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shear |
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb shear Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb shear Entailment of verb shear Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Frequency) of verb shear 3 senses of shear Sense 1 shear => snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back Sense 2 fleece, shear => shave, trim Sense 3 shear => cut Familiarity of verb shear shear used as a verb is uncommon (polysemy count = 3) Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb shear Sense 1 shear => snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back -------------- Sense 2 fleece, shear => shave, trim -------------- Sense 3 shear => cut -------------- Grep of noun shear elasticity of shear shear shearer shearing shears shearwater Overview of noun shear The noun shear has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts) 1. (21) shear -- ((physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves; "the shear changed the quadrilateral into a parallelogram") 2. shear -- (edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it) Overview of verb shear The verb shear has 3 senses (first 1 from tagged texts) 1. (3) shear -- (cut with shears, as of hedges) 2. fleece, shear -- (shear the wool from "shear sheep") 3. shear -- (cut or cut through with shears) Grep of adj shear sheared Overview of noun shear The noun shear has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts) 1. (21) shear -- ((physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves; "the shear changed the quadrilateral into a parallelogram") 2. shear -- (edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it) Overview of verb shear The verb shear has 3 senses (first 1 from tagged texts) 1. (3) shear -- (cut with shears, as of hedges) 2. fleece, shear -- (shear the wool from "shear sheep") 3. shear -- (cut or cut through with shears)
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