Bearing may refer to:
- Bearing (navigation), a term for direction
- Bearing (mechanical), a component that separates moving parts and takes a load
- Bearing capacity
- Bearings (album), by Ronnie Montrose in 2000
Famous quotes containing the word bearing:
“Rosenbloom is dead.
The tread of the carriers does not halt
On the hill, but turns
Up the sky.
They are bearing his body into the sky.”
—Wallace Stevens (18791955)
“If an opinion can eventually go to the determination of a practical belief, it, in so far, becomes itself a practical belief; and every proposition that is not pure metaphysical jargon and chatter must have some possible bearing upon practice.”
—Charles Sanders Peirce (18391914)
“My business is stanching blood and feeding fainting men; my post the open field between the bullet and the hospital. I sometimes discuss the application of a compress or a wisp of hay under a broken limb, but not the bearing and merits of a political movement. I make gruelnot speeches; I write letters home for wounded soldiers, not political addresses.”
—Clara Barton (18211912)