sheer

Betekenis (Engels)

  1. Very thin or transparent.
  2. (obsolete) Pure in composition; unmixed; unadulterated.
  3. Downright; complete; pure.
  4. Used to emphasize the amount or degree of something.
  5. Very steep; almost vertical or perpendicular.

Synoniemen

gauze-like

right-down

sheer off

denudate

very thin

tout a fait

Frequentie

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Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/ˈʃɪə/
Etymologie (Engels)

From Middle English shere, scheere, schere, skere, from Old English sċǣre (“pure, sheer; shining, clear”), from Proto-Germanic *skairiz; supplanted the semantically close shire (dialectal), from Middle English schyre, schire, shire, shir, from Old English sċīr (“clear, bright; brilliant, gleaming, shining, splendid, resplendent; pure”), beside which existed Middle English skyr, from Old Norse skírr (“pure, bright, clear”), both from Proto-Germanic *skīriz (“pure, sheer”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₁y- (“luster, gloss, shadow”). Cognate with Danish skær, German schier (“sheer”), Dutch schier (“almost”), Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌴𐌹𐍂𐍃 (skeirs, “clear, lucid”). Outside Germanic, cognate to Albanian hir (“grace, beauty; goodwill”).

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