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Definition of Shear

1. Verb. Cut with shears. "Shear hedges"

2. Noun. (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"

3. Verb. Shear the wool from. "Shear sheep"

4. Noun. A large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it.

5. Verb. Cut or cut through with shears. "Shear the wool off the lamb"

6. Verb. Become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain.

Definition of Shear

1. v. t. To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.

2. n. A pair of shears; -- now always used in the plural, but formerly also in the singular. See Shears.

3. v. i. To deviate. See Sheer.

Definition of Shear

1. Verb. To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears. ¹

2. Verb. To remove the fleece from a sheep etc by clipping ¹

3. Verb. (physics) To deform because of shearing forces ¹

4. Noun. a cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger ¹

5. Noun. the act of shearing, or something removed by shearing ¹

6. Noun. (physics) a force that produces a shearing strain ¹

7. Adjective. (misspelling of sheer) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Shear

1. to cut the hair or wool from [v SHEARED or SHORE, SHORN, SHEARING, SHEARS]

Medical Definition of Shear

1. 1. To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth. It is especially applied to the cutting of wool from sheep or their skins, and the nap from cloth. 2. To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece. "Before the golden tresses . . . Were shorn away." (Shak) 3. To reap, as grain. 4. To deprive of property; to fleece. 5. To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear. Origin: Sheared or Shore; Sheared or Shorn; Shearing] [OE. Sheren, scheren, to shear, cut, shave, AS. Sceran, scieran, scyran; akin to D. & G. Scheren, Icel. Skera, Dan. Skire, Gr. Cf. Jeer, Score, Shard, Share, Sheer to turn aside. 1. A pair of shears; now always used in the plural, but formerly also in the singular. See Shears. "On his head came razor none, nor shear." (Chaucer) "Short of the wool, and naked from the shear." (Dryden) 2. A shearing; used in designating the age of sheep. "After the second shearing, he is a two-sher ram; . . . at the expiration of another year, he is a three-shear ram; the name always taking its date from the time of shearing." (Youatt) 3. 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. 4. 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. Shear blade, one of the blades of shears or a shearing machine. Shear hulk. See Hulk. Shear steel, a steel suitable for shears, scythes, and other cutting instruments, prepared from fagots of blistered steel by repeated heating, rolling, and tilting, to increase its malleability and fineness of texture. Origin: AS. Sceara. See Shear. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shear

sheadings sheaf sheafed sheafier sheafiest sheafing sheafless sheaflike sheafs sheafy

sheal shealed shealing shealings sheals shear (current term) shear-cake shear-cakes shear centre shear fields

shear flow shear legs shear rate shear strength shear stress shear stresses shear wall shear wave shear waves shearability

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