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- Dictionaryshear/ʃɪə/
verb
- 1. cut the wool off (a sheep or other animal): "Paul has never sheared a sheep before"
- 2. break off or cause to break off, owing to a structural strain: "the gear sheared and jammed in the rear wheel"
noun
- 1. a strain produced by pressure in the structure of a substance, when its layers are laterally shifted in relation to each other: "the water from the upper source is emitted at the same speed as the main flow; there is thus no shear"
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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)
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.
SHEAR meaning: 1. to cut the wool off a sheep: 2. to cut the hair on a person's head close to the skin…. Learn more.
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. Most farmers shear their sheep once a year, but the ...
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.
[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 meaning: to cut the wool off a sheep. Learn more.
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.
