English Dictionary

shear

IPA（発音記号）

/ʃɪə(ɹ)/

動詞

自動詞 風 スコットランド英語 比喩的用法

To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears. / To remove the fleece from a sheep etc. by clipping. / To cut the hair of (a person).

日本語の意味

刈る、または切る（もともとは剣や鋭利な刃物で切ることを指し、現在ははさみなどの刃物を用いて切る動作を意味する） / 羊などの動物から毛（羊毛）を刈り取る行為 / 人の髪を切る行為

Every April, the shepherds shear the sheep to harvest their wool before the heat of summer.

毎年4月、羊飼いたちは夏の暑さが来る前に羊の毛を刈って羊毛を収穫します。

意味（1）

To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears.

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.

意味（2）

To remove the fleece from a sheep etc. by clipping.

shear the llamas

意味（3）

To cut the hair of (a person).

shear the afro off someone's head

意味（4）

(physics) To deform because of forces pushing in opposite directions.

意味（5）

(aviation, meteorology, intransitive, of wind) To change in direction or speed.

The total along-the-runway wind component sheared from an 8-knot headwind to about a 56-knot tailwind over a 44-second period.

意味（6）

(mathematics) To transform by displacing every point in a direction parallel to some given line by a distance proportional to the point’s distance from the line.

意味（7）

(mining, intransitive) To make a vertical cut in coal.

意味（8）

(Scotland) To reap, as grain.

Soon as the bending Scythe, And Sickle keen, have shear'd the golden Grain, Array'd in all the Equipage of Death, Forth the stern Sportsman stalks

意味（9）

(figuratively) To deprive of property; to fleece.

shears （ present singular third-person ）

shearing （ participle present ）

sheared （ past ）

shore （ past ）

shorn （ participle past ）

sheared （ participle past ）