bearing

bearing

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɛə̯ɹɪŋ/
• (US) enPR: bâr'ĭng IPA^(key): /ˈbɛɹɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ

Etymology 1

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.

Verb

bearing

1. present participle of bear

Bearing render

Adjective

bearing (not comparable)

1. (in combination) That bears (some specified thing).

   a gift-bearing visitor

2. Of a beam, column, or other device, carrying weight or load.

   That's a bearing wall.

Derived terms

• apple-bearing
• childbearing
• child-bearing
• coal-bearing
• death-bearing
• flower-bearing
• fruit-bearing
• fur-bearing trout
• gold-bearing
• horn-bearing
• interest-bearing
• life-bearing
• light-bearing
• load-bearing
• swordbearing
• thought-bearing
• tone-bearing unit
• wonder-bearing

 

Translations

carrying weight or load

Dutch: dragend (nl) French: porteur (fr) German: tragend (de) Russian: несу́щий (ru) (nesúščij) Spanish: de soporte (es), de apoyo (es), gravitar (es) m, soportar (es) m

Ball bearing

Etymology 2

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

Noun

bearing (plural bearings)

1. (mechanical engineering) A mechanical device that supports another part and/or reduces friction.
2. (navigation, nautical) 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. (in the plural, especially in phrases such as 'get one's bearings') One's understanding of one's orientation or relative position, literally or figuratively.

   Do we go left here or straight on? Hold on, let me just get my bearings.

   I started a new job last week, and I still haven't quite found my bearings.

4. Relevance; a relationship or connection.

   That has no bearing on this issue.

   • 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, […], OCLC 960856019:

     But of this frame, the bearings and the ties, / The strong connections, nice dependencies.

5. One's posture, demeanor, or manner.

   She walks with a confident, self-assured 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 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:

     I know him by his bearing.

   • 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:

     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.

6. (architecture) 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. (architecture) The portion of a support on which anything rests.
8. (architecture, proscribed) The unsupported span.

   The beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports.

9. (heraldry) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms.
   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo

     Jos Sedley's open carriage, with its magnificent armorial bearings.

Hyponyms

• ball bearing
• inline bearing
• inline hockey bearing
• inline skate bearing
• in-line skate bearing
• magnetic bearing
• quad roller bearing
• roller bearing
• rollerblade bearing
• skate bearing
• skateboard bearing
• true bearing

 

Derived terms

• air bearing
• armorial bearing
• back bearing
• bearing rein
• cutlass bearing
• find one's bearings
• get one's bearings
• jewel bearing
• journal bearing
• lose one's bearings
• muffler bearing
• neck bearing
• needle bearing
• radial bearing

 

Translations

architecture

German: Auflager (de) n; Spannweite (de) f, Tragweite (de) f

mechanical device

Armenian: առանցքակալ (hy) (aṙancʿkʿakal) Azerbaijani: yastıq (az), yataq (az) Belarusian: падшы́пнік m (padšýpnik) Bulgarian: ла́гер (bg) m (láger) Catalan: coixinet (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 軸承／轴承 (zh) (zhóuchéng) Min Nan: be̋-á-lèng-guh Czech: ložisko (cs) n Danish: leje Dutch: lager (nl) Esperanto: lagro Finnish: laakeri (fi) French: roulement (fr) m, coussinet (fr) m, palier (fr) m Georgian: საკისარი (saḳisari) German: Lager (de) n Greek: ρουλεμάν (el) n (roulemán), ρουλμάν n (roulmán), έδρανο (el) n (édrano) Hebrew: מֵסַב‎ (he) m (mesáv) Hindi: बेयरिंग (beyriṅg) Hungarian: csapágy (hu) Ido: soporto (io) Indonesian: bantalan (id) Italian: cuscinetto (it) Japanese: 軸受 (じくうけ, jikuuke), ベアリング (bearingu) Kazakh: мойынтірек (moiyntırek) Khmer: please add this translation if you can Korean: 베어링 (beeoring) Kyrgyz: подшипник (ky) (podşipnik) Latvian: gultnis m Macedonian: лагер m (lager), лежиште n (ležište) Norwegian: Bokmål: lager (no) n Nynorsk: lager n Persian: یاتاقان‎ (fa) (yâtâqân) Polish: łożysko (pl) m Portuguese: rolamento (pt) m Romanian: cuzinet (ro) m Russian: подши́пник (ru) m (podšípnik) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ле̏жа̄ј m Roman: lȅžāj (sh) m Slovak: ložisko n Slovene: ležaj m Spanish: rodamiento m (rolling bearing), (Mexico) balero m, cojinete (es) m Swedish: lager (sv) n Tagalog: salo (tl) Thai: ลูกปืน (th) (lûuk-bpʉʉn) Turkish: yatak (tr) Ukrainian: підши́пник m (pidšýpnyk), вальни́ця (uk) f (valʹnýcja) Uzbek: podshipnik (uz) Vietnamese: ổ đỡ trục, ổ đỡ, ổ trục

nautical sense

Bulgarian: пе́ленг m (péleng), а́зимут (bg) m (ázimut) Catalan: demora (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 方位 (zh) (fāngwèi), 方向 (zh) (fāngxiàng) Danish: pejling c Dutch: peiling (nl) Faroese: ýting f Finnish: kompassisuunta, suunta (fi), suuntima French: azimut (fr) m German: Peilung (de) f Hebrew: תַּכְוִין‎ m (takhvín) Japanese: 方向 (ja) (ほうこう, hōkō), 方位 (ja) (ほうい, hōi) Korean: 방향(方向) (ko) (banghyang), 방위(方位) (ko) (bang'wi) Maori: raranga, ahunga Occitan: azimut Polish: namiar m Portuguese: rumo (pt) m Russian: пе́ленг (ru) m (péleng) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: курс m, азимут m Roman: kurs (sh) m, azimut (sh) m Spanish: rumbo (es) m, acimut (es) m Swedish: bäring (sv) c, pejling (sv) c

relevance

Bulgarian: отноше́ние (bg) n (otnošénie) Chinese: Mandarin: 關係／关系 (zh) (guānxi) Finnish: merkitys (fi) French: portée (fr) German: Relevanz (de) f, Tragweite (de) f, Verbindung (de) n Italian: posizione (it) f Japanese: 関係 (ja) (かんけい, kankei) Korean: 관계(關係) (ko) (gwan'gye) Portuguese: relevância (pt), importância (pt), valor (pt) Russian: отноше́ние (ru) n (otnošénije) Spanish: incumbencia (es) f, importancia (es) f

posture

Bulgarian: държа́ние (bg) n (dǎržánie), поведе́ние (bg) n (povedénie), обно́ски (bg) pl (obnóski) Chinese: Mandarin: 舉止／举止 (zh) (jǔzhǐ) Dutch: houding (nl) Finnish: olemus (fi) German: Haltung (de) f Irish: méin f Italian: postura (it) f, portamento (it) m Japanese: 挙動 (ja) (きょどう, kyodō) Korean: 거동(擧動) (ko) (geodong) Latin: incessus m Portuguese: conduta (pt) f, postura (pt), atitude (pt) Russian: поведе́ние (ru) n (povedénije), мане́ра вести́ себя́ f (manéra vestí sebjá) Scottish Gaelic: giùlan m Spanish: conducta (es) f, comportamiento (es) m, porte (es), proceder (es) Swedish: hållning (sv) c

See also

• ABEC

References

• bearing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• bearing at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Binegar, bangier, barge in