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Bring To Bear

Definition: Bring To Bear

Bring To Bear

Verb

1. Bring into operation or effect; "The new members brought to bear new concerns to the U.N.".

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Specialty Definition: Bring To Bear

DomainDefinition

Literature

Bring to Bear (To). To cause to happen successfully. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Synonyms within Context: Bring To Bear

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Agency

Come play, come bring into operation; have play, have free play; bring to bear upon.

Completion

Do, execute, make; go through, get through; work out, enact; bring about, bring to bear, bring to pass, bring through, bring to a head.

Relation

Bring into relation with, bring to bear upon; connect, associate, draw a parallel; link.

Use

Render useful; mold; turn to account, turn to use; convert to use, utilize; work up; call into play, bring into play; put into requisition; call forth, draw forth; press into service, enlist into the service; bring to bear upon, devote, dedicate, consecrate, apply, adhibit, dispose of; make a handle of, make a cat's-paw of.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Expression: Bring To Bear

Expression using "bring to bear": bring to bear upon. Additional references.

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Modern Translation: Bring To Bear

Language Translations for "bring to bear"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

發揮 (bring into play, unleash). (various references)

   

Czech

  

uplatnit (enforce, use). (various references)

   

German

  

anwenden (apply, employ, exert, make use of, operate, practice, to deploy, to employ, turn to account, use, utilize). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ingbray otay earbay

   

Romanian

  

pune în mişcare (actuate, drive, gear, move, set afoot, set agoing, set in motion, work), influenţa (affect, bias, influence, lobby, predetermine, reach, sway, work). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Bring To Bear

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

adfero affero. (various references)

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Anagrams: Bring To Bear

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-b-e-g-i-n-o-r-r-t"

-2 letters: barbering, barbitone, bartering, rabbeting.

-3 letters: aborting, airborne, anterior, baritone, berating, borating, grabbier, obtainer, orangier, rabbiter, rebating, reboring, reobtain, tabering, taborine, taboring.

-4 letters: aborter, angrier, arbiter, barbing, barnier, baronet, barring, bearing, beating, begonia, begorra, begroan, boating, bogbean, bornite, bringer, earring, gabbier, garrote, genitor, grabber, grainer, granite, granter, grantor, gratine, groaner, ignorer, ingrate, negator, niobate.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions
3. Translations: Modern
4. Translations: Ancient
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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