Bearing vs Puppet - What's the difference?
bearing | puppet |
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
Any small model of a person or animal able to be moved by strings or rods, or in the form of a glove.
(lb) A person, country, etc, controlled by another.
:(Sir Walter Scott)
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(lb) A poppet; a small image in the human form; a doll.
(lb) The upright support for the bearing of the spindle in a lathe.
As nouns the difference between bearing and puppet
is that bearing is a mechanical device that supports another part and/or reduces friction while puppet is any small model of a person or animal able to be moved by strings or rods, or in the form of a glove.As a adjective bearing
is of a beam, column, or other device, carrying weight or load.As a verb bearing
is (bear).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 .
