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Shear vs Scissor - What's the difference?

shear | scissor |

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

  • 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.
  • (Jamieson)
  • (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

    (head)
  • scissor

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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 .
  • Derived terms

    * scissor kick * scissor sister * scissor tackle * scissorbill * scissorlike * scissorwise

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cut using, or as if using scissors.
  • To excise or expunge something from a text.
  • The erroneous testimony was scissored from the record.
  • To move something like a pair of scissors, especially the legs.
  • ''The runner scissored over the hurdles.
  • 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.