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Definition shear

Etymology

From Middle English sheren, scheren, from Old English s?ieran, from Proto-Germanic *skeran?, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Cognate with West Frisian skeare, Low German scheren, Dutch scheren, German scheren, Danish skære, Norwegian Bokmål skjære, Norwegian Nynorsk skjera, Swedish skära, Serbo-Croatian škare ("scissors"); and (from Indo-European) with Ancient Greek ????? (keír?, “I cut off”), Latin caro (“flesh”), Albanian shqerr (“to tear, cut”), harr (“to cut, to mow”), Lithuanian skìrti (“separate”), Welsh ysgar (“separate”). See also sharp.

Verb

shear (third-person singular simple present shears, present participle shearing, simple past sheared or shore, past participle shorn or sheared)

1. To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears.
2. To remove the fleece from a sheep etc by clipping.
3. (physics) To deform because of forces pushing in opposite directions.
4. (mathematics) 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.
5. (mining, intransitive) To make a vertical cut in the coal.
6. (Scotland) To reap, as grain.
7. (figuratively) To deprive of property; to fleece.

Noun

shear (countable and uncountable, plural shears)

1. A cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger.
2. The act of shearing, or something removed by shearing.
3. (physics) Forces that push in opposite directions.
4. (mathematics) 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.
5. (geology) The response of a rock to deformation usually by compressive stress, resulting in particular textures.

Adjective

shear

1. Misspelling of sheer.

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