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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishberinge,berynge,berende,berande,berand, fromOld Englishberende(“bearing; fruitful”) (also as synonymOld Englishbǣrende), fromProto-Germanic*berandz, present participle ofProto-Germanic*beraną(“to bear; carry”), equivalent tobear +‎-ing.

Verb

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bearing

  1. presentparticiple andgerund ofbear

Adjective

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bearing (notcomparable)

  1. (in combination) Thatbears (some specified thing).
    a gift-bearing visitor
  2. Of abeam,column, or other device, carryingweight orload.
    That's abearing wall.
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carrying weight or load
Ball bearing

Etymology 2

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FromMiddle Englishbering,beringe,berynge, equivalent tobear +‎-ing.

Noun

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bearing (pluralbearings)

  2. (mechanical engineering) Amechanicaldevice thatsupports another part orreducesfriction.
    Hypernyms:component,part
    Hyponyms:ball bearing,inline bearing,inline hockey bearing,inline skate bearing,in-line skate bearing,magnetic bearing,needle bearing,plain bearing,quad roller bearing,roller bearing,rollerblade bearing,skate bearing,skateboard bearing
  3. (navigation, nautical) Thehorizontalangle between thedirection of an object and another object, or between it and that oftrue north; aheading ordirection.
    Hyponyms:true bearing,relative bearing
    • 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:
      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 andbearings 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; [...]
  4. (in theplural, especially in phrases such as 'get one's bearings') One's understanding of one'sorientation or relativeposition, literally or figuratively.
    Do we go left here or straight on? Hold on, let me just get mybearings.
    I started a new job last week, and I still haven't quite found mybearings.
  5. Relevance; a relationship or connection.
    That has nobearing on this issue.
  6. One'sposture,demeanor, ormanner.
    She walks with a confident, self-assuredbearing.
    • 1598–1599 (first performance),William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act II, scene i]:
      I know him by hisbearing.
    • 2019 March 18, Steven Pifer,Five years after Crimea’s illegal annexation, the issue is no closer to resolution‎[1], The Center for International Security and Cooperation:
      The little green men were clearly professional soldiers by theirbearing, 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.
  7. (architecture) That part of anymember of abuilding which rests upon its supports.
    A lintel or beam may have four inches ofbearing upon the wall.
  8. (architecture) The portion of a support on which anything rests.
  9. (architecture, proscribed) The unsupported span.
    The beam has twenty feet ofbearing between its supports.
  11. (heraldry) Any singleemblem orcharge in anescutcheon orcoat of arms.
    Hyponyms:charge,emblem
    Holonyms:shield,escutcheon
    Comeronym:field
    • 1846, Mr. M. A. Titmarsh [pseudonym;W. M. Thackeray], chapter VIII, inNotes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo […] , London: Chapman and Hall,page140:
      […]when the French seized Malta they were by no means so delicate. They effaced armorialbearings 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.
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architecture
mechanical device
nautical sense
relevance
posture
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