Sheer vs Translate - What's the difference?
sheer | translate |
(textiles) Very thin or transparent.
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(obsolete) Pure; unmixed.
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
Being only what it seems to be; mere.
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Very steep; almost vertical or perpendicular.
Used to emphasize the amount or degree of something.
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(nautical) The curve of the main deck or gunwale from bow to stern.
(nautical) An abrupt swerve from the course of a ship.
(chiefly, nautical) To swerve from a course.
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(obsolete) To shear.
(label) To change text (as of a book, document, movie) from one language to another.
(label) To change text from one language to another; to have a translation into another language.
(label) To change from one form or medium to another.
* Shakespeare
* Macaulay
(label) To change from one form or medium to another.
To subject a body to linear motion with no rotation.
To transfer, to move from one place or position to another.
To transfer a holy relic from one shrine to another.
* Evelyn
To transfer a bishop from one see to another.
* Camden.
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To ascend, to rise to Heaven without bodily death.
* Heb. xi. 5.
To entrance, to cause to lose sense or recollection.
To rearrange a song from one genre to another.
(label) To cause to move from one body part to another, as of disease.
A set of points obtained by'' adding a ''given'' fixed vector to each point ''of'' a ''given set.
As verbs the difference between sheer and translate
is that sheer is (chiefly|nautical) to swerve from a course while translate is .As an adjective sheer
is (textiles) very thin or transparent.As an adverb sheer
is (archaic) clean; quite; at once.As a noun sheer
is (nautical) the curve of the main deck or gunwale from bow to stern.sheer
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) .Adjective
(en-adj)- sheer ale
- Thou sheer , immaculate, and silver fountain.
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.
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- 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, verticalEtymology 2
; see also (m).Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- A horse sheers at a bicycle.
- I sheered her well inshore—the water being deepest near the bank, as the sounding–pole informed me.
- (Dryden)