REARING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rearing mean? 

• REARING (noun)
  The noun REARING has 2 senses:

1. the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child

2. helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community

  Familiarity information: REARING used as a noun is rare.

• REARING (adjective)
  The adjective REARING has 1 sense:

1. rearing on left hind leg with forelegs elevated and head usually in profile

  Familiarity information: REARING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REARING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

nurture; raising; rearing

Hypernyms ("rearing" is a kind of...):

upbringing (properties acquired during a person's formative years)

Derivation:

rear (look after a child until it is an adult)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

breeding; bringing up; fosterage; fostering; nurture; raising; rearing; upbringing

Context example:

they debated whether nature or nurture was more important

Hypernyms ("rearing" is a kind of...):

acculturation; enculturation; socialisation; socialization (the adoption of the behavior patterns of the surrounding culture)

Derivation:

rear (look after a child until it is an adult)

• REARING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Rearing on left hind leg with forelegs elevated and head usually in profile

Synonyms:

rampant; rearing

Context example:

a lion rampant

Similar:

erect; upright; vertical (upright in position or posture)

Domain category:

heraldry (the study and classification of armorial bearings and the tracing of genealogies)

 Context examples 

If you have not, you are not fitted for the rearing of a child who may some day play a considerable part in the history of the country.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Small harm then, but that my horse Troubadour trod with a tender foot upon a sharp stick, rearing and throwing me to the ground.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The researchers gave the mice an antibiotic cocktail designed to wipe out a broad spectrum of bacteria in the gut and by rearing them in a germ-free environment.

(In uveitis, bacteria in gut may instruct immune cells to attack the eye, NIH)

His charitable kindness had been rearing a prime comfort for himself.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

But he curbed it, I think, as a resolute rider would curb a rearing steed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Also, the number of children a woman has also encompasses other factors including child-rearing, age at menopause and health conditions.

(Pregnancy losses and large numbers of children linked with increased risk of cardiovascular disease, University of Cambridge)

“The time and energy finches spend spooking themselves by fleeing when they are not in danger could be better spent looking for food, mating, laying eggs, and rearing their young.”

(A decade after the predators have gone, Galapagos Island finches are still being spooked, University of Cambridge)

By a supreme exertion of will, with rearing brain and eyes that ached so that he could not keep them open, he managed to get out of bed, only to be left stranded by his senses upon the table.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He learned to bite the ice out with his teeth when it collected between his toes; and when he was thirsty and there was a thick scum of ice over the water hole, he would break it by rearing and striking it with stiff fore legs.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Sir Lothian’s hollow cheeks grew white with passion, and I saw for an instant in his deep-set eyes such a glare as comes from the frenzied hound rearing and ramping at the end of its chain.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)