Bearing vs. Deportment — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Bearing and Deportment
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Definitions
Bearing➦
The manner in which one carries or conducts oneself
The poise and bearing of a champion.
Deportment➦
The way a person stands and walks, particularly as an element of etiquette
Poise is directly concerned with good deportment
Bearing➦
A machine or structural part that supports another part.
Deportment➦
A person's behaviour or manners
There are team rules governing deportment on and off the field
Bearing➦
A device that supports, guides, and reduces the friction of motion between fixed and moving machine parts.
Deportment➦
A manner of personal conduct; behavior.
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Bearing➦
Something that supports weight.
Deportment➦
Bearing; manner of presenting oneself.
Her deportment impressed her interviewers.
Bearing➦
The part of an arch or beam that rests on a support.
Deportment➦
Conduct; public behavior.
Their deportment changed visibly as the policeman approached.
Bearing➦
The act, power, or period of producing fruit or offspring.
Deportment➦
Apparent level of schooling or training.
His academic deportment did not match his degree record.
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Bearing➦
The quantity produced; yield.
Deportment➦
Self-discipline.
The nun's deportment reflected her vocation.
Bearing➦
Direction, especially angular direction measured from one position to another using geographical or celestial reference lines.
Deportment➦
Manner of deporting or demeaning one's self; manner of acting; conduct; carriage; especially, manner of acting with respect to the courtesies and duties of life; behavior; demeanor; bearing.
The gravity of his deportment carried him safe through many difficulties.
Bearing➦
Often bearings Awareness of one's position or situation relative to one's surroundings
Lost my bearings after taking the wrong exit.
Deportment➦
(behavioral attributes) the way a person behaves toward other people
Bearing➦
Relevant relationship or interconnection
Those issues have no bearing on our situation.
Bearing➦
(Heraldry) A charge or device on a field.
Bearing➦
(Architecture) Designed to support structural weight
A bearing wall.
Bearing➦
Present participle of bear
Bearing➦
(in combination) That bears (some specified thing).
A gift-bearing visitor
Bearing➦
Of a beam, column, or other device, carrying weight or load.
That's a bearing wall.
Bearing➦
(mechanical engineering) A mechanical device that supports another part and/or reduces friction.
Bearing➦
The horizontal angle between the direction of an object and another object, or between it and that of true north; a heading or direction.
Bearing➦
One's understanding of one's orientation or relative position, literally or figuratively.
Do we go left here or straight on? Hold on, let me just get my bearings.
I started a new job last week, and I still haven't quite found my bearings.
Bearing➦
Relevance; a relationship or connection.
That has no bearing on this issue.
Bearing➦
One's posture, demeanor, or manner.
She walks with a confident, self-assured bearing.
Bearing➦
(architecture) That part of any member of a building which rests upon its supports.
A lintel or beam may have four inches of bearing upon the wall.
Bearing➦
(architecture) The portion of a support on which anything rests.
Bearing➦
The unsupported span.
The beam has twenty feet of bearing between its supports.
Bearing➦
(heraldry) Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms.
Bearing➦
The manner in which one bears or conducts one's self; mien; behavior; carriage.
I know him by his bearing.
Bearing➦
Patient endurance; suffering without complaint.
Bearing➦
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.
But of this frame, the bearings and the ties,The strong connections, nice dependencies.
Bearing➦
Purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect.
Bearing➦
The act, power, or time of producing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing.
[His mother] in travail of his bearing.
Bearing➦
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.
Bearing➦
The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal.
Bearing➦
Any single emblem or charge in an escutcheon or coat of arms - commonly in the pl.
A carriage covered with armorial bearings.
Bearing➦
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.
Bearing➦
Relevant relation or interconnection;
Those issues have no bearing on our situation
Bearing➦
The direction or path along which something moves or along which it lies
Bearing➦
Dignified manner or conduct
Bearing➦
Characteristic way of bearing one's body;
Stood with good posture
Bearing➦
Heraldry consisting of a design or image depicted on a shield
Bearing➦
A rotating support placed between moving parts to allow them to move easily
Bearing➦
(of a structural member) withstanding a weight or strain
Bearing➦
Producing or yielding;
An interest-bearing note
Fruit-bearing trees
