verb Download 🔗Share To endeavour to depress the price of, or prices in. Examples : "to bear a railroad stock" business economy finance Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
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verb Download 🔗Share (originally nautical) To be, or head, in a specific direction or azimuth (from somewhere). Examples : "The pilot is bearing north to avoid the storm clouds. " nautical direction Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
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adjective Download 🔗Share (in combination) That bears (some specified thing). Examples : "a gift-bearing visitor" aspect Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
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noun Download 🔗Share The horizontal angle between the direction of an object and another object, or between it and that of true north; a heading or direction. Examples : "The bearing of the library from my house is 45 degrees east. " direction nautical sailing military geography position technical Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Relevance; a relationship or connection. Examples : "That has no bearing on this issue." aspect point situation Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
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noun Download 🔗Share (in the plural) Direction or relative position. Examples : "The map showed the different bearing of the school from my house and from the park. " direction position Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports. Examples : "A lintel or beam may have four inches of bearing upon the wall." architecture building part Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
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