THESAURUS
bearings
abode, accommodation, achievement, adaptation, adjustment, alerion, alignment, animal charge, annulet, area, argent, armorial
bearings, armory, arms, aspect, attitude, azimuth, azure, bandeau, bar, bar sinister, baton, bearing, bench mark, bend, bend sinister, billet, blazon, blazonry, bordure, broad arrow, cadency mark, canton, case, celestial navigation, chaplet, charge, chevron, chief, circumstance, coat of arms, cockatrice, condition, coronet, crescent, crest, cross, cross moline, crown, dead reckoning, device, difference, differencing, disorientation, district, eagle, emplacement, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, estate, exposure, falcon, fess, fess point, field, file, fix, flanch, fleur-de-lis, footing, fret, frontage, fur, fusil, garland, griffin, gules, gyron, hatchment, helmet, heraldic device, hole, honor point, impalement, impaling, inescutcheon, jam, label, latitude and longitude, lay, lie, lieu, line of position, lion, locale, locality, location, locus, lot, lozenge, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, metal, modality, mode, motto, mullet, nombril point, octofoil, or, ordinary, orientation, orle, pale, paly, pass, pean, pheon, pickle, pilotage, pinpoint, place, placement, plight, point, position, position line, posture, predicament, purpure, quarter, quartering, radio bearing, rank, region, rose, sable, saltire, scutcheon, set, shield, site, situation, situs, spot, spread eagle, standing, state, station, status, stead, subordinary, tenne, tincture, torse, tressure, unicorn, vair, vert, whereabout, whereabouts, wreath, yale
ROGET THESAURUS
bearings
Circumstance
N
circumstance, situation, phase, position, posture, attitude, place, point, terms, regime, footing, standing, status, occasion, juncture, conjunctive, contingency, predicament, emergence, emergency, exigency, crisis, pinch, pass, push, occurrence, turning point,
bearings, how the land lies, surroundings, context, environment, location, contingency, dependence (uncertainty), causation, attribution, circumstantial, given, conditional, provisional, critical, modal, contingent, incidental, adventitious, limitative, in the circumstances, under the circumstances, the circumstances, conditions, thus, in such wise, accordingly, that being the case, such being the case, in view of the circumstances, that being so, sith, since, seeing that, as matters stand, as things go, as times go, conditionally, provided, if, in case, if so, if so be, if it be so, depending on circumstances, in certain circumstances, under certain conditions, if it so happen, if it so turn out, in the event of, in such a contingency, in such a case, in such an event, provisionally, unless, without, according to circumstances, according to the occasion, as it may happen, as it may turn out, as it may be, as the case may be, as the wind blows, pro re nata, yet are my sins not those of circumstance.
Situation
N
situation, position, locality, locale, status, latitude and longitude, footing, standing, standpoint, post, stage, aspect, attitude, posture, pose, environment, surroundings (location), circumjacence, place, site, station, seat, venue, whereabouts, ground,
bearings, spot, topography, geography, chorography, map, situate, situated, local, topical, topographical, in situ, in loco, here and there, passim, hereabouts, thereabouts, whereabouts, in place, here, there, in such and such surroundings, in such and such environs, in such and such entourage, amidst such and such surroundings, amidst such and such environs, amidst such and such entourage.
