different between bearing vs habitus

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

1. present participle of bear

Adjective

bearing (not comparable)

1. (in combination) That bears (some specified thing).

   a gift-bearing visitor

2. 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)

1. A mechanical device that supports another part and/or reduces friction.
2. (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.
3. (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.

4. Relevance; a relationship or connection.

   That has no bearing on this issue.
5. One's posture, demeanor, or manner.

   She walks with a confident, self-assured bearing.
6. (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.

7. (architecture) The portion of a support on which anything rests.
8. (architecture, proscribed) The unsupported span.

   The beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports.

9. (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.

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

English

Etymology

From Latin habitus (“habit”), from habe? (“have; maintain”).

Noun

habitus (countable and uncountable, plural habiti) (Almost all uses of the word in English are in noncount senses; thus, the plural habiti, corresponding to the Latin plural, is rare in English.)

1. (zoology) habitude; mode of life; bearing, general appearance.
2. (botany) habit; general shape and appearance of a species or variety of plant.
3. (anatomy, medicine) the general shape and appearance of the body, usually with reference to weight, adipose distribution, posture, and gait; most often called by the collocation body habitus.
4. (sociology) The lifestyle, values, dispositions and expectations of particular social groups that are acquired through the activities and experiences of everyday life.
5. (liturgy) The liturgical clothing of monks, nuns and the clerical community, metaphorically referring to the religious mode of life.

Translations

References

• habitus in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• ushabti

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin habitus (“habit”), from habe? (“have; maintain”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ha?bi?tus

Noun

habitus m (plural habitussen)

1. manner, behaviour
2. general physical appearance such as shape of the body
3. (zoology) general appearance and/or behaviour of a plant

Finnish

Noun

habitus

1. habitus

Declension

Synonyms

• ulkomuoto

Latin

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of habe? (“have”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ha.bi.tus/, [?häb?t??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?a.bi.tus/, [???bit?us]

Participle

habitus (feminine habita, neuter habitum); first/second-declension participle

1. retained, maintained, having been maintained
2. (by extension) well-kept; stout, fleshy, burly

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Etymology 2

From habe? (I have) +? -tus (noun formation suffix)

Noun

habitus m (genitive habit?s); fourth declension

1. habit; disposition; character
2. physical or emotional condition
3. dress, attire

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Descendants

Borrowings

References

• habitus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• habitus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• habitus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.