bearings

The word “bearings” has 2 syllables: bear-ings

It's pronounced as /ˈbɛrɪŋz/


What is synonym and antonym for bearings?

In the thesaurus, “bearings” has 51 synonyms.

Here are synonyms for bearings along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for bearings

  • actions
  • addresses
  • affectations
  • airs
  • amenities
  • aspects
  • attitudes
  • attributes
  • behaviors
  • carriages
  • characteristics
  • civilities
  • comportments
  • conducts
  • conventions
  • courtesies
  • customs
  • decorums
  • demeanors
  • deportments
  • etiquettes
  • fashions
  • formalities
  • forms
  • gestes
  • gests
  • habits
  • habitudes
  • looks
  • manners
  • marks
  • miens
  • modes
  • mores
  • oddities
  • patterns
  • peculiarities
  • poises
  • poses
  • postures
  • practices
  • practises
  • presences
  • proprieties
  • protocols
  • rules
  • singularities
  • styles
  • traits
  • tricks
  • wonts

Meanings of bearings

  • noun
    1. A mechanical device that supports another part and/or reduces friction.
    2. The horizontal angle between the direction of an object and another object, or between it and that of true north; a heading or direction.
    3. Relevance; a relationship or connection.
    4. One's posture, demeanor, or manner.
    5. (in the plural) Direction or relative position.
    6. That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports.
    7. The portion of a support on which anything rests.
    8. The unsupported span.
    9. Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms.

Example Sentences

  • He stopped to get his bearings before continuing the hike.
  • The ship lost its bearings in the dense fog.
  • She needed time to find her bearings in the new city.
  • The compass helped them regain their bearings after getting lost.
  • Losing your bearings in a crisis can lead to poor decisions.

On this page you'll find 51 synonyms or another words to bearings, such as: actions, addresses, affectations, airs, amenities, aspects, attitudes.

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  • affront
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  • air
  • airs
  • allow
  • apparels
  • appearance
  • appearances
  • approaches
  • arrays
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  • audacity
  • babies
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  • blankets
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  • breasts
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  • cheek
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  • clad
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  • clock
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  • combats
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  • confidence
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  • contend
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  • demeanors
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  • display
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  • dominates
  • dress
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  • ducks
  • effects
  • effrontery
  • eggs
  • embosoms
  • embowers
  • embraces
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  • encases
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  • encounter
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  • endure
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  • enshrouds
  • envelops
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  • experience
  • expressions
  • exteriors
  • eyeball
  • facade
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  • facet
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  • false front
  • features
  • fellowmen
  • fellows
  • fictions
  • fight
  • fights
  • finish
  • fish
  • fishes
  • flinches
  • fly in face of
  • foreheads
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  • fringes
  • front
  • front onto
  • frontage
  • frontal
  • frontispiece
  • fronts
  • frown
  • frowns
  • gall
  • garbs
  • gaze
  • glare
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  • glower
  • glowers
  • go up against
  • grapple with
  • grimace
  • grimaces
  • grins
  • growls
  • guise
  • guises
  • guys
  • heads
  • hints
  • hominids
  • homos
  • honor
  • human beings
  • humanoids
  • humans
  • image
  • images
  • imitations
  • impertinence
  • implications
  • impostures
  • impressions
  • impudence
  • incloses
  • individuals
  • insinuations
  • invests
  • kisser
  • kissers
  • laps
  • level
  • light
  • likenesses
  • line
  • lineaments
  • lives
  • look
  • looks
  • lours
  • lowers
  • make a stand
  • make-belief
  • make-believe
  • makeup
  • manners
  • mantles
  • map
  • margins
  • mask
  • masks
  • masquerades
  • meet
  • meets
  • men
  • miens
  • mortals
  • moues
  • mouths
  • mows
  • mug
  • mugs
  • names
  • neighbors
  • obverse
  • oppose
  • opposes
  • outbraves
  • outfaces
  • outsides
  • outwards
  • overlay
  • overlays
  • overlook
  • overlooks
  • overspreads
  • paint
  • pans
  • parties
  • patinae
  • patinas
  • people
  • personages
  • personalities
  • physiognomies
  • physiognomy
  • plaster
  • polish
  • poses
  • pout
  • pouts
  • presences
  • presentation
  • prestige
  • presumption
  • pretences
  • pretenses
  • profile
  • pusses
  • redecorate
  • refinish
  • remodel
  • repels
  • representations
  • reputation
  • resemblances
  • resist
  • resists
  • rictuses
  • rims
  • risk
  • rivals
  • robes
  • run into
  • scoffs
  • scouts
  • scowl
  • scowls
  • seeming
  • seemings
  • self-respect
  • selves
  • semblance
  • semblances
  • shapes
  • sheathe
  • sheathes
  • sheaths
  • shells
  • shingle
  • show
  • showing
  • shows
  • shrouds
  • side
  • sides
  • silhouette
  • simpers
  • simulacrum
  • simulations
  • skin
  • skins
  • skirts
  • slobs
  • smiles
  • smirk
  • smirks
  • smooth
  • snarls
  • sneers
  • snoots
  • social position
  • somebodies
  • sons of man
  • sorts
  • souls
  • specimens
  • square off
  • squinches
  • stand
  • standing
  • stands
  • stands up to
  • stare
  • stares
  • stiffs
  • stomach
  • submit
  • suffer
  • suggestions
  • surface
  • surfaces
  • surrounds
  • sustain
  • swallow
  • swathes
  • take
  • take it
  • take on
  • take the bull by the horns
  • takes on
  • tell off
  • things
  • tolerate
  • top
  • tops
  • touches
  • veil
  • veils
  • veneer
  • veneers
  • venture
  • visage
  • visages
  • watch
  • wights
  • winces
  • withstand
  • withstands
  • wraps

nativities

garbs

cantilevers

  • arches
  • bases
  • bearings
  • bolsters
  • braces
  • brackets
  • buttresses
  • columns
  • crutches
  • foundations
  • frames
  • girders
  • mountings
  • mounts
  • pedestals
  • pegs
  • pilasters
  • pillars
  • posts
  • props
  • reinforcements
  • shores
  • shorings
  • spurs
  • stakes
  • stanchions
  • stands
  • stays
  • stilts
  • struts
  • supports
  • trusses
  • underpinnings

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