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S0325100 (shîr)v. sheared, sheared or shorn (shôrn), shear·ing, shears v.tr.1. To remove (fleece or hair) by cutting or clipping.2. To remove the hair or fleece from.3. To cut with or as if with shears: shearing a hedge.4. To divest or deprive as if by cutting: The prisoners were shorn of their dignity.v.intr.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.n.1. often shearsa. A pair of scissors.b. Any of various implements or machines that cut with a scissorlike action.2. The act, process, or result of shearing, especially when used to indicate a sheep's age: a two-shear ram.3. Something cut off by shearing.4. also sheers (shîrz)(used with a sing. or pl. verb) An apparatus used to lift heavy weights, consisting of two or more spars joined at the top and spread at the base, the tackle being suspended from the top.5. Physics a. See shear force.b. See shear strain.c. See shear stress.

[Middle English scheren, from Old English sceran; see sker- in Indo-European roots. N., from Middle English shere, from Old English scēar; see sker- in Indo-European roots.]

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S0325350 (shîr′ĭng), Sir George Albert 1919-2011. British jazz pianist and composer whose signature sound is marked by a unique quintet arrangement that includes bass, guitar, drums, and vibraphone.

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(ˈʃɪərɪŋ) n (Agriculture) the act of shearing a sheep or flock of sheep

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shearing - removing by cutting off or clippingcutting off, cutting, cut - the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends; "the barber gave him a good cut"sheepshearing - act of shearing sheep

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[′shir·iŋ] (mechanical engineering) Separation of material by the cutting action of shears. (mining engineering) The vertical side cutting which, together with holing or horizontal undercutting, constitutes the attack upon a face of coal. (textiles) A process to remove surface irregularities in a napped fabric by passing it through a cylindrical machine with rotating spiral blades.

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in animal husbandry, the removal of the hairy covering from animals to obtain wool (sheep, goats, camels), to take care of skin, or to promote heat exchange (cattle and horses). Certain breeds of dog are clipped in order to achieve a desired appearance. Fine-wooled and semifine-wooled sheep are sheared only once a year, in the spring; coarse-wooled and semicoarsewooled sheep are sheared in the spring and fall. In countries with a developed sheep-raising industry, shearing is for the most part mechanized. In the USSR about 90 percent of the sheep population is sheared by machine. During the shearing period special sheds are set up and are equipped with shearing machines with 24, 36, 48, or 60 units or with sets of equipment for shearing sheep on 24 (KTO-24) or 48 (KTO-48) machines. Most common is a method of shearing derived from methods worked out by New Zealand sheep shearers. Under optimum conditions a sheep can be sheared in two to 2½ minutes.

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in textile production, the removal of protruding ends of threads, knots, and hairs from the surface of a fabric and the evening of the length of pile to improve the fabric’s appearance. Both woven and knitted fabrics undergo shearing. The process is carried out on two types of machines: lengthwise shearing machines (the major type) and transverse shearing machines, which are used to cut the fabric ends. The working element is a shearing mechanism consisting of a cylinder to which spiral blades are attached, a flat steel blade, a table, and guiding rollers. The rapidly rotating cylinder and the stationary flat blade form a scissors mechanism that cuts the fabric as it passes through the shearing mechanism.

Machines with outputs from 27–81 m per min are used in the USSR to shear coarse cotton, linen, light woolens, and artificial and natural silk fabrics. Machines with outputs of 8–24 m per min are used for heavy woven and knitted fabrics.

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