From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [bâr'ĭng] [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
From [en], [enm], [enm], [enm], [enm], from [en] (also as synonym [ang]), from
[en], present participle of [en], equivalent to [en].
**** Verb
[en]
1. [en]
**** Adjective
[-]
1. [en] That bear s (some specified thing).
2. Of a beam , column , or other device, carrying weight or load .
***** Derived terms
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bearing|rushbearing|seedbearing|sporebearing|torchbearing|unbearing
|childbearing |child-bearing |death-bearing |fruit-bearing
|gold-bearing|relative bearing grease |horn-bearing |interest-bearing
|light-bearing |load-bearing |swordbearing |thought-bearing |wonder-bearing
|coal-bearing|flower-bearing|fur-bearing trout|life-bearing|tone-bearing
unit}}
***** Translations
[carrying weight or load]
- Dutch: [nl]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
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*** Etymology 2
From [en], [enm], [enm], equivalent to [en].
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] [en] A mechanical device that support s another part and/or reduces friction .
2. [en] The horizontal angle between the direction of an object and another object, or between it and that of true north ; a heading or direction .
3. * [page=X]
4. [en] One's understanding of one's orientation or relative position , literally or figuratively.
5. Relevance ; a relationship or connection.
6. * [passage=But of this frame, the BEARINGS and the ties, / The strong connections, nice dependencies.]
7. One's posture , demeanor , or manner .
8. * [II]
9. * [en]
10. [en] That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports.
11. [en] The portion of a support on which anything rests.
12. [en] The unsupported span.
13. [en] [en] Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms .
14. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1848 | author=w:William Makepeace Thackeray | title=Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo
|passage=Jos Sedley's open carriage, with its magnificent armorial BEARINGS.}}
***** Derived terms
[en]
***** Translations
[architecture]
- German: [de] ; [de] , [de]
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[mechanical device]
- Armenian: [hy]
- Azerbaijani: [az] , [az]
- Belarusian: [be]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr] , [fr] , [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el] , [el]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Ido: [io]
- Indonesian: [id]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Kazakh: [kk]
- Khmer: [km]
- Korean: [ko]
- Kyrgyz: [ky]
- Latvian: [lv]
- Macedonian: [mk] , [mk]
- Norwegian:
- Persian: [fa]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Slovak: [sk]
- Slovene: [sl]
- Spanish: [es] [rolling bearing] , [Mexico] [es] , [es] , [es] [rolling bearing] , [es] [rolling bearing] , [es] [rolling bearing] , [es] [balled rolling bearing]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Tagalog: [tl]
- Thai: [th]
- Turkish: [tr]
- Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk]
- Uzbek: [uz]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi] , [vi]
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[nautical sense]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs]
- Danish: [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Faroese: [fo]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de]
- Hebrew: [he]
- Japanese: [ja] , [ja]
- Korean: [ko] , [ko]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi]
- Occitan: [oc]
- Polish: [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv]
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[relevance]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Chinese:
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- German: [de] , [de] , [de]
- Italian: [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es]
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[posture]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg] , [bg]
- Chinese:
- Dutch: [nl]
- Esperanto: [eo]
- Finnish: [fi]
- German: [de]
- Irish: [ga]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Latin: [la]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] , [pt]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Scottish Gaelic: [gd]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
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***** See also
- [en]
*** References
- [pedia]
- [R:OneLook]
*** Anagrams
- [en]