bearing — OAT

bearing

noun

1 his graying hair and tanned complexion accentuated his distinguished bearing:

posture, comportment, carriage, gait, stance;

British deportment.

2 she has a rather regal bearing:

demeanor, manner, air, aspect, attitude, behavior, mien, countenance, guise, cast, look, feel, style.

3 being successful in battle has an important bearing on natural selection:

relevance, relevancy, significance, pertinence, connection, relation, aptness, appositeness, germaneness, importance, import, application.

4 the point is on a bearing of 315°:

direction, orientation, course, trajectory, heading, tack, path, line, run.

5 his arrogance goaded her beyond bearing:

endurance, endurability, tolerance, tolerability, acceptance, acceptability, sufferance, manageability.

6 (bearings) I lost my bearings in those country lanes:

orientation, sense of direction;

whereabouts, location, position, situation, track, way.