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Sheer vs Bheer - What's the difference?

sheer | bheer |

As nouns the difference between sheer and bheer

is that sheer is (nautical) the curve of the main deck or gunwale from bow to stern while bheer is (dated|fandom slang|jocular) beer.

As an adjective sheer

is (textiles) very thin or transparent.

As an adverb sheer

is (archaic) clean; quite; at once.

As a verb sheer

is (chiefly|nautical) to swerve from a course.

sheer

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) .

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • (textiles) Very thin or transparent.
  • * '>citation
  • (obsolete) Pure; unmixed.
  • * Shakespeare
    • sheer ale
  • * Shakespeare
    • Thou sheer , immaculate, and silver fountain.
  • Being only what it seems to be; mere.
  • * 2012 , July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track
    • Cycling's complex etiquette contains an unwritten rule that riders in contention for a race win should not be penalised for sheer misfortune.
  • Very steep; almost vertical or perpendicular.
  • Used to emphasize the amount or degree of something.
  • *
    • , title=The Mirror and the Lamp , chapter=2 citation , passage=That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr. Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired. And if the arts of humbleness failed him, he overcame you by sheer impudence.}}
  • * 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/01/nyregion/new-jersey-continues-to-cope-with-hurricane-sandy.html?hp]," New York Times (retrieved 31 October 2012):
    • Perhaps as startling as the sheer toll was the devastation to some of the state’s well-known locales. Boardwalks along the beach in Seaside Heights, Belmar and other towns on the Jersey Shore were blown away. Amusement parks, arcades and restaurants all but vanished. Bridges to barrier islands buckled, preventing residents from even inspecting the damage to their property.
    Synonyms
    * (very thin or transparent) diaphanous, see-through, thin * downright, mere, pure, undiluted, unmitigated * (straight up and down) perpendicular, steep, vertical

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (archaic) clean; quite; at once.
    • (Milton)

    Etymology 2

    ; see also (m).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) The curve of the main deck or gunwale from bow to stern.
  • (nautical) An abrupt swerve from the course of a ship.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • (chiefly, nautical) To swerve from a course.
    • A horse sheers at a bicycle.
  • * 1899 ,
    • I sheered her well inshore—the water being deepest near the bank, as the sounding–pole informed me.
  • (obsolete) To shear.
    • (Dryden)

    References

    (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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    bheer

    English

    Noun

  • (dated, fandom slang, jocular) Beer.
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year = 1959 , first = Richard "Dick" Harris , last = Eney , title = Fancyclopedia II , url = http://fanac.org/Fannish_Reference_Works/Fancyclopedia/Fancyclopedia_II/bravo.html , section = B(H)EER , passage = No less important to fannish than mundane drinking, this useful beverage is even given divine honors by the sect of Beeros and worshipped as either Beer or Bheer . (The latter substance is also used in celebrating certain mysteries of the Ghuist religion.) }}
  • * {{quote-magazine
    • , year = 1966 , date = November , first = Dean A. , last = Grennell , authorlink = Dean Grennell , magazine = Science-Fiction Five-Yearly , title = A Pilgrim in Never-Never Country , url = http://fanac.org/fanzines/SF_Five_Yearly/sffy4-19.html , issue = 4 , page = 20 , passage = I miss tomato juice in glass bottles and I miss Heilemann's Special Export bheer . }}
  • * {{quote-usenet
    • , year = 1997 , monthday= October 12 , author = Morris M. Keesan , email = , title = Re: Declining Attendance at Cons? , id = 3443316c.1023995@news.std.com , group = alt.fandom.cons , url = https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.fandom.cons/uzh4hekvz40/HJlVvXR8IwYJ }}
    But this misses the point that "bheerish" drinkers don't necessarily go to pubs for the bheer'. I can drink a bhottle of '''bheer''' at home a lot cheaper than I can bhuy it in a pub, but I can't get the experience of socializing with a group of other '''bheer'''-drinkers. And even if the pub serves ghood '''bheer''', the presence of the 100 gin/whisky/CocaCola/springwater "multi-genre" drinkers may make it sufficiently difficult to find the other 5 '''bheer''' fans in the crowd, that it dilutes the bheerish experience and makes it more worth my while saving my '''bheer''' budget for going down the road to the other pub that may have a smaller selection of ' bheer but a higher concentration of the people I want to drink with.
  • * {{quote-usenet
    • , year = 2003 , monthday = April 2 , author = Kathy Gallagher , email = , title = Is Bheer really one of the 4 fannish food groups , id = v8m5t8iddt0050@corp.supernews.com , url = https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.sf.fandom/m-ca1uv2pUQ/-pxSrf7QlcoJ , group = rec.arts.sf.fandom }}
    Correct me, but I think the 4 fannish food groups are sugar, chocolate, grease and caffiene(SIC). Bheer doesn't fit in here unless you put chocolate in with sugar.

    Usage notes

    This fanspeak word is used instead of the standard form to indicate a fannish context or an association with science fiction fandom.

    References

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