| 单词 | bearing |
| 释义 | bearing (once / 109 pages) 1n 2adjn 3n 4n 5n When you walk into a room with your shoulders straight and your head up, people might say you have a noble bearing. Bearing is the way you hold your body, and it often means you hold it well. Bearing has many uses, but they mostly involve support and/or direction. Bearing, for example, is the name given to a mechanical part that supports a moving joint — like a ball bearing. In buildings, bearings are walls or beams that support the building. In the same way, when you carry your body, you are bearing yourself up. Bearing also is used to talk about direction and travel: you could step off the sidewalk and nearly be run over by a car bearing north. WORD FAMILYbearing: bearings, nonbearing+/bear: bearable, bearer, bearing, bearish, bears, borne, forebear, overbear/bearable: bearably, unbearable/bearer: bearers/bearish: bearishly/forebear: forebears/overbear: overbearing, overbears, overbore, overborne/overbearing: overbearingly, overbearingness/unbearable: unbearably USAGE EXAMPLESIn 1974, he was travelling from Beirut to Jerusalem in a car bearing Vatican diplomatic plates when it was stopped by Israeli security forces. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) With blitzing linebacker Reuben Foster bearing down on him, Browning desperately heaved a pass into the flats for Lavon Coleman. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) Just in case you might miss the fervour of his opinion, two fellow protestors marched, bearing a coffin with the president's name on it. BBC(Dec 31, 2016) 1 1n characteristic way of bearing one's body Syn|Hypo|Hyper carriage, posture manner of walking, walk manner of walking sloucha stooping carriage in standing and walking gracefulnessbeautiful carriage awkwardness, clumsinessthe carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant grace, gracilityelegance and beauty of movement or expression agility, legerity, lightness, lightsomeness, nimblenessthe gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble lissomeness, litheness, supplenessthe gracefulness of a person or animal that is flexible and supple gracelessness, ungracefulnessan unpleasant lack of grace in carriage or form or movement or expression gawkiness, ungainlinessthe carriage of someone whose movements and posture are extremely ungainly and inelegant stiffnessthe property of moving with pain or difficulty bodily property an attribute of the body 2n a person's manner or conduct 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper comportment, mien, presence dignity, gravitas, lordliness formality in bearing and appearance manner, personal manner a way of acting or behaving 1adj (of a structural member) withstanding a weight or strain Syn|Ant load-bearing, supporting capable of bearing a structural load nonbearing (of a structural member) supporting no vertical weight other than its own 2n a rotating support placed between moving parts to allow them to move easily 3Hypo|Hyper ball bearing, needle bearing, roller bearing bearings containing small metal balls fifth wheela steering bearing that enables the front axle of a horse-drawn wagon to rotate journal bearingthe bearing of a journal thrust bearinga bearing designed to take thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution hotboxa journal bearing (as of a railroad car) that has overheated support any device that bears the weight of another thing n relevant relation or interconnection 4those issues have no bearing on our situation Hyper relatedness a particular manner of connectedness n the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies 5Syn|Hypo|Hyper aim, heading tack the heading or position of a vessel relative to the trim of its sails direction, way a line leading to a place or point n heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield Syn|Hypo|Hyper armorial bearing, charge, heraldic bearing annulet, roundel (heraldry) a charge in the shape of a circle chevronan inverted V-shaped charge fleur-de-lis, fleur-de-lys(heraldry) charge consisting of a conventionalized representation of an iris ordinary(heraldry) any of several conventional figures used on shields bend, bend dexterdiagonal line traversing a shield from the upper right corner to the lower left fess, fesse(heraldry) an ordinary consisting of a broad horizontal band across a shield bar sinister, bend sinistera mark of bastardy; lines from top right to bottom left heraldry emblem indicating the right of a person to bear arms |
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