Shear vs Jamming - What's the difference?
shear | jamming |
To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears.
* 1819 , Walter Scott, Ivanhoe :
* Shakespeare
To remove the fleece from a sheep etc by clipping.
(physics) To deform because of shearing forces.
(Scotland) To reap, as grain.
(figurative) To deprive of property; to fleece.
a cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger
* Dryden
the act of shearing, or something removed by shearing
* Youatt
(physics) a force that produces a shearing strain
(geology) The response of a rock to deformation usually by compressive stress, resulting in particular textures.
(slang) Great; awesome.
* 2006 , Cupcake Brown, A piece of cake
As verbs the difference between shear and jamming
is that shear is to cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears while jamming is .As nouns the difference between shear and jamming
is that shear is a cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger while jamming is the act or process of jamming.As adjectives the difference between shear and jamming
is that shear is while jamming is (slang) great; awesome.shear
English
(wikipedia shear)Verb
- 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.
- the golden tresses were shorn away
- (Jamieson)
Noun
(en noun)- short of the wool, and naked from the shear
- 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.
Derived terms
* megashear * shearerAdjective
(head)Anagrams
* English irregular verbsjamming
English
(wikipedia jamming)Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- All I knew was it sho was a jamming party!