bearing
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
bearing/ˈbeərɪŋ/
▶noun
- 1 a person's way of standing, moving, or behaving.
- 2 relation; relevance: the case has no bearing on the issues.
- 3 (bearings) a device in a machine that allows two parts to rotate or move in contact with each other with reduced friction.
- 4 the direction or position of something relative to a fixed point, normally measured in degrees and with magnetic north as zero.
■ (one's bearings) awareness of one's position relative to one's surroundings.
- 5 Heraldry a device or charge.
'bearing' also found in these Oxford entries:
aconite
- adder's tongue
- Agnus Dei
- air bearing
- alder
- amelanchier
- angel
- anise
- apricot
- aquifer
- aquilegia
- arabis
- areole
- armiger
- artesian
- auriferous
- avens
- azimuth
- badge
- ball bearing
- banderole
- banner
- basidium
- bean
- bearded dragon
- bearing rein
- bergamot
- betony
- bird's-foot
- bittersweet
- blazing star
- bolster
- boneset
- bookplate
- boxthorn
- bracteate
- bunya
- by-the-wind sailor
- canary creeper
- Carboniferous
- carline thistle
- carriage
- cartouche
- casuarina
- champak
- charge
- check rein
- chelate
- chinaberry
