Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: shear
IPA transcription: [ʃ'ɪɹ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: shear
    Meaning: (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"
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: shear
    Meaning: cut with shears; "shear hedges"
Usage examples
  • No: and if he saw fit to shear as much wool from a lamb six months old, as from a ram of two years; or, if he required as much work from a young dog as from an old one,--they would say, not that he was unjust, but that he was foolish.