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shearing::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | cut, cutting, cutting off |
| Has types | sheepshearing |
| Derivation | shear |
Examples of shearing
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The international event would be among the highlights of the shearing programme.
From the odt.co.nz
They were originally used for shearers when they came to do the annual shearing.
From the au.news.yahoo.com
The shearing of Snyder took place on the Steele Canyon varsity baseball diamond.
From the signonsandiego.com
The shearing takes the humiliation I experienced in this room to a deeper level.
From the usatoday.com
He built fences, planted crops, drenched sheep and brought them in for shearing.
From the smh.com.au
They find it quite soothing, unlike shearing, which is very stressful for them.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The students include farmers or sheep hobbyists wanting to do their own shearing.
From the jsonline.com
Sheep shearing is one of the most physically demanding activities known to man.
From the independent.co.uk
Sereno said, with shearing facets that slid past each other when the jaws closed.
From the nytimes.com
- 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. ...
