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General (31 matching dictionaries)

1. shear: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
2. shear: Oxford Dictionaries [home, info]
3. shear: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
4. shear: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
5. shear: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
6. shear: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
7. Shear, shear: Wordnik [home, info]
8. shear: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
9. Shear, shear: Wiktionary [home, info]
10. shear: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
11. shear: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
12. shear: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
13. shear: Dictionary.com [home, info]
14. shear (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
15. shear: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
16. shear: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
17. Shear (comics), Shear (fluid), Shear (geology), Shear (mathematics), Shear (sheet metal), Shear (surname), Shear: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
18. Shear: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
19. shear: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
20. shear: Rhymezone [home, info]
21. Shear: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
22. shear: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
23. shear: All About Homonyms [home, info]
24. shear: Free Dictionary [home, info]
25. shear: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
26. shear: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
27. Shear, shear: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
28. shear: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
29. shear: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Business (1 matching dictionary)

30. Shear: Construction Term Glossary [home, info]

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

31. Shear (mathematics), shear: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

32. shear: online medical dictionary [home, info]
33. shear: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

34. shear: Sound-Alike Words [home, info]
35. SHEAR: Acronym Finder [home, info]

Science (6 matching dictionaries)

36. shear: Archaeology Wordsmith [home, info]
37. Shear: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics [home, info]
38. Shear: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics [home, info]
39. Shear: Extragalactic Astronomy [home, info]
40. SHEAR: Weather Glossary [home, info]

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

42. Shear: Urban Dictionary [home, info]

Tech (12 matching dictionaries)

43. SHEAR: Metal Terminology [home, info]
44. Shear: AUTOMOTIVE TERMS [home, info]
45. SHEAR: Glossary of Composite Terms [home, info]
46. Shear: Glossary of Fastener Terms [home, info]
47. shear: Glossary of Meteorology [home, info]
48. Shear: K & A glossary [home, info]
49. Shear: Fiberglass Glossary [home, info]
50. Shear: Bridge Dictionary [home, info]
51. SHEAR: Industry Terms for Fiberglass [home, info]
52. Shear: National Weather Service Glossary [home, info]
53. shear: Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary [home, info]
54. shear: SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language [home, info]

(Note: See shorn for more definitions.)

Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (shear) ▸ noun:  a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it ▸ noun:  (usually plural) large scissors with strong blades ▸ noun:  (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") ▸ verb:  cut with shears ("Shear hedges") ▸ verb:  cut or cut through with shears ▸ verb:  shear the wool from ("Shear sheep") ▸ name:  A surname (rare: 1 in 100000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #12730) ▸ Also see shorn ▸ Word origin ▸ Words similar to shear ▸ Usage examples for shear ▸ Popular adjectives describing shear ▸ Words that often appear near shear ▸ Rhymes of shear ▸ Invented words related to shear