shear
21Shear — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Le nom de Shear est porté par plusieurs personnalités (par ordre alphabétique) : Cornelius Lott Shear (1865 1956), mycologue américain. Murray Jacob… …
22shear — UK [ʃɪə(r)] / US [ʃɪr] verb Word forms shear : present tense I/you/we/they shear he/she/it shears present participle shearing past tense sheared past participle sheared or shorn UK [ʃɔː(r)n] / US [ʃɔrn] 1) [transitive] to cut the wool from a… …
23shear — [OE] Shear is the principal English descendant of the Indo European base *sker ‘cut’, which has also produced English score, share, shirt, short, and skirt, and probably sharp and shore as well. A variant of the base without the s is responsible… …
24shear — [[t]ʃɪ͟ə(r)[/t]] shears, shearing, sheared, shorn 1) VERB To shear a sheep means to cut its wool off. [V n] In the Hebrides they shear their sheep later than anywhere else. Derived words: shearing N UNCOUNT ...a display of sheep shearing. 2) …
25shear — [OE] Shear is the principal English descendant of the Indo European base *sker ‘cut’, which has also produced English score, share, shirt, short, and skirt, and probably sharp and shore as well. A variant of the base without the s is responsible… …
26Shear — This is a patronymic i.e. the son of Shear , a complimentary personal nickname deriving from the medieval English scher or schir itself coming from the Olde English pre 7th Century scir meaning bright or fair and originally given as a nickname to …
27shear — verb (past participle shorn or sheared) 1》 cut the wool off (a sheep or other animal). ↘cut off with scissors or shears. ↘(be shorn of) have something cut off. 2》 break off or cause to break off, owing to a structural strain. noun a… …
28shear — verb past tense sheared past participle sheared or shorn /SO:n/ 1 (T) to cut the wool off a sheep 2 be shorn of to have something valuable or important taken away from you: Shorn of all real power by the new laws, the deputy soon resigned. 3 also …
29shear — verb Shear is used with these nouns as the object: ↑sheep …
30shear — a system of internal forces whose resultant is a force acting perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of a structural member or assembly sometimes called shear force …