Overview of noun shears

The noun shears has 1 sense

• shears -- (large scissors with strong blades)

Overview of noun shear

The noun shear has 2 senses

• 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")


• shear -- (a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it)

Overview of verb shear

The verb shear has 4 senses

• shear -- (cut with shears; "shear hedges")


• fleece, shear -- (shear the wool from; "shear sheep")


• shear -- (cut or cut through with shears; "shear the wool off the lamb")


• shear -- (become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain)