Dictionary Entry
shear
shear is a 5-letter English word with 17 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 7 · 17 senses
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- 1transitive verb
To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.
- 2transitive verb
To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece.
- 3transitive verb
To reap, as grain.
- 4transitive verb
Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece.
- 5transitive verb
To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear., 4.
- 6transitive verb
A pair of shears; -- now always used in the plural, but formerly also in the singular. See Shears.
- 7transitive verb
A shearing; -- used in designating the age of sheep.
- 8transitive verb
An action, resulting from applied forces, which tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact; -- also called shearing stress, and tangential stress.
- 9transitive verb
A strain, or change of shape, of an elastic body, consisting of an extension in one direction, an equal compression in a perpendicular direction, with an unchanged magnitude in the third direction.
- 10intransitive verb
To deviate. See Sheer.
- 11intransitive verb
To become more or less completely divided, as a body under the action of forces, by the sliding of two contiguous parts relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact.
- 12noun
a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it
- 13noun
(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"
- 14verb
become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain
- 15verb
cut with shears
"shear hedges"
- 16verb
cut or cut through with shears
"shear the wool off the lamb"
- 17verb
shear the wool from
"shear sheep"
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