Bearing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bear |
Bearing (n.) The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self |
Bearing (n.) Patient endurance |
Bearing (n.) The situation of one object, with respect to another, such situation being supposed to have a connection with the object, or influence upon it, or to be influenced by it |
Bearing (n.) Purport |
Bearing (n.) The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth |
Bearing (n.) That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports |
Bearing (n.) The portion of a support on which anything rests. |
Bearing (n.) Improperly, the unsupported span |
Bearing (n.) The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing |
Bearing (n.) The part of the support on which a journal rests and rotates. |
Bearing (n.) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl. |
Bearing (n.) The situation of a distant object, with regard to a ship's position, as on the bow, on the lee quarter, etc. |
Bearing (n.) The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer. |
Bearing (n.) The line of flotation of a vessel when properly trimmed with cargo or ballast. |
Bearing cloth () A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized. |
Bearing rein () A short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to keep the horse's head up |
Load (v.) A burden |
Load (v.) The quantity which can be carried or drawn in some specified way |
Load (v.) That which burdens, oppresses, or grieves the mind or spirits |
Load (v.) A particular measure for certain articles, being as much as may be carried at one time by the conveyance commonly used for the article measured |
Load (v.) The charge of a firearm |
Load (v.) Weight or violence of blows. |
Load (v.) The work done by a steam engine or other prime mover when working. |
Load (v. t.) To lay a load or burden on or in, as on a horse or in a cart |
Load (v. t.) To adulterate or drug |
Load (v. t.) To magnetize. |
Rush-bearing (n.) A kind of rural festival at the dedication of a church, when the parishioners brought rushes to strew the church. |
Sea wall () A wall, or embankment, to resist encroachments of the sea. |
Wall (n.) A kind of knot often used at the end of a rope |
Wall (n.) A work or structure of stone, brick, or other materials, raised to some height, and intended for defense or security, solid and permanent inclosing fence, as around a field, a park, a town, etc., also, one of the upright inclosing parts of a building or a room. |
Wall (n.) A defense |
Wall (n.) An inclosing part of a receptacle or vessel |
Wall (n.) The side of a level or drift. |
Wall (n.) The country rock bounding a vein laterally. |
Wall (v. t.) To inclose with a wall, or as with a wall. |
Wall (v. t.) To defend by walls, or as if by walls |
Wall (v. t.) To close or fill with a wall, as a doorway. |
Wall-eye (n.) An eye in which the iris is of a very light gray or whitish color |
Wall-eye (n.) An American fresh-water food fish (Stizostedion vitreum) having large and prominent eyes |
Wall-eye (n.) A California surf fish (Holconotus argenteus). |
Wall-eye (n.) The alewife |
Wall-eyed (a.) Having an eye of a very light gray or whitish color. |
Wall-plat (n.) The spotted flycatcher. It builds its nest on walls. |
Wall-sided (a.) Having sides nearly perpendicular |
workload work load | work that a person is expected to do in a specified time |
case load | the number of cases handled in a given period of time (as by a court or agency) |
perjury bearing false witness lying under oath | criminal offense of making false statements under oath |
load-shedding | cutting off the electric current on certain lines when the demand becomes greater than the supply |
blue wall of silence blue wall wall of silence | the secrecy of police officers who lie or look the other way to protect other police officers, the blue wall cracked when some officers refused to take part in the cover-up |
wall creeper tichodrome Tichodroma muriaria | crimson-and-grey songbird that inhabits town walls and mountain cliffs of southern Eurasia and northern Africa |
Antonine Wall | a fortification miles long across the narrowest part of southern Scotland (between the Firth of Forth and the Firth of Clyde), built into mark the frontier of the Roman province of Britain |
ball bearing needle bearing roller bearing | bearings containing small metal balls |
bearing | a rotating support placed between moving parts to allow them to move easily |
bearing rein checkrein | a rein designed to keep the horse's head in the desired position |
bearing wall | any wall supporting a floor or the roof of a building |
bracket wall bracket | a support projecting from a wall (as to hold a shelf) |
cargo lading freight load loading payload shipment consignment | goods carried by a large vehicle |
cavity wall | a wall formed of two thicknesses of masonry with a space between them |
charge bearing heraldic bearing armorial bearing | heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield |
Chinese Wall Great Wall Great Wall of China | a fortification , miles long built across northern China in the rd century BC, it averages meters in width |
dead load | a constant load on a structure (e.g. a bridge) due to the weight of the supported structure itself |
dry wall dry-stone wall | a stone wall made with stones fitted together without mortar |
gable gable end gable wall | the vertical triangular wall between the sloping ends of gable roof |
hanging wall hanging | decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window, the cold castle walls were covered with hangings |
journal bearing | the bearing of a journal |
live load superload | a variable load on a structure (e.g. a bridge) such as moving traffic |
load loading burden | weight to be borne or conveyed |
load | electrical device to which electrical power is delivered |
mural wall painting | a painting that is applied to a wall surface |
party wall | a wall erected on the line between two properties and shared by both owners |
proscenium proscenium wall | the wall that separates the stage from the auditorium in a modern theater |
rampart bulwark wall | an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes, they stormed the ramparts of the city, they blew the trumpet and the walls came tumbling down |
retaining wall | a wall that is built to resist lateral pressure (especially a wall built to prevent the advance of a mass of earth) |
stone wall | a fence built of rough stones, used to separate fields |
thrust bearing | a bearing designed to take thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution |
wall | an architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness, used to divide or enclose an area or to support another structure, the south wall had a small window, the walls were covered with pictures |
wall | a masonry fence (as around an estate or garden), the wall followed the road, he ducked behind the garden wall and waited |
wall | a layer of material that encloses space, the walls of the cylinder were perforated, the container's walls were blue |
wallboard drywall dry wall | a wide flat board used to cover walls or partitions, made from plaster or wood pulp or other materials and used primarily to form the interior walls of houses |
wall clock | a clock mounted on a wall |
wall panel | paneling that forms part of a wall |
wall plate | plate (a timber along the top of a wall) to support the ends of joists, etc., and distribute the load |
wall socket wall plug electric outlet electrical outlet outlet electric receptacle | receptacle providing a place in a wiring system where current can be taken to run electrical devices |
wall tent | a canvas tent with four vertical walls |
wall unit | a piece of furniture having several units that stands against one wall of a room |
warhead payload load | the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents |
bearing comportment presence mien | dignified manner or conduct |
carriage bearing posture | characteristic way of bearing one's body, stood with good posture |
wall paries | (anatomy) a layer (a lining or membrane) that encloses a structure, stomach walls |
abdominal wall | a wall of the abdomen |
burden load encumbrance incumbrance onus | an onerous or difficult concern, the burden of responsibility, that's a load off my mind |
Wall Street the Street | used to allude to the securities industry of the United States |
hole-in-the-wall | a small unpretentious out-of-the-way place, his office was a hole-in-the-wall |
load line Plimsoll line Plimsoll mark Plimsoll | waterlines to show the level the water should reach when the ship is properly loaded |