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bearing Definition

bear·ing (ber′iŋ)

noun

  1. way of carrying and conducting oneself; carriage; manner; mien
  2. a support or supporting part
    1. the act, power, or period of producing young, fruit, etc.
    2. ability to produce
    3. anything borne or produced, as a crop, fruit, etc.
  4. an enduring; endurance
    1. direction relative to one's own position or to the compass
    2. position, as of a ship, established by determining the bearing from it of several known points
    3. awareness or recognition of one's position or situation to lose one's bearings
  6. relevant meaning; application; relation the evidence had no bearing on the case
  7. Archit. the part of a lintel or beam that rests on supports
  8. Heraldry any figure on the field; charge
  9. Mech. any part of a machine in or on which another part revolves, slides, etc.

adjective

that bears, or supports, weight a bearing wall

bearing Synonyms

bearing

n.

  1. A point of support

    block, frame, journal box, pivot, fulcrum, babbitted bearing, ball bearing, roller bearing.

  2. Manner of carriage

    mien, deportment, manner, carriage, posture, demeanor, presence, conduct, behavior, comportment, address, attitude, stance, aspect, port, body language; see also behavior 1.

  3. Relevance

    application, relation, pertinence, significance; see importance 1, relationship.

bearing, denoting manner of carrying or conducting oneself, refers to characteristic physical and mental posture; carriage, also applied to posture, specif. stresses the physical aspects of a person's bearing an erect carriage; demeanor refers to behavior as expressing one's attitude or a specified personality trait a demure demeanor; mien, a literary word, refers to bearing and manner, esp. as reflective of one's character or emotional state a man of melancholy mien; deportment refers to one's behavior with reference to standards of conduct or social conventions; manner is applied to customary or distinctive attitude, actions, speech, etc. and, in the plural, refers to behavior conforming with polite conventions

bearing Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • taper: Some owners have used taper roller bearings on the TC front end.
  • lubricate: The lubricant is also often used for lubricating the various bearing found in the gearbox.
  • pivot: All the pivot bearings are well tucked away and carry a 10-year guarantee.
  • have: Links at the foot of the page will have a bearing on the content of the item on the page.

Preposition: on

  • puzzle: Surprisingly, the number of givens has little or no bearing on a puzzle 's difficulty.

Adjective modifier

  • armorial: Council Logo Our Council logo is based on the " armorial bearings " or heraldic crest of the County Council.
  • worth: Its also worth bearing in mind what most users want from the web.
  • sealed: The idler gears, on the external drive, ran on grease sealed bearings.
  • hydrostatic: In hydrostatic bearing the fluid is introduced under pressure from an external source.
  • non-weight: These exercises are typically non-weight bearing, with the movement occurring at the knee joint ( 4 ).
  • spherical: All pivots will be by ball joints or spherical bearings.

Modifies a noun

  • compass: Brass Compass Know where you are going at all times with this sensible brass hand bearing compass.
  • assembly: To our surprise, we found that the entire bearing assembly is only retained by wooden folding wedges, covered with plaster of Paris.

Noun used with modifier

  • roller: Some owners have used taper roller bearings on the TC front end.
  • compass: Compass bearings are given only to false point accuracy.
  • ball: The model consists of many small ball bearings trapped in a single layer between two transparent plates.
  • headstock: During that long production run there were, apart from three designs of headstock bearing, only minor changes in specification required.
  • thrust: A common problem with endfloat is a lack of thrust bearings or washers at the ends of the slow motion shaft.
  • load: Each point will take a two ton load, giving a total distributed load bearing of 12 tons.

Preposition: in

  • mind: Its also worth bearing in mind what most users want from the web.
bearing Quotes

Our life is determined for usöand it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing and only thinkof bearing what islaid uponus and doing what isgivenusto do.

—Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans