shear

[US]/ʃɪə(r)/
[UK]/ʃɪr/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vt. cut off the wool from sheep
n. large scissors

Phrases & Collocations

shear wool

shear hair

shear a sheep

electric shear

shear stress

shear strength

shear wall

shear zone

shear rate

shear deformation

shear force

shear wave

shear test

shear lag

flying shear

shear strain

shear modulus

shear wall structure

high shear

shear flow

direct shear

shear resistance

shear failure

wind shear

Example Sentences

shear through the wheat.

I'll shear off all that fleece.

be sheared of one's rights

a sheared fur coat.

In the CGSM, shear modulus and damping ratio of the soil are functions of depth and shear strain, wave equation for the transmission of shear wave is obtained.

These garden shears are lightweight and easy to use.

A bad shearer never had a good sickle.

A jet plane sheared the blue sky .

The result of this shearing force is to push the endoplasm forward.

The farmer is shearing his sheep.

The thermal depolymerization of crumb rubber–asphalt system could be controlled by using the coadjustment of shearing temperature and shearing time.

The results show that the data of shear strain 2 are reliable because the component 2 and 4 of shear strainmeter work normally.

(3) tangly shear fractures with variable striking;

Splitting and bandknife shearing machines.

There are neoformative foliation and lineation(stretching lineation) in the shear zone.

The chink section of relative rest must be taken as the reference datum of shearing leakance direction.

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