shear
Significat (Anglès)
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- To remove the fleece from (a sheep etc.) by clipping.
- To cut the hair of (a person).
- To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears.
- To deform because of forces pushing in opposite directions.
- To change in direction or speed.
- 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.
- To make a vertical cut in coal.
- To reap, as grain.
- To deprive of property; to fleece.
Sinònims
cut away
sythe
nip off
plane section
crock up
cut hair
cut to
operate on
slice up
snip off
clip hair
shearing force
give haircut
amputate
shear transformation
Freqüència
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/ʃɪə(ɹ)/
Etimologia (Anglès)
In summary
From Middle English sheren, scheren, from Old English sċieran (“to shear; to shave”), from Proto-West Germanic *skeran, from Proto-Germanic *skeraną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Cognate with West Frisian skarre, Low German scheren, Dutch scheren, German scheren, Danish skære, Norwegian Bokmål skjære, Norwegian Nynorsk skjera, Swedish skära, Finnish keritä; and (from Indo-European) with Ancient Greek κείρω (keírō, “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.
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