Bearing
of Bear
The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self; mien; behavior; carriage.
Patient endurance; suffering without complaint.
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.
Purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect.
The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing.
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.
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.
Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl.
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.
The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer.
The line of flotation of a vessel when properly trimmed with cargo or ballast.
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Bearing Quotations
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Maya Angelou
Beware of geeks bearing formulas.
Warren Buffett
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
Rainer Maria Rilke
I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents, period, not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process.
Donald Trump
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
Epictetus
What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny.
Henry A. Wallace
Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress.
Wallace Stevens
The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.
Audre Lorde
Bearing Translations
bearing in Dutch is lager
bearing in French is naissant, coussinet
bearing in German is ertragend, tragend, Lager
bearing in Portuguese is rolamento
bearing in Spanish is abolas
bearing in Swedish is lager
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