Dictionary Entry
bearing
bearing is a 7-letter English word with 22 senses as noun and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Bear. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 13 · 22 senses
Definitions
- 1present participle
of Bear
- 2noun
The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self; mien; behavior; carriage.
- 3noun
Patient endurance; suffering without complaint.
- 4noun
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.
- 5noun
Purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect.
- 6noun
The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing.
- 7noun
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.
- 8noun
The portion of a support on which anything rests.
- 9noun
Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports.
- 10noun
The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal.
- 11noun
The part of the support on which a journal rests and rotates.
- 12noun
Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl.
- 13noun
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.
- 14noun
The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer.
- 15noun
The line of flotation of a vessel when properly trimmed with cargo or ballast.
- 16noun
a rotating support placed between moving parts to allow them to move easily
- 17noun
heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield
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- 18noun
dignified manner or conduct
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- 19noun
characteristic way of bearing one's body
"stood with good posture"
- 20noun
the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies
- 21noun
relevant relation or interconnection
"those issues have no bearing on our situation"
- 22adjective
(of a structural member) withstanding a weight or strain
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