shearing
Meaning of shearing
verb
- 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 deform because of forces pushing in opposite directions.
- 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.
- To make a vertical cut in the coal.
- To reap, as grain.
- To deprive of property; to fleece.
- The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
- The material cut off in this way.
the whole shearing of a flock; the shearings from cloth
- Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions.
- The act or operation of reaping.
- The act or operation of dividing with shears.
the shearing of metal plates
- The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
- The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.
adjective
Tending to cut or tear.
noun- A sheep that has been shorn for the first time
- A sheepskin or lambskin that has gone through a limited shearing process so that the fibers are of uniform depth
Her coat was lined with shearling.
Information about shearing
- The plural form of shearing is: shearings.
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Hyphenation of shearing
shear-ing
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- shearing is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Anagrams of shearing
Words that rhyme with shearing
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