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to shear
01
to cut someone's hair short using shears or scissors
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
shear
3rd person singular
shears
Present participle
shearing
Past simple
sheared
Past participle
shorn
02
become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain
03
cut or cut through with shears
04
to cut the wool off a sheep or similar animal
Examples
Every spring, farmers shear their sheep.
Shear
01
(physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Abstract
Composition
Simple
Uncountable
Plural form
shears
02
a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it
Lexical Tree
shearer
shearing
shorn
shear
