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

1. present participle. of Bear
2. noun. The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self; mien; behavior; carriage.
3. noun. Patient endurance; suffering without complaint.
4. noun. 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.
5. noun. Purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect.
6. noun. The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing.
7. noun. 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.
8. noun. The portion of a support on which anything rests.
9. noun. Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports.
10. noun. The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal.
11. noun. The part of the support on which a journal rests and rotates.
12. noun. Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl.
13. noun. 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.
14. noun. The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer.
15. noun. The line of flotation of a vessel when properly trimmed with cargo or ballast.
16. noun. a rotating support placed between moving parts to allow them to move easily
17. noun. heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield

    Synonyms: charge

18. noun. dignified manner or conduct

    Synonyms: comportment, mien, presence

19. noun. characteristic way of bearing one's body

    "stood with good posture"

    Synonyms: carriage, posture

20. noun. the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies

    Synonyms: aim, heading

21. noun. relevant relation or interconnection

    "those issues have no bearing on our situation"

22. adjective. (of a structural member) withstanding a weight or strain

Synonyms

charge, comportment, mien, presence, carriage, posture, aim, heading

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in bearing:

begrain, brainge, gribane, rigbane

Common word forms

bear, bearings

Words from these letters

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