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How to pronounce “bearing”
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Pronunciation guide for bearing
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of bearing with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Diana Nyad: Extreme swimming with the world's most dangerous jellyfish 16 minutes
Well there was no grin and bearing this.
- Definition summary
- present participle and gerund of bear
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce bearing
Diana Nyad: Extreme swimming with the world's most dangerous jellyfish 16 minutes

Well there was no grin and bearing this.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “bearing”
Meaning
- [Verb]
- present participle and gerund of bear
- [Adjective]
- (in combination) That bears (some specified thing).
- Of a beam, column, or other device, carrying weight or load.
- [Noun]
- (mechanical engineering) A mechanical device that supports another part 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.
- (in the plural, especially in phrases such as 'get one's bearings') One's understanding of one's orientation or relative position, literally or figuratively.
- Relevance; a relationship or connection.
- One's posture, demeanor, or manner.
- (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.
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