Noun

(en noun)

The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.

The product of the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine.

the whole shearing''' of a flock; the '''shearings from cloth

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(Youatt)

(Scotland) The act or operation of reaping.

The act or operation of dividing with shears.

the shearing of metal plates

The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.

(mining) The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(-)

The rubbing of one object or surface against another.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)

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Conflict, as between persons having dissimilar ideas or interests; clash.

(physics): A force that resists the relative motion or tendency to such motion of two bodies in contact.

* 1839 , (Denison Olmsted), A Compendium of Astronomy Page 95

Secondly, When a body is once in motion it will continue to move forever, unless something stops it. When a ball is struck on the surface of the earth, the friction of the earth and the resistance of the air soon stop its motion.