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1. a. : to cut off the hair from. b. : to cut or clip (hair, wool, etc.) from someone or something. also : to cut something from. shear a lawn. chiefly Scotland : to reap with a sickle. d. : to cut or trim with shears or a similar instrument. 2. : to cut with something sharp. 3. : to deprive of something as if by cutting.
SHEAR definition: 1. to cut the wool off a sheep: 2. to cut the hair on a person's head close to the skin…. Learn more.
to cut or cut through something with a sharp instrument. to progress by or as if by cutting: The cruiser sheared through the water. Mechanics, Geology. to become fractured along a plane as a result of forces acting parallel to the plane. Chiefly Scot. to reap crops with a sickle. noun. Usually shears.(sometimes used with a singular verb)
A shear is a cutting implement that looks like a long pair of scissors. Also like scissors, this form of the noun is usually plural. You can cut metal, prune a tree, or cut up a chicken with shears. In farming, when you remove wool from a sheep, goat, or even a llama, you shear the animal.
Shear is the movement of one surface of a substance over another parallel surface. Viscosity is related to the rate of shear in a fluid. Longitudinal shear is a movement of one joint face in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis of the joint.
n. 1. often shears. a. A pair of scissors. b. Any of various implements or machines that cut with a scissorlike action. 2. The act, process, or result of shearing, especially when used to indicate a sheep's age: a two-shear ram. 3. Something cut off by shearing.
to cut the hair on a person's head close to the skin, especially without care: He recalled the humiliation of having his hair shorn and exchanging his clothes for the prison uniform. be shorn of something. to have something taken away from you: The ex-president, although shorn of his official powers, still has influence. See more.
Verb. Noun. Adjective. Filter. verb. sheared, shearing, shears, shorn. To come apart or break under the action of shearing stress. Webster's New World. To tear or wrench ( off) by shearing stress. Webster's New World. To cut with shears or a similar sharp-edged instrument. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. To move by or as if by cutting.
[intransitive, transitive] shear (something) (off) (specialist) (especially of metal) to break under pressure; to cut through something and make it break. The bolts holding the wheel in place sheared off.
SHEAR definition: to cut the wool off a sheep. Learn more.
