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Definition: Bring To Bear |
Bring To BearVerb1. Bring into operation or effect; "The new members brought to bear new concerns to the U.N.". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Bring to Bear (To). To cause to happen successfully. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Expression using "bring to bear": bring to bear upon. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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 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) | ||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | adfero affero. (various references) |
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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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| 1. Definition 2. Expressions 3. Translations: Modern 4. Translations: Ancient | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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