Bearing vs Irrelevancy - What's the difference?
bearing | irrelevancy |
Of a beam, column, or other device, carrying weight or load.
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.
* Alexander Pope
One's posture, demeanor, or manner.
* Shakespeare
(in the plural) Direction or relative position.
(architecture) That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports.
(architecture) The portion of a support on which anything rests.
(architecture, proscribed) The unsupported span.
(heraldry) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms.
* Thackeray
(label) The quality of being irrelevant or inapplicable; lack of pertinence or connection.
(label) A thing that is irrelevant—having no bearing on the subject of discussion.
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As nouns the difference between bearing and irrelevancy
is that bearing is a mechanical device that supports another part and/or reduces friction while irrelevancy is the quality of being irrelevant or inapplicable; lack of pertinence or connection.As an adjective bearing
is of a beam, column, or other device, carrying weight or load.As a verb bearing
is present participle of lang=en.bearing
English
Adjective
(-)- That's a bearing wall.
Derived terms
* -bearingNoun
(en noun)- That has no bearing on this issue.
- But of this frame, the bearings and the ties, / The strong connections, nice dependencies.
- She walks with a confident, self-assured bearing .
- I know him by his bearing .
- A lintel or beam may have four inches of bearing upon the wall.
- The beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports.
- A carriage covered with armorial bearings .
