(v. t.) To support and remove or carry; to convey.
(v. t.) To conduct; to bring; -- said of persons.
(v. t.) To possess and use, as power; to exercise.
(v. t.) To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription.
(v. t.) To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name.
(v. t.) To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbor
(v. t.) To endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer.
(v. t.) To gain or win.
(v. t.) To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc.
(v. t.) To render or give; to bring forward.
(v. t.) To carry on, or maintain; to have.
(v. t.) To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
(v. t.) To manage, wield, or direct.
(v. t.) To behave; to conduct.
(v. t.) To afford; to be to; to supply with.
(v. t.) To bring forth or produce; to yield; as, to bear apples; to bear children; to bear interest.
(v. i.) To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness.
(v. i.) To suffer, as in carrying a burden.
(v. i.) To endure with patience; to be patient.
(v. i.) To press; -- with on or upon, or against.
(v. i.) To take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring matters to bear.
(v. i.) To relate or refer; -- with on or upon; as, how does this bear on the question?
(v. i.) To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.
(v. i.) To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect to something else; as, the land bears N. by E.
(n.) A bier.
(n.) Any species of the genus Ursus, and of the closely allied genera. Bears are plantigrade Carnivora, but they live largely on fruit and insects.
(n.) An animal which has some resemblance to a bear in form or habits, but no real affinity; as, the woolly bear; ant bear; water bear; sea bear.
(n.) One of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called respectively the Great Bear and the Lesser Bear, or Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.
(n.) Metaphorically: A brutal, coarse, or morose person.
(n.) A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market.
(n.) A portable punching machine.
(n.) A block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the deck.
(v. t.) To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to bear a railroad stock; to bear the market.
(n.) Alt. of Bere
Example Sentences:
(1) Competition with the labelled 10B12 MAb for binding to the purified antigen was demonstrated in sera of tumor-bearing and immune rats.
(2) The recent rise in manufacturing has been welcomed by George Osborne as a sign that his economic policies are bearing fruit.
(3) These data indicate that RNA faithfully transfers "suppressive" as well as "positive" types of immune responses that have been reported previously for lymphocytes obtained directly from tumour-bearing and tumour-immune animals.
(4) The results indicate that OA-bearing macrophages primed T cells and generated helper T cells, whereas the culture of normal lymphocytes with soluble OA in the absence of macrophages generated suppressor T cells.
(5) However, when conjugated to an antigen-bearing cell, a "non-antigen bearing" cell was labeled near the cell interaction area.
(6) The form of the harvested crop, varietal characteristics and annual growing conditions have less bearing.
(7) With this system, a brain region loaded with fura-2 was illuminated by a rotating disc bearing three different interference filters of 340, 360 and 380 nm at a rate of 600 rpm.
(8) A significant decrease in response to two mitogens (PHA, Con-A) was seen in tumor-bearing rats concomitantly with the tumor growth.
(9) An age- and education-matched group of women with no family history of FXS was asked to predict the seriousness of problems they might encounter were they to bear a child with a handicapping condition.
(10) F pili could be seen on cells of the latter strain but not on those of the parental strain or the strain bearing pColVF54 luminal diameter r. Pili other than F pili were not seen on cells of the strains bearing pF54 in either form.
(11) The clinical and roentgenographic features of xanthogranulomatosis bear a close resemblance to those seen in two fibrosclerosing syndromes: sinus histiocytosis with massive lymphadenopathy and retroperitoneal fibrosis.
(12) Even though there are variations among equipment bearing the same model number it was considered worthwhile to make available relative cavitational and temperature data.
(13) Increased amino acid incorporation into hepatic proteins in tumor-bearing animals and also probably in cancer patients is due to a net increased hepatic protein synthesis, probably not confined to acute-phase reactants only.
(14) In experiments using double and triple chamber cultures it was demonstrated that suppressive macrophages from advanced T8-Guérin tumor (diameter 5--6.5 cm) bearing rats produced a dialysable factor which suppressed the killer activity of lymphocytes from non-advanced T8-Guérin tumor (diameter 0.5--0.7 cm) bearing rats, as well as from nonadvanced h 18R tumor bearing rats and from Ehrlich ascites bearing mice, against T8-Guérin ascitic cells and, respectively, against h 18R ascitic and Ehrlich ascitic cells.
(15) A method for constructing Ti plasmids bearing multiple copies of a sequence integrated in tandem is described.
(16) All smooth strains of Brucella bear two lipopolysaccharide (LPS) antigens in a ratio that defines the classification of strains in serovars, A (A greater than M), M (M greater than A) and A.M (A = M).
(17) Ovarian venous concentrations of these four steroids from the side draining the tumor-bearing ovary were increased in 40 to 80% of the women.
(18) The authors studied the localization of neocarzinostatin (NCS) in cultured cells and in tumor-bearing rats by means of immunofluorescent staining.
(19) Women who first give birth at ages 16 and younger are more likely to bear a second child within the next two years (26 percent) than are women who have their first child at ages 17-18 (20 percent) or at ages 19-22 (22 percent).
(20) The Guardian neglects to mention 150,000 privately owned guns or that Palestinians are banned from bearing arms.
Bruin
Definition:
(a.) A bear; -- so called in popular tales and fables.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Bruins, on the other hand, limped into the playoffs, with everyone wondering where their firepower had gone.
(2) His goal came at a crucial moment , immediately after the Bruins had the Habs hemmed in their own end.
(3) But that is the thing that we have to do: We have to try and fight through that,” Team Canada assistant coach Claude Julien said before his Bruins played the Kings Monday night .
(4) Houston bring on Weaver for Bruin (who has cut a rather lonely figure up front, all alone) 3.38am GMT 72 mins SKC win anther corner and Zusi puts it into the right area but again it's met by a Houston head.
(5) In Game Six of the Stanley Cup Finals, the Boston Bruins held a 2-1 lead over the Chicago Blackhawks with 77 seconds remaining in regulation and looked poised to force a Game Seven in Chicago.
(6) Bruins, Cnossen and van Boheemen built their first rough prototype using the heater element from a hairdryer and some other stuff they picked up at the home improvement store, Home Depot for €40 (£33).
(7) Then Jonathan Toews stunned the Boston crowd by pushing the puck past Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask, tying the game up at 2-2 with little more than a minute left.
(8) The large effect of low PCO2 on both fetal and adult erythrocytes was related to the higher affinity for CO2 of deoxyhemoglobin compared to oxyhemoglobin and a model for CO2 binding analogous to that described by de Bruin et al.
(9) Chicago's Andrew Shaw finally ended t he fifth longest ever Stanley Cup final game 12:08 minutes into triple overtime (112:08 in total to save you the mathematics) and capped a 4-3 comeback victory for the Blackhawks over the Boston Bruins.
(10) And it paid off in a goal early on, care of Chris Kelly , a new standout in the Bruins lineup.
(11) Here's a look courtesy of our favourite wikipedia: 1942 Stanley Cup when the Toronto Maple Leafs came back and won four straight over the Detroit Red Wings 1975 Stanley Cup quarterfinals when the New York Islanders came back and won four straight over the Pittsburgh Penguins 2004 American League Championship Series when the Boston Red Sox came back and won four straight over the New York Yankees 2010 Stanley Cup conference semifinals when the Philadelphia Flyers came back and won four straight, winning the fourth game 4-3 after being down by a score of 0-3 to the Boston Bruins 2014 Stanley Cup conference quarterfinals when the Los Angeles Kings came back and won four straight over the San Jose Sharks.
(12) BRUINS 4, DEVILS 3, OT In Boston, David Krejci completed his second career hat trick in overtime to give the Boston victory and its first season sweep of New Jersey since 1985-86.
(13) Updated at 2.56am GMT 2.55am GMT 45 mins Bruin breaks past one and then two men and shoots hard and low from 22 yards out.
(14) With two fast goals in the dying moments of the third period Monday night in Boston, the Chicago Blackhawks came from behind to beat the Bruins 3-2 and win the 2013 Stanley Cup.
(15) Several studies have suggested that binding of the receptor antibody and TSH to the TSH receptor is mutually exclusive (Manley et al., 1977; Petersen et al., 1977; Rickards et al., 1981) but recently the formation of termolecular complexes consisting of detergent solubilized receptors, labelled TSH and Graves' IgG has been reported (Konishi et al., 1982; De Bruin et al., 1984).
(16) 7.56pm GMT 2 mins: A long ball for Will Bruin in the SKC box but he's judged to have fouled Collin.
(17) The Rangers will play the winner of Wednesday's Game 7 at Boston between the Bruins and Montreal, while Chicago will meet either Anaheim or Los Angeles, with the Ducks leading that series 3-2.