Shear vs Shearwall - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between shear and shearwall

is that shear is a cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger while shearwall is (architecture) an element of a wall that resists lateral shear on a building.

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 an adjective shear

is .

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)

Anagrams

* English irregular verbs

shearwall

English

Noun

(en noun)

(architecture) An element of a wall that resists lateral shear on a building

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