Crossword clues for bearing
bearing
- Have on one's person
- The direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies
- Dignified manner or conduct
- Heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield
- A rotating support placed between moving parts to allow them to move easily
- Have
- Give birth (to a newborn)
- Put up with something or somebody unpleasant
- Move while holding up or supporting
- What's the relevance of carriage?
- Taking off from sound in this direction
- Manner of behavior
- Demeanour — direction
- Support allowing shaft to rotate
- Comportment
- Take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
- Support or hold in a certain manner
- Of rights, titles, and offices
- Have rightfully
- Behave in a certain manner
- Bring in
- As of investments
- Be pregnant with
- Have within
- Contain or hold
- Relevant relation or interconnection
- Bring forth
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bearing \Bear"ing\ (b[^a]r"[i^]ng), n.
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The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self; mien; behavior; carriage.
I know him by his bearing.
--Shak. Patient endurance; suffering without complaint.
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The situation of one object, with respect to another, such situation being supposed to have a connection with the object, or influence upon it, or to be influenced by it; hence, relation; connection.
But of this frame, the bearings and the ties, The strong connections, nice dependencies.
--Pope. Purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect.
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The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing.
[His mother] in travail of his bearing.
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(Arch.)
That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports; as, a lintel or beam may have four inches of bearing upon the wall.
The portion of a support on which anything rests.
Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports.
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(Mach.)
The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal.
The part of the support on which a journal rests and rotates.
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(Her.) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl.
A carriage covered with armorial bearings.
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(Naut.)
The situation of a distant object, with regard to a ship's position, as on the bow, on the lee quarter, etc.; the direction or point of the compass in which an object is seen; as, the bearing of the cape was W. N. W.
pl. The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer.
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pl. The line of flotation of a vessel when properly trimmed with cargo or ballast.
Ball bearings. See under Ball.
To bring one to his bearings, to bring one to his senses.
To lose one's bearings, to become bewildered.
To take bearings, to ascertain by the compass the position of an object; to ascertain the relation of one object or place to another; to ascertain one's position by reference to landmarks or to the compass; hence (Fig.), to ascertain the condition of things when one is in trouble or perplexity.
Syn: Deportment; gesture; mien; behavior; manner; carriage; demeanor; port; conduct; direction; relation; tendency; influence.
Bear \Bear\ (b[^a]r), v. t. [imp. Bore (b[=o]r) (formerly Bare (b[^a]r)); p. p. Born (b[^o]rn), Borne (b[=o]rn); p. pr. & vb. n. Bearing.] [OE. beren, AS. beran, beoran, to bear, carry, produce; akin to D. baren to bring forth, G. geb["a]ren, Goth. ba['i]ran to bear or carry, Icel. bera, Sw. b["a]ra, Dan. b[ae]re, OHG. beran, peran, L. ferre to bear, carry, produce, Gr. fe`rein, OSlav. brati to take, carry, OIr. berim I bear, Skr. bh[.r] to bear. [root]92. Cf. Fertile.]
To support or sustain; to hold up.
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To support and remove or carry; to convey.
I 'll bear your logs the while.
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To conduct; to bring; -- said of persons. [Obs.]
Bear them to my house.
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To possess and use, as power; to exercise.
Every man should bear rule in his own house.
--Esther i. 22. To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription.
To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name.
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To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbor
--Dryden.The ancient grudge I bear him.
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To endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer.
Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
--Pope.I cannot bear The murmur of this lake to hear.
--Shelley.My punishment is greater than I can bear.
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To gain or win. [Obs.]
Some think to bear it by speaking a great word.
--Bacon.She was . . . found not guilty, through bearing of friends and bribing of the judge.
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To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc.
He shall bear their iniquities.
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Somewhat that will bear your charges.
--Dryden.11. To render or give; to bring forward. ``Your testimony bear''
--Dryden. To carry on, or maintain; to have. ``The credit of bearing a part in the conversation.''
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To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
In all criminal cases the most favorable interpretation should be put on words that they can possibly bear.
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To manage, wield, or direct. ``Thus must thou thy body bear.''
--Shak. Hence: To behave; to conduct.Hath he borne himself penitently in prison?
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To afford; to be to; to supply with.
His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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To bring forth or produce; to yield; as, to bear apples; to bear children; to bear interest. Here dwelt the man divine whom Samos bore. --Dryden. Note: In the passive form of this verb, the best modern usage restricts the past participle born to the sense of brought forth, while borne is used in the other senses of the word. In the active form, borne alone is used as the past participle. To bear down.
To force into a lower place; to carry down; to depress or sink. ``His nose, . . . large as were the others, bore them down into insignificance.''
--Marryat.-
To overthrow or crush by force; as, to bear down an enemy. To bear a hand.
To help; to give assistance.
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(Naut.) To make haste; to be quick. To bear in hand, to keep (one) up in expectation, usually by promises never to be realized; to amuse by false pretenses; to delude. [Obs.] ``How you were borne in hand, how crossed.'' --Shak. To bear in mind, to remember. To bear off.
To restrain; to keep from approach.
(Naut.) To remove to a distance; to keep clear from rubbing against anything; as, to bear off a blow; to bear off a boat.
To gain; to carry off, as a prize.
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(Backgammon) To remove from the backgammon board into the home when the position of the piece and the dice provide the proper opportunity; -- the goal of the game is to bear off all of one's men before the opponent. To bear one hard, to owe one a grudge. [Obs.] ``C[ae]sar doth bear me hard.'' --Shak. To bear out.
To maintain and support to the end; to defend to the last. ``Company only can bear a man out in an ill thing.''
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To corroborate; to confirm.
To bear up, to support; to keep from falling or sinking. ``Religious hope bears up the mind under sufferings.''
--Addison.Syn: To uphold; sustain; maintain; support; undergo; suffer; endure; tolerate; carry; convey; transport; waft.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"carrying of oneself, deportment," mid-13c., verbal noun from bear (v.). Mechanical sense of "part of a machine that bears the friction" is from 1791.
Wiktionary
Of a beam, column, or other device, carrying weight or load. n. 1 A mechanical device that supports another part and/or reduces friction. 2 (context navigation nautical English) The horizontal angle between the direction of an object and another object, or between it and that of true north; a heading or direction. 3 relevance; a relationship or connection. 4 One's posture, demeanor, or manner. 5 (context in the plural English) direction or relative position. 6 (context architecture English) That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports. 7 (context architecture English) The portion of a support on which anything rests. 8 (context architecture proscribed English) The unsupported span. 9 (context heraldry English) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms. v
(present participle of bear English)
WordNet
adj. (of a structural member) withstanding a weight or strain [syn: bearing(a)] [ant: nonbearing]
producing or yielding; "an interest-bearing note"; "fruit-bearing trees"
n. relevant relation or interconnection; "those issues have no bearing on our situation"
the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies [syn: heading, aim]
dignified manner or conduct [syn: comportment, presence, mien]
characteristic way of bearing one's body; "stood with good posture" [syn: carriage, posture]
heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield [syn: charge, heraldic bearing, armorial bearing]
a rotating support placed between moving parts to allow them to move easily
Wikipedia
"Bearing" is a term used in navigation to refer, depending on the context, to either (A) the direction of motion, or, (B) the direction of a distant object relative to the current course (or the "change" in course that would be needed to get to that distant object), or (C), the degrees away from North of a distant point relative to the current point.
In navigation, absolute bearing refers to the angle between the magnetic North (magnetic bearing) or true North (true bearing) and an object. For example, an object to the East would have an absolute bearing of 90 degrees. Relative bearing refers to the angle between the craft's forward direction, and the location of another object. For example, an object relative bearing of 0 degrees would be dead ahead; an object relative bearing 180 degrees would be behind. Bearings can be measured in mils or degrees.
Bearing may refer to:
- Bearing (navigation), a term for direction
- Bearing (mechanical), a component that separates moving parts and takes a load
- Bearing BTS Station in Bangkok
A bearing is a machine element that constrains relative motion to only the desired motion, and reduces friction between moving parts. The design of the bearing may, for example, provide for free linear movement of the moving part or for free rotation around a fixed axis; or, it may prevent a motion by controlling the vectors of normal forces that bear on the moving parts. Many bearings also facilitate the desired motion as much as possible, such as by minimizing friction. Bearings are classified broadly according to the type of operation, the motions allowed, or to the directions of the loads (forces) applied to the parts.
The term "bearing" is derived from the verb "to bear"; a bearing being a machine element that allows one part to bear (i.e., to support) another. The simplest bearings are bearing surfaces, cut or formed into a part, with varying degrees of control over the form, size, roughness and location of the surface. Other bearings are separate devices installed into a machine or machine part. The most sophisticated bearings for the most demanding applications are very precise devices; their manufacture requires some of the highest standards of current technology.
Usage examples of "bearing".
On my return home, it occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made out on this question by patiently accumulating and reflecting on all sorts of facts which could possibly have any bearing on it.
Another bit of luck was that Gretchen Scheffler -- possibly I had asked her to do so -- tailored me a suit which, cut in the unassuming, electively affinitive style of the early nineteenth century, still conjures up the spirit of Goethe in my album, bearing witness to the two souls in my breast, and enables me, with but a single drum, to be in St.
Their hypocotyls were secured to sticks, and glass filaments bearing little triangles of paper were affixed to the cotyledons of both.
Ignoring prophecy, he held that nothing in the Old Testament has any other than a typical or allegorical bearing upon the New Testament.
He was just finishing with a little boy and his turtle when Jesse arrived, bearing the alligator limb.
Straightway there descends a dove white as snow, bearing in its beak an ampulla full of chrism sent from heaven.
Domremy should know of the baptism of King Clovis of France, and of the descent of the Holy Ghost, at the singing of Veni Creator Spiritus, bearing in its beak the holy ampulla, full of chrism blessed by Our Lord?
We shall only observe that, in the act for the land-tax, and in the act for the malt-tax, there was a clause of credit, empowering the commissioners of the treasury to raise the money which they produced by loans on exchequer bills, bearing an interest of four per cent, per annum, that is, one per cent, higher than the interest usually granted in time of peace.
His gospel, bearing witness against the perversions of the papal apostasy, and restoring to men the Word and laws of the Most High.
Ranging the continent literally from Georgia to Maine, with all his weaknesses and indiscretions, and with his incomparable eloquence, welcomed by every sect, yet refusing an exclusive allegiance to any, Whitefield exercised a true apostolate, bearing daily the care of all the churches, and becoming a messenger of mutual fellowship not only between the ends of the continent, but between the Christians of two hemispheres.
These sagacious, humorous fellows who were amusing themselves with twaddling trade apothegms and ridiculous banqueteering solemnities, surely they were aware that this had no bearing upon their own jobs?
Now again, let the reader, bearing in mind that General Adams has unequivocally said, in one part of his address, that the charge in relation to the assignment was manufactured just before the election, turn to the affidavit of Peter S.
The furry, perpetually grinning reception committee was bearing a tray of assorted beverages.
And, after the banket done, these maskers came in, with six gentlemen disguised in silke, bearing staffe torches, and desired the ladies to danse: some were content, and some refused.
Then there emerges a church dignitary bearing a large brightly-burnished crucifix, followed by others bearing bannerettes and other symbols, the names and uses of which are to us a mystery.