Shredder vs Shearing - What's the difference?
shredder | shearing |
A machine that tears up objects into smaller pieces, especially a paper shredder or garbage shredder.
(computing) A program that overwrites deleted data to prevent recovery.
(slang) Someone who snowboards, snowboarder.
Tending to cut or tear.
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.
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(Scotland) The act or operation of reaping.
The act or operation of dividing with shears.
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)
As nouns the difference between shredder and shearing
is that shredder is a machine that tears up objects into smaller pieces, especially a paper shredder or garbage shredder while shearing is the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.As an adjective shearing is
tending to cut or tear.As a verb shearing is
present participle of lang=en.shredder
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(wikipedia shredder)Noun
(en noun)shearing
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* *Noun
(en noun)- the whole shearing''' of a flock; the '''shearings from cloth
- (Youatt)
- the shearing of metal plates