| 单词 | shear |
| 释义 | Word Frequency shear(ʃɪə) verbWord forms: shears, shearing, shearedWord forms: Australian and New Zealand shore, sheared or shorn 1. (transitive) to remove (the fleece or hair) of (sheep, etc) by cutting or clipping 2. to cut or cut through (something) with shears or a sharp instrument 3. engineering to cause (a part, member, shaft, etc) to deform or fracture or (of a part, etc) to deform or fracture as a result of excess torsion or transverse load 4. (transitive; often foll by of) to strip or divest to shear someone of power 5. (when intr, foll by through) to move through (something) by or as if by cutting 6. Scottish to reap (corn, etc) with a scythe or sickle noun 7. the act, process, or an instance of shearing 8. a shearing of a sheep or flock of sheep, esp when referred to as an indication of age a sheep of two shears 9. a form of deformation or fracture in which parallel planes in a body or assembly slide over one another 10. physics the deformation of a body, part, etc, expressed as the lateral displacement between two points in parallel planes divided by the distance between the planes 11. either one of the blades of a pair of shears, scissors, etc 12. a machine that cuts sheet material by passing a knife blade through it 13. a device for lifting heavy loads consisting of a tackle supported by a framework held steady by guy ropes Derived forms shearer (ˈshearer) noun Word origin Old English sceran; related to Old Norse skera to cut, Old Saxon, Old High German skeran to shear; see share2 |
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