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Bearing vs Enduring - What's the difference?

bearing | enduring |

As adjectives the difference between bearing and enduring

is that bearing is of a beam, column, or other device, carrying weight or load while enduring is long-lasting.

As nouns the difference between bearing and enduring

is that bearing is a mechanical device that supports another part and/or reduces friction while enduring is endurance.

As verbs the difference between bearing and enduring

is that bearing is present participle of lang=en while enduring is present participle of lang=en.

bearing

English

Adjective

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

    Derived terms

    * -bearing

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A mechanical device that supports another part and/or reduces friction.
  • (navigation, nautical) The horizontal angle between the direction of an object and another object, or between it and that of true north; a heading or direction.
  • Relevance; a relationship or connection.
    • That has no bearing on this issue.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • But of this frame, the bearings and the ties, / The strong connections, nice dependencies.
  • One's posture, demeanor, or manner.
    • She walks with a confident, self-assured bearing .
  • * Shakespeare
    • I know him by his bearing .
  • (in the plural) Direction or relative position.
  • (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.
  • (architecture) The portion of a support on which anything rests.
  • (architecture, proscribed) The unsupported span.
    • The beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports.
  • (heraldry) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms.
  • * Thackeray
    • A carriage covered with armorial bearings .

    Derived terms

    (terms derived from bearing) * ball bearing * find one’s bearings * get one’s bearings * inline bearing * inline hockey bearing * inline skate bearing, in-line skate bearing * magnetic bearing * lose one’s bearings * quad roller skate bearing * roller bearing * rollerblade bearing * skate bearing * skateboard bearing * true bearing

    See also

    * ABEC

    Verb

    (head)

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    enduring

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Long-lasting.
    • an enduring belief in democracy

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • endurance
  • * 1854 , James Kennedy, Probable Origin of the American Indians (page 14)
    • It could be only long years of privations and endurings of hardships that could enable the Esquimaux to traverse over those icy regions with the facilities they have learned to practise

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