Shear

Definitions: Shear

Shear

Noun

1. (physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves; "the shear changed the quadrilateral into a parallelogram".

2. Edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it.

Verb

1. Cut with shears, as of hedges.

2. Shear the wool from; "shear sheep".

3. Cut or cut through with shears.

Date "shear" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Food & Agriculture	The relative displacement(termed slipping)of woody tissues following fracture as a result of shearing stress. Source: European Union. (references)
Metallurgy	To cut with shear-blades or punching tools. Source: European Union. (references)
	Shear stress is the stress or the stress component tangential to the plane on which the force or forces act. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	A zone of rock fracturing consisting of many closely spaced, roughly parallel discontinuous cracks. Source: European Union. (references)
	A. A deformation resulting from stresses that cause or tend to cause contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact. It is the mode of failure of a body or mass whereby the portion of the mass on one side of a plane or surface slides past the portion on the opposite side. In geological literature the term refers almost invariably to strain rather than to stress. It is also used to refer to surfaces and zones of failure by shear, and to surfaces along which differential movement has taken place b. See:shearing c. To make vertical cuts in a coal seam that has been undercu. (references)
Physics	The load acting across a beam near its support; for a uniformly distributed load or for any other symmetrical load, the maximum shear is equal to half the total load on a simply supported beam. Source: European Union. (references)
Weather	Variation in wind speed (speed shear) and/or direction (directional shear) over a short distance. Shear usually refers to vertical wind shear, i.e., the change in wind with height, but the term also is used in Doppler radar to describe changes in radial velocity over short horizontal distances. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Shear is a form of structural failure. A component fails by shearing when it splits into two parts that slide past each other.

In mathematics, a shear is a particular kind of linear mapping. For a vector space V and subspace W, a shear fixing W translates all vectors parallel to W. To be more precise, if V is the direct sum of W and W', and we write vectors as v = w + w' correspondingly, the typical shear is L where L(v) = w + (w' + M(w')) where M is a linear mapping from W' into W. Therefore in matrix terms L can be represented as 2x2 , with blocks on the diagonal I, with M above the diagonal, and 0 below.

In clothing design, fabric may be cut on the shear. This is done by placing the patterns at 45 degrees to the weave of the fabric. Clothing cut on the shear is less stiff and follows the shape of the wearer's body more closely than clothing cut parallel to the weave.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
SH	English	Shear horizontal	Metallurgy
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonym: Shear

Synonym: fleece (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Contraction	Abrade, pare, reduce, attenuate, rub down, scrape, file, file down, grind, grind down, chip, shave, shear, wear down.
Shortness	Retrench, cut short, obtruncate; scrimp, cut, chop up, hack, hew; cut down, pare down; clip, dock, lop, prune, shear, shave, mow, reap, crop; snub; truncate, pollard, stunt, nip, check the growth of; foreshorten.
Taking	Oust; (eject); divest; levy, distrain, confiscate; sequester, sequestrate; accroach; usurp; despoil, strip, fleece, shear, displume, impoverish, eat out of house and home; drain, drain to the dregs; gut, dry, exhaust, swallow up; absorb; (suck in); draw off; suck the blood of, suck like a leech.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Shear Excitement (1990)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Barber-Osophy: Shear Success for Your Cutting Edge (reference) Jeanie in a Bottle / Shear Magic (reference) Shear Machine Market for 2001 [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) Stability and Transition in Shear Flows (Applied Mathematical Sciences (Springer-Verlag), Vol 142) (reference) Time Shear (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Shear Confidence (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods	DeWalt DW941K-2 14.4-Volt 18 Gauge \Swivel Head and Shear Kit (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Shows Dr. Carl Voegtlin, NCI director 1940 and Dr. M.J. Shear standing at desk in office analyzing paper work, "Mobilizing Man, Mice and Machines for the Fight". Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.		Shown is the Office of Cancer Investigations from Cambridge, Massachusetts who became part of the first NCI staff during the summer of 1939 shortly before moving into building 6 in october. Front (l-r): J. Trovato, D. Howard, R. Robin, T. Shovelton, R. O'Gara, D. Silverman, F. Linnell, J. Stasio, F. Turner (Medical Director). Center: M. Shear, H. Stewart, H. Grady, H. Andervont, E. Lorenz, J. Leiter, A. Perrault. Rear: F. Kennedy, W. McEheney, J. Hartwell, M. Shimkin, J. Murphy, W. Gately, H. Meyer. See also AR000174. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.
	Packing up a shear cliff Party off WILDCAT. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		Scene in Apia Harbor, Upolu, Samoa, during salvage efforts, circa late March or early April. The view looks about northwestward. In the foreground are improvised shear legs and purchase for handling guns, carriages and other heavy weights removed from the wrecks. This arrangement was used both in landing materials and later in embarking it on USS Monongahela for transit home. The bow of the German gunboat Eber is at left, by the shear legs. USS Trenton is in the center, with the sunken USS Vandalia alongside. Vandalia's smokestack has been removed to replace that of USS Nipsic, which is probably the ship in the right distance. In the left distance is the German gunboat Adler, on her side in shallow water. Credit: NAVY.
	Philip Bosco as physicist Niels Bohr in "Copenhagen" and Claudia Shear as Mae West in "Dirty Blonde" / Hirschfeld 5. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Play	Caption	Play	Caption
	Cut; shear; trim; .		Cut; chop; axe; cleave; clip; cube; dice; divide; fell; fragment; hack; hackle; hash; hew; lop; mangle; mince; sever; shear; slash; truncate; whack.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Shear" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 77.16% of the time. "Shear" is used about 232 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (base form)	77.16%	179	23,133
Noun (singular)	15.09%	35	58,339
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	7.76%	18	82,615
Total	100.00%	232	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "shear" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Shear	Last name	1,000	12,730
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "shear".
Name	Gender	Language	Meaning
Sherman	Male	English	A shear man
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "shear": anticyclonic shear ♦ bed shear stress ♦ boundary shear ♦ cyclonic shear ♦ elasticity of shear ♦ general shear failure ♦ horizontal wind shear ♦ modulus of elasticity in shear ♦ pruning shear ♦ shear area ♦ shear blade ♦ shear cleavage ♦ shear force ♦ shear hulk ♦ shear link assembly ♦ shear loss modulus ♦ shear modulus ♦ shear off ♦ shear pin ♦ shear steel ♦ shear strain ♦ shear stress ♦ shear thickening ♦ shear through ♦ shear zone ♦ undrained shear strength ♦ vertical wind shear ♦ wind shear. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "shear": shear-free, Shear-Jashub, shear-lag, shear-legs, Shear-Speed, shear-steel, shear-strength, shear-wave, shear-wave.
	Ending with "shear": extensional-shear, hi-shear, precision-shear.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "shear"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		sny (clip, cut, slice). (various references)

Albanian		qethje (clip, clipping, crop, fleece, shearing), qeth (clip, cut, edge, fleece, shave, whittle down), pres me gërshërë (scissor), krasis (pare, prune), gërshërë krasitjeje (garden pruner, secateurs, shears). (various references)

Arabic		‏مجزة, ‏قص (clip, clipping, cut, narrate, recount, relate, report, scissor, shearing, shorn, snip, styling, tell), ‏جز (clip, clipping, fleece, mow, shear off), ‏جرد (denude, deprive, dispossess, divest, empty, inventory, oust, riffle, stocking, strip, sucker, unclothe), ‏المرفاع المقصي, ‏إحدى شفرتي المجز. (various references)

Bulgarian		срязване (put down, rake, rebuff, repulse, set down, shearing, squelch), срязвам (cut, detruncate, rebuff, repulse, scissor, scotch, set down, snub, squelch), стригане (shearing), стрижа (clip, crop, shore, tip), вертикален подкоп, остригвам (cut smb.'s hair, rase, raze, strip), оскубвам (deplume, displume, fleece, gaff, pick, pluck, pluck out, plume, pull, rush, tear out), отрязвам (amputate, crop, cut away, cut off, excise, exscind, intercept, lop, nip off, sever, slice off, snip off, take off), настриг (clip, cut), наклон на режещ ръб, накланям (rake, recline, tilt, tip), махам мъха на, лишавам (abridge, bereave, bereft, denude, drain, drain of, pinch, starve), подстригвам (cut smb.'s hair, give smb. a trim, shingle, trim). (various references)

Catalan		tallar (clip, cut). (various references)

Chinese		剪斷 , 剪 (sheared, shearing, shears, sheers, snip, snips). (various references)

Czech		střih (cut, edition, haircut, pattern), stříhat (clip, cut, snip), stříhání (cut, shearing), ostříhat (pare). (various references)

Danish		klippe (boulder, clip, cut, rock). (various references)

Dutch		scheren (clip, cut, shave, skim), knippen (clip, cut, polish), snoeien (clip, cut, prune). (various references)

Esperanto		tondi (clip, cut). (various references)

Faeroese		klippa (clip, cut). (various references)

Farsi		ماشین برش , چیدن پشم گوسفندوغیره , چیدن مو, قیچی کردن (Share, Snip), اسباب برش قیچی , شکاف دادن (Chap, Slash), بریدن (Amputate, Carve, Chop, Cut, Cutback, Cutoff, Dock, Gash, Hack, Haggle, Hew, Intercept, Mangle, Rase, Rift, Sect, Sever, Slice, Sliver, Stag, Stump, Sunder, Whittle). (various references)

Finnish		leikata (carve, clip, crop, cut, cut out, intersect, lance, operate, pare, prunce, slice, trim). (various references)

French		tondre (shear off), découper, cisaille (butt shear, double-bladed shear, felling shear, scissor shear, scissor type shear, shearlines, shears, tree shear, twin bladed shear). (various references)

German		scheren (clip, crop, cut, shave, shears, to clip, trim), abscheren (clip, cut, shave off, shear off), schub (batch, drawer, phase, push, shove, shoved, throw, thrust), abschneiden (amputate, block off, chopp, clip, clipping, cut, cut off, cutting off, intercept, isolate, severance, slice off, snip, strip, to chop, to cut off, to shear, to strip, to truncate, trim away, trim off, truncate). (various references)

Greek		κουρεύω (clip, crop, fleece, trim). (various references)

Hebrew		ל�'זור (clip, cut, cut out, decree, fell, ordain), ל�'רוע (derogate, detract, diminish, lessen, reduce, subtract). (various references)

Hungarian		nyírás (clip, clipping, paring, shearing, trimming), ollópenge, nyíró igénybevétel, csúsztató sín. (various references)

Indonesian		meremukkan ke dalam, mencopot (extract, pull out, remove, take off, untie), gunting besar. (various references)

Italian		spogliare (bereave, deprive, deprive oneself, divest, fleece, Rob, strip, unclothe, undress), sforzo di taglio (shear force, shearing force), tosatura (clip, clipping, shearing), tosare (clip, fleece, shave, shorn), taglio (blade, clip, clipping, cut, cutoff, cutting, denomination, edge, gash, hack, kerf, length, section, slash, sliced, slot, style, styling), tagliare (blend, carve, chop, clip, cross, cut, cut across, cut down, cut off, fell, get cut, hack, hew, knife, mow, reap, short cut, slice, snip, trim), pelare (fleece, pare, pluck, rip off, skin, unhair), paravento (screen), ordire (abet, plan, plot, scheme, warp), cesoiare (cut chiplessly, cut without stock removal), cesoia (shearlines, shears), azione tagliante (shear force, shearing force). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		剪断 (shearing), 刈 (clip, cut, prune, reap, trim). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		せ�"� �" (arbitrariness, arbitrary action, arbitrary decision, fleet, on one's own authority, shearing), かり (acting, assumed, borrowing, clip, cut, debt, fleeting, hunting, informal, interim, loan, lower official, potash, potassium, provisional, prune, reap, temporary, trim, unauthorized, wild goose). (various references)

Korean		가위 (scissors, shears, sheers). (various references)

Manx		lommyrt (clipping, shearing, shearling, sheep-shearing), loamyr, loamrey (fell, fleece, shearing, wool, wool on sheep), giarrey (abbreviate, abridge, abridging, axe, beat out, bob the tail; severance, bob; severance, carve, castrate, cleave, clip, clip as words; slicing, clip; slicing, condensation, condense, condensing, crop, crop as tail, curtail, curtailment, cut, cut away, cut back, cut short, cut up, disconnect, disconnection, dissect, erupt, eruption, flux, gash, hack, hew, incise, incision, infliction, intersect, intersection, lance, levy, lop, mark out, nicking, prune, pruning, puncture, reaping, scission, section, sever, sink, slash, slit, snip, truncate), buinn (cut, cut down, harvest, lift, mow, mowing, reap, reaping, shearing). (various references)

Norwegian		klippe (cliff, clip, cut, fleece). (various references)

Papiamen		corta (clip, cut, slice). (various references)

Pig Latin		earshay

Polish		strzyc (clip, cut). (various references)

Portuguese		tosquiar (clip, fleece), tosar (clip), podar (clip, detruncate, disbud, head, lop, pare, prune, trim), cortar (bite, chaff, chip, chop, clip, crop, curtail, cut, cut down, cut off, delete, detruncate, fell, gash, gouge, hack, hackle, hand back, hew, hew down, incise, indent, interrupt, intersect, let by, log, lope, lumber, mow, pollack, pollen, sever, shave, shut off, slice, slit, strike off, strike out, Whittle). (various references)

Romanian		se tãia (cut), tunsoare (haircut, tonsure), tuns (cut, hair-cutting, shearing, shorn, short, short-haired, trimmed), tunde (clip, crop, cut, edge, lop, pare, trim), tãia (amputate, ax, axe, butcher, cancel, carve, carve out, castrate, chop, clap, cleave, clip, crop, cross, Curdle, cut, cut on the bias, Dent, dissect, engrave, excise, exscind, fell, flench, foul, grave, hew, incise, intercept, kill, measure off, notch, notch off, pare, plough, prune, quarter, resect, rip, Rive, separate, sever, shorten, shut the works down, slaughter, slay, slice, snick, split, Square, stop, strike out, switch off), jumuli (disrobe, fleece, pick, pick off, pluck, Rob, shave), foarfece (claws, clipper, scissors, shears), despuia (denude, despoil, disarray, skin, strip, undress). (various references)

Russian		стричь овец (fleece), стричь (cut, pare), стрижка (clip, clipping, haircut, hair-cut, shearing), сдвиг (dislocation, displacement, shearing, shift, translation, upheaval), резать (carve, cut, slaughters, snip, snipped, snipping, snips). (various references)

Scottish		rùisg (bare, bark, disclose, peel, strip), be� rr. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		strigati (clip), striža (shearing). (various references)

Spanish		cortar (ax, axe, bar, behead, block off, Bob, break, break in, chop, clip, comminute, crop, cut, cut across, cut away, cut down, cut in, cut off, cut out, cut up, decapitate, detruncate, disbranch, excise, exscind, fell, hack, incise, intersect, joint, lop, lop away, lop off, lumber, mow, Nick, nip, open, pare, pick, pluck, prune, sever, shear off, shear through, shut off, slice, slit, snick, strike off, tear off, trim away, trim off, turn off, turn out, Whittle), esquilar (clip, crop, fleece), cizallar (cut chiplessly, cut without stock removal). (various references)

Swedish		klippa (cliff, clip, cut, edit, mow, outcrop, outcropp, pare, rock, rock (of stone), scaur, scissor, trim). (various references)

Thai		การตั�"ขนแกะ, กรรไกร (scissor), ตั�" (hack). (various references)

Turkish		soymak (bare, bark, burglarize, burgle, clean out, decorticate, denude, deplume, despoil, disrobe, divest, flay, fleece, heist, hold up, housebreak, knock off, pare, Peel, pluck, plunder, pull off, rifle, rip off, Rob, roll, sack, shave, skin, stick up, strip, unclothe, undress, unrobe), yoksun bırakmak (bereave, debar, debar from, deny, deprive, dispossess, forgo, Rob), makaslama gerilimi (shearing stress), makaslama gücü (shearing force, shearing strenght), makasla kesmek (cut, scissor, snip), mahrum etmek (abridge, con smb. out of, debar, debar from, deny, deprive, detain, dispossess, divest, divest smb. of, lose, mulct, oust, spoil, starve, stint), kesmek (abandon, amputate, Bate, blunt, break, butcher, carve, cease, chaff, chop, chop off, clip, close, close down, crop, cut, cut back, cut off, cut out, deaden, disconnect, discontinue, dock, drop, dry up, excise, fair, fell, gash, give over, hack, hew, interrupt, intersect, kill, knife, lay off, lop, lop off, Nick, nick oneself, nip, nip off, occlude, pare, poll, prune, saw off, sever, shave, shut down on, shut down upon, shut off, slash, slaughter, slice, slit, snick, stanch, staunch, stem, stop, truncate, wrap it up, wrap up), kesilmek (be cut, be interrupted, become, cease, close down, clot, Curdle, die away, die down, drop, dry up, go down, go off, go sour, intermit, let up, set, sour, stop, surcease, turn sour), kırpmak (bat, blink, clip, crop, cut, pare, retrench, shave, wink), kırkmak (fleece, tag), biçilmek. (various references)

Ukranian		стригти (beard, clip, cut), стриження (shearing), косити (barb, mow down, scythe). (various references)

Vietnamese		thép l� m kéo (shear steel), thép l� m dao (shear steel). (various references)

Welsh		gwelleifio, cneifio (fleece). (various references)

Yucatec		k'osik (clip, cut). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	adtondebitis, adtondent, adtondentur, adtonsi, lift tondeo totonsi tonsum, tonde, tondeatur, tondebatur, tondebis, tondendas, tondente, tondentes, tondentur, tondeo totonsi tonsum, tondere, tonderent, tonderentur, tonderet, tonderetur, tonderi, tonsarum, tonso, totonderat, totonderunt. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Genesis Chapter 31, Verse 19
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Laban de wceto keirai ta probata autou ekleyen de rachl ta eidwla tou patroV authV
Latin	405	Vulgate	Eo tempore Laban ierat ad tondendas oves et Rahel furata est idola patris sui
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	That tyme Laban was goon to the sheep that shulden be clippid, and Rachel hadde stolne the mawmetis of hir fadir.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	Laba was gone to shere his shepe and Rahel had stolle hir fathers ymages.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And Laban went to shear his sheep; and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	Now Laban had gone to see to the cutting of the wool of his sheep; so Rachel secretly took the images of the gods of her father's house.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Genesis Chapter 31, Verse 19
Cebuano	Karon si Laban miadto sa paggunting sa balhibo sa iyang mga carnero; ug gikawat ni Raquel ang mga dios sa iyang amahan.
Chinese	當時拉班剪羊毛去了．拉結偷了他父親家中的神像。
Croatian	Laban bijaše otišao da striže svoje ovce, pa Rahela prisvoji kuæne kumire koji su pripadali njezinu ocu.
Danish	Medens Laban var borte og klippede sine Får, stjal Rakel sin Faders Husgud.
Dutch	Laban nu was gegaan, om zijn schapen te scheren; zo stal Rachel de terafim, die haar vader had.
Finnish	Mutta Laaban oli mennyt keritsemään lampaitaan. Silloin Raakel varasti isänsä kotijumalat.
French	Tandis que Laban était allé tondre ses brebis, Rachel déroba les théraphim de son père;
Hungarian	Lábán pedig elment vala juhait nyírni; azonközben ellopá Rákhel a házi bálványokat, melyek atyjánál valának.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Pada waktu itu Laban ada di padang sedang menggunting bulu domba-dombanya, dan pada waktu itulah Rahel mencuri patung pelindung keluarga kepunyaan ayahnya.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Hata, maka Labanpun sudah pergi mengguntingkan bulu dombanya; lalu dicuri Rakhel akan berhala bapanya.
Maori	Na ko Rapana kua riro ki te kutikuti i ana hipi: katahi ka tahaetia e Rahera nga whakapakoko a tona papa.
Norwegian	Men Laban hadde draget bort for å klippe sine får; da stjal Rakel sin fars husguder.
Portuguese	Ora, tendo Labão ido tosquiar as suas ovelhas, Raquel furtou os ídolos que pertenciam a seu pai.
Rumanian	Pe cknd Laban se dusese sq-wi tundq oile, Rahela a furat idolii tatqlui squ;
Swedish	Men Laban hade gått bort för att klippa sina får; då stal Rakel sin faders husgudar,
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "shear": sheared, shearer, shearers, shearing, shearings, shearling, shearlings, shears, shearwater, shearwaters. (additional references)
	Words ending with "shear": mishear. (additional references)
	Words containing "shear": dishearten, disheartened, disheartening, dishearteningly, disheartenment, disheartenments, disheartens, misheard, mishearing, mishears, sheepshearer, sheepshearers, sheepshearing, sheepshearings. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Shear" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ahiqar, phear, Saher, scear, Schaar, Schaer, sehr, shaer, shair, Shazam, shea, shead, sheak, sheam, shean, sheap, Sheare, Shearim, Shearn, shearp, sheary, sheas, sheav, Shedad, Shehab, Sheigra, Sheka, shemaal, Shemar, Shemara, Shemau, sher, Sherai, shere, Sherr, sheta, sheu, Shewa, Sheward, Shewry, shher, shiar, Shihab, shikara, shikari, Shimar, shira, shiraho, shiraji, Shiraw, Shiyah, shoard, shofar, shora, Shotaro, shour, shpar, shsa, shuar, Shucard, shuer, skear, snear, stear, Zuhair. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "shear" (pronounced shi"r)
3	sh i" r	cashier, sheer.
2	-i" r	adhere, Amir, appear, auctioneer, austere, bandolier, beer, belvedere, bioengineer, bombardier, Brigadier, budgeteer, career, cavalier, chandelier, cheer, Chevalier, clear, commandeer, conventioneer, dear, deer, disappear, domineer, ear, electioneer, emir, engineer, fear, financier, fleer, Frere, frontier, gear, gondolier, hear, here, insincere, interfere, jeer, Kier, Lear, marketeer, mere, mir, mutineer, near, overhear, pamphleteer, peer, persevere, pier, pioneer, premier, premiere, profiteer, queer, Racketeer, Rainier, reappear, rear, reengineer, rehear, revere, sear, sere, severe, sincere, smear, sneer, souvenir, spear, Speer, speir, sphere, steer, summiteer, unclear, veer, veneer, volunteer, year, Zaire.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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	Direct Anagrams: hares, hears, rheas, share.
	Words within the letters "a-e-h-r-s"
	-1 letter: ares, arse, ears, eras, haes, hare, hear, hers, rase, rash, resh, rhea, sear, sera, shea.
	-2 letters: are, ars, ash, ear, era, ers, hae, has, her, hes, rah, ras, res, sae, sea, ser, sha, she.
	-3 letters: ae, ah, ar, as, eh, er, es, ha, he, re, sh.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-h-r-s"
	+1 letter: afresh, ahorse, arches, ashier, ashler, ashore, basher, chares, chaser, dasher, earths, eschar, gasher, gerahs, haeres, halers, harems, haters, havers, hawser, hayers, hazers, hearse, hearts, hoarse, kasher, lasher, masher, phrase, raphes, rasher, rashes, rehabs, rehash, rewash, search, seraph, shader, shaker, shaper, shared, sharer, shares, shaver, shears, sherpa, shmear, washer.
	+2 letters: adheres, aethers, airshed, anthers, archers, ashlers, bashers, bathers, bearish, berthas, braches, brasher, brashes, breaths, cahiers, cashier, chafers, charges, chasers, chaster, chawers, choreas, clasher, crashed, crasher, crashes, dashers, dashier, dearths, earshot, echards, eparchs, eschars, exarchs, fathers, flasher, gathers, hackers, hafters, hailers, halters, halvers, hammers, hampers, hamster, hangers, hankers, hardens, hardest, hardies, hardset, hareems, harkens, harmers, harness, harpers, harpies, harries, harshen, harsher, harslet, harvest, hastier, hatreds, hatters, haulers, hawkers, hawsers, headers, healers, hearers, hearsay, hearsed, hearses, hearths, heaters, heavers, hegaris, hegiras, hejiras, heralds, herbals, hernias, hoarsen, hoarser, hoaxers, hydrase, hyraces, hyraxes, kashers, larches, lashers, lathers, marches, marshes, mashers, mesarch, mishear, oraches, parches, perhaps, phrased, phrases, plasher, prewash, quasher, rachets, ranches, rashers, rashest, ratches, reaches, rehangs, rehears, reheats, reshape, reshave, rhaphes, roaches, schmear, senhora, seraphs, shaders, shadier, shakers, shakier, shalier, shammer, shapers, sharers, sharked, sharker, sharped, sharpen, sharper, sharpie, shatter, shavers, sheared, shearer, sherpas, shmears, shoaler, slasher, slather, smasher, spheral, swasher, swather, tephras, thalers, thawers, thenars, thraves, threads, threaps, threats, trashed, trashes, washers, washier, wearish, whalers, wharves, whereas, wreaths.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 68 65 61 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

⁼

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

... .... . .- .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101000 01100101 01100001 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#104 &#101 &#97 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0068 0065 0061 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5374716784

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woordeboek, fjalor, ‏معجم, ‏قاموس, diccionariu, речник, diccionari, diksyonario, diksinario, 字典, gérlyver, slovník, ordbog, woordenboek, shimiyuc p'anca, orðabók, orðbók, dictionnaire, wurdboek, wörterbuch, λεξικό, אוצר מילים, szótár, uqausiit tukingit, dizionario, 字引 , じい, じびき, じて�", ディクショナリー , じり�", じしょ, �'�"かい, ディクショナリ , 사� �, dizionari, recnik, fockleyr, dikshonario, słownik, dicionário, dicţionar, dicziunari, словарь, lolomi fefiloi, foclair, abardair, faclair, briathrachan, pukuntau, leksikon, rečnik, vocabbulariu, diccionario, sí-chazamagâma, ordbok, lexikon, พจนานุกรม, sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, словник, довідник, có tính chất sách vở, geirlyfr, geiriadur, for dictionary;
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vertaling, transferim, transmetim, ‏ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ‏ترجمة, ‏إفتتان, транслация, огъване, превод, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, превеждане, 翻译, překlad, oversættelse, translatie, taajuusmuutos, translaatio, traduction, oersetting, Übersetzung, μετάφραση, תור�'מ� ות, תר�'ום, �"עתק�", �"עתק, fordítás, traduzione, 翻訳 , へい�"ういどう, やくしょ, やくしゅつ, �"うどく, ほ�"やく, トランスレーション , やくじゅつ, ほ�"やくしょ, 번역, tradukshon, tradução, translaţie, tãlmãcire, traducere, сдвиг, трансляция, перемещение, перевод, tumačenje, traducción, översättning, tercüme, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення, sự dịch, sự biến th� nh sự giải thích, trosiad, for translation;
Albaans, Albanies, Albaniese taal, shqip, ‏الألبانية, ‏الألباني, албанец, албански език, албански, Albanyano, 阿�"巴尼亚语, 阿爾巴尼亞人 , albánský, Albanees, albanskt, albanialainen, Albanais, Albaneesk, albaner, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, arbnisht, arbërisht, albán, albanskur, albanska, AlbÚinis, albanese, 알�"니아, Albaneagh, albanês, arnãut, albanez, arnãuţesc, албанский, Alapania, albanski, albanac, albanés, alban, Arnavut, албанський, албанка, албанець, for Albanian;
Arabies, arabishte, ‏العربية, ‏عربي, ‏اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, 阿拉伯 , arabský, arabština, arábiskt, arabialainen, arabe, Arabysk, arabisch, αραβικόσ, ערבית, ערבי, arab, arabo, 아라비아, Arabish, arabir, arabic, арабский, Arapi, arapski, árabe, arabisk, � าษาหรืออักขระอาหรับ, เกี่ยวกับอาระเบีย, arapça, arap, araplara özgü, арабська мова, арабський, tiếng A-rập, thuộc A-rập, for Arabic;
Bulgaars, Bulgaar, bulgr, ‏البلغارية, ‏بلغاري, Búlgaru, български, български език, българин, Bulgaryan, 保� 利亚, bulharský, bulgarer, bulgarskt, bulgarialainen, Bulgaarsk, bulgare, �'ούλγαρος, bullgar, bolgár, bulgaro, 불가리아, Bulgeyragh, Bulgeyrish, Bułgar, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський, người Bun-ga-ri tiếng Bun-ga-ri, for Bulgarian;
каталонски, каталонец, catal� , katalánský, Katalaansk, katalanisch, katalane, katalanin, katalán, catalano, catalão, catalan, каталонский, Katalana, katalonski, katalonac, catalán, katalansk, katalonyalı kimse, katalonyalı, katalonya veya dili ile ilgili, katalonya lehçesi, for catalan;
Sjinees, Chinees, kinez, ‏الصينية, ‏لغة الصين, ‏صيني, ‏الصيني أحد أبناء الصين, Chinu, китайски, Ininsik, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , èínský, èínština, èíòan, kineser, kinesiskt, kinverskur, kiinalainen, Chinois, Sineesk, Chinesisch, Κινέζος, κινέζικα, κινέζικοσ, κινέζοσ, σινικόσ, kínai, Kínverji, Sínis, cinese, チフス菌 , チャイニーズ , 중국, Cina, Sheenish, Sheenagh, Hainamana, chines, Chińczyk, chinês, chinés, chinezesc, chinezeşte, chinezã, chinez, китайский, китаец, Saina, kineski jezik, kineski, chino, snesi, sneysi, kinesisk, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin, китаянка, китайська мова, китайський, кита�"ць, for Chinese;
Tsjeggies, Tsjeg, çek, ‏تشيكي, ‏اللغة التشيكوسلوفاكية, ‏التشيكي أحد أبناء تشيكوسلوفاكيا, Checu, чешки, Sekoslovakyano, 捷克語 , 捷克语, 捷克 , èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, tjekker, tjekke, Tsjech, Tsjechisch, tjekkiskt, t?ekkiläinen, tchèque, Tsjechysk, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, ceco, 체�", Sheckagh, Sheckish, Czech, chèc, ceh, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка, người Séc tiếng Séc, for Czech;
Deens, danisht, danishte, ‏لغة الدانمركية, ‏نوع كعك, ‏دانماركي, датски език, датски, Daniko, 丹麦语, dánský, dánština, danskur, danskt, tanskalainen, danois, Deensk, dänisch, δανικόσ, δανόσ, עו�'ת שמרים, �"� י, dán, danska, Danmhairgis, danese, 덴마크, Danvargish, Danvargagh, danes, dinamarquês, danez, датский, danski, danski jezik, danés, dansk, danimarkalı, danimarka dili, датський, датська мова, tiếng Đan-mạch, for Danish;
Nederlands, Hollands, holandez, ‏هولندي, ‏اللغة الهولندية, холандски, немски език, холандски език, холандците, немски, Olandes, 菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, holandský, nizozemský, hollandsk, hollendskt, hollantilainen, néerlandais, Nederlânsk, holländisch, ολλανδικόσ, ολλανδόσ, holandisht, �"ול� �"י, holland, hollenskur, Ollainnis, olandese, 네덜란�"�, Belanda, Ollanish, Germaanish, Tatimana, nederlandsk, ulandes, hulandes, holandês, neerlandés, olandez, nemţesc, limba olandezã, german, голландский, holanđanin, u škripcu, holandski, holandés, bakratongo, holländsk, ชาวเนเธอร์แลน�"์, เกี่ยวกับเนเธอร์แลน�"์, � รรยา, alman, eş, flemenkçe, holandaca, hollanda, karı, hollandalı, hollandalılara özgü olan, Hollandali, hollanda'ya ait, голландська мова, голландський, ngôn ngữ khó hiểu, "b� xã", for Dutch;
‏الاسبرانتو لغة دولية, Esperantu, есперанто, 世界语, esperanton, espéranto, εσπεράντο, אספר� טו, eszperanto, eszperantó, エスキモー犬 , エスペラント , эсперанто, Eseperano, esperanto, Kiesperanto, � าษาที่ประ�"ิษฐ์ขึ้นเพื่อใช้เป็น� าษากลางในการสื่อสารระหว่างประเทศ ซึ่งรากศัพท์ส่วนใหญ่�, esperanto dili, tiếng etperantô, for esperanto;
费罗族, føroyskur, färöisk, färöbo, for Faeroese;
Farsi, Parsi, persiskt, Fasi, for Farsi;
Fins, finlandez, finlandishte, finlandisht, ‏اللغة الفنلندية, ‏فنلندية, ‏فنلندي, фински език, фински, Pinlandino, 芬蘭語 , 芬兰语, finský, finskt, suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, פי� י, finn, finnskur, finnska, finlandese, 핀란�"�, Fynlannish, Fynlannagh, finlandês, finês, finlandezã, финский, Finisi, finski jezik, finski, finlandés, finés, finsk, fince, finlandiya'ya özgü, фінська мова, фінський, tiếng Phần-lan, for Finnish;
Franse taal, Frans, franceze, francez, frëngjisht, frëng, frëngjishte, ‏فرنسي, ‏اللغة الفرنسية, ‏الشعب الفرنسي, gall, френски език, френски, Pranses, 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, francouzština, francouzský, franskur, franskt, ranskalainen, français, Frânsk, französisch, γάλλοσ, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, צרפתי, צרפתית, francia, Fraincis, francese, フレコン化 , フランス�" , 仏文 , 仏 , ふつぶ�", フレンチ , フランセ , ふつ, �"�랑스, Perancis, Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank, frances, franses, francês, francezii, francezã, franţuzesc, franţuzeşte, французский, Falani, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, sí-Fulentji, fransk, franska, fransızca, Fransiz, fransızca ile

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
rhonda shear	238	machine shear	10
shear	134	bolt shear strength	10
beverly shear	46	shear blade	10
bear shear	42	shear suzy	10
shear mineral	37	blade guillotine shear	9
realty shear	32	hydraulic shear	9
hi shear	29	shear modulus	9
madness shear	26	photo rhonda shear	8
metal shear	24	shear shear wall wall	7
high shear mixer	22	shear shingle	7
shear pin	20	foot shear	7
shear wall	20	jules shear	7
rhonda shear nude	20	cordless grass shear	7
shear stress	15	force shear	7
shear wind	15	shear steel strength	6
shear strength	14	pantie shear	6
tree shear	13	shear stud	6
ego shear	13	bolt shear	6
sheet metal shear	12	shear connector	6
shear sheep	11	low pump shear	5
		pleasure shear	5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Shear

Definitions: Shear

Shear

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