Shorn vs Thorn - What's the difference?

shorn | thorn |

As a verb shorn

is (shear).

As a proper noun thorn is

for someone living near a thorn bush.

shorn

English

Verb

(head)

(shear)

Anagrams

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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

thorn

English

(wikipedia thorn)

Noun

(en noun)

A sharp protective spine of a plant.

Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns.

the white thorn'''; the cockspur '''thorn

(figurative) That which pricks or annoys; anything troublesome.

* Bible, 2 Corinthians xii. 7

There was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me.

* South

The guilt of empire, all its thorns and cares, / Be only mine.

A letter of the Latin alphabet (capital:'' Þ''', ''small:'' '''þ'''), borrowed by Old English from the futhark to represent a dental fricative, then not distinguished from eth, but in modern use (in Icelandic and other languages, but no longer in English) used only for the voiceless dental fricative found in English '' '''th igh

* See also Etymology of ye (definite article).

Derived terms

* thorn apple * thorn broom * thornbush * thorn devil * thorn hopper * thorn in one's side * Thornton * thorny

Verb

(en verb)

To pierce with, or as if with, a

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, passage=Even Judge Bradley's callused sentiments were thorned by the narration of Jaclyn's journals.}}

Anagrams

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