• (British) IPA: /ʃɪə(ɹ)/
• (America) IPA: /ʃiɹ/
• (near-square merger) IPA: /ʃɛə/

shear (shears, present participle shearing; past sheared, past participle shorn)

1. To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 68”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. Neuer before Imprinted, London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, OCLC 216596634 ↗:

     the golden tresses […] were shorn away

2. To remove the fleece from a sheep etc by clipping.
3. (physics) To deform because of forces pushing in opposite directions.
4. (mathematics) To transform by displacing every point in a direction parallel to some given line by a distance proportional to the point’s distance from the line.
5. (mining, intransitive) To make a vertical cut in the coal.
6. (Scotland) To reap, as grain.
7. (figurative) To deprive of property; to fleece.

• French: couper
• German: abschneiden, schneiden, scheren (hair, beard)
• Italian: tagliare
• Portuguese: cortar, tosquiar (with shears)
• Russian: ре́зать
• Spanish: cizallar, cortar

• French: tondre
• German: scheren
• Italian: tosare
• Portuguese: tosar, tosquiar
• Russian: стричь
• Spanish: esquilar, tonsurar, tundir

• French: cisailler
• Portuguese: cisalhar
• Spanish: distorsionar

shear

1. A cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger.

   Synonyms: shears

   • short of the wool, and naked from the shear

2. The act of shearing, or something removed by shearing.

   • 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.

3. (physics) Forces that push in opposite directions.
4. (mathematics) A transformation that displaces every point in a direction parallel to some given line by a distance proportional to the point’s distance from the line.
5. (geology) The response of a rock to deformation usually by compressive stress, resulting in particular textures.

• French: cisailles, cisaille, tondeuse
• Italian: cesoia
• Portuguese: tosquiadeira
• Russian: ножницы
• Spanish: cizalla

• French: tonte, tondaison
• Portuguese: poda
• Spanish: cizallado

• French: cisaillement
• German: Scherkraft

shear

1. Misspelling of sheer

1. Surname