Shear



ENGLISH MEANING
noun
1.
A pair of shears; -- now always used in the plural, but formerly also in the singular.
2.
A shearing; -- used in designating the age of sheep.
3.
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.
4.
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.
verb
1.
(INTRANSITIVE) 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.
2.
(TRANSITIVE) To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.
3.
(TRANSITIVE) To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece.
4.
(TRANSITIVE) To reap, as grain.
5.
(FIGURATIVE) (TRANSITIVE) To deprive of property; to fleece.
6.
(TRANSITIVE) To produce a change of shape in by a shear.
1.
To deviate