How do you spell Bearing
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1) n. - The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self; mien; behavior; carriage.
2) n. - Patient endurance; suffering without complaint.
3) 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.
4) n. - Purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect.
5) n. - The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing.
6) 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.
7) n. - The portion of a support on which anything rests.
8) n. - Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports.
9) n. - The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal.
10) n. - The part of the support on which a journal rests and rotates.
11) n. - Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl.
12) n. - 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.
13) n. - The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer.
14) n. - The line of flotation of a vessel when properly trimmed with cargo or ballast.
15) v. t. - To behave; to conduct.
16) v. t. - To afford; to be to; to supply with.
17) v. t. - To bring forth or produce; to yield; as, to bear apples; to bear children; to bear interest.
18) v. i. - To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness.
19) v. i. - To suffer, as in carrying a burden.
20) v. i. - To endure with patience; to be patient.
21) v. i. - To press; -- with on or upon, or against.
22) v. i. - To take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring matters to bear.
23) v. i. - To relate or refer; -- with on or upon; as, how does this bear on the question?
24) v. i. - To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.
25) v. i. - To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect to something else; as, the land bears N. by E.
26) n. - A bier.
27) n. - Any species of the genus Ursus, and of the closely allied genera. Bears are plantigrade Carnivora, but they live largely on fruit and insects.
28) n. - An animal which has some resemblance to a bear in form or habits, but no real affinity; as, the woolly bear; ant bear; water bear; sea bear.
29) n. - One of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called respectively the Great Bear and the Lesser Bear, or Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.
30) n. - Metaphorically: A brutal, coarse, or morose person.
31) n. - A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market.
32) n. - A portable punching machine.
33) n. - A block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the deck.
34) v. t. - To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to bear a railroad stock; to bear the market.
35) n. - Alt. of Bere
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