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bearing en · ADJ · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • (US) audio
  • /ˈbɛɹɪŋ/ (US)
  • /ˈbɛə̯ɹɪŋ/ (UK)
  • bâr'ĭng (US)

Etymology

From Middle English beringe, berynge, berende, berande, berand, from Old English berende (“bearing; fruitful”) (also as synonym Old English bǣrende), from Proto-Germanic *berandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *beraną (“to bear; carry”), equivalent to bear + -ing.

Meanings

  1. (in-compounds, not-comparable) That bears (some specified thing).
    • a gift-bearing visitor
  2. (not-comparable) Of a beam, column, or other device, carrying weight or load.
    • That's a bearing wall.

Deriveds

interest-bearing · everbearing · life-bearing · leafbearing · seedbearing · unbearing · furbearing · plain bearing · death-bearing · metalbearing · sporebearing · nonbearing · tone-bearing unit · relative bearing grease · pallbearing · torchbearing · apple-bearing · thought-bearing · fur-bearing trout · horn-bearing · load-bearing · cupbearing · omnibearing · rushbearing · armsbearing · livebearing · light-bearing · fruit-bearing · flower-bearing · casebearing · swordbearing · child-bearing · wonder-bearing · gold-bearing · coal-bearing · childbearing

Translations (10)

hi ढोना (carrying weight or load) · nl dragend (carrying weight or load) · de tragend (carrying weight or load) · cs podpěrný (carrying weight or load) · cs nosný (carrying weight or load) · bg носещ (carrying weight or load) · ru несу́щий (carrying weight or load) · es de apoyo (carrying weight or load) · es de soporte (carrying weight or load) · fr porteur (carrying weight or load)

bearing en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • (US) audio
  • /ˈbɛɹɪŋ/ (US)
  • /ˈbɛə̯ɹɪŋ/ (UK)
  • bâr'ĭng (US)

Etymology

From Middle English beringe, berynge, berende, berande, berand, from Old English berende (“bearing; fruitful”) (also as synonym Old English bǣrende), from Proto-Germanic *berandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *beraną (“to bear; carry”), equivalent to bear + -ing.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of bear
    form of bear

bearing en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • (US) audio
  • /ˈbɛɹɪŋ/ (US)
  • /ˈbɛə̯ɹɪŋ/ (UK)
  • bâr'ĭng (US)

Etymology

From Middle English bering, beringe, berynge, equivalent to bear + -ing.

Meanings

  1. A mechanical device that supports another part or reduces friction.
    • The smaller 1/4" shank version features a bearing at the top edge to limit depth of cut, making it especially useful for curved glue joints. 2026 August 14, Collin Knoff, “Wave Reversible Glueline Bit From Microjig”, in Popular Woodworking, volume 290, number 4, page 12:
  2. (qualifier:navigation) The horizontal angle between the direction of an object and another object, or between it and that of true north; a heading or direction.
    • This volume would have been at least twice as large, if I had not made bold to strike out innumerable passages relating to the winds and tides, as well as to the variations and bearings in the several voyages, together with the minute descriptions of the management of the ship in storms, in the style of sailors; likewise the account of longitudes and latitudes; [...] 1726 October 28, Richard Sympson [pseudonym], [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, (please specify |part=I to IV), page X:
  3. (especially, in phrases such as 'get one's bearings', in-plural) One's understanding of one's orientation or relative position, literally or figuratively.
    • I started a new job last week, and I still haven't quite found my bearings.
    • Do we go left here or straight on? Hold on, let me just get my bearings.
  4. Relevance; a relationship or connection.
    • But of this frame, the bearings and the ties, / The strong connections, nice dependencies. 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC:
    • That has no bearing on this issue.
  5. One's posture, demeanor, or manner.
    • I know him by his bearing. 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
    • The little green men were clearly professional soldiers by their bearing, carried Russian weapons, and wore Russian combat fatigues, but they had no identifying insignia. Vladimir Putin originally denied they were Russian soldiers; that April, he confirmed they were. 2019 March 18, Steven Pifer, Five years after Crimea’s illegal annexation, the issue is no closer to resolution, The Center for International Security and Cooperation:
    • She walks with a confident, self-assured bearing.
  6. That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports.
    • A lintel or beam may have four inches of bearing upon the wall.
  7. The portion of a support on which anything rests.
  8. (proscribed) The unsupported span.
    • The beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports.
  9. Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms.
    • […]when the French seized Malta they were by no means so delicate. They effaced armorial bearings with their usual hot-headed eagerness; and a few years after they had torn down the coats of arms of the gentry, the heroes of Malta and Egypt were busy devising heraldry for themselves, and were wild to be barons and counts of the empire. 1846, Mr. M. A. Titmarsh [pseudonym; W. M. Thackeray], chapter VIII, in Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo […] , London: Chapman and Hall, page 140:
    • Holonyms: shield, escutcheon

Forms

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bearings Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

back bearing · bearingless · plain bearing · muffler bearing · sidebearing · journal bearing · end bearing pile · talebearing · bearinglike · air bearing · radial bearing · jewel bearing · get one's bearings · cutlass bearing · armorial bearing · needle bearing · lose one's bearings · bearing rein · bearing pile · find one's bearings · neck bearing

Hypernyms

component · part

Relateds

field · ABEC

Synonyms

presence

Translations (140)

pt relevância (relevance) · mk лагер (mechanical device) · pt conduta (posture) · ja 方向 (nautical sense) · sv pejling (nautical sense) · fi laakeri (mechanical device) · pt postura (posture) · eo mieno (posture) · cmn 軸承 /轴承 (mechanical device) · lv gultnis (mechanical device) · es rumbo (nautical sense) · fi olemus (posture) · eo lagro (mechanical device) · de Lager (mechanical device) · pt importância (relevance) · ga méin (posture) · fi suuntima (nautical sense) · cmn 舉止 /举止 (posture) · he תַּכְוִין (nautical sense) · ky подшипник (mechanical device) · cs azimut (nautical sense) · fr palier (mechanical device) · uk підши́пник (mechanical device) · fr portée (relevance) · cmn 方向 (nautical sense) · kk мойынтірек (mechanical device) · de Tragweite (relevance) · cs způsoby (posture) · ru поведе́ние (posture) · mi raranga (nautical sense) · bg отноше́ние (relevance) · gl rumbo (nautical sense) · cs držení těla (posture) · sv bäring (nautical sense) · cs směrník (nautical sense) · de Verbindung (relevance) · ro palier (mechanical device) · vi ổ đỡ (mechanical device) · sh lȅžāj (mechanical device) · nl lager (mechanical device) · it cuscinetto (mechanical device) · ru мане́ра вести́ себя́ (posture) · bg поведе́ние (posture) · sh курс (nautical sense) · it postura (posture) · el ρουλμάν (mechanical device) · sv lager (mechanical device) · cs chování (posture) · hi बेयरिंग (mechanical device) · sl ležaj (mechanical device) · gl relevancia (relevance) · uk вальни́ця (mechanical device) · gd giùlan (posture) · it portamento (posture) · bg държа́ние (posture) · fr roulement (mechanical device) · de Peilung (nautical sense) · ja 軸受 (mechanical device) · fo ýting (nautical sense) · sh azimut (nautical sense) · ca coixinet (mechanical device) · fi merkitys (relevance) · oc azimut (nautical sense) · ko 거동 (posture) · th ลูกปืน (mechanical device) · nl peiling (nautical sense) · pt atitude (posture) · sh kurs (nautical sense) · fr azimut (nautical sense) · cmn 方位 (nautical sense) · pt rolamento (mechanical device) · el έδρανο (mechanical device) · bg пе́ленг (nautical sense) · vi ổ đỡ trục (mechanical device) · gl importancia (relevance) · ko 관계 (relevance) · nn lager (mechanical device) · io soporto (mechanical device) · ja 関係 (relevance) · ka საკისარი (mechanical device) · de Auflager (architecture) · sh ле̏жа̄ј (mechanical device) · nan-hbl be̋-á-lèng-guh (mechanical device) · bg обно́ски (posture) · vi ổ trục (mechanical device) · nl houding (posture) · az yataq (mechanical device) · ru пе́ленг (nautical sense) · tl salo (mechanical device) · it posizione (relevance) · el ρουλεμάν (mechanical device) · pl łożysko (mechanical device) · sh азимут (nautical sense) · ja ベアリング (mechanical device) · ko 방위 (nautical sense) · da pejling (nautical sense) · gl rodamento (mechanical device) · de Spannweite (architecture) · ru отноше́ние (relevance) · pt rumo (nautical sense) · ja 挙動 (posture) · ru подши́пник (mechanical device) · de Relevanz (relevance) · cmn 關係 /关系 (relevance) · bg а́зимут (nautical sense) · mi ahunga (nautical sense) · rsk лєжиско (mechanical device) · de Tragweite (architecture) · da leje (mechanical device) · eo birilo (nautical sense) · fi suunta (nautical sense) · ko 베어링 (mechanical device) · nb lager (mechanical device) · ja 方位 (nautical sense) · sv hållning (posture) · he מֵסַב (mechanical device) · de Haltung (posture) · pt valor (relevance) · bg ла́гер (mechanical device) · cs ložisko (mechanical device) · pl namiar (nautical sense) · az yastıq (mechanical device) · mk лежиште (mechanical device) · fa یاتاقان (mechanical device) · es cojinete (mechanical device) · tr yatak (mechanical device) · id bantalan (mechanical device) · ro relevment (nautical sense) · gl derrota (nautical sense) · ca demora (nautical sense) · sk ložisko (mechanical device) · la incessus (posture) · uz podshipnik (mechanical device) · fi kompassisuunta (nautical sense) · fr coussinet (mechanical device) · hy առանցքակալ (mechanical device) · hu csapágy (mechanical device) · be падшы́пнік (mechanical device) · ko 방향 (nautical sense) · ro lagăr (mechanical device)

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