bearing

bearing has 22 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• p. pr. & vb. n.. of Bear
• n.. The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self; mien; behavior; carriage.
• n.. Patient endurance; suffering without complaint.
• n.. 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.
• n.. Purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect.
• n.. The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing.
• n.. 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.
• n.. The portion of a support on which anything rests.
• n.. Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports.
• n.. The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal.
• n.. The part of the support on which a journal rests and rotates.
• n.. Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl.