英语词汇“sheer”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

sheer

释义

not mixed or mingled with anything else; utter

sheer ignorance

forming a vertical or almost vertical surface to or from a great height; precipitous

a sheer cliff

transparently fine; diaphanous

sheer tights

sheerly adv

sheerness noun

[Middle English schere freed from guilt, prob alteration of skere pure, from Old Norse skærr]

altogether or completely

His name went sheer out of my head

straight up or down without a break

Rugged cliffs rose sheer out of the sea

to deviate or cause (something) to deviate from a course

[perhaps alteration of shear¹]

a turn, deviation, or change in a course, e.g. of a ship

the curvature from front to rear of a ship's deck as observed when looking from the side

[perhaps alteration of shear²]

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