bearing

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈbɛə̯ɹɪŋ/    美 /ˈbɛɹɪŋ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A mechanical device that supports another part or reduces friction.
  2. The horizontal angle between the direction of an object and another object, or between it and that of true north; a heading or direction.
    — This volume would have been at least twice as large, if I had not made bold to strike out innumerable passages relating to the winds and tides, as well as to the variations and bearings in the several voyages, together with the minute descriptions of the management of the ship in storms, in the style of sailors; likewise the account of longitudes and latitudes; [...]
  3. One's understanding of one's orientation or relative position, literally or figuratively. especially,in-plural
    — Do we go left here or straight on? Hold on, let me just get my bearings.
  4. Relevance; a relationship or connection.
    — That has no bearing on this issue.
  5. One's posture, demeanor, or manner.
    — She walks with a confident, self-assured bearing.
  6. That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports.
    — A lintel or beam may have four inches of bearing upon the wall.
  7. The portion of a support on which anything rests.
  8. The unsupported span. proscribed
    — The beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports.
  9. Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms.
    — Holonyms: shield, escutcheon
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of bear form-of,gerund,participle,present
形容词 adj.
  1. That bears (some specified thing). in-compounds,not-comparable
    — a gift-bearing visitor
  2. Of a beam, column, or other device, carrying weight or load. not-comparable
    — That's a bearing wall.

词形变化

bearings plural

词汇关系

衍生词
apple-bearing armsbearing casebearing child-bearing childbearing coal-bearing cupbearing death-bearing everbearing flower-bearing fruit-bearing furbearing fur-bearing trout gold-bearing horn-bearing interest-bearing leafbearing life-bearing light-bearing livebearing load-bearing metalbearing nonbearing omnibearing pallbearing relative bearing grease rushbearing seedbearing sporebearing swordbearing thought-bearing tone-bearing unit torchbearing unbearing wonder-bearing plain bearing air bearing armorial bearing back bearing bearingless bearinglike bearing rein cutlass bearing find one's bearings get one's bearings jewel bearing journal bearing lose one's bearings muffler bearing neck bearing needle bearing radial bearing sidebearing talebearing
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English beringe, berynge, berende, berande, berand, from Old English berende (“bearing; fruitful”) (also as synonym Old English bǣrende), from Proto-Germanic *berandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *beraną (“to bear; carry”), equivalent to bear + -ing.
词源 2
From Middle English bering, beringe, berynge, equivalent to bear + -ing.
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