different between shear vs shearability

English

Etymology

From Middle English sheren, scheren, from Old English s?ieran, from Proto-West Germanic *skeran, from Proto-Germanic *skeran?, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”).

Cognate with West Frisian skeare, Low German scheren, Dutch scheren, German scheren, Danish skære, Norwegian Bokmål skjære, Norwegian Nynorsk skjera, Swedish skära, Serbo-Croatian škare (“scissors”); and (from Indo-European) with Ancient Greek ????? (keír?, “I cut off”), Latin caro (“flesh”), Albanian shqerr (“to tear, cut”), harr (“to cut, to mow”), Lithuanian skìrti (“separate”), Welsh ysgar (“separate”). See also sharp.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /???(?)/
  • Rhymes: -??(?)
• (US) IPA^(key): /?i?/
  • Rhymes: -i?
• (near–square merger) IPA^(key): /???/
  • Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: sheer, Shia

Verb

shear (third-person singular simple present shears, present participle shearing, simple past sheared or shore, past participle shorn or sheared)

1. To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears.
2. To remove the fleece from a sheep etc. by clipping.

3. To cut the hair of (a person)

4. (physics) To deform because of forces pushing in opposite directions.
5. (aviation, meteorology, intransitive) (of wind) To change in direction and/or speed.
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.
7. (mining, intransitive) To make a vertical cut in coal.
8. (Scotland) To reap, as grain.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Jamieson to this entry?)

9. (figuratively) To deprive of property; to fleece.

Translations

Noun

shear (countable and uncountable, plural shears)

1. A cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger.

   Synonym: shears

   • short of their wool, and naked from the shear

2. (metalworking) A large machine use for cutting sheet metal.
3. The act of shearing, or something removed by shearing.
   • 1837, William Youatt, Sheep: Their Breeds, Management, and Diseases

     After the second shearing, he is a two-shear ram; […] at the expiration of another year, he is a three-shear ram; the name always taking its date from the time of shearing.

4. (physics) Forces that push in opposite directions.
5. (aviation, meteorology) Wind shear, or an instance thereof.

6. (mathematics) A transformation that displaces every point in a direction parallel to some given line by a distance proportional to the point’s distance from the line.
7. (geology) The response of a rock to deformation usually by compressive stress, resulting in particular textures.

Derived terms

• megashear
• shearer
• shearography
• shearwater
• wind shear

Translations

Adjective

shear

1. Misspelling of sheer.

Anagrams

• Asher, Rahes, Share, asher, earsh, hares, harse, hears, heras, rheas, sehar, sehra, share

English

Etymology

From shear +? -ability

Noun

shearability (uncountable)

1. The condition or extent of being shearable.

Anagrams

• shareability