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Shear vs Transverse - What's the difference?

shear | transverse |

As verbs the difference between shear and transverse

is that shear is to cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears while transverse is to overturn; to change.

As nouns the difference between shear and transverse

is that shear is a cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger while transverse is anything that is transverse or athwart.

As adjectives the difference between shear and transverse

is that shear is misspelling of lang=en while transverse is situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction.

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

    transverse

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction.
  • (geometry, of an intersection) Not tangent: so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting.

    • Antonyms

    * (lying across) longitudinal

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything that is transverse or athwart.
  • (geometry) The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.

    • Verb

    (transvers)
  • To overturn; to change.
  • * Rev. Charles Leslie
    • And so long shall her censures, when justly passed, have their effect: how then can they be altered or transversed , suspended or superseded, by a temporal government, that must vanish and come to nothing?
  • (obsolete) To change from prose into verse, or from verse into prose.
    • (Duke of Buckingham)
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