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Verb
/SHi(ə)r/,
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shorn, past participle; shearing, present participle; sheared, past tense; shears, 3rd person singular present;
  1. Cut the wool off (a sheep or other animal)

  2. Cut off (something such as hair, wool, or grass), with scissors or shears
    • - I'll shear off all that fleece
  3. Have something cut off
    • - they were shorn of their hair
    • - the richest man in the U.S. was shorn of nearly $2 billion
  4. Break off or cause to break off, owing to a structural strain
    • - the derailleur sheared and jammed in the rear wheel
    • - the left wing had been almost completely sheared off
Noun
  1. A strain in the structure of a substance produced by pressure, when its layers are laterally shifted in relation to each other

  1. cut with shears; "shear hedges"
  2. (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. fleece: shear the wool from; "shear sheep"
  4. a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it
  5. become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain
  6. (sheared) having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers; "picked up the baby's shorn curls from the floor"; "naked as a sheared sheep"
  7. Shear (Walther Feyzioglu) is a fictional character, a superhero in the Marvel Universe, member of the . The character was created by Peter B. Gillis and Brent Anderson.
  8. A shear stress, denoted (tau), is defined as a stress which is applied parallel or tangential to a face of a material, as opposed to a normal stress which is applied perpendicularly.
  9. Shear is the response of a rock to deformation usually by compressive stress and forms particular textures. Shear can be homogeneous or non-homogeneous, and may be pure shear or simple shear. ...
  10. In mathematics, a shear mapping or transvection is a particular kind of linear mapping. Its effect leaves fixed all points on one axis and other points are shifted parallel to the axis by a distance proportional to their perpendicular distance from the axis. ...
  11. There are many types of shears used to shear sheet metal.
  12. (Shearing (metalworking)) Shearing, also known as die cutting, is a metalworking process which cuts stock without the formation of chips or the use of burning or melting. ...
  13. a cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger; the act of shearing, or something removed by shearing; a force that produces a shearing strain; To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears; To remove the fleece from a sheep etc by ...
  14. (Sheared) Refers to a towel's finish. A sheared surface is created clipping the loops on one side of the towel. Sheared terry is often referred to as having a velour finish. The shearing process creates a plush and smooth finish, which is great for printing or embroidery.
  15. (Sheared) Scissor action equipment operated by hand. Normally used for heavy gage materials and aluminum’s.
  16. (Sheared) The pile of a tufted rug with yarn loops that are cut into individual yarns, resulting in a carpet–like appearance. Also known as "cut."
  17. (Sheared) a finishing process in which the fibers on the surface of the fabric are mechanically trimmed to create an even nap. Often follows brushing of the fabric. Done on fleeces, moleskins, pile fabrics, wools.
  18. (Sheared) fur that has been clipped off to reduce the feel and appearance of guard hairs, resulting in a velvety feel and uniform hair length
  19. (shearing) the annual clipping of the fleece off of the animal.
  20. (Shearing) Trimming of the edges of sheet strip to make them parallel. This is done at either the stainless steel mill or at the stainless steel processor.
  21. (Shearing) The once-a-year harvesting of alpaca fibers usually carried out in mid-spring in order to make the alpaca cooler through the summer and allow the coat time to grow back before the cold of winter returns.
  22. (shearing) Cutting fur to a short, uniform pile.
  23. (Shearing) a site preparation method that involves cutting brush, trees, and other vegetation at the ground level using tractors equipped with angled or v-shaped cutting blades
  24. (Shearing) Cutting force applied perpendicular to material causing the material to yield and break.
  25. (shearing) The process of removing the fleece (wool) from a sheep.