Shear vs Scissor - What's the difference?
shear | scissor |
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.
(rare) One blade on a pair of scissors.
(noun adjunct) Used in certain noun phrases to denote a thing resembling the action of scissors, as scissor kick'', ''scissor hold'' (wrestling), ''scissor jack .
To cut using, or as if using scissors.
To excise or expunge something from a text.
To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs.
To engage in scissoring (tribadism), a sexual act in which two women intertwine their legs and rub their vulvas against each other.
(skating) To skate with one foot significantly in front of the other.
As verbs the difference between shear and scissor
is that shear is to cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears while scissor is to cut using, or as if using scissors.As nouns the difference between shear and scissor
is that shear is a cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger while scissor is one blade on a pair of scissors.As an adjective shear
is misspelling of lang=en.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 verbsscissor
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* scissor kick * scissor sister * scissor tackle * scissorbill * scissorlike * scissorwiseVerb
(en verb)- The erroneous testimony was scissored from the record.
- ''The runner scissored over the hurdles.