shear
VERBNOUN
/ʃir/
5 LETTERS · 1 SYLLABLE · STARTS WITH S
shear is a valid 5-letter word worth 8 points in Scrabble and 7 points in Words with Friends.
SCRABBLE
WORDS WITH FRIENDS
S1H4E1A1R1
1 + 4 + 1 + 1 + 1 =8 PTS
DOUBLE WORD → 16TRIPLE WORD → 24
MEANING
What does shear mean?
VERB · 4 SENSES
1
Shear the wool from.
“shear sheep”
SYNONYMS
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2
Become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain.
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3
Cut or cut through with shears.
“shear the wool off the lamb”
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4
Cut with shears.
“shear hedges”
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NOUN · 2 SENSES
1
A large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it.
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2
(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”
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