: an action or stress resulting from applied forces that causes or tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact. …

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SHEARING meaning: 1. the activity of cutting the wool off a sheep: 2. the process of cutting the hair on a person's…. Learn more.

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 …

One careful handful at a time, he began cutting off his hair, shearing it off as close to his scalp as he could.

Dec 8, 2025 · shearing (countable and uncountable, plural shearings) The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.

/ˈʃɪərɪŋ/ IPA guide Other forms: shearings Definitions of shearing noun removing by cutting off or clipping see more

SHEAR meaning: 1. to cut the wool off a sheep: 2. to cut the hair on a person's head close to the skin…. Learn more.

His long locks were shorn. The excess weight caused the bolt to shear off. The impact of the crash sheared off the airplane's wing.

shear /ʃɪə/ vb (shears, shearing, sheared, Austral NZ shore, sheared, shorn) (transitive) to remove (the fleece or hair) of (sheep, etc) by cutting or clipping