Beholding vs Bearing - What's the difference?
beholding | bearing |
* 1612 , Shakespeare, Henry VIII , V, 5
* Robynson (More's Utopia)
* Fuller
The act by which something is beheld.
* Robert Trail
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
As verbs the difference between beholding and bearing
is that beholding is while bearing is .As adjectives the difference between beholding and bearing
is that beholding is while bearing is of a beam, column, or other device, carrying weight or load.As nouns the difference between beholding and bearing
is that beholding is the act by which something is beheld while bearing is a mechanical device that supports another part and/or reduces friction.beholding
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- I thank ye all. To you, my good lord mayor,
- And your good brethren, I am much beholding ;
- I have received much honour by your presence,
- And ye shall find me thankful.
- I was much bound and beholding to the right reverend father.
- So much hath Oxford been beholding to her nephews, or sister's children.
Noun
(en noun)- But this text and theme I am upon, relates to somewhat far higher and greater, than all the beholdings of his glory that ever any saint on earth received.
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 .
