shears (redirected from pair of shears)

shear  (shîr) v. sheared, sheared or shorn (shôrn, shrn), shear·ing, shears v.tr. 1. To remove (fleece or hair) by cutting or clipping. 2. To remove the hair or fleece from. 3. To cut with or as if with shears: shearing a hedge. 4. To divest or deprive as if by cutting: The prisoners were shorn of their dignity. v.intr. 1. To use a cutting tool such as shears. 2. To move or proceed by or as if by cutting: shear through the wheat. 3. Physics To become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain. n. 1. a. A pair of scissors. Often used in the plural. b. Any of various implements or machines that cut with a scissorlike action. Often used in the plural. 2. The act, process, or result of shearing. 3. Something cut off by shearing. 4. The act, process, or fact of shearing. Used to indicate a sheep's age: a two-shear ram. 5. also sheers (shîrz) (used with a sing. or pl. verb) An apparatus used to lift heavy weights, consisting of two or more spars joined at the top and spread at the base, the tackle being suspended from the top. 6. Physics a. An applied force or system of forces that tends to produce a shearing strain. Also called shearing stress, shear stress. b. A shearing strain. [Middle English scheren, from Old English sceran; see sker-1 in Indo-European roots. N., from Middle English shere, from Old English scar; see sker-1 in Indo-European roots.] shearer n.

shear pruning and pinking shears

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shears

Noun, pl

a. large scissors, used for sheep shearing

b. a large scissor-like cutting tool with flat blades, used for cutting hedges

Thesaurus

Noun

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shears - large scissors with strong blades clipper - shears for cutting grass or shrubbery (often used in the plural) pruning shears - shears with strong blades used for light pruning of woody plants pair of scissors, scissors - an edge tool having two crossed pivoting blades snips, tinsnips - (plural) hand shears for cutting sheet metal thinning shears - shears with one serrate blade; used for thinning hair plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one

Translations

shears [ˈʃɪəz] npl (for hedge) → tijeras fpl de jardín

shears [ˈʃɪəz] npl (for hedge) → cisaille(s) f(pl)

shears [ˈʃɪəz] shear npl (for hedge) → Heckenschere f

shears [ˈʃɪəz] npl (for hedge) → cesoie fpl