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 |
Bovey coal
() A kind of mineral coal, or brown lignite, burning with a weak flame, and generally a disagreeable odor |
Caking coal
() See Coal. |
Canal coal
() See Cannel coal. |
Candle coal
() See Cannel coal. |
Cannel coal
() A kind of mineral coal of a black color, sufficiently hard and solid to be cut and polished. It burns readily, with a clear, yellow flame, and on this account has been used as a substitute for candles. |
Coal
(n.) A thoroughly charred, and extinguished or still ignited, fragment from wood or other combustible substance |
Coal
(n.) A black, or brownish black, solid, combustible substance, dug from beds or veins in the earth to be used for fuel, and consisting, like charcoal, mainly of carbon, but more compact, and often affording, when heated, a large amount of volatile matter. |
Coal
(v. t.) To burn to charcoal |
Coal
(v. t.) To mark or delineate with charcoal. |
Coal
(v. t.) To supply with coal |
Coal
(v. i.) To take in coal |
Coal-black
(a.) As black as coal |
Coal-meter
(n.) A licensed or official coal measurer in London. See Meter. |
Coal tar
() A thick, black, tarry liquid, obtained by the distillation of bituminous coal in the manufacture of illuminating gas |
Coal-whipper
(n.) One who raises coal out of the hold of a ship. |
Coal works
() A place where coal is dug, including the machinery for raising the coal. |
Day-coal
(n.) The upper stratum of coal, as nearest the light or surface. |
Kennel coal
() See Cannel coal. |
Rush-bearing
(n.) A kind of rural festival at the dedication of a church, when the parishioners brought rushes to strew the church. |
Sea coal
() Coal brought by sea |
perjury
bearing false witness
lying under oath | criminal offense of making false statements under oath |
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 |
charge bearing heraldic bearing
armorial bearing | heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield |
| coal car | freight car with fixed sides and no roof, for transporting coal |
| coal chute | a chute for coal |
| coal house | a shed for storing coal |
coal mine
coalpit | a mine where coal is dug from the ground |
| coal shovel | a hand shovel for shoveling coal |
fire tongs
coal tongs | tongs for taking hold of burning coals |
| journal bearing | the bearing of a journal |
scuttle
coal scuttle | container for coal, shaped to permit pouring the coal onto the fire |
| thrust bearing | a bearing designed to take thrusts parallel to the axis of revolution |
bearing
comportment
presence
mien | dignified manner or conduct |
coal black
ebony
jet black
pitch black
sable
soot black | a very dark black |
carriage
bearing posture | characteristic way of bearing one's body, stood with good posture |
| coal industry | the producers of coal considered collectively |
| coal seam | a seam of coal |
bearing
heading
aim | the direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies |
ember
coal | a hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering |
coal miner
collier
pitman | someone who works in a coal mine |
| bearing | relevant relation or interconnection, those issues have no bearing on our situation |
anthracosis
black lung
black lung disease
coal miner's lung | lung disease caused by inhaling coal dust |
charcoal
wood coal | a carbonaceous material obtained by heating wood or other organic matter in the absence of air |
| coal gas | gaseous mixture produced by distillation of bituminous coal and used for heating and lighting |
kerosene
kerosine
lamp oil
coal oil | a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters |
white metal
bearing metal | an alloy (often of lead or tin base) used for bearings |
| bearing brass | a brass bushing or a lining for a bearing |
| cannel coal | a bituminous coal that burns with a luminous flame |
| coal | fossil fuel consisting of carbonized vegetable matter deposited in the Carboniferous period |
anthracite
anthracite coal
hard coal | a hard natural coal that burns slowly and gives intense heat |
bituminous coal
soft coal | rich in tarry hydrocarbons, burns readily with a smoky yellow flame |
lignite
brown coal
wood coal | intermediate between peat and bituminous coal |
| sea coal | pulverized bituminous coal, used as a foundry facing |
| steam coal | coal suitable for use under steam boilers |
| creosote coal-tar creosote | a dark oily liquid obtained by distillation of coal tar, used as a preservative for wood |
| coal tar | a tar formed from distillation of bituminous coal, coal tar can be further distilled to give various aromatic compounds |
| coal | take in coal, The big ship coaled |
| coal | supply with coal |
char
coal | burn to charcoal, Without a drenching rain, the forest fire will char everything |
| bearing(a) | (of a structural member) withstanding a weight or strain |
load-bearing(a)
supporting(a) | capable of bearing a structural load, a supporting wall |
coal-black
jet
jet-black
pitchy
sooty | of the blackest black, similar to the color of jet or coal |
coniferous
cone-bearing | of or relating to or part of trees or shrubs bearing cones and evergreen leaves |
coal-fired
coal-burning | fueled by burning coal, a coal-fired ship |
egg-producing(a)
young-bearing(a) | capable of producing eggs and bearing offspring |
auriferous
gold-bearing | containing gold, auriferous quartz veins |
| fur-bearing | of animals having fur (especially of commercial quality) |