The meaning of SHEAR is to cut off the hair from. How to use shear in a sentence.

SHEAR definition: 1. to cut the wool off a sheep: 2. to cut the hair on a person's head close to the skin…. Learn more.

Shear strength Mam Tor road destroyed by subsidence and shear, near Castleton, Derbyshire. In engineering, shear strength is the strength of a material or component against the type of yield …

To shear a sheep means to cut its wool off. In the Hebrides they shear their sheep later than anywhere else. [VERB noun]

shear /ʃɪə/ vb (shears, shearing, sheared) ( Austral NZ shore, sheared, shorn) (transitive) to remove (the fleece or hair) of (sheep, etc) by cutting or clipping

Though shear and sheer sound the same, their meanings diverge significantly. Shear refers to cutting or force-induced displacement within materials, whereas sheer signifies extremity or …

Even though the inner core is solid, it behaves like a softened metal, slowing seismic shear waves and displaying a Poisson's ratio more similar to butter than to steel.

Shear definition: To remove (fleece or hair) by cutting or clipping.

SHEAR meaning: 1 : to cut the hair, wool, etc., off (an animal); 2 : to cut off (an animal's hair, wool, etc.) often + off

shear verb To decrease, as in length or amount, by or as if by severing or excising: