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shear

pruning and pinking shears (Academy Artworks)

v., sheared, sheared or shorn (shôrn, shōrn), shear·ing, shears.

v.tr.

1. To remove (fleece or hair) by cutting or clipping.
2. To remove the hair or fleece from.
3. To cut with or as if with shears: shearing a hedge.
4. To divest or deprive as if by cutting: The prisoners were shorn of their dignity.

v.intr.

1. To use a cutting tool such as shears.
2. To move or proceed by or as if by cutting: shear through the wheat.
3. Physics. To become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain.

n.

1. 1. A pair of scissors. Often used in the plural.
   2. Any of various implements or machines that cut with a scissorlike action. Often used in the plural.
2. The act, process, or result of shearing.
3. Something cut off by shearing.
4. The act, process, or fact of shearing. Used to indicate a sheep's age: a two-shear ram.
5. also sheers (shîrz) (used with a sing. or pl. verb) An apparatus used to lift heavy weights, consisting of two or more spars joined at the top and spread at the base, the tackle being suspended from the top.
6. Physics.
   1. An applied force or system of forces that tends to produce a shearing strain. Also called shearing stress, shear stress.
   2. A shearing strain.

[Middle English scheren, from Old English sceran. N., from Middle English shere, from Old English scēar.]

shearer shear'er n.

A straining action wherein applied forces produce a sliding or skewing type of deformation. A shearing force acts parallel to a plane as distinguished from tensile or compressive forces, which act normal to a plane. Examples of force systems producing shearing action are forces transmitted from one plate to another by a rivet that tend to shear the rivet, forces in a beam that tend to displace adjacent segments by transverse shear, and forces acting on the cross section of a bar that tend to twist it by torsional shear (see illustration). Shear forces are usually accompanied by normal forces produced by tension, thrust, or bending. Shearing stress is the intensity of distributed force expressed as force per unit area. See also Stress and strain.

Shearing actions. (a) Single shear on rivet. (b) Transverse shear in beam. (c) Torsion.

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verb

To decrease, as in length or amount, by or as if by severing or excising: chop¹, clip¹, crop, cut, cut back, cut down, lop¹, lower², pare, prune, slash, trim, truncate. See increase/decrease.

1. A deformation (e.g., in a beam or flexural member) in which parallel planes slide relative to each other so as to remain parallel.
2. To cut a metal with a pair of moving blades or with one moving blade and one fixed edge.
3. See shears.

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An angular deformation of an object without a change in its volume.

Person whose occupation is shearing sheep.

To prune with long-bladed shears, cutting back all the stems, sometimes severely, to a uniform level or plane.

IN BRIEF: To cut, trim, usually with scissors. Also: To shave off the wool of a lamb.

With a fondness for longer hair, the barber didn't like to shear too much.

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Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - klippe, overskære, afklippe, beskære
v. intr. - undergå forskydning
n. - skæreblad, klippet dyr, klippemaskine, afklippet uld, forskydning

Nederlands (Dutch)
blad (schaar), scheerbeurt, kloof, spleet, scheren, (door) klieven, splijten

Français (French)
v. tr. - tondre
v. intr. - tondre
n. - tonte

Deutsch (German)
n. - Scherung
v. - scheren

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - κοπή, μηχανικό ψαλίδι, απόκομμα, (πληθ.) κλαδευτήρι
v. - κουρεύω, ψαλιδίζω, κόβω, ξακρίζω

Italiano (Italian)
cesoia, taglio, tranciare

Português (Portuguese)
n. - tosquia (f), corte (m)
v. - tosquiar, cortar, arredondar

Русский (Russian)
ножницы, стрижка, настриг, стричь, резать

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - esquilar, podar, rapar, privar, despojar, privar de, (mec) romper por esfuerzo cortante
v. intr. - (mec) romperse obedeciendo a un esfuerzo cortante
n. - cizallas, tijeras de jardinero, esquila, (mec) esfuerzo cortante, cortadura

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - avklippt bit
v. - klippa, klippa av, hugga med svärd

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
修剪, 剥夺, 割, 剪, 剪羊毛, 切断, 切, 大剪刀

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 修剪, 剝奪, 割
v. intr. - 剪, 剪羊毛, 修剪, 切斷
n. - 剪, 修剪, 切, 大剪刀

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - 자르다, 보풀을 베어 내다, (권력 따위를) ~에게서 빼앗다
v. intr. - 가위질하다, 돌파하다, (배, 비행기 따위가) 헤치고 나아가다
n. - 큰 가위, (양털) 깎기, 전단 변형

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 刈る, 毛を刈る, 刈り込む, 切る, から奪う

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) مجزة, مقص كبير (فعل) يقص, يجز‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮גזז, סיפר, חתך, הוליך שולל, הטעה, מנע מ-, עשה לעירום‬
v. intr. - ‮הולך שולל, הוטעה, נשבר בשל מתח מבני‬
n. - ‮מתח במבנה חומר כששכבותיו מוטות זו ביחס לזו (גיאולוגיה)‬

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shear	guillotine shear
Electric Shear	shear curtains