Definitions of Shear [ʃɪər]

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Definition of 'Shear'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (v.t.) shear
to cut (something).

2.  shear
to remove by or as if by cutting or clipping:
to shear wool from sheep.

3.  shear
to cut or clip the hair, fleece, wool, etc., from:
to shear sheep.

4.  shear
to strip or deprive (usu. fol. by of):
to shear someone of power.

5.  shear
to travel through by or as if by cutting:
Chimney swifts sheared the air.

6.  shear
to subject (a solid body or structure) to shear.

7. (v.i.) shear
to cut or cut through something with a sharp instrument.

8.  shear
to break along an internal plane in response to a force parallel to the plane.

9.  shear
Chiefly Scot. to reap crops with a sickle.

10. (n.) shear
Usu., shears. (sometimes used with a sing. v.)

11.  shear
scissors of large size (usu. used with pair of).

12.  shear
any of various other cutting implements or machines having two blades that suggest those of scissors.

13.  shear
one blade of a pair of large scissors.

14.  shear
the act or process of shearing or being sheared.

15.  shear
a shearing of sheep (used in stating the age of sheep):
a sheep of one shear.

16.  shear
the quantity, esp. of wool or fleece, cut off at one shearing.

17.  shear
Usu., shears. (usu. with a pl. v.) a framework for hoisting heavy weights, consisting of two or more spars with their legs separated, fastened together near the top and steadied by guys, which support a tackle.

18.  shear
a machine for cutting rigid material by moving the edge of a blade through it.

19.  shear
the tendency of a force applied to a solid body or structure, as a rock stratum, to cause deformation or rupture along a plane parallel to the force.

20.  shear
deformation produced in this manner.

Etymology: (bef. 900; (v.) ME sheren, OE sceran, c. OFris

Definition of 'Shear'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) shear
(physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves
"the shear changed the quadrilateral into a parallelogram"

2. (verb) shear
a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it

3. (verb) shear
cut with shears
"shear hedges"

4. (verb) fleece, shear
shear the wool from
"shear sheep"

5. (verb) shear
cut or cut through with shears
"shear the wool off the lamb"

6. (verb) shear
become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain

Definition of 'Shear'

Webster Dictionary

1. (verb) Shear
to cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth

2. (verb) Shear
to separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece

3. (verb) Shear
to reap, as grain

4. (verb) Shear
fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece

5. (verb) Shear
to produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4

6. (verb) Shear
a pair of shears; -- now always used in the plural, but formerly also in the singular. See Shears

7. (verb) Shear
a shearing; -- used in designating the age of sheep

8. (verb) Shear
an action, resulting from applied forces, which tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact; -- also called shearing stress, and tangential stress

9. (verb) Shear
a strain, or change of shape, of an elastic body, consisting of an extension in one direction, an equal compression in a perpendicular direction, with an unchanged magnitude in the third direction

10. (verb) Shear
to deviate. See Sheer

11. (verb) Shear
to become more or less completely divided, as a body under the action of forces, by the sliding of two contiguous parts relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact

Translation of 'Shear'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: to clip or cut wool from (a sheep).
Afrikaans: skeer	Arabic: يَجُز الصّوف	Bulgarian: стрижа
Brazilian: tosquiar	Czech: stříhat	German: scheren
Danish: klippe	Greek: κουρεύω το μαλλί των προβ	Spanish: esquilar
Estonian: pügama	Farsi: چيدن پشم گوسفند	Finnish: keritä
French: tondre	Hebrew: לִגזוֹז	Hindi: कतरना
Croatian: šišati, strići	Hungarian: (meg)nyír	Indonesian: mencukur
Icelandic: rÿja	Italian: tosare	Japanese: 刈る
Korean: 털을 깎다	Lithuanian: kirpti	Latvian: cirpt
Malay: mengetam bulu	Dutch: scheren	Norwegian: klippe
Polish: strzyc	Persian: چيدن پشم گوسفند	Pashto: سكولل، كټيل: غوڅول، پرې ك
Portuguese: tosquiar	Romanian: a tunde	Russian: стричь
Slovak: strihať	Slovenian: striči	Serbian: ostrići
Swedish: klippa	Thai: ตัดขน	Turkish: kırkmak
Taiwanese: 剪羊毛	Ukrainian: стригти (овець)	Urdu: بھیڑوں وغیرہ کو مونڈنا
Vietnamese: cắt lông cừu	Chinese: 剪羊毛
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