Shear vs Pare - What's the difference?
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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.
to remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife
to reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off
to trim the hoof of a horse
Shear is a related term of pare.
As verbs the difference between shear and pare
is that shear is to cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears while pare is to seem, to look, to appear.As a noun shear
is a cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger.As an adjective shear
is .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 verbspare
English
Verb
(par)- We pared the paired pears.
- Albert had to pare his options down by disregarding anything beyond his meager budget.
