Explanation and meaning of shear.

shear

/ʃir/

verb
shear the wool from
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"shear sheep"

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fleece

type of:
shave trim
noun
a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it
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type of:
edge tool
verb
become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain
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type of:
change
verb
cut or cut through with shears
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"shear the wool off the lamb"

type of:
cut
verb
cut with shears
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"shear hedges"

type of:
trim prune snip clip crop cut back dress lop
noun
(physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves
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"the shear changed the quadrilateral into a parallelogram"

type of:
deformation

Explanation of shear

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