(n.) The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self; mien; behavior; carriage.
(n.) Patient endurance; suffering without complaint.
(n.) The situation of one object, with respect to another, such situation being supposed to have a connection with the object, or influence upon it, or to be influenced by it; hence, relation; connection.
(n.) The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing.
(n.) That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports; as, a lintel or beam may have four inches of bearing upon the wall.
(n.) The portion of a support on which anything rests.
(n.) Improperly, the unsupported span; as, the beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports.
(n.) The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal.
(n.) The part of the support on which a journal rests and rotates.
(n.) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms -- commonly in the pl.
(n.) The situation of a distant object, with regard to a ship's position, as on the bow, on the lee quarter, etc.; the direction or point of the compass in which an object is seen; as, the bearing of the cape was W. N. W.
(n.) The widest part of a vessel below the plank-sheer.
(n.) The line of flotation of a vessel when properly trimmed with cargo or ballast.
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.
Dowager
Definition:
(n.) A widow endowed, or having a jointure; a widow who either enjoys a dower from her deceased husband, or has property of her own brought by her to her husband on marriage, and settled on her after his decease.
(n.) A title given in England to a widow, to distinguish her from the wife of her husband's heir bearing the same name; -- chiefly applied to widows of personages of rank.
Example Sentences:
(1) Titanic's trailer is two minutes 37 seconds of lifeboat-related stampeding intercut with women swishing about in big hats doing seasick Dowager Countess expressions.
(2) A pair of Dutch dowagers try chatting him up from their bar stools, and they have a conversation neither party understands before Smith repairs to his table.
(3) The structure will dwarf nearby buildings, including the Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery, an officially recognised cultural asset built in 1926 to honour the emperor and empress dowager Shoken.
(4) Johnson also appeared to go around dismissing staff with about as much regard as a dowager for a housemaid, though she says this wasn't accurate.
(5) The story of the Grantham family has reached 1924, and, according to Mrs Hughes, “Downton is catching up with the times we live in.” “That is exactly what I’m afraid of,” replies Carson, suggesting yet more resistance to impending modernity – which, of course, means plenty of opportunity for baffled zingers from the Dowager Countess.
(6) But they can still appear as champions of the people The old image of the Establishment was summed up by the cartoons of H.M. Bateman in the Twenties, showing a hapless outsider committing a faux pas at a club or grand reception, faced by spluttering colonels or outraged dowagers.
(7) • Deborah Vivien Cavendish, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, stately home owner and writer, born 31 March 1920; died 24 September 2014
(8) The plot of Anderson's pink gateau of a movie, with its dowager duchesses, murderers and bakers, turns on the fate of a "priceless" Renaissance portrait of a youth pensively clawing an apple with long, bony fingers.
(9) Deborah, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, who has died aged 94, was for more than half a century the chatelaine of Chatsworth House , the great stately home and estate in Derbyshire.
(10) The 78-year-old actor who plays the Dowager Countess of Grantham in the ITV drama series said she would find it too frustrating to watch and notice how she could have done things better.
(11) Johnston – whose credits include The Royle Family, Coronation Street and Waking the Dead – will play Denker, lady's maid to Maggie Smith's Dowager Countess of Grantham.
(12) As Latifah oversees the ceremony, Madonna – rocking a cane, a white suit and a cowboy hat – hobbles onto the stage looking like a yoga enthusiast version of the Dowager Countess to sing a few verses of Open Your Heart to Me.
(13) "Julian Fellowes has written another brilliant character in Martha Levinson, who will be a wonderful combatant for Maggie Smith's dowager countess and we are excited at the prospect of Shirley MacLaine playing her."
(14) The spine is frequently involved, so that elderly women with kyphosis due to multiple compression fractures ("dowager's hump") are commonly seen in a geriatric practice.
(15) It's enough to make the Dowager Countess drop her cucumber sandwich.
(16) His new film focuses on a hotel concierge called Monsieur Gustave (Ralph Fiennes) and a bellhop called Zero (newcomer Tony Revolori) who endeavour to recover an inheritance left to Gustave by a wealthy dowager.
(17) Really, we're like the dowager countess of fashion columns.
(18) Daisy [the aspiring assistant cook] is as much a character as Violet [Maggie Smith’s Dowager Countess of Grantham].” Carnival is mining a more distant past for a BBC America-backed drama for BBC2 this autumn, The Last Kingdom, based on the popular Saxon Stories novels by Bernard Cornwell, brought to Neame’s attention two years ago.
(19) Her withering asides and perfectly-timed eye-rolls have long been the highlight of Downton Abbey, but the dowager countess, as played by Maggie Smith, might be about to find herself with some competition.
(20) Then when [the doctor]’s arrived, I’ll hold you down and tear the clothes from your body, if that’s what it takes.” Real talk from the dowager countess When Cousin Isobel feels guilty about feeling jealous at seeing Mary "come alive again": CI: “It's immoral to react in such a jealous and selfish way.” DC: “If we only had moral thoughts, what would the poor churchmen find to do?