Shear

1.

A pair of shears; -- now always used in the plural, but formerly also in the singular.

2.

A shearing; -- used in designating the age of sheep.

3.

An action, resulting from applied forces, which tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact; -- also called shearing stress, and tangential stress.

4.

A strain, or change of shape, of an elastic body, consisting of an extension in one direction, an equal compression in a perpendicular direction, with an unchanged magnitude in the third direction.

1.

(INTRANSITIVE) To become more or less completely divided, as a body under the action of forces, by the sliding of two contiguous parts relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact.

2.

(TRANSITIVE) To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.

3.

(TRANSITIVE) To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece.

4.

(TRANSITIVE) To reap, as grain.

5.

(FIGURATIVE) (TRANSITIVE) To deprive of property; to fleece.

6.

(TRANSITIVE) To produce a change of shape in by a shear.

1.

To deviate