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bearingnoun the fact or state of being pertinentthese new facts have some bearing on the case applicability, connection, materiality, pertinence, relevance, relevancy appositeness, appropriateness, aptness, felicitousness, fitness, fittingness, rightness, seemliness, suitability, suitablenessimportance, significanceusefulness extraneousness, inapplicability, irrelevance, irrelevancy inappositeness, inappropriateness, inaptness, infelicity, unfitness, unsuitabilityinsignificancemeaninglessness, pointlessness, uselessness the fact or state of having something in commonI don't see any bearing between the quality of this bottle of wine and its rather exorbitant price affinity, association, connection, kinship, liaison, linkage, relation, relationship correlation, interrelationmateriality, pertinence, relevancebond, link, tieaffiliation, alliance, unionidenticalness, samenessalikeness, community, likeness, resemblance, similarityaccordance, agreement, conformity, congruity, correspondence variability, varianceincompatibility, incongruence, incongruity, incongruousness the way or manner in which one conducts oneselfalways retained his military bearing, even after he entered politics actions, address, behavior, comportment, conduct, demeanor, deportment, geste(also gest, archaic) etiquette, form, manners, mores, proprietiesp's and q'samenity, civility, courtesy, decorum, politenessair, attitude, carriage, poise, pose, posture, presenceaspect, look, mienformality, protocol, rulescustom, habit, habitude, pattern, practice(also practise), trick, wontconvention, fashion, form, mode, styleaffectation, attribute, characteristic, mark, traitdistinctiveness, oddity, peculiarity, singularity, strangeness, uniqueness, weirdness bearingverbpresent participle of bearto bring forth from the wombluckily, she turned out to be able to bear children after all birthing(chiefly dialect), delivering, dropping, having, mothering, producing laboringbreeding, multiplying, propagating, reproducing, spawningbegetting, fathering, generating, getting, siringcalving, kidding, kindling, kittening, littering, pupping, whelping giving birth to aborting, losing, miscarrying to put up with (something painful or difficult)I can't bear the thought of losing another loved one abiding, absorbing, accepting, biding(chiefly dialect), brooking, countenancing, enduring, going, hacking, handling, meeting, pocketing, standing, sticking out, stomaching, supporting, sustaining, sweating out, taking, tolerating, wearing(British) allowing, permitting, suffering, swallowingreconciling (to)acquiescing, agreeing (with or to), assenting (to), capitulating, consenting (to), respecting, submitting (to), yielding (to) living with, lumping (it), standing for, toughing it out declining, dismissing, refusing, rejecting, repudiating, spurning, turning downcombating(or combatting), contesting, fighting, opposing, resistingavoiding, bypassing, circumventing, dodging, eluding, escaping, evading, missingabstaining (from), forbearing, refraining (from) to have a relation or connectionI just found another fact that bears on this issue appertaining, applying, pertaining, referring, relating affecting, concerning, interesting, involving, touchingassociating, connecting, coupling, interrelating, linking, tying in(or tieing in)dealing (with), treating having to do with to go on a specified course or in a certain directionthe road bears left after the second traffic light heading, making aiming, bending, directing, pointing, turningbeelining, lighting out, putting, putting out, setting off, setting out, striking, taking offfacing, orienting, steeringabout-facing, backing, coming about, coming round, cutting, inclining, putting about, reversing, swerving, tacking, turning back, veering, wheeling, yawing to hold up or serve as a foundation forthe wooden bridge will only bear one truck at a time bolstering, bracing, buttressing, carrying, propping (up), shoring (up), staying, supporting, sustaining, undergirding, underpinning, upholding steadying, trussing, underlying to keep in one's mind or heartI'm not one to bear grudges cherishing, entertaining, harboring, having, holding, nursing cultivating, fostering, nurturing, supporting, sustainingcarrying, keeping, maintaining, preserving, remembering, retaining, treasuringcleaving (to), clinging (to), hugging, sticking (to)brooding (about or over), fixating (on or upon), obsessing (about or over) hanging on to, holding on to disregarding, dropping, forgetting, ignoring, neglecting, overlookingabjuring, declining, denying, disdaining, refusing, rejecting, repudiating, scorningabandoning, deserting, discarding, forsaking, giving up, parting (with), quitting, renouncing, throwing outerasing, expunging to manage the actions of (oneself) in a particular wayshe bore herself well in her first public speaking event acquitting, behaving, carrying, comporting, conducting, demeaning, deporting, quitting checking, collecting, composing, constraining, containing, controlling, curbing, handling, inhibiting, quieting, repressing, restrainingmoderating, modulating, temperingacting, impersonating, playing acting up, carrying on, cutting up, misbehaving, misconducting to support and take from one place to anotherthe rescue team came bearing much-needed food and supplies carrying, carting, conveying, ferrying, hauling, lugging, packing, toting, transporting delivering, handing over, transferringforwarding, sending, shipping, transmittingbringing, fetching, takingmoving, removing, shifting to take to or upon oneselfI bear some responsibility for the mishap accepting, assuming, shouldering, taking over, undertaking adopting, embracing, taking upadvocating, backing, championing, endorsing(also indorsing), espousing, standing by, supporting, upholdingacceding, acquiescing, agreeing, assenting, consentingreaccepting, reassuming disavowing, disclaiming, disowning, repudiating abjuring, recanting, renouncing, retracting, taking back, unsaying, withdrawingdeclining, refusing, rejecting, spurning, turning downabstaining (from), forbearing, refraining (from)avoiding, bypassing, detouringabandoning, abnegating, forsaking, giving up, relinquishing, spurning, surrenderingbacking down, backing off, backtracking to wear or have on one's personthe right to bear arms carrying, packing flaunting, showing off, sportingdisplaying, exhibiting, parading, showing to be positioned along a certain course or in a certain directionthe path will bear north after that marked tree extending, going, heading, leading, lying, running crossing, cutting, passingcoursing, following, spanning, traversing to have as a requirementthe violence in that country bears watching if the world wants to avoid a serious international conflict challenging, claiming, demanding, necessitating, needing, requiring, taking, wanting, warranting entailing, involvingasking, begging, claiming, clamoring (for), crying (for)hurting (for), lackingcommanding, enjoining, exacting, insisting, pressing, questing, stipulating calling for having, holding owning, possessing to have withingold-bearing ore boasting, containing, holding accommodating, fitting, takingcasing, encasing, enclosing(also inclosing), encompassingharboring, housing, lodging, sheltering to occupy a place or locationa hot, humid air mass is now bearing just south of the Gulf Coast being, lying, sitting, standing commanding, overlookinghanging around, remaining, resting, staying, sticking around, tarryingawaiting, waitingposting, stationingdwelling, residing to produce as revenuean interest-bearing savings account giving, paying, returning, yielding bringing in, nettingaffording, furnishing, providing, supplyingpaying off n.bearing, deportment, demeanor, mien, manner, carriage mean the outward manifestation of personality or attitude.bearing is the most general of these words but now usually implies characteristic posture.a woman of regal bearing deportment suggests actions or behavior as formed by breeding or training.your deportment was atrocious demeanor suggests one's attitude toward others as expressed in outward behavior.the haughty demeanor of the headwaiter mien is a literary term referring both to bearing and demeanor.a mien of supreme self-satisfaction manner implies characteristic or customary way of moving and gesturing and addressing others.the imperious manner of a man used to giving orders carriage applies chiefly to habitual posture in standing or walking.the kind of carriage learned at boarding school in the 13th century |