Shear vs Transvection - What's the difference?
shear | transvection | Synonyms |
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.
(genetics) An epigenetic interaction between an allele on one chromosome and the corresponding allele on the homologous chromosome
(mathematics) A kind of linear mapping which leaves all points on one axis fixed, while other points are shifted parallel to the axis by a distance proportional to their perpendicular distance from the axis
The act of supernatural flight, such as by a witch
*{{quote-book, 1996, Avner Falk, A Psychoanalytic History of the Jews
, passage=In transvection witches rode broomsticks, a classical phallic symbol. }}
Transvection is a synonym of shear.
As nouns the difference between shear and transvection
is that shear is a cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger while transvection is an epigenetic interaction between an allele on one chromosome and the corresponding allele on the homologous chromosome.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 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 verbstransvection
English
Noun
(en noun)- Transvection effects include both activation and silencing.
- a projective transvection
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