To get an ad-free experience on website and mobile app, please consider taking a subscription. Subscription fee will help us to add more words and definitions along with building language related features.
 |
Meaning of word shear from English dictionary with examples, synonyms and antonyms.
shear noun
Meaning : (physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves.
Example :
The shear changed the quadrilateral into a parallelogram.
Meaning : A large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it.
shear verb
Meaning : Cut with shears.
Example :
Shear hedges.
Meaning : Cut or cut through with shears.
Example :
Shear the wool off the lamb.
Meaning : Become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain.
