bearings

1. see get one's bearings.

Example Sentences

"They happen at a time when people are sleeping and you are unable to get your bearings."

From BBC

Can they strip an item down, replace bearings/change gearbox ratios for example, or is this considered a replacement?

From BBC

Humanity could recover its moral bearings and pursue the abolition of nuclear weapons and the renunciation of war, or accept the inevitability that such man-made forces would ultimately abolish most or all of us.

From Salon

Each propeller has bearings with two races, or rings or tracks.

From BBC

In practices, he shot blindfolded to perfect his form, his brother having to let him know when he was close to going out of bounds so that he could get his bearings.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• demeanor 
• manner