| 单词 | sheer |
| 释义 | sheer (once / 344 pages) 1adj 2adjvadv If people can see through your shirt, it's sheer. This can also mean something steep, like a cliff, or anything extreme, like sheer nerve. This word has several meanings, but they're all extreme. A sheer (see-through) shirt is an extreme way to dress — climbing a sheer cliff is almost impossible. If your car sheers, it swerves sharply, and you might crash. Maybe you've met all these meanings in a single nightmare: When the sheer cloth blew over your face as you drove, you lost control and the car began to sheer, filling you with sheer terror as you went over the sheer cliff. WORD FAMILYsheer: sheered, sheerer, sheerest, sheering, sheerly, sheers USAGE EXAMPLES“It’s just the vagaries of the system, the complexity of the cases and the sheer volume that is present in the criminal justice system.” Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) "I just think the sheer joy of competing and the challenge of testing himself against the others will be enough for Roger," he said. BBC(Jan 01, 2017) The sheer range of musical expression is astonishing: pastoral reveries, woodland scenes, romantic arias, heroic dramas, historical legends and visions of spiritual strife. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) 1 1adj so thin as to transmit light sheer silk stockings Syn cobwebby, diaphanous, filmy, gauze-like, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, transparent, vaporous, vapourous thin of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section 2adj complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers got the job through sheer persistence sheer stupidity Syn absolute, downright, out-and-out, rank, right-down complete having every necessary or normal part or component or step 3adj not mixed with extraneous elements 2sheer wine Syn plain, unmingled, unmixed pure free of extraneous elements of any kind 1adj very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front a sheer descent of rock Syn bluff, bold steep having a sharp inclination 2v turn sharply; change direction abruptly Syn|Hypo|Hyper curve, cut, slew, slue, swerve, trend, veer peel off leave a formation yawswerve off course momentarily turn change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense 3v cause to sheer She sheered her car around the obstacle Hyper channelise, channelize, direct, guide, head, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, steer direct the course; determine the direction of travelling 4adv directly he fell sheer into the water 5adv straight up or down without a break Syn perpendicularly |
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