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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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mien
English
Etymology
From French mine (whence also Danish mine and German Miene), appearance, perhaps from Breton min (“face of an animal”), or from Latin minio (“to redden”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mi?n/
- Rhymes: -i?n
- Homophone: mean
Noun
mien (countable and uncountable, plural miens)
- (countable, uncountable) Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer.
- 1856, Joseph Turnley, The Language of the Eye, p. 111:
- Beauty, like all divine gifts, is everywhere to be seen by the eye of the faithful admirer of nature; and, like all spirits, she is scarcely to be described by words. Her countenance and mien, her path, her hue and carriage, often surpass expression, and soothe the enthusiast into reverie and silence.
- 2015, Siobhan Roberts, John Horton Conway: the world’s most charismatic mathematician, in: The Guardian, July 23rd 2015
- Although still young at heart and head, he looks more and more like his old friend Archimedes, increasingly bearded and increasingly grey, with an otherworldly mien – a look that should earn him a spot in the online quiz featuring portraits of frumpy old men under the rubric “Prof or Hobo?”
- 1856, Joseph Turnley, The Language of the Eye, p. 111:
- (countable) A specific facial expression.
Translations
References
Anagrams
- Emin, Mine, mine
French
Etymology
From Middle French mien, from Old French meon, from Latin meum, the neuter of meus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mj??/
Adjective
mien (feminine singular mienne, masculine plural miens, feminine plural miennes)
- (archaic) my
Derived terms
- le mien (“mine”)
See also
- mon, ma, mes
Further reading
- “mien” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- mine, miné
Old French
Etymology
Latin meum.
Adjective
mien
- (stressed) my; mine
Usage notes
- chiefly used after an article (un, le, etc.) and before a noun. The noun may be omitted if clear from the context
Descendants
- French: mien
Pitcairn-Norfolk
Etymology
From English main.
Adjective
mien
- main
Plautdietsch
Pronoun
mien
- my
See also
- dien (your, thy)
- sien (his)
- mie (me)
- ons (our)
- onsa (us)
Further reading
- Plautdietsch Lexicon of 17,000 words
Saterland Frisian
Etymology
See the etymology of the main entry.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /min/
Determiner
mien
- feminine of min
- neuter of min
- plural of min
References
- “mien” in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?mi??n/
Noun
mien
- genitive plural of mena
Noun
mien
- genitive plural of meno
Vilamovian
Pronunciation
Noun
mien f
- carrot
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian gem?ne, from Proto-West Germanic *gamain?, from Proto-Germanic *gamainiz, from Proto-Indo-European *?om-moynis. Cognate with German gemein, English mean, Gothic ???????????????????????????? (gamains) and Latin comm?nis.
Adjective
mien
- common, communal
- common, everyday
- general
Inflection
Derived terms
- mienskip
Further reading
- “mien”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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