English Dictionary

shear

/ʃɪə(ɹ)/

verb

To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears. / To remove the fleece from a sheep etc. by clipping. / To cut the hair of (a person).

Shear the sheep before winter.

意味（1）

To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears.

So trenchant was the Templar’s weapon, that it shore asunder, as it had been a willow twig, the tough and plaited handle of the mace, which the ill-fated Saxon reared to parry the blow, and, descending on his head, levelled him with the earth.

意味（2）

To remove the fleece from a sheep etc. by clipping.

shear the llamas

意味（3）

To cut the hair of (a person).

shear the afro off someone's head

意味（4）

(physics) To deform because of forces pushing in opposite directions.

意味（5）

(aviation, meteorology, intransitive, of wind) To change in direction or speed.

The total along-the-runway wind component sheared from an 8-knot headwind to about a 56-knot tailwind over a 44-second period.

意味（6）

(mathematics) To transform by displacing every point in a direction parallel to some given line by a distance proportional to the point’s distance from the line.

意味（7）

(mining, intransitive) To make a vertical cut in coal.

意味（8）

(Scotland) To reap, as grain.

Soon as the bending Scythe,

And Sickle keen, have shear'd the golden Grain,

Array'd in all the Equipage of Death,

Soon as the bending Scythe, And Sickle keen, have shear'd the golden Grain, Array'd in all the Equipage of Death, Forth the stern Sportsman stalks

意味（9）

(figuratively) To deprive of property; to fleece.