shear
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English sheren, scheren, from Old English sċieran (“to shear; to shave”), from Proto-West Germanic *skeran, from Proto-Germanic *skeraną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”).
Cognate with West Frisian skarre, Low German, Dutch, and German scheren, Danish skære, Norwegian Bokmål skjære, Norwegian Nynorsk skjera, Swedish skära, Faroese and Icelandic skera, Finnish keritä; and (from Indo-European) with Ancient Greek κείρω (keírō, “to cut off”), Latin caro (“flesh”), Albanian shqerr (“to tear, cut”), harr (“to cut, to mow”), Lithuanian ski̇̀rti (“separate”), Welsh ysgar (“separate”). See also sharp.
Inflected forms:
form: shears
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shearing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sheared
pos: verb
tags: past
form: shore
pos: verb
tags: past
form: shorn
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sheared
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shears
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To remove the fleece from (a sheep, llama, etc.) by clipping.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
transitive
examples: shear the llamas
gloss: To cut the hair of (a person).
pos: verb
examples: shear the afro off someone's head
gloss: To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears.
pos: verb
examples: So trenchant was the Templar’s weapon, that it shore asunder, as it had been a willow twig, the tough and plaited handle of the mace, which the ill-fated Saxon reared to parry the blow, and, descending on his head, levelled him with the earth.
the golden tresses […] were shorn away
gloss: To deform because of forces pushing in opposite directions.
pos: verb
gloss: To change in direction or speed.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The total along-the-runway wind component sheared from an 8-knot headwind to about a 56-knot tailwind over a 44-second period.
gloss: To transform by displacing every point in a direction parallel to some given line by a distance proportional to the point’s distance from the line.
pos: verb
gloss: To make a vertical cut in coal.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: (also 'shear off') To break or suddenly separate because of excessive force, eg. a bolt.
pos: verb
gloss: To reap, as grain.
pos: verb
tags: Scotland
examples: Soon as the bending Scythe,
And Sickle keen, have shear'd the golden Grain,
Array'd in all the Equipage of Death,
Forth the stern Sportsman stalks
gloss: To deprive of property; to fleece.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
gloss: A cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: short of their wool, and naked from the shear
gloss: A large machine use for cutting sheet metal.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of shearing, or something removed by shearing.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: After the second shearing, he is a two-shear ram; […] at the expiration of another year, he is a three-shear ram; the name always taking its date from the time of shearing.
gloss: Forces that push in opposite directions.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The phenomenon of wind shear.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The first effect of a wind shear was detected at 34 to 42 seconds into the takeoff, at a speed of about 115 KIAS with the airplane about 3,800 feet down the runway. An average shear rate of about 2.5 knots per second resulted in an interruption in acceleration at this point with the airspeed remaining at 115 to 120 KIAS for 7 to 10 seconds.
gloss: A specific instance of wind shear.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: We hit a nasty shear on approach and had to go around.
gloss: A transformation that displaces every point in a direction parallel to some given line by a distance proportional to the point's distance from the line.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The response of a rock to deformation usually by compressive stress, resulting in particular textures.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: beshear
hydroshear
reshear
shearability
shearable
shear off
toshear
alligator shear
crocodile shear
guillotine shear
Kepler shear
magnetoshear
megashear
microshear
preshear
shearbill
shear-cake
shear centre
shearer
shearfree
shear hog
shear legs
shearless
shearlet
shearlike
shear line
shearline
shearling
shearman
shear modulus
shearography
shearotactic
shearotaxis
shearpole
shear steel
shear strength
shear stress
sheartail
shear-thickening
shear-thinning
shear viscosity
shear wall
shearwall
shearwater
shear wave
shear zone
Sherman
squaring shear
throatless shear
wind shear
windshear
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: vinouttaa