Definitions for bearings

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bearings bear·ing

Spelling: [bair-ing]

IPA: /ˈbɛər ɪŋ/

Bearings is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 499 anagrams from letters in bearings (abeginrs).

Definitions for bearings

noun

1. the manner in which one conducts or carries oneself, including posture and gestures:
2. the act, capability, or period of producing or bringing forth:
3. something that is produced; a crop.
4. the act of enduring or capacity to endure.
5. reference or relation (usually followed by on):
6. Architecture. a supporting part of a structure. the area of contact between a bearing member, as a beam, and a pier, wall, or other underlying support.
7. Machinery. the support and guide for a rotating, oscillating, or sliding shaft, pivot, or wheel.
8. Often, bearings. direction or relative position:
9. Surveying. a horizontal direction expressed in degrees east or west of a true or magnetic north or south direction.
10. Heraldry. any single device on an escutcheon; charge.

Origin of bearings

First recorded in 1200-50, bearing is from the Middle English word beryng. See bear¹, -ing¹

Examples for bearings

For a moment he lost his bearings and stammered in confusion.

To help us get our bearings, we gave House of Cards showrunner Beau Willimon a call.

"Very well," he replied, so calmly that she lost her bearings for a moment.

Thus they discussed on familiar lines the bearings of a new situation.

Or the advisors who recommended it had temporarily lost their bearings.

This afternoon I took a round of angles and bearings from a pile of stones on the hill.

Occasionally, I lose my bearings and permit myself an ounce of sympathy for Republican chairman Reince Priebus.

With little of the original structure still standing, I find it quite difficult to get my bearings.

Now the changes within secular Israel have loosened their bearings even more.

Possibly strangers may not comprehend all the bearings; but that is not your fault.