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bearing
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?b??????/
- (US) enPR: bâr'?ng IPA(key): /?b????/
- Rhymes: -?????
Etymology 1
From Middle English beringe, berynge, berende, berande, berand, from Old English berende (“bearing; fruitful”) (also as synonym Old English b?rende), from Proto-Germanic *berandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *beran? (“to bear; carry”), equivalent to bear +? -ing.
Verb
bearing
- present participle of bear
Adjective
bearing (not comparable)
- (in combination) That bears (some specified thing).
- a gift-bearing visitor
- Of a beam, column, or other device, carrying weight or load.
- That's a bearing wall.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English bering, beringe, berynge, equivalent to bear +? -ing.
Noun
bearing (plural bearings)
- A mechanical device that supports another part and/or reduces friction.
- (navigation, nautical) The horizontal angle between the direction of an object and another object, or between it and that of true north; a heading or direction.
- (in the plural, especially in phrases such as 'get one's bearings') One's understanding of one's orientation or relative position, literally or figuratively.
- Do we go left here or straight on? Hold on, let me just get my bearings.
- I started a new job last week, and I still haven't quite found my bearings.
- Relevance; a relationship or connection.
- That has no bearing on this issue.
- One's posture, demeanor, or manner.
- She walks with a confident, self-assured bearing.
- (architecture) 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.
- (architecture) The portion of a support on which anything rests.
- (architecture, proscribed) The unsupported span.
- The beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports.
- (heraldry) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo
- Jos Sedley's open carriage, with its magnificent armorial bearings.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Notes of a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo
Hyponyms
Related terms
- find one’s bearings
- get one’s bearings
- lose one’s bearings
Translations
See also
- ABEC
- bearing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Binegar, bangier, barge in
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allure
English
Etymology
From Middle English aluren, from Old French aleurer, alurer, from a (“to, towards”) (Latin ad) + leurre (“lure”). Compare lure.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /??l(j)??/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Noun
allure (countable and uncountable, plural allures)
- The power to attract, entice; the quality causing attraction.
- (dated) gait; bearing.
- Harper's Magazine
- The swing, the gait, the pose, the allure of these men.
- Harper's Magazine
- The walkway along the top of a castle wall, sometimes entirely covered and normally behind a parapet; the wall walk.
Translations
Verb
allure (third-person singular simple present allures, present participle alluring, simple past and past participle allured)
- (transitive) To entice; to attract.
Synonyms
- attract, entice, tempt, decoy, seduce
Translations
Related terms
- lure
Anagrams
- Laurel, laurel
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French allure.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???ly?.r?/
- Hyphenation: al?lu?re
- Rhymes: -y?r?
Noun
allure f (plural allures)
- air, pretension
Derived terms
- sterallure
French
Etymology
aller +? -ure.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.ly?/
- Rhymes: -y?
Noun
allure f (plural allures)
- appearance, look
- speed, pace
- angle of a boat from the wind
- gait (of a horse)
- chemin de ronde (raised protected walkway behind a castle battlement)
Derived terms
- à toute allure
Descendants
- ? Dutch: allure
Further reading
- “allure” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- la leur
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