(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.
Comport
Definition:
(v. i.) To bear or endure; to put up (with); as, to comport with an injury.
(v. i.) To agree; to accord; to suit; -- sometimes followed by with.
(v. t.) To bear; to endure; to brook; to put with.
(v. t.) To carry; to conduct; -- with a reflexive pronoun.
(n.) Manner of acting; behavior; conduct; deportment.
Example Sentences:
(1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
(2) Teacher-Student Relations emerged as the most important aspect of teacher comportment, followed by knowledge associated with Human Behavior, Substances, User Recognition and Referral, Prevention Curricula, and Legal Issues.
(3) The indication herewith is more founded on a possible sympathetic origin of the troubles as on the comportment psycho-affective of the patient.
(4) Boomers who got their start and their breaks in a forgiving welfare democracy are perennially surprised when young people without the financial capacity for independence become restive in junior jobs, readily leave them for better-paid opportunities, or comport themselves differently in the workplace.
(5) In response to such pressures a change of comportment takes place which puzzles the people closest to the stricken.
(6) This parameter, despite its limited significance can serve as a working index characterising the thermoregulatory system in different groups of experimental animals of the same species providing that the actual conditions of the experiment are comporting.
(7) In the wake of these successes, some on the right are offering the left advice about how to comport themselves at these events – but do we want it?
(8) They added that Lockett’s fate “gruesomely underscores the importance of transparency, judicial oversight, and the crucial importance of keeping some doors open to death-sentenced inmates to assert their right to be executed in a manner that comports with the eighth amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment”.
(9) Two hypotheses can account for these variations: a smaller or greater adaptation of the S. mansoni stock to the rat; a change in the comportment of rats which would thus be more or exposed to reinfestations.
(10) The highest dosis of endotoxine have comported a blok in the esterification of cholesterol.
(11) The goal of this study was the observations of the comportment of 5 groups of asthmatic children, followed either with weekly ambulatory control of functional respiratory capacity or with daily control of PEF at home by Asses Peak Flow.
(12) The avoiding phenomena observed are analyzed as elementary motor perturbations rather than a disturbance of motor comportment.
(13) N. Kosciusko-Morizet (@nk_m) Comportement abject et intolérable des supporters de #Chelsea dans le métro : #racisme et ségrégation.
(14) In most such cases, exculpation is based primarily on the specific content of their delusions and how it comports with the law of the jurisdiction specific content of their delusions and how it comports with the law of the jurisdiction in which the act was committed (the lex loci delicti commissi).
(15) Clooney has a semi-cameo as the candidate himself, Governor Mike Morris, a role in which he comports himself with presidential smoothness, broken only by a dark confrontation at the end.
(16) Quandary- and rights-based procedural ethics address ethical problems and breakdown and overlook everyday ethical comportment.
(17) The 5 alpha-reductase activity was localised on the stromal comportment of the rat ovary.
(18) Comportment and most activities of daily living were preserved even when speech was unintelligible.
(19) The emotional state of the gravida shortly before childbirth has a predictive value for her comportment during parturition.
(20) The Note subsequently rejects the substituted judgment standard as a legal fiction, and endorses the best interest test which necessarily comports with the evidence, and properly accounts for the disabled person's incompetency.