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Meaning of BEAR in English

To support or sustain; to hold up.

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    Meaning of BEAR in English

    • To support or sustain; to hold up.
    • To support and remove or carry; to convey.
    • To conduct; to bring; -- said of persons.
    • To possess and use, as power; to exercise.
    • To sustain; to have on (written or inscribed, or as a mark), as, the tablet bears this inscription.
    • To possess or carry, as a mark of authority or distinction; to wear; as, to bear a sword, badge, or name.
    • To possess mentally; to carry or hold in the mind; to entertain; to harbor
    • To endure; to tolerate; to undergo; to suffer.
    • To gain or win.
    • To sustain, or be answerable for, as blame, expense, responsibility, etc.
    • To render or give; to bring forward.
    • To carry on, or maintain; to have.
    • To admit or be capable of; that is, to suffer or sustain without violence, injury, or change.
    • To manage, wield, or direct.
    • To behave; to conduct.
    • To afford; to be to; to supply with.
    • To bring forth or produce; to yield; as, to bear apples; to bear children; to bear interest.
    • To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness.
    • To suffer, as in carrying a burden.
    • To endure with patience; to be patient.
    • To press; -- with on or upon, or against.
    • To take effect; to have influence or force; as, to bring matters to bear.
    • To relate or refer; -- with on or upon; as, how does this bear on the question?
    • To have a certain meaning, intent, or effect.
    • To be situated, as to the point of compass, with respect to something else; as, the land bears N. by E.
    • A bier.
    • Any species of the genus Ursus, and of the closely allied genera. Bears are plantigrade Carnivora, but they live largely on fruit and insects.
    • 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.
    • One of two constellations in the northern hemisphere, called respectively the Great Bear and the Lesser Bear, or Ursa Major and Ursa Minor.
    • Metaphorically: A brutal, coarse, or morose person.
    • A person who sells stocks or securities for future delivery in expectation of a fall in the market.
    • A portable punching machine.
    • A block covered with coarse matting; -- used to scour the deck.
    • To endeavor to depress the price of, or prices in; as, to bear a railroad stock; to bear the market.
    • Alt. of Bere

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