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Forbearing vs. Bearing

Forbearing and Bearing Definitions

Forbearing

To keep oneself from doing something; hold back; refrain
Forbear from making a comment.

Bearing

The manner in which one carries or conducts oneself
The poise and bearing of a champion.

Forbearing

To be tolerant or patient in the face of provocation.

Bearing

A machine or structural part that supports another part.

Forbearing

To refrain from; resist
Forbore criticizing them.

Bearing

A device that supports, guides, and reduces the friction of motion between fixed and moving machine parts.
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Forbearing

To restrain oneself so as not (to do something)
"He saw that she was preoccupied, and forbore to question her" (Thomas Hardy).

Bearing

Something that supports weight.

Forbearing

Forbearance; restraint

Bearing

The part of an arch or beam that rests on a support.

Forbearing

Characterized by patience and indulgence; long-suffering
A forbearing temper

Bearing

The act, power, or period of producing fruit or offspring.
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Forbearing

Present participle of forbear

Bearing

The quantity produced; yield.

Forbearing

Disposed or accustomed to forbear; patient; long-suffering.

Bearing

Direction, especially angular direction measured from one position to another using geographical or celestial reference lines.

Forbearing

Showing patient and unruffled self-control and restraint under adversity; slow to retaliate or express resentment;
Seemly and forbearing...yet strong enough to resist aggression
Was longanimous in the face of suffering

Bearing

Often bearings Awareness of one's position or situation relative to one's surroundings
Lost my bearings after taking the wrong exit.
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Bearing

Relevant relationship or interconnection
Those issues have no bearing on our situation.

Bearing

(Heraldry) A charge or device on a field.

Bearing

(Architecture) Designed to support structural weight
A bearing wall.

Bearing

Present participle of bear

Bearing

(in combination) That bears (some specified thing).
A gift-bearing visitor

Bearing

Of a beam, column, or other device, carrying weight or load.
That's a bearing wall.

Bearing

(mechanical engineering) A mechanical device that supports another part and/or reduces friction.

Bearing

The horizontal angle between the direction of an object and another object, or between it and that of true north; a heading or direction.

Bearing

One's understanding of one's orientation or relative position, literally or figuratively.
Do we go left here or straight on? Hold on, let me just get my bearings.
I started a new job last week, and I still haven't quite found my bearings.

Bearing

Relevance; a relationship or connection.
That has no bearing on this issue.

Bearing

One's posture, demeanor, or manner.
She walks with a confident, self-assured bearing.

Bearing

(architecture) That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports.
A lintel or beam may have four inches of bearing upon the wall.

Bearing

(architecture) The portion of a support on which anything rests.

Bearing

The unsupported span.
The beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports.

Bearing

(heraldry) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms.

Bearing

The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self; mien; behavior; carriage.
I know him by his bearing.

Bearing

Patient endurance; suffering without complaint.

Bearing

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; hence, relation; connection.
But of this frame, the bearings and the ties,The strong connections, nice dependencies.

Bearing

Purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect.

Bearing

The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing.
[His mother] in travail of his bearing.

Bearing

That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports; as, a lintel or beam may have four inches of bearing upon the wall.

Bearing

The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal.

Bearing

Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms - commonly in the pl.
A carriage covered with armorial bearings.

Bearing

The situation of a distant object, with regard to a ship's position, as on the bow, on the lee quarter, etc.; the direction or point of the compass in which an object is seen; as, the bearing of the cape was W. N. W.

Bearing

Relevant relation or interconnection;
Those issues have no bearing on our situation

Bearing

The direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies

Bearing

Dignified manner or conduct

Bearing

Characteristic way of bearing one's body;
Stood with good posture

Bearing

Heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield

Bearing

A rotating support placed between moving parts to allow them to move easily

Bearing

(of a structural member) withstanding a weight or strain

Bearing

Producing or yielding;
An interest-bearing note
Fruit-bearing trees

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