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Shouldering vs Bearing - What's the difference?

shouldering | bearing |

As verbs the difference between shouldering and bearing

is that shouldering is present participle of lang=en while bearing is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between shouldering and bearing

is that shouldering is the act of pushing or barging with the shoulder while bearing is a mechanical device that supports another part and/or reduces friction.

As an adjective bearing is

of a beam, column, or other device, carrying weight or load.

shouldering

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of pushing or barging with the shoulder.
  • * (Elisha Kent Kane), Arctic Explorations
    • Our whole force was mustered and kept constantly on the alert; but, though there may have been something of discourtesy in the occasional shoulderings and hustlings that enforced the police of the ship, things went on good-humouredly.
  • * 2005 , Jeff Mann, Loving Mountains, Loving Men
    • at the Jefferson Memorial or the Statue of Liberty, amid the noisy presence and restless shoulderings of other tourists.

    • bearing

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of a beam, column, or other device, carrying weight or load.
    • That's a bearing wall.

    Derived terms

    * -bearing

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
    • That has no bearing on this issue.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • But of this frame, the bearings and the ties, / The strong connections, nice dependencies.
  • One's posture, demeanor, or manner.
    • She walks with a confident, self-assured bearing .
  • * Shakespeare
    • I know him by his bearing .
  • (in the plural) Direction or relative position.
  • (architecture) That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports.
    • A lintel or beam may have four inches of bearing upon the wall.
  • (architecture) The portion of a support on which anything rests.
  • (architecture, proscribed) The unsupported span.
    • The beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports.
  • (heraldry) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms.
  • * Thackeray
    • 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 bearing

    See also

    * ABEC

    Verb

    (head)

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