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