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Found 4 items, similar to sheers.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: sheer belaka
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: sheer terjal, tipis
English → English (WordNet) Definition: sheer sheer adj 1: complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers; “absolute freedom”; “an absolute dimwit”; “a downright lie”; “out-and-out mayhem”; “an out-and-out lie”; “a rank outsider”; “many right-down vices”; “got the job through sheer persistence”; “sheer stupidity” [syn: absolute, downright, out-and-out(a), rank(a), right-down, sheer(a)] 2: not mixed with extraneous elements; “plain water”; “sheer wine”; “not an unmixed blessing” [syn: plain, unmingled, unmixed] 3: very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front; “a bluff headland”; “where the bold chalk cliffs of England rise”; “a sheer descent of rock” [syn: bluff, bold] 4: so thin as to transmit light; “a hat with a diaphanous veil”; “filmy wings of a moth”; “gauzy clouds of dandelion down”; “gossamer cobwebs”; “sheer silk stockings”; “transparent chiffon”; “vaporous silks” [syn: diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gossamer, see-through, transparent, vaporous, cobwebby] adv 1: straight up or down without a break [syn: perpendicularly] 2: directly; “he fell sheer into the water” v 1: turn sharply; change direction abruptly; “The car cut to the left at the intersection”; “The motorbike veered to the right” [syn: swerve, curve, trend, veer, slue, slew, cut] 2: cause to sheer; “She sheered her car around the obstacle”
English → English (gcide) Definition: sheers Shears \Shears\, n. pl. [Formerly used also in the singular. See Shear, n., 1.] 1. A cutting instrument. Specifically: (a) An instrument consisting of two blades, commonly with bevel edges, connected by a pivot, and working on both sides of the material to be cut, -- used for cutting cloth and other substances. [1913 Webster] Fate urged the shears, and cut the sylph in twain. --Pope. [1913 Webster] (b) A similar instrument the blades of which are extensions of a curved spring, -- used for shearing sheep or skins. (c) A shearing machine; a blade, or a set of blades, working against a resisting edge. [1913 Webster] 2. Anything in the form of shears. Specifically: (a) A pair of wings. [Obs.] --Spenser. (b) An apparatus for raising heavy weights, and especially for stepping and unstepping the lower masts of ships. It consists of two or more spars or pieces of timber, fastened together near the top, steadied by a guy or guys, and furnished with the necessary tackle. [Written also sheers.] [1913 Webster] 3. (Mach.) The bedpiece of a machine tool, upon which a table or slide rest is secured; as, the shears of a lathe or planer. See Illust. under Lathe. [1913 Webster] Rotary shears. See under Rotary. [1913 Webster]

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