Found 4 items, similar to Shear.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak)
Definition: shear
geser
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: shear
gunting besar, mencopot, mencukur, meremukkan ke dalam
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: shear
shear
n 1: (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”
2: (usually plural) large scissors with strong blades [syn:
shears]
3: a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade
through it
shear
v 1: cut with shears;
“shear hedges”
2: shear the wool from;
“shear sheep” [syn:
fleece]
3: cut or cut through with shears
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Shear
Shear
\Shear\, n. [AS. sceara. See
Shear, v. t.]
1. A pair of shears; -- now always used in the plural, but
formerly also in the singular. See
Shears.
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On his head came razor none, nor shear. --Chaucer.
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Short of the wool, and naked from the shear.
--Dryden.
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2. A shearing; -- used in designating the age of sheep.
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After the second shearing, he is a two-shear ram; .
. . at the expiration of another year, he is a
three-shear ram; the name always taking its date
from the time of shearing. --Youatt.
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3. (Engin.) An action, resulting from applied forces, which
tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide
relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their
plane of contact; -- also called
shearing stress, and
tangential stress.
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4. (Mech.) A strain, or change of shape, of an elastic body,
consisting of an extension in one direction, an equal
compression in a perpendicular direction, with an
unchanged magnitude in the third direction.
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Shear blade, one of the blades of shears or a shearing
machine.
Shear hulk. See under
Hulk.
Shear steel, a steel suitable for shears, scythes, and
other cutting instruments, prepared from fagots of
blistered steel by repeated heating, rolling, and tilting,
to increase its malleability and fineness of texture.
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Shear
\Shear\ (sh[=e]r), v. t. [imp.
Shearedor
Shore;p. p.
Sheared or
Shorn; p. pr. & vb. n.
Shearing.] [OE.
sheren, scheren, to shear, cut, shave, AS. sceran, scieran,
scyran; akin to D. & G. scheren, Icel. skera, Dan. ski?re,
Gr. ???. Cf.
Jeer,
Score,
Shard,
Share,
Sheer to
turn aside.]
1. To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like
instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.
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Note: It is especially applied to the cutting of wool from
sheep or their skins, and the nap from cloth.
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2. To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument;
to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to
shear a fleece.
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Before the golden tresses . . . were shorn away.
--Shak.
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3. To reap, as grain. [Scot.] --Jamieson.
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4. Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece.
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5. (Mech.) To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See
Shear, n., 4.
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Shear
\Shear\, v. i.
1. To deviate. See
Sheer.
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2. (Engin.) To become more or less completely divided, as a
body under the action of forces, by the sliding of two
contiguous parts relatively to each other in a direction
parallel to their plane of contact.
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