Sheer

[ʃɪə] or [ʃɪr]

Definition

(verb.) cause to sheer; 'She sheered her car around the obstacle'.

(adv.) directly; 'he fell sheer into the water'.

(adv.) straight up or down without a break.

Checker: Truman--From WordNet

Definition

(v. i.) Bright; clear; pure; unmixed.

(v. i.) Very thin or transparent; -- applied to fabrics; as, sheer muslin.

(v. i.) Being only what it seems to be; obvious; simple; mere; downright; as, sheer folly; sheer nonsense.

(v. i.) Stright up and down; vertical; prpendicular.

(adv.) Clean; quite; at once.

(v. t.) To shear.

(v. i.) To decline or deviate from the line of the proper course; to turn aside; to swerve; as, a ship sheers from her course; a horse sheers at a bicycle.

(n.) The longitudinal upward curvature of the deck, gunwale, and lines of a vessel, as when viewed from the side.

(n.) The position of a vessel riding at single anchor and swinging clear of it.

(n.) A turn or change in a course.

(n.) Shears See Shear.

Checked by Douglas

Synonyms and Synonymous

a. [1]. Pure, unmixed, simple, mere, bare, naked.[2]. Perpendicular.

Edited by Arnold

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Pure, mere, unmixed, unqualified, unmitigated, absolute, simple, unadulterated

ANT:Mixed, qualified, adulterated, modified, partial

Editor: Wallace

Definition

adj. pure: unmingled: simple: without a break perpendicular.—adv. clear: quite: at once.

v.i. to deviate from the line of the proper course as a ship: to turn aside.—n. the deviation from the straight line or the longitudinal curve or bend of a ship's deck or sides.—ns. Sheer′-hulk an old dismasted ship with a pair of sheers mounted on it for masting ships; Sheer′-leg one of the spars.—n.pl. Sheers an apparatus for hoisting heavy weights having usually two legs or spars spread apart at their lower ends and bearing at their tops where they are joined hoisting-tackle.

Typist: Maxine