noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a compass bearing/reading (= a direction shown by a compass )
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We took a compass bearing to ensure we were walking in the right direction.
ball bearing
bearing in mind (= because of )
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More money should be given to housing, bearing in mind the problem of homelessness.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
direct
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Insights within this discipline do not usually have a direct bearing on my performances.
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This has a direct bearing on their exports such as lamb.
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A large number of these responses had direct bearing on school curriculum.
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This has a direct bearing on how we should study the constitution.
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This is all contemporary evidence and it therefore has no direct bearing .
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This has a direct bearing as to remedies.
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Unemployment and other problems associated with labour have a direct bearing on social welfare.
important
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The material form of the surplus-product has an important bearing upon this.
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The activities of competitors have an important bearing on pricing decisions.
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Such evidence has an important bearing on the site's function.
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Their backgrounds have an important bearing on their teaching.
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First, age, or more precisely proximity to the state-pension age, had an important bearing on early retirement.
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One further contextual factor had an important bearing on this analysis.
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Many giant dinosaurs, therefore, would have been very successful in battle, having an important bearing on natural selection.
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It has important bearings on the reliability of the Bible books.
■ NOUN
ball
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There is nothing specific about the ball bearings: nothing that makes them more suitable to one situation rather than another.
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There must be an old Navy uniform and a few ball bearings somewhere on Treasure Island.
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They were rolling it on rusty ball bearings .
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Once fired, the blast would fire the ball bearings out toward the enemy and covered quite an area.
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In the first system the rotation of the mouse's wheels or ball bearing are transferred to rollers.
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The football's got ball bearings in it.
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Many machines use ball bearings to reduce friction.
■ VERB
find
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The first night on board, everything is deliberately kept informal, to give passengers time to settle in and find their bearings .
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They are there to allow us to find our bearings and set our calendar.
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She gave herself a full minute to find her bearings in this mute kingdom, and her senses made the adjustment gratefully.
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Flying over Normandy he descended to ground level to escape the fog and to find his bearings .
get
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She was able to get her bearings this way and soon found herself at the back of the house.
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It took her a minute to get her bearings .
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To get their bearings Allen once more climbed.
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Without stopping to get his bearings , he began walking up Broadway along the east side of the street.
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She stopped for a moment to get her bearings .
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Ozzie drank his beer and got his bearings .
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Pausing to get his bearings , he blew furiously on his fingers to cool them down.
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Need to sit down to get your bearings ?
lose
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Too much accommodation and one loses one's bearings in the necessary conventions of thought.
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He had lost his bearings on a trip to nearby shops a few weeks earlier.
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Perhaps it was exhausted, perhaps it had lost its bearings in the thick fog.
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Among right-wing circles this perception simply intensified their existential feeling of Angst, of having lost their bearings .
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But as the world grew unfamiliar, I began to lose my bearings .
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I feel I've lost all my bearings .
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It was a magnetic mountain where a compass did not work, and it was easy to lose your bearing .
take
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The reactions and thrust of each deck is taken on elastomeric bearings and by ballast walls.
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It is this unvarying ubiquitous signal that we ourselves use, of course, when we take our bearings with a compass.
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But, for now ... she took the letter bearing Ven's address and telephone number from her bag.
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High fences around Admiralty installations gave good views as the birds perched briefly on the wires, taking their bearings .
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We spent that afternoon taking our bearings .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
lose your way/bearings
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I completely lose my bearings when I go outside the city.
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The Congressional black caucus has lost its way since Republicans took over Congress.
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When my wife left me, I kind of lost my bearings for a while.
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Among right-wing circles this perception simply intensified their existential feeling of Angst, of having lost their bearings.
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But somehow, in the zeal to get re-elected, we lost our way.
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He had lost his bearings on a trip to nearby shops a few weeks earlier.
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He lit another cigarette and left, losing his way at the end of the corridor.
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I am about to lose my way.
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John had a mission to become an entrepreneur, but he went out without a road map and almost lost his way.
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She claimed she had somehow been placed on an ocean liner that had lost its way at sea.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The lady is tall, strong, and dignified in her bearing .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Assumptions about the rate of payment by debtors may have a significant bearing on the expected profitability of the project.
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If I may speak for the Law Officers of the Crown, we are scrupulous in bearing that vital principle in mind.
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In many cases, such thinking has no bearing on what is happening in the regions.
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It had some bearing at all levels of society.
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It took her a minute to get her bearings.
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The fact that discrimination is unintentional has no bearing on its legality or otherwise.