate line of fire and were first to bear the brunt of cost cutting.

burden

▪ Those people may have roughly the same income and circumstances and they may all be able to bear the same burden.

▪ To what extent are the various taxes shifted and who bears the ultimate burden?

▪ People can not afford to bear a heavier burden, and we shall not put a heavier burden on them.

▪ Wives bore a greater burden in dealing with these daily difficulties than did their preoccupied husbands.

▪ If this applies, small indexed sequential files bear a heavy burden compared with larger files.

▪ Some have struggled all their lives, and now are forced to bear this unexpected burden during retirement.

▪ Is the potential for misidentification any less when the defence bear the burden of proof?

▪ He went further and said that the prosecution bore that burden whenever the issue of prejudice through delay was raised.

child

▪ Others develop the feeling of bearing a child more gradually.

▪ Reproductive system After the menopause, women are no longer able to bear children, as their ovaries stop releasing eggs.

▪ Quintana, who works at a car wash, said she bore her first child at age 13.

▪ Next, their wives were fed since they could bear more children.

▪ She bore two children, was banished from the colony and yet reappeared later.

▪ She was a lady of unearthly beauty who married a Count of Anjou and bore him four children.

▪ Even if women are raped, he says, they should be legally required to bear the children.

cost

▪ And who will bear the cost?

▪ Such action forces potential offenders, under the threat of legal action, to bear all the costs associated with their production.

▪ The buyers therefore had to bear the costs of the deterioration.

▪ Instead, landowner Peter Dillingham will bear the cost.

▪ A long debate determines who will be unlucky and bear the cost of eggs rather than sperm.

▪ Retailers are in the immediate line of fire and were first to bear the brunt of cost cutting.

▪ The insured must bear the costs of the Engineers fees unless liability is subsequently established under the policy.

▪ The Society are now seeking a skilled modeller to carry out this work and have undertaken to bear the costs involved.

costs

▪ The buyers therefore had to bear the costs of the deterioration.

▪ In terms of our organizational behavior model, costs bring the fear of low performance immediately to bear.

▪ The Legal Aid Fund bears the costs risk rather than the litigant.

▪ Such action forces potential offenders, under the threat of legal action, to bear all the costs associated with their production.

▪ For the moment, capital was bearing the costs of overaccumulation.

▪ Other terms Purchaser and vendor to bear their own costs.

▪ The insured must bear the costs of the Engineers fees unless liability is subsequently established under the policy.

▪ Any exports to the mainland have to bear high transport costs.

cross

▪ We all have our crosses to bear.

▪ Was this his Cross to bear?

▪ Each symbol was placed in front of larger crosses bearing the name and crest of the unit or group.

▪ He says it's a cross to bear.

▪ Look - you've got your cross to bear, all right, I've got mine.

▪ Thought it has a supportive county council and a productive work force, yet it has its cross to bear.

▪ A tall stone cross on the site bears the following dedication: To the Brave of Both Nations.

fruit

▪ Some investment does not bear fruit.

▪ They began to see that devoting time and energy to this endeavor bore fruit.

▪ The first is that the policies have largely been implemented as intended and that they are bearing fruit.

▪ What contacts there are do not always bear fruit.

▪ Whether the 90s will bear further fruit remains to be seen.

▪ It bears fruit continuously throughout the growing season.

▪ The years of work and attention were bearing fruit now, and suddenly this stroke of luck with Betty.

▪ Never would she let the earth bear fruit until she had seen her daughter.

grudge

▪ Drought-lovers are natural container plants and will not bear a grudge if you forget to water them.

▪ Otis, who bore lifelong grudges over provocations infinitely smaller than this, was realistic enough to know when he was had.

▪ It would not do to have Miss Blagden imagine she bore any grudge.

▪ Does some one bear a grudge against Vallejo?

▪ Lets hope they don't bear a grudge!

▪ He said both men came from deprived backgrounds and bore a grudge against the area in which they lived.

▪ Guenelon bears a grudge in his heart, which eventually blossoms into a scheme for revenge.

▪ Y/N 7 I am willing to forgive people who have upset me and do not bear grudges against them.

hallmark

▪ It also bears the hallmarks of a long-cherished project.

▪ The attack bore all the hallmarks of a loyalist murder bid.

▪ Whatever it was, it didn't bear the hallmark of life in Knockglen.

▪ In singling out gay men, the offence bears the hallmarks of homophobic prejudice, and belongs to the less tolerant era.

▪ Cricket is primarily a man's game, bearing all the hallmarks of male camaraderie.

▪ The sculptures bear all the hallmarks of the Braun workshop and date from 1713-19.

▪ But they said the type of attack bore all the hallmarks of the I-R-A.

▪ It does not, in other words, bear the hallmarks of Thatcherism.

influence

▪ Nor was noble influence brought to bear only in moments of crisis.

▪ Campaigning can bring political influences to bear on the students that might affect them detrimentally. 3.

▪ The outside influences have no bearing on what you can do for your basketball team....

▪ He also wrote letters to bring the full weight of the family's influence to bear on Cambridge University.

▪ All sorts of influences are brought to bear upon us every time we turn on the radio or open a newspaper.

mark

▪ A large piece of whale blubber, bearing the marks of fleshing knives, has been discovered off west Falkland.

▪ The imam still bore the mark of that experience in his gaunt frame and sallow, jaundiced complexion.

▪ The great Leinster dinner service of 1747 was his swansong: no silver bearing his mark appears thereafter.

▪ Products graded in accordance with established standards bear the appropriate grade marks.

▪ And her body, bearing one tiny mark, had been found with a bird's head, near the barrow.

▪ Krupat's face, which I knew so well, bore some recent marks.

▪ Some of you have the look of lords, yet you bear the mark of hard travelling and your steeds are scarred.

▪ None the less, nationalization still bore the mark of long struggles by the labour movement to further working class interests.

mind

▪ You should also bear in mind that social security payments might be higher abroad.

▪ And bear in mind that it was an hour later and in the middle of the week.

▪ And while that would seem to leave Jen open to offers, bear in mind that she can be a difficult customer.

▪ The Home Secretary should bear in mind the fact that this case is subjudice.

▪ Meredith, bearing in mind Harriet's warning that this horse might kick, prudently moved away a little.

▪ I have no authority to do that in a half-day debate, but perhaps hon. Members will bear it in mind.

▪ We should bear in mind continually that the whole field is controversial.

▪ To approach this question, we bear in mind the principle that variability in language is socially functional.

name

▪ He devised a set of heavy draft horse casting hobbles which are now outmoded but still bear his name.

▪ The Lechmere chain traces its roots to merchant Abraham Cohen, who opened a harness store that bore his name in 1913.

▪ The large old building, with its sign over the door bearing the Grenfell name, stood silent and empty.

▪ Croix, who was dizzy and nauseated when he penciled in the river that bears his name.

▪ Each symbol was placed in front of larger crosses bearing the name and crest of the unit or group.

▪ Conoco currently operates in 37 states from Texas to Montana, with 5, 125 service stations bearing the Conoco name.

▪ There was a second edition in 1803, bearing Coleman's name.

▪ They all bore the name of the same author.

pressure

▪ He brought undue pressure to bear on his parents by giving them an entirely misleading account of the documents.

▪ With all the pressure brought to bear upon them, both President Lincoln and General Halleck stood by me....

▪ This concession would not have happened but for the pressure brought to bear on the authorities.

▪ In London Channel 4 journalists and Insight News, the production company, brought pressure to bear.

▪ As consumers in a capitalist society we have great power to bring pressure to bear.

▪ On his eastern border, Ine brought pressure to bear on the eastern Saxons who were sheltering exiles from his kingdom.

▪ Those groups have brought pressure to bear on government to provide resources or pursue policies to the benefit of their members.

▪ No pressure was brought to bear on visitors who were reluctant to co-operate.

relation

▪ The yardage on the card often bears little relation to the club you select.

▪ The punishment in this instance is not arbitrary; it bears some relation to the punishable behavior.

▪ They bear little enough relation to the land that now lies west of Jerusalem.

▪ It bore no relation to the equivalent of aerodynamic facts, namely, anthropological evidence as a whole.

▪ Hence the amount of Business Rate each local authority receives will bear no relation to the amount actually collected in each area.

▪ This bull market bears no relation to that gambling spree.

▪ The picture bore no relation to the blotchy, snotty, shouting face of angry childhood.

▪ Furthermore, who told the stories about whom seemed to bear some relation to the conventional pecking order.

relationship

▪ This chapter has reviewed a wide range of research which may bear on relationships between subjective risk and memory for driving situations.

▪ Why is life so unfair-whether you live or die bears no relationship to what kind of person you are.

▪ The available statistical evidence bears out this crude relationship between years of education and earnings.

▪ The symbols used in a language are arbitrary and bear no relationship to what they represent.

▪ Availability of resources and their actual use seem frequently to bear little relationship to each other.

▪ Expiatory punishment is arbitrary in character because it does not bear any relationship to the offense.

▪ They too complain of pain whose severity bears little or no relationship to the tissue destruction.

resemblance

▪ The oldest Tertiary rocks contained archaic mammals that bore no resemblance to the living families within the class.

▪ The rumors bore an uncanny resemblance to whatever people feared most.

▪ I say nuclear catastrophe partly because any exchange of nuclear arsenals will bear no resemblance to anything that could be called war.

▪ But his co-defendant, Terry Nichols, bears no resemblance to the sketch of John Doe 2.

▪ And he was helped by the fact that he bears a slight resemblance to the blond singer in Abba, too.

▪ She bore little resemblance to the fashionable woman she had been just a few weeks ago.

▪ They say that the handwriting at the top bears no resemblance to that of any Press office staff.

▪ Citations commonly bore little resemblance to events.

responsibility

▪ No one likes to bear the responsibility for such decisions.

▪ It was hard to tell which side bore more responsibility for the disorders, the police or the rioters.

▪ Ironically, the papacy must bear some responsibility for these developments.

▪ But women bear some responsibility, too.

▪ But he bears primary responsibility for tax and economic policies that lost Labour the election.

▪ In the past, the companies have said they bear no responsibility for the actions of dealers who sell guns.

▪ It was as though she were dead and he bore the responsibility for killing her.

▪ He must bear primary responsibility for the chaos that descended upon the White House when such disclosure did occur.

scar

▪ His twice broken kneecap still bears the scars - for Lawrence today was the test he's been waiting for.

▪ All bore ugly scars from repeated knife fights on the streets and in the dives around Clinton Avenue.

▪ This boat was used in an Indiana Jones film and still bears the scars.

▪ She still bore the scars of battle, a battle she had nearly lost.

▪ He had only ever been discovered once and still bore the scars on his wrist from the Alsatian's razor-sharp-teeth.

▪ He still bore the scars of her teeth on his calf and upper thigh.

▪ And within a week Aseta was playing again-though she still bears the scar today.

▪ Many people bear permanent scars from such encounters.

similarity

▪ If this was Richard's first experience of war it bore an ironical similarity to his last.

▪ They say the cases bear no similarity.

▪ The interiors of these churches are tall and dark and bear strong similarities to inverted ships.

▪ In fact, of course, much of this material bore only a tenuous similarity to its genuinely customary counterparts.

▪ This description bears marked similarities to those offered by a number of eminent sociologists who adopt the trait approach.

son

▪ Eleven months later she bore his son.

▪ She would bear him a son named Epaphus, and live for ever after happy and honored.

▪ He further conquered her by ensuring she fell in love with him, and she bore him three sons.

▪ After she died in 1647, a new wife bore him one more son in his sixtieth year.

▪ She was jealous that I was to bear her husband's son - I could not hate her for that.

▪ She bore him one posthumous son.

▪ Somehow that was easier to bear than a son.

▪ For example, the ability to bear sons remained important in early twentieth-century farming communities.

stamp

▪ It did not, now, bear the stamp of Duncan on it.

▪ His early work, produced between 1930 and 1933, bears the stamp of sectarianism.

▪ In the first two weeks of January 1992, 18 more people were killed in murders bearing the stamp of death squads.

▪ The scheme bore the unmistakable stamp of Kurt Hahn and his trust system that Charles had seen in operation at Gordonstoun.

▪ How could she produce anything that bore the stamp of continuity and at the same time managed to be fresh and original?

▪ Wycliffe lifted out a man's wrist watch and a little wad of letters still in their envelopes and bearing foreign stamps.

▪ Such cheques will bear the bank's stamp and a bank official's signature on their face.

thought

▪ Riley, Riley, I can't bear the thought of your leaving.

▪ You couldn't bear the thought of a chit of a girl sweeping in and scooping the jackpot.

▪ And she couldn't bear the thought of being sucked back into the ebb tide of loneliness again either.

▪ He simply can not bear the thought of his hated enemy getting hold of young Adam.

▪ I can't bear the thought of Batty playing against Leeds.

▪ I couldn't bear the thought that it was you he loved.

▪ She longed to encounter some other human presence and could not bear the thought of it.

weight

▪ But to my mind neither section 8 nor the Gillick decision will bear the weight which he seeks to place upon them.

▪ I went down the steps, slowly, enjoying the way each step bore my weight.

▪ Yet these will hardly bear the weight of a theory so grand as the fusion of legacy and trust.

▪ Differences that had seemed slight when they were in their early twenties now bore social weight.

▪ The Hooper who existed in Brideshead Revisited, though, bore all the weight of Waugh's opprobrium.

▪ If the floor is properly framed, you should not need extra support underneath to bear the weight of the fireplace.

▪ As a foundation it is inadequate to bear the weight of the case that Mr. McGregor sought to build upon it.

▪ His arms were numb, his hands too weak to bear his weight.

witness

▪ I did not steal or bear false witness.

▪ There, too, literature bears witness.

▪ Sparrow's books bear witness to his movement in the most exclusive circles.

▪ They also bear witness to trade over long distances.

▪ The Prisoner of Zenda and its sequel certainly bear witness to their author's craftsmanship.

▪ Those empty houses bore mute witness to the violence of the times.

▪ The Mutawas, clothed in self-righteousness, were there to bear witness to the appropriate punishment.

▪ Half way across the site, the earth is scorched, and the remnants of dwellings bear witness to a horrendous fire.

■ VERB

bring

▪ This would bring financial pressure to bear on his friends and family, and besides it was profitable.

▪ Mummy and I will bring our guns to bear.

▪ There is a finite amount of government resources we can bring to bear.

▪ Anyway, on with my story, for soon other pressures were to be brought to bear.

▪ In bringing the arts to bear on his discussion, Hardison shines brightly.

▪ Employers brought maximum pressure to bear on workers in order to restore order: recalcitrant strikers faced lockouts.

▪ He asserts that he is: bringing to bear the precision of photography in the illustration of our subject.

grin

▪ We just have to grin and bear it.

▪ It's not exactly affectionate, but we Limeys can grin and bear it.

▪ But she was not on the tour, so I had to grin and bear it.

▪ And up to now, you've had to quit or grin and bear it.

▪ Abu Salim decided that a third day wasn't necessary so I had to grin and bear it.

▪ There was no alternative but to grin and bear it.

▪ After debate the team concluded that they had to grin and bear it rather than descend into paranoia.

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

be borne in on/upon sb

bear the mark of sth

▪ A large piece of whale blubber, bearing the marks of fleshing knives, has been discovered off west Falkland.

▪ None the less, nationalization still bore the mark of long struggles by the labour movement to further working class interests.

▪ Some of you have the look of lords, yet you bear the mark of hard travelling and your steeds are scarred.

▪ The imam still bore the mark of that experience in his gaunt frame and sallow, jaundiced complexion.

bear/keep sb/sth in mind

▪ Bobcat. Keep that in mind.

▪ But they keep Soviet might in mind, however remote the threat now seems.

▪ If he had ... no conclusions yet, just bear it in mind.

▪ It is important to bear this in mind in any study of the role of school governors in meeting special educational needs.

▪ It is important to keep your audience in mind when writing a report.

▪ They might bear that in mind.

▪ To keep it in mind, at all costs.

▪ We've got to bear it in mind.

bear/take/suffer etc the brunt of sth

▪ Group comportment had deteriorated by the day, with yours truly bearing the brunt of the collective delinquency.

▪ He thought that the garrison of Richmond ought now to bear the brunt of the fighting.

▪ Her hands, which she threw up to protect her face took the brunt of the injury.

▪ It will bear the brunt of the estimated $ 1 billion cost for the changes on Okinawa.

▪ Retailers are in the immediate line of fire and were first to bear the brunt of cost cutting.

▪ Southern California, where the banks had the most overlap, will bear the brunt of the cuts.

▪ The depot is bearing the brunt of a package of cost cutting measures across three sites.

▪ The front of the car, and those in it, took the brunt of the impact.

bore sb silly

bore/scare etc the pants off sb

▪ He wasn't interested in the heavy political stuff which bored the pants off most people.

▪ It took ten minutes to reach Honey Cottage, with Yanto trying his best to scare the pants off Mary.

▪ Lovely people who scared the pants off him.

▪ The tests scare the pants off many managers.

▪ Though, mind you, it scares the pants off poor old Crumwallis.

have a/some/no etc bearing on sth

▪ And that it might have some bearing on what has happened now.

▪ But the facts of the past seemed to have no bearing on the facts of the present.

▪ It has come to have a bearing on the larger questions of civilized survival.

▪ Party political factors, professionalism and the dispositions of key personalities all usually have some bearing on internal management structures.

▪ The availability of security may, however, have a bearing on whether or not a particular loan will be granted.

▪ The observations on immortality in Chapter Thirteen may be seen to have some bearing on this.

▪ The outside influences have no bearing on what you can do for your basketball team....

▪ This year's form will have a bearing on all future claims.

water-borne/sea-borne/air-borne etc

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

▪ A messenger arrived, bearing a letter from the ambassador.

▪ An oak table bore several photographs of the family.

▪ At the head of the procession a group of dark-suited men bore the coffin into the church.

▪ He bore the pain stoically.

▪ Her loneliness was hard to bear, after her husband died.

▪ I really can't bear him.

▪ Jean will never be able to bear children.

▪ My leg really hurts -- I'm not sure how much longer I can bear it.

▪ Several of the guests arrived bearing gifts.

▪ She bears the title of "Executive Director."

▪ Talking to a counsellor can help divorcees to bear the pain of separation.

▪ The baby's narrow neck looked too fragile to bear the weight of its head.

▪ The ice wasn't thick enough to bear his weight.

▪ The list bore the names of people still missing after the disaster.

▪ The melon rind bore traces of a rare type of the Salmonella bacteria.

▪ The police are asking residents to keep an eye out for a person bearing this description.

▪ The trial was a great scandal but she bore it all with courage and dignity.

▪ The tunnel would have needed to be extremely strong to bear the full weight of the earth above.

▪ They arrived in Israel on the same plane that bore Assad's coffin.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

▪ A close scrutiny of films showing lions killing zebras does not bear this out.

▪ Dissident radicals of all sorts were assumed to bear loyalty to alien ideologies, and deportation became the fate of many.

▪ For Blanche the atmosphere bore no resemblance to the glamorous, fun-filled evening promised in the advertisements.

▪ I can not bear it any longer, I am crying now.

▪ Never would she let the earth bear fruit until she had seen her daughter.

▪ Some products that bear freshness dates are cheeses, breakfast cereals, bakery products, and mayonnaise.

▪ There Charles went solo again, unveiling a plaque - which bore both their names - as Diana stood meekly behind him.

▪ You know, as in, which one bore more excitement and panache.

II.noun