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sheared

 (shîrd)
adj.
Shaped or finished by shearing, especially cut or trimmed to a uniform length: a sheared fur coat.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.sheared - having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers; "picked up the baby's shorn curls from the floor"; "naked as a sheared sheep"
unsheared, unshorn - not sheared; "a grizzly unshorn beard"; "unshorn sheep"
2.sheared - (used especially of fur or wool) shaped or finished by cutting or trimming to a uniform length; "a coat of sheared lamb"
cut - fashioned or shaped by cutting; "a well-cut suit"; "cut diamonds"; "cut velvet"
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At shearing time, wishing to take his fleece and to avoid expense, she sheared him herself, but used the shears so unskillfully that with the fleece she sheared the flesh.
It sheared off heads so many, that it, and the ground it most polluted, were a rotten red.
Therefore, the sheared position of sawtooth is more close to the tooth root under CNS condition which is good for the sawtooth to exert its antishear ability.
Each time the sample was transferred to direct shear apparatus and applied predetermined air pressure until the suction arrived at equilibrium (generally last 12 hours), then the vertical load was applied (maintaining for 12 hours) with keeping the air pressure and vertical stress constant and then be sheared. The shear rate was determined to 0.012 mm/min.
He cut his teeth on blade-shearing at the age of 15, has competed for Wales and sheared around the world.
Upper, middle and bottom sections of stalk samples were designated and sheared in certain lengths to use in experiments.
This is called shear thinning, and the rate of deformation of the paint as it is sheared is called the shear rate (units are reciprocal seconds, [s.sup.-1]).
The flow direction and the perpendicular surface at which the fluid is sheared are indicated by 1 and 2, whereas 3 is the neutral direction [1], [N.sub.1] is the larger of two nonnal stress differences, and it is responsible for rod climbing behavior of viscoelastic materials.