Shear vs Shearless - What's the difference?
shear | shearless |
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.
In physics|lang=en terms the difference between shear and shearless
is that shear is (physics) a force that produces a shearing strain while shearless is (physics) having, or producing no (or very little) shear.As adjectives the difference between shear and shearless
is that shear is while shearless is (physics) having, or producing no (or very little) shear.As a verb shear
is to cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears.As a noun shear
is a cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger.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.