Shear - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ʃɪr|  American pronunciation of the word shear
Brit.  |ʃɪə|  British pronunciation of the word shear
irregular verb:  p.t. — sheared  p.p. — sheared or shorn

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
- a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it

verb

- cut with shears
shear hedges
- shear the wool from (syn: fleece)
shear sheep
- cut or cut through with shears
shear the wool off the lamb
- become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain

Extra examples

The farmers sheared the sheep.

The farmers sheared the wool from the sheep.

The bolt may shear off.

Her long fair hair had been shorn.

...learning how to shear the fleece off a sheep...

The fluid undergoes shear

Word forms

verb
I/you/we/they: shear
he/she/it: shears
present participle: shearing
past tense: sheared
past participle: sheared or shorn
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