bear in mind

bear in mind

English

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Verb

bear in mind (third-person singular simple present bears in mind, present participle bearing in mind, simple past bore in mind, past participle borne in mind)

1. (transitive, idiomatic) To remember; to consider; to note.

   Bear in mind that I'm not as young as I was, so I can't walk as fast as you.

   • 1940 July, “Notes and News: The appearance of Evil—A Warning to Railway Enthusiasts”, in Railway Magazine, page 418:

     If any railway official, policeman, or member of the Forces on duty, requests the discontinuance of any particular form of observation or note-taking, it is clearly right to give immediate compliance, especially when it is borne in mind that public authorities now have very wide powers to hold members of the general public in custody while inquiries are being conducted as to their bona fides.

   • 1961 September, “Talking of Trains: Greater scope for steam”, in Modern Railways, page 517:

     Were the possibilities of improving the efficiency of British Railways' steam locomotives by making the best use of the reasonably satisfactory low-grade lump coal available today, and thereby saving more high-grade locomotive coal, borne in mind when it was decided to go ahead rapidly with replacement of steam traction?

   • 2007 September 27, Paul Thomas Anderson, There Will Be Blood, distributed by Paramount Vantage & Miramax Films, spoken by Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis):

     Bear in mind you could lose it all if you're not careful.

   • 2015 January 31, Daniel Taylor, “David Silva seizes point for Manchester City as Chelsea are checked”, in The Guardian (London)‎:

     As it turned out, Costa was not too badly missed bearing in mind his replacement, Loïc Rémy, scored Chelsea’a goal.

Translations

remember, consider

Catalan: tenir present Chinese: Mandarin: 注意 (zh) (zhùyì), 記住／记住 (zh) (jìzhù) Czech: mít na paměti Dutch: onthouden (nl), rekening houden met Finnish: pitää mielessä French: garder à l'esprit, se rappeler (fr) Galician: ter en conta, ter presente German: berücksichtigen (de), beachten (de), in Betracht ziehen (de), vergegenwärtigen (de) Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌰𐌽 (gamunan) Hungarian: észben tart (hu) Italian: considerare (it), tenere presente, tenere conto Japanese: 心に留める (kokoro ni tomeru), 覚えておく (ja) (oboete oku) Latin: teneo (la) Polish: pamiętać (pl), mieć na uwadze (pl) Portuguese: ter em mente, ter presente Russian: име́ть в виду́ (ru) (imétʹ v vidú), по́мнить (ru) (pómnitʹ) Spanish: tener en mente, tener en cuenta, tener presente

See also

• have in mind
• keep in mind
• put someone in mind of

Further reading

• bear in mind at OneLook Dictionary Search
• bear in mind, keep in mind at Google Ngram Viewer