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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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shape
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: sh?p, IPA(key): /?e?p/
- Rhymes: -e?p
Etymology
From Middle English shap, schape, from Old English ?esceap (“shape, form, created being, creature, creation, dispensation, fate, condition, sex, gender, genitalia”), from Proto-West Germanic *ga- + *skap, from Proto-Germanic *ga- + *skap? (“shape, nature, condition”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to split, cut”). Cognate with Middle Dutch schap (“form”), Middle High German geschaf (“creature”), Icelandic skap (“state, condition, temper, mood”).
The verb is from Middle English shapen, schapen, from Old English scieppan (“to shape, form, make, create, assign, arrange, destine, order, adjudge”), from Proto-Germanic *skapjan? (“to create”), from the noun. Cognate with Dutch scheppen, German schaffen, Swedish skapa (“create, make”), Norwegian skapa (“create”).
Noun
shape (countable and uncountable, plural shapes)
- The status or condition of something
- The used bookshop wouldn't offer much due to the poor shape of the book.
- Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
- The vet checked to see what kind of shape the animal was in.
- We exercise to keep in good physical shape.
- The appearance of something in terms of its arrangement in space, especially its outline; often a basic geometric two-dimensional figure.
- He cut a square shape out of the cake.
- What shape shall we use for the cookies? Stars, circles, or diamonds?
- Form; formation.
- 2006, Berdj Kenadjian, Martin Zakarian, From Darkness to Light:
- What if God's plans and actions do mold the shape of human events?
- 2006, Berdj Kenadjian, Martin Zakarian, From Darkness to Light:
- (iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.
- (iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.
- (cooking, now rare) A mould for making jelly, blancmange etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded into a particular shape.
- 1918, Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier, Virago 2014, page 74:
- ‘And if I'm late for supper there's a dish of macaroni cheese you must put in the oven and a tin of tomatoes to eat with it. And there's a little rhubarb and shape.’
- 1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus 2014, p. 111:
- It was brawn and shape for high tea.
- 1918, Rebecca West, The Return of the Soldier, Virago 2014, page 74:
- (gambling) A loaded die.
- 1961, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Gambling and Organized Crime: Hearings (page 76)
- A top cheater seldom ever uses shapes or loaded dice because they do not assure you of winning.
- 1961, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Gambling and Organized Crime: Hearings (page 76)
- (programming) In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a data type.
Hyponyms
- See also Thesaurus:shape
Hyponyms
- contest shape
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- Appendix:Forms and shapes
Verb
shape (third-person singular simple present shapes, present participle shaping, simple past shaped or (obsolete) shope, past participle shaped or (archaic) shapen)
- (Northern England, Scotland, rare) To create or make.
- 1685, Satan's Invisible World Discovered?
- Which the mighty God of heaven shope.
- 1685, Satan's Invisible World Discovered?
- (transitive) To give something a shape and definition.
- 1932, The American Scholar, page 227, United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa
- The professor never pretended to the academic prerogative of forcing his students into his own channels of reasoning; he entered into and helped shape the discussion but above all he made his men learn to think for themselves and rely upon their own intellectual judgments.
- 1932, The American Scholar, page 227, United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa
- To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
- 1709, Matthew Prior, Pleasure
- Grace shaped her limbs, and beauty decked her face.
- 1709, Matthew Prior, Pleasure
- (of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.
- To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
- (obsolete) To imagine; to conceive.
Synonyms
- (give shape): form, mold
Derived terms
- beshape
- foreshape
- forshape
- misshape
- overshape
- shape up
Translations
References
- The Dictionary of the Scots Language
- shape in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- shape at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- HEPAs, Heaps, ephas, heaps, phase
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