Phrase Hound found 22 phrases and 10 compound words that contain bearings. The most common are listed below. Open bearings in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 22
- ball bearingsplural of ball bearing: A bearing assembly which uses spherical bearing balls as the rolling elements, usually consisting of two ballraces (rings).
- air bearingsplural of air bearing: A bearing in which a thin film of pressurized air is used to provide an exceedingly low-friction load-bearing interface between surfaces.
- journal bearingsplural of journal bearing: A simple bearing in which part of the outer surface of a cylindrical shaft, the “journal”, slides on the inner surface of a cylindrical hole, with no rolling elements.
- magnetic bearingsplural of magnetic bearing: Directional bearing relative to the nearest magnetic pole, as shown by a compass.
- plain bearingsplural of plain bearing: A bearing with no rolling elements, consisting of a protective surface to reduce friction.
- roller bearingsplural of roller bearing: A bearing in which the load is carried by round (e.g. cylindrical or spherical) elements (rollers).
- armorial bearingsplural of armorial bearing: Heraldry that consists of a design or image depicted on a shield.
- back bearingsplural of back bearing: A bearing taken pointing to the exact opposite direction to the direction heading
- child-bearingsplural of child-bearing: The process of giving birth; pregnancy and parturition.
- fruit-bearingsplural of fruit-bearing: The act or process of bearing or producing fruit.
- jewel bearingsplural of jewel bearing: A bearing used in watches, gyroscopes and other instruments, normally made of a synthetic corundum.
- neck bearingsplural of neck bearing: The part of a shaft that rotates in the bearing proper; a journal.
- needle bearingsplural of needle bearing: A type of roller bearing in which the load-bearing elements are longish, thin, cylindrical pins.
- relative bearingsplural of relative bearing: The clockwise angle from the heading of the vessel to a straight line drawn from the observation station on the vessel to a given object.
- tale-bearingsplural of tale-bearing: The spreading of gossip or rumor.
- true bearingsplural of true bearing: Direction relative to true north, typically as contrasted with magnetic bearing.
- muffler bearingsplural of muffler bearing: A mythical automotive part used either in jokes or to gauge someone's ineptness in basic auto mechanics.
- cutlass bearingsplural of cutlass bearing: A bearing on the drive shaft of a vessel, usually made of brass with an inner grooved rubber lining that is lubricated by the surrounding water entering the grooves as it rotates. It is a variant of the stave …
- lose one's bearingsTo become disoriented.
- loses one's bearingsthird-person singular simple present indicative of lose one's bearings: To become disoriented.
- losing one's bearingspresent participle and gerund of lose one's bearings
- lost one's bearingssimple past and past participle of lose one's bearings
Compound words 10
- backbearingsplural of backbearing: A bearing taken pointing to the exact opposite direction to the direction heading
- ballbearingsplural of ballbearing: A bearing assembly which uses spherical bearing balls as the rolling elements, usually consisting of two ballraces (rings).
- childbearingsplural of childbearing: The process of giving birth; pregnancy and parturition.
- forbearingsplural of forbearing: forbearance; restraint
- fruitbearingsplural of fruitbearing: The act or process of bearing or producing fruit.
- omnibearingsplural of omnibearing: The bearing of an aircraft, usually relative to magnetic north, determined by omnidirectional radio signals.
- rushbearingsplural of rushbearing: A rural festival when the parish church was strewn with rushes, between haymaking and harvest.
- sidebearingsplural of sidebearing: The margin of empty space around a glyph in a font, measured from the glyph contour's leftmost, rightmost, topmost and bottommost points to the sides of its bounding box
- talebearingsplural of talebearing: The spreading of gossip or rumor.
- underbearingsplural of underbearing: present participle and gerund of underbear