bearing
be ring
- n relevant relation or interconnection
those issues have no bearing on our situation - n the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies
- n dignified manner or conduct
- n characteristic way of bearing one's body
- n heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield
- n a rotating support placed between moving parts to allow them to move easily
- v have
- v cause to be born
- v put up with something or somebody unpleasant
- v move while holding up or supporting
bearing orders - v bring forth, "The apple tree bore delicious apples this year"
- v take on as one's own the expenses or debts of another person
- v contain or hold; have within
- v bring in
interest-bearing accounts - v have on one's person
- v behave in a certain manner
- v have rightfully; of rights, titles, and offices
- v support or hold in a certain manner
- v be pregnant with
She is bearing his child - a (of a structural member) withstanding a weight or strain
- The Intellectual Exemplar: The scandal of the evangelical mind," Mark Noll wrote a decade ago in a book bearing precisely that title, ".
- Impressed by the material's load-bearing capacity (he calls cardboard "improved wood"), he thought of them again in 1995, after the Kobe earthquake, and used donated 34-ply tubes .
- Some IVF clinics are already using AMH as an indicator of a woman's child-bearing potential, and cancer doctors look to AMH levels in ovarian cancer patients to determine whether .