| bearing |
present participle & vb. noun |
of Bear, The manner in which one bears or conducts one’s self; mien; behavior; carriage., Patient endurance; suffering without complaint., 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., Purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect., The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing., 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., The portion of a support on which anything rests., Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports., The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal., The part of the support on which a journal rests and rotates., Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms — commonly in the pl., 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., The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer., The line of flotation of a vessel when properly trimmed with cargo or ballast. |