Bearing vs Tenor - 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
(archaic, music) Musical part or section that holds or performs the main melody, as opposed to the contratenor bassus'' and ''contratenor altus , who perform countermelodies.
(obsolete) duration; continuance; a state of holding on in a continuous course; general tendency; career.
* Gray
(music) Musical range or section higher than bass and lower than alto.
A person, instrument or group that performs in the tenor (higher than bass and lower than alto) range.
Tone, as of a conversation.
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(linguistics) The subject in a metaphor to which attributes are ascribed.
(finance) Time to maturity of a bond.
Stamp; character; nature.
* Dryden
(legal) An exact copy of a writing, set forth in the words and figures of it. It differs from purport , which is only the substance or general import of the instrument.
That course of thought which holds on through a discourse; the general drift or course of thought; purport; intent; meaning; understanding.
* Shakespeare
* Spart
of or pertaining to the tenor part or range
Bearing is a related term of tenor.
As nouns the difference between bearing and tenor
is that bearing is a mechanical device that supports another part and/or reduces friction while tenor is tenor.As an adjective bearing
is of a beam, column, or other device, carrying weight or load.As a verb bearing
is .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
* ABECVerb
(head)Anagrams
* *tenor
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Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- Along the cool sequestered vale of life / They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.
- This success would look like chance, if it were perpetual, and always of the same tenor .
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- When it [the bond] is paid according to the tenor .
- Does not the whole tenor of the divine law positively require humility and meekness to all men?
Derived terms
* Old Tenor, Middle Tenor, New TenorCoordinate terms
* (voice types) soprano, mezzo-soprano, alto, contralto (female); countertenor, tenor, baritone, bass (male)See also
* ("tenor" on Wikipedia)Adjective
(-)- He has a tenor voice.
