- SHEAR Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
: to cause (something, such as a rock mass) to move along the plane of contact : an action or stress resulting from applied forces that causes or tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact Verb The farmers sheared the sheep
- SHEAR | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
SHEAR definition: 1 to cut the wool off a sheep: 2 to cut the hair on a person's head close to the skin… Learn more
- Shear - Wikipedia
Look up shear in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Shear pin, in machinery, such as a plough, designed to shear (break) when a certain force is exceeded, to protect other components of the machine
- Shear - definition of shear by The Free Dictionary
1 To use a cutting tool such as shears 2 To move or proceed by or as if by cutting: shear through the wheat 3 Physics To become deformed by shear force
- shear - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
shear (third-person singular simple present shears, present participle shearing, simple past sheared or shore, past participle shorn or sheared) (intransitive, transitive) To remove the fleece from (a sheep, llama, etc ) by clipping To cut the hair of (a person)
- SHEAR definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
Shear is the movement of one surface of a substance over another parallel surface Viscosity is related to the rate of shear in a fluid Longitudinal shear is a movement of one joint face in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis of the joint Shear is the movement of one surface of a substance over another parallel surface
- SHEAR Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
verb (used with object) sheared, sheared, shorn, shearing to cut (something) to remove by or as if by cutting or clipping with a sharp instrument to shear wool from sheep to cut or clip the hair, fleece, wool, etc , from to shear sheep to strip or deprive (usually followed byof )
- Shear Definition Meaning | Britannica Dictionary
SHEAR meaning: 1 : to cut the hair, wool, etc , off (an animal); 2 : to cut off (an animal's hair, wool, etc ) often + off
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