shear Verb
To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears.
* 1819 , Walter Scott, Ivanhoe :
- So trenchant was the Templar’s weapon, that it shore asunder, as it had been a willow twig, the tough and plaited handle of the mace, which the ill-fated Saxon reared to parry the blow, and, descending on his head, levelled him with the earth.
* Shakespeare
- the golden tresses were shorn away
To remove the fleece from a sheep etc by clipping.
(physics) To deform because of shearing forces.
(Scotland) To reap, as grain.
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(figurative) To deprive of property; to fleece.
Noun
( en noun)
a cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger
* Dryden
- short of the wool, and naked from the shear
the act of shearing, or something removed by shearing
* Youatt
- After the second shearing, he is a two-shear' ram; at the expiration of another year, he is a three-' shear ram; the name always taking its date from the time of shearing.
(physics) a force that produces a shearing strain
(geology) The response of a rock to deformation usually by compressive stress, resulting in particular textures.
Derived terms
* megashear
* shearer
Adjective
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flow English
Noun
A movement in people or things with a particular way in large numbers or amounts
The movement of a real or figurative fluid.
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The rising movement of the tide.
Smoothness or continuity.
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The amount of a fluid that moves or the rate of fluid movement.
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(psychology) The state of being at one with.
Menstruation fluid
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Antonyms
* (movement of the tide) ebb
Related terms
* antiflow
* dark flow
* ebb and flow
* flowable
* inflow
* midflow
* outflow
* postflow
* preflow
* reflow
* reflowable
Verb
( en verb)
To move as a fluid from one position to another.
- Rivers flow from springs and lakes.
- Tears flow from the eyes.
To proceed; to issue forth.
- Wealth flows from industry and economy.
* Milton
- Those thousand decencies that daily flow / From all her words and actions.
To move or match smoothly, gracefully, or continuously.
- The writing is grammatically correct, but it just doesn't flow .
* Dryden
- Virgil is sweet and flowing in his hexameters.
To have or be in abundance; to abound, so as to run or flow over.
* Bible, Joel iii. 18
- In that day the hills shall flow with milk.
* Prof. Wilson
- the exhilaration of a night that needed not the influence of the flowing bowl
To hang loosely and wave.
- a flowing''' mantle; '''flowing locks
* A. Hamilton
- the imperial purple flowing in his train
To rise, as the tide; opposed to ebb .
- The tide flows twice in twenty-four hours.
* Shakespeare
- The river hath thrice flowed , no ebb between.
(computing) To arrange (text in a wordprocessor, etc.) so that it wraps neatly into a designated space; to reflow.
To cover with water or other liquid; to overflow; to inundate; to flood.
To cover with varnish.
To discharge excessive blood from the uterus.
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