Bearing vs Mien - What's the difference?
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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
(countable, uncountable) Demeanor; facial expression or attitude, especially one which is intended by its bearer.
(countable) A specific facial expression
* {{quote-news, 2007, February 10, Claudia La Rocco, Stony Miens and Sad Hearts, New York Times
, passage=It’s hard to say which is worse: the press-on smiles favored by many a ballet dancer, or the stony “I’m going to pretend this isn’t happening to me” miens often found in contemporary troupes like White Road. }}
Bearing is a related term of mien.
As an adjective bearing
is of a beam, column, or other device, carrying weight or load.As a noun bearing
is a mechanical device that supports another part and/or reduces friction.As a verb bearing
is .As a proper noun mien is
a group of related languages spoken by the yao people.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 .
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 bearingSee also
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* *mien
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