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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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carbuncle
English
Etymology
From Middle English carbuncle, charbocle, from Old French carbuncle, charbuncle, from Latin carbunculus (“a small coal; a reddish kind of precious stone; a kind of tumor”), diminutive of carb? (“a coal, charcoal”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k??.b??.kl?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?k???b??.kl?/
Noun
carbuncle (plural carbuncles)
- (archaic) A deep-red or fiery colored garnet or other dark red precious stone, especially when cut cabochon.
- (heraldry) A charge or bearing supposed to represent the precious stone, with eight sceptres or staves radiating from a common centre; an escarbuncle.
- (pathology) An abscess larger than a boil, usually with one or more openings draining pus onto the skin. It is usually caused by staphylococcal infection.
- An unpopular or ugly building; an eyesore.
Related terms
- carbon
Translations
References
- “carbuncle”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
- “carbuncle”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
See also
- ruby
Middle English
Alternative forms
- carboncle, carbuncul, charbocle, charbokel, charbouncle, charbucle, charbukel, charbuncle, charbunkel
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French carbuncle, charbuncle, itself borrowed from Latin carbunculus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?karbunk?l/, /?karbuk?l/, /?t?-/
Noun
carbuncle (plural carbuncles)
- A carbuncle (garnet or other precious stone)
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. The Tale of Sir Thopas: 179-81.
- His sheeld was al of gold so reed,
- And ther-inne was a bores heed,
- A charbocle bisyde;
- 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. The Tale of Sir Thopas: 179-81.
- Material similar to carbuncle.
- (pathology) A carbuncle; a large abscess.
Descendants
- English: carbuncle
References
- “carbuncle, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Old French
Alternative forms
- charbuncle
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin carbunculus.
Noun
carbuncle m (oblique plural carbuncles, nominative singular carbuncles, nominative plural carbuncle)
- carbuncle (deep-red or fiery colored garnet or other dark red precious stone)
Descendants
- ? Middle English: carbuncle
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