bearing

«bearing» in Mova's school dictionary: A direction measured in degrees clockwise from north… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a bearing, bearings); verb, -ing form of bear (bear, bears, bore, borne, bearing)

meaning for a pupil

1) (maths, navigation) A direction measured in degrees clockwise from north, written with three figures: a bearing of 090 degrees is east. tree →

2) (bearings) Knowing where you are: lose your bearings. tree →

3) Have a bearing on: have an effect on or be connected with something. tree →

4) A part of a machine that lets a wheel turn smoothly: ball bearings. tree →

5) The way a person stands or behaves: a proud bearing. tree →

6) (verb) Carrying or holding: bearing gifts; putting up with: bearing the pain. tree →

7) A plant is bearing when it grows flowers or fruit. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths and geography bearings are measured with a protractor from north, clockwise, always with three digits. In outdoor safety, keep your bearings with a map and compass. In stories, travellers arrive "bearing gifts". Phrases: take a bearing, lose your bearings, get your bearings, have a bearing on, ball bearings.

examples

• Walk on a bearing of 090 degrees and you will head east. tree →
• South is on a bearing of 180 degrees. tree →
• We got lost in the woods and lost our bearings. tree →
• The weather has no bearing on the test. tree →
• The kings arrived bearing gifts. tree →
• The old bike needs new ball bearings in its wheels. tree →
• She held her head high with a proud bearing. tree →
• A bearing of 045 degrees is north-east. tree →
• In the window stood a bush bearing monthly roses. tree →

note

Maths rules: measure from north, go clockwise, write three digits (045, not 45). Bearings range from 000 to 360 degrees. The back bearing is the bearing plus or minus 180 degrees. "Bearing" is also just the -ing form of the verb bear.

In the corpora

• Gerardus Mercator published his famous world map in 1569, and on it a straight line is a line of constant compass bearing.
• Ball bearings, tiny steel balls inside a wheel's hub, let the wheel turn on its axle with very little friction.
• Ball bearings help a wheel turn smoothly on its axle.
• When Leah saw that she had left off bearing, she took Zilpah her handmaid, and gave her to Jacob to wife.
• This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in bearing burdens:

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «bearing» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.