What's the difference between bearing and portly?

Bearing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bear
  • (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.) Purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect.
  • (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.

Portly


Definition:

  • (a.) Having a dignified port or mien; of a noble appearance; imposing.
  • (a.) Bulky; corpulent.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Wales international and Port Vale defender Clayton McDonald both admitted having sex with the victim, – McDonald was found not guilty of the same charge.
  • (2) They’re no crack force either; many are rather portly!
  • (3) Arterial-type flows produced a pair of vortex sinks downstream of the branching port.
  • (4) One of the most recent was in June last year, when a boatload of anglers came across a dead 23ft squid off Port Salerno on the state's Atlantic coast.
  • (5) He is likely to propose increased funding of plant disease experts, the stepping up of surveillance at ports of entry and a Europe-wide "plant passport" system to trace the origins of all plants coming into Britain.
  • (6) Tata Steel, the owner of Britain’s largest steel works in Port Talbot, is in talks with the government about a similar restructuring for the British Steel pension scheme , which has liabilities of £15bn.
  • (7) Appropriate antimicrobial treatment of systemic infections enables the immunocompromised child to keep the Port-A-Cath in place for a long time.
  • (8) Barbacoas is a small port town in south-west Colombia, which linked the southern regions of the country in the 19th and 20th century.
  • (9) An analysis has been made of 447 ovarian tumours submitted for histological examination to the Department of Pathology, Port Moresby General Hospital, for the period 1978-1982.
  • (10) Wearing a brown leather fedora and dark sunglasses, the 69-year-old was ushered into a waiting van shortly after dawn and taken to the western port city of Kobe, the headquarters of the Yamaguchi-gumi.
  • (11) Since Yemeni militia backed by Saudi airstrikes retook the port city from Houthi rebels in July last year , Aden was officially back in government control but largely dependent on other countries for its security.
  • (12) Porec , a port in Istria, is a good place to learn to sail; try the marina (marina-porec@pu.tel.hr) or istra-yachting.com .
  • (13) Port Vale are in deep financial trouble and their administrators will not let him pay half the player's wages.
  • (14) The unions said the government can bypass EU state-aid rules by updating Port Talbot’s blast furnaces and claiming it is investment into research and development, skills, and lowering carbon emissions.
  • (15) Determination of changes in lightness by photoelectric colorimetry provides an objective, quantitative means to evaluate the effects of laser treatment of port wine stains.
  • (16) All ports were successfully placed under local anesthesia, with catheter tip location determined by an electronic sensor wand.
  • (17) Police reinforcements are being sent to the embattled port of Calais in an attempt to prevent increasingly desperate attempts by migrants to gain access to the UK.
  • (18) The prevalence of penicillin-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae in black men with acute urethritis at two clinics for sexually transmitted diseases in Port Elizabeth was assessed during the latter half of 1986.
  • (19) Am I going to be separated from husband and children in airports and ports?
  • (20) If it means calling in the French military to support the police, then so be it.” A Eurotunnel spokesman said: “Eurotunnel reiterates its call to the authorities to provide a solution to the migrant crisis and restore order to the Calais region.” The Port of Dover, which faced heavy disruption all week due to striking ferry workers in France, said it remained open for business.