| 单词 | shear |
| 释义 | shear (once / 1337 pages) 1vn 2vn A shear is a cutting implement that looks like a long pair of scissors. Also like scissors, this form of the noun is usually plural. You can cut metal, prune a tree, or cut up a chicken with shears. In farming, when you remove wool from a sheep, goat, or even a llama, you shear the animal. Most farmers shear their sheep once a year, but the timing varies from farm to farm. The verb shear also means to cause to break off or come apart with a cutting force. The wind during a storm can blow hard enough to shear the tiles off a roof. WORD FAMILYshear: sheared, shearer, shearing, shears+/sheared: unsheared/shearer: shearers/shearing: shearings/shears: shearses USAGE EXAMPLESQuion Shears, 19, wants to get a degree at Clark Atlanta University and hopes to become a real estate agent. Washington Post(Dec 18, 2016) “Shear Madness” A comedy-mystery set in Georgetown, in which the audience helps solve a murder. Washington Post(Dec 13, 2016) Liberals stride into the red-tape jungle with pruning shears, and find themselves entangled in the internal logic of the rules. Washington Post(Dec 13, 2016) 1 1v cut or cut through with shears shear the wool off the lamb Hyper cut separate with or as if with an instrument 2v cut with shears shear hedges Hyper clip, crop, cut back, dress, lop, prune, snip, trim cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of 3v shear the wool from shear sheep Syn|Hyper fleece shave, trim cut closely 4n a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it 2Hyper edge tool any cutting tool with a sharp cutting edge (as a chisel or knife or plane or gouge) 1v become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain Hyper change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature 2n (physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves the shear changed the quadrilateral into a parallelogram Hyper deformation alteration in the shape or dimensions of an object as a result of the application of stress to it |
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