[
US
/ˈbɛɹɪŋ/
]
[ UK /bˈeəɹɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /bˈeəɹɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield
- the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies
- a rotating support placed between moving parts to allow them to move easily
- dignified manner or conduct
-
relevant relation or interconnection
those issues have no bearing on our situation -
characteristic way of bearing one's body
stood with good posture
ADJECTIVE
- (of a structural member) withstanding a weight or strain
How To Use bearing In A Sentence
- The following years were characterized by rifts with Russia, in which the Ukraine jealously guarded its own independence against its overbearing neighbour.
- Armantrout's short lines, use of rhetoric, aggressive lineation, disjunctions and juxtapositions, discursiveness, parataxis, and myriad condensatory techniques are all exemplary, but never overbearing. Seth Abramson: November 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews
- You come along with me and I'll introduce you (he's not what you call a refined sort of feller, yer know, 'he explained forbearingly,' but still we've always been friends in a way); you can't stop? The Giant's Robe
- A short fellow with a refined bearing, Gavaskar consistently got hundreds and double-hundreds against top-class bowling.
- This is a small holopid with rounded whorls, deep sutures and a body whorl bearing coarse collabral threads.
- These noncancerous growths of the uterus may appear during your childbearing years.
- We adopt special lift technology; choose import bearing to entitle products with legerity and agility.
- If you delay child-bearing until your mid-twenties or your early thirties, you are far more likely to have a good job, educational qualifications and a stable relationship.
- A hurricane is bearing down on central America.
- Whatever the cause, I felt dizzy, and without any bearings or footholds.
