shear
Significado
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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.
Freqüência
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/ʃɪə(ɹ)/
Etimologia
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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