Definition of shear

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Definition of shear

  • shear the wool from (verb)

    Examples

    1. shear sheep

    Synonyms

    1. fleece
  • a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it (noun)
  • become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain (verb)
  • cut or cut through with shears (verb)

    Examples

    1. shear the wool off the lamb
  • cut with shears (verb)

    Examples

    1. shear hedges
  • (physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves (noun)

    Examples

    1. the shear changed the quadrilateral into a parallelogram

See definition of shear in Merriam Webster