Shear
[ʃɪə] or [ʃɪr]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it.
(noun.) (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'.
(verb.) become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain.
(verb.) cut with shears; 'shear hedges'.
(verb.) cut or cut through with shears; 'shear the wool off the lamb'.
安編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.
(v. t.) To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece.
(v. t.) To reap, as grain.
(v. t.) Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece.
(v. t.) To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4.
(v. t.) A pair of shears; -- now always used in the plural, but formerly also in the singular. See Shears.
(v. t.) A shearing; -- used in designating the age of sheep.
(v. t.) An action, resulting from applied forces, which tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact; -- also called shearing stress, and tangential stress.
(v. t.) A strain, or change of shape, of an elastic body, consisting of an extension in one direction, an equal compression in a perpendicular direction, with an unchanged magnitude in the third direction.
(v. i.) To deviate. See Sheer.
(v. i.) To become more or less completely divided, as a body under the action of forces, by the sliding of two contiguous parts relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact.
吉尔手打
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. Cut, clip.
手打:梅格
解釋/意思:
v.t. to cut or clip: to clip with shears or any other instrument: (Scot.) to reap with a sickle.—v.i. to separate cut penetrate: in mining to make a vertical cut in the coal:—pa.t. sheared (obs.) shore; pa.p. sheared or shorn.—n. a shearing or clipping: a strain where compression is answered by elongation at right angles: curve deviation.—ns. Shear′-bill the scissor-bill cut-water or black skimmer; Shear′er; Shear′-hog a sheep after the first shearing; Shear′ing the act or operation of cutting with shears: what is cut off with shears: (Scot.) the time of reaping: the process of preparing shear-steel: (geol.) the process by which shear-structure (q.v.) has been produced; Shear′ling a sheep only once sheared; Shear′man one whose occupation is to shear cloth; Shears (pl. and sing.) an instrument for shearing or cutting consisting of two blades that meet each other: a hoisting apparatus (see Sheers): anything resembling shears as even a pair of wings (Spens.); Shear′-steel steel suitable for the manufacture of shears and other edge-tools; Shear′-struc′ture (geol.) a structure often seen in volcanic rocks due to the reciprocal compression and elongation of various parts under great crust movements; Shear′-wa′ter a genus of oceanic birds allied to the petrels and varying from 8?to 14 inches in length.
塞西尔手打
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To see shears in your dream, denotes that you will become miserly and disagreeable in your dealings. To see them broken, you will lose friends and standing by your eccentric demeanor.
整理:马提
例句/造句/用法:
- The reaper to be of real use must dispose of the grain properly as well as shear the stalks. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Table knives, plane irons and chisels of a very superior kind are made of shear steel, while common steel is wrought up into ordinary cutlery. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The cutter-bar had fixed triangular cutters between each of which was a movable vibrating cutter, which made a shear cut against the edge of the stationary cutter, on each side. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- In ordinary mining practice a bore-hole is usually commenced by digging a small pit about six feet deep, over which is set up a shear-legs with pulley, etc. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- In 1800 Mears devised a machine employing shears. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- He had risked the last of his capital on the purchase of these frames and shears which to-night had been expected. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- You know Moore has resolved to have new machinery, and he expects two wagon-loads of frames and shears from Stilbro' this evening. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- In 1800, Meares, his countryman, tried to adapt shears. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Who invented the scissors and shears for cutting and trimming it when soft? 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- The depth of water at which the Bucket Ladder dredges is regulated by the Hoisting Shears and Chain Barrel D D, driven by shafting E E from the Engines. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- But it will soon grow out again, said Beth, coming to kiss and comfort the shorn sheep. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Paul, for light enough still lingered to show the velvet blackness of his close-shorn head, and the sallow ivory of his brow) looked in. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- And, touching her hat a la Laurie, away went Jo, feeling like a shorn sheep on a wintry day. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Paul's hair was shorn close as raven down, or I think it would have bristled on his head. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- And there was always the other great dread--of himself becoming dimmed and forever ray-shorn in her eyes. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- The gay plumage, shorn from the crests, drifted upon the breeze like snow-flakes. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Hark at Meliboeus, snarled the noble marquis; he's pastorally occupied too: he's shearing a Southdown. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- She stamped her foot with pretty petulance, so, seeing she was obstinate, he carefully sheared off the tress close to her head. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- It sheared off heads so many, that it, and the ground it most polluted, were a rotten red. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
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