| 单词 | bearing |
| 释义 | bearing (beərɪŋ ) Word forms: bearings 1. have a bearing on phrase If something has a bearing on a situation or event, it is relevant to it. Experts generally agree that diet has an important bearing on your general health. My father's achievements really don't have any bearing on what I do. 2. singular noun [usually poss NOUN] Someone's bearing is the way in which they move or stand. [literary] She later wrote warmly of his bearing and behaviour. Synonyms: manner, attitude, conduct, appearance 3. countable noun If you take a bearing with a compass, you use it to work out the direction in which a particular place lies or in which something is moving. 4. get one's bearings/find one's bearings/lose one's bearings phrase If you get your bearings or find your bearings, you find out where you are or what you should do next. If you lose your bearings, you do not know where you are or what you should do next. A sightseeing tour of the city is included to help you get your bearings. How badly the administration had lost its bearings was underlined by what happened yesterday. 5. countable noun [usually plural] Bearings are small metal balls that are placed between moving parts of a machine in order to make them move smoothly and easily over each other. An oil seal was replaced, along with both front wheel bearings. 6. See also ball bearing -bearing (-beərɪŋ ) combining form -bearing combines with nouns to form adjectives which describe things that hold the specified substance inside them. ...oil-bearing rocks. ...snow-bearing clouds. ...malaria-bearing mosquitos. Collocations: compass bearing The speed of travel was collectively decided but the compass bearing was hers. Times, Sunday Times You might as well, walking in the mist, take a compass bearing on a mountain goat. Times, Sunday Times A compass bearing was then taken. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A direction may be a simple compass bearing, or a precise orientation determined by accurate survey methods. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Control panels feature compass bearing, wind speed and direction, speed, rpm, fuel level, winch settings, sail settings, dependent on the vessel type. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 From next season, refs can officiate matches that have a direct bearing on the clubs they support. The Sun It was a rather sobering moment for those who wanted learning to have a direct bearing on how we earn our living. Times, Sunday Times It's a critical time that has a direct bearing on how a person will handle conflicts later in life. Christianity Today I have two points to add, neither of which has a direct bearing on the issue of collaboration. The Times Literary Supplement These abstruse anomalies have no direct bearing on the value of any shares you or your favourite funds may own, but they do affect confidence. Times, Sunday Times He has maintained a stoic, military bearing throughout his trial. canada.com He wore his military bearing lightly and saw no conflict between being both patriotic and liberal minded. Times,Sunday Times He has lost his military bearing, grown a straggling beard and become more wistful, distracted and philosophical. Times, Sunday Times There was nothing secret to it, nothing to do with a military bearing, or clipped diction and moustache to match. Times, Sunday Times He never lost his military bearing. Times, Sunday Times They are off the spine, they are not weight bearing. The Sun The neural networks in the lumbosacral spinal cord are capable of initiating full weight bearing and relatively co-ordinated stepping without any input from the brain. Times, Sunday Times There was weight bearing, knee lifting, a suggestion of slow cadence and some control. Times, Sunday Times In the pool, they can do a lot of things that aren't weight bearing. Globe and Mail A sense of weight bearing down as the years go by. Times, Sunday Times My garage has replaced two wheel sensors and one wheel bearing but this has not helped. Times, Sunday Times (2014) A From your description, the most likely cause is a worn wheel bearing. Times, Sunday Times (2010) |
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