different between stance vs bearing

English

Etymology

From Middle English staunce (“place to stand; battle station; position; standing in society; circumstance, situation; stanchion”), from Old French estance (“predicament; situation; sojourn, stay”) (compare modern French stance (“stanza; position one stands in when golfing”)), from Italian stanza (“room, standing place; stanza”), from Latin st?ns (“standing; remaining, staying”), from Latin st? (“to stand; to remain, stay”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh?- (“to stand (up)”). The word is cognate with Spanish estante (“shelf”).

The verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /st??ns/, /stæns/
• Rhymes: -??ns
• (General American) IPA^(key): /stæns/
• Rhymes: -æns

Noun

stance (plural stances)

1. The manner, pose, or posture in which one stands.
2. One's opinion or point of view.

   Synonyms: position, posture, stand
3. A place to stand; a position, a site, a station.
   1. (specifically, climbing) A foothold or ledge on which to set up a belay.
4. (Scotland) A place for buses or taxis to await passengers; a bus stop, a taxi rank.

   Synonym: stand
5. (Scotland) A place where a fair or market is held; a location where a street trader can carry on business.

   Synonym: stand
6. (obsolete, rare) A stanza.

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Verb

stance (third-person singular simple present stances, present participle stancing, simple past and past participle stanced)

1. (transitive, Scotland) To place, to position, to station; (specifically) to put (cattle) into an enclosure or pen in preparation for sale.

References

Further reading

• stance (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• stance in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• stance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• ascent, casten, enacts, scante, secant

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.

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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