英语词汇“shear”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

shear

释义

shear /shēr/

transitive verb (pat sheared or (archaic and poetic) shore; pap shorn, also, less commonly in ordinary senses, but always of deformation and usu of metal-cutting, sheared)

To cut, or clip, esp with shears
To strip, fleece (also figurative)
To cut superfluous nap from
To achieve or make by cutting
To tonsure
To reap with a sickle (Scot)
To subject to a shear (engineering and physics)

intransitive verb

To separate
To cut
To penetrate
To reap with a sickle (Scot)

noun

A shearing or clipping
A strain, stress, or deformation in which parallel planes remain parallel, but move parallel to themselves (engineering and physics)

ORIGIN: OE sceran; ON skera to clip, Ger scheren to shave

shearˈer noun

A person who shears sheep
A reaper (Scot)

shearˈing noun

shearˈling noun

A sheep that has been shorn for the first time
The fleece of such a sheep, usu of inferior quality

shears plural noun

Orig scissors (also Scot)
Now a larger pair of clippers, or any scissorlike cutting instrument, with a pivot or spring
A hoisting apparatus (see sheers under sheer²)

shear force noun

A force that tends to cause sliding of adjacent layers relative to each other, in a material

shearˈ-hog noun

A shearling

shearˈ-hulk, shearˈleg see under sheer²

shearing shed noun (Aust and NZ)

A building in which sheep are shorn, esp one specially equipped with several power-driven shears, shearing platforms and wool-baling machines

shearˈman noun

A textile worker who shears superfluous nap from cloth

shear pin noun

A pin, which, as a safety mechanism, will shear and halt a machine or power-transmission when the correct load or stress is exceeded

shearˈ-steel noun

Steel suitable for making shears, etc

shearˈwater noun

A seabird of the family Procellariidae, related to the petrels, that skims the water when flying low

shear zones plural noun (geology)

Bands in metamorphic rocks consisting of crushed and brecciated material and many parallel fractures

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