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How to pronounce shear in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms fleece
Type of shave, trim
Derivation shearer, shearing, shears


shear sheep.
Type Words
Type of edge tool
Type Words
Type of change
Type Words
Type of cut
Derivation shearer, shearing


shear the wool off the lamb.
Type Words
Type of trim, prune, snip, clip, crop, cut back, dress, lop
Derivation shears, shearer, shearing


shear hedges.
Type Words
Type of deformation


the shear changed the quadrilateral into a parallelogram.

Examples of shear

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Quantitative analysis of seismogenic shear-induced turbulence in lake sediments.
From the sciencedaily.com
Increased vertical wind shear on 15 September caused Isabel to gradually weaken.
From the al.com
Wind shear refers to the change in winds between the lower and upper atmosphere.
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In spite of this, some carbon fibres exhibit astoundingly good shear properties.
From the sciencedaily.com
Many annuals, such as petunias, look better if you shear them back occasionally.
From the courier-journal.com
The quick way is to shear over the top of hybrid tea roses with a hedge clipper.
From the independent.co.uk
But with weak wind shear, pollution does the opposite and makes storms stronger.
From the sciencedaily.com
Shear, meanwhile, said they can have another of the shelter's cats at no charge.
From the timesunion.com
For instance, the Turrialba plume has relatively minimal updraft and wind shear.
From the scienceblog.com
More examples
  • Cut with shears; "shear hedges"
  • (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"
  • Fleece: shear the wool from; "shear sheep"
  • A large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it
  • Become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain
  • (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"
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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. ...