Rude vs Sheer - What's the difference?

rude | sheer |

As a proper noun rude

is settlement in croatia, near zagreb.

As an adjective sheer is

(textiles) very thin or transparent.

As an adverb sheer is

(archaic) clean; quite; at once.

As a noun sheer is

(nautical) the curve of the main deck or gunwale from bow to stern.

As a verb sheer is

(chiefly|nautical) to swerve from a course.

rude

English

(mismatch between senses and translations)

Adjective

(er)

bad-mannered

The girl was so rude to her boyfriend by screaming at him for no reason.

Somewhat obscene, pornographic, offensive.

tough, robust.

undeveloped, unskilled, basic.

* 2 Corinthians 11:6 (KVJ)

But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge

* (rfdate), Rudyard Kipling, The Conundrum of the Workshops

When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden's green and gold,

Our father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with a stick in the mould;

And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart,

Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves, "It's pretty, but is it Art?"

* 1767 , Adam Ferguson, An Essay on the History of Civil Society

It might be apprehended, that among rude nations, where the means of subsistence are procured with so much difficulty, the mind could never raise itself above the consideration of this subject

hearty, vigorous; (found particularly in the phrase rude health).

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* rudeness

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Anagrams

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sheer

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) .

Adjective

(en-adj)

(textiles) Very thin or transparent.

* '>citation

(obsolete) Pure; unmixed.

* Shakespeare

sheer ale

* Shakespeare

Thou sheer , immaculate, and silver fountain.

Being only what it seems to be; mere.

* 2012 , July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track

Cycling's complex etiquette contains an unwritten rule that riders in contention for a race win should not be penalised for sheer misfortune.

Very steep; almost vertical or perpendicular.

Used to emphasize the amount or degree of something.

, title=The Mirror and the Lamp , chapter=2 citation , passage=That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired. And if the arts of humbleness failed him, he overcame you by sheer impudence.}}

* 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/nyregion/new-jersey-continues-to-cope-with-hurricane-sandy.html?hp]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):

Perhaps as startling as the sheer toll was the devastation to some of the state’s well-known locales. Boardwalks along the beach in Seaside Heights, Belmar and other towns on the Jersey Shore were blown away. Amusement parks, arcades and restaurants all but vanished. Bridges to barrier islands buckled, preventing residents from even inspecting the damage to their property.

Synonyms

* (very thin or transparent) diaphanous, see-through, thin * downright, mere, pure, undiluted, unmitigated * (straight up and down) perpendicular, steep, vertical

Adverb

(en adverb)

(archaic) clean; quite; at once.

(Milton)

Etymology 2

; see also (m).

Noun

(en noun)

(nautical) The curve of the main deck or gunwale from bow to stern.

(nautical) An abrupt swerve from the course of a ship.

Verb

(en verb)

(chiefly, nautical) To swerve from a course.

A horse sheers at a bicycle.

* 1899 ,

I sheered her well inshore—the water being deepest near the bank, as the sounding–pole informed me.

(obsolete) To shear.

(Dryden)

References

(Webster 1913)