Crossword clues for shearing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shear \Shear\ (sh[=e]r), v. t. [imp. Shearedor Shore;p. p. Sheared or Shorn; p. pr. & vb. n. Shearing.] [OE. sheren, scheren, to shear, cut, shave, AS. sceran, scieran, scyran; akin to D. & G. scheren, Icel. skera, Dan. ski?re, Gr. ???. Cf. Jeer, Score, Shard, Share, Sheer to turn aside.]
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To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.
Note: It is especially applied to the cutting of wool from sheep or their skins, and the nap from cloth.
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To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece.
Before the golden tresses . . . were shorn away.
--Shak. To reap, as grain. [Scot.]
--Jamieson.Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece.
(Mech.) To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4.
Shearing \Shear"ing\, n.
The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
The product of the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine; as, the whole shearing of a flock; the shearings from cloth.
Same as Shearling.
--Youatt.The act or operation of reaping. [Scot.]
The act or operation of dividing with shears; as, the shearing of metal plates.
The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
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(Mining) The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal. Shearing machine.
A machine with blades, or rotary disks, for dividing plates or bars of metal.
A machine for shearing cloth.
Wiktionary
Tending to cut or tear. n. 1 The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth. 2 The product of the act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine. 3 (alternative form of shearling English). 4 (context Scotland English) The act or operation of reaping. 5 The act or operation of dividing with shears. 6 The process of preparing shear steel; tilting. 7 (context mining English) The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal. v
(present participle of shear English)
WordNet
n. removing by cutting off or clipping
Wikipedia
Shearing in continuum mechanics refers to the occurrence of a shear strain, which is a deformation of a material substance in which parallel internal surfaces slide past one another. It is induced by a shear stress in the material. Shear strain is distinguished from volumetric strain, the change in a material's volume in response to stress.
Often, the verb shearing refers more specifically to a mechanical process that causes a plastic shear strain in a material, rather than causing a merely elastic one. A plastic shear strain is a continuous (non-fracturing) deformation that is irreversible, such that the material does not recover its original shape. It occurs when the material is yielding. The process of shearing a material may induce a volumetric strain along with the shear strain. In soil mechanics, the volumetric strain associated with shearing is known as Reynolds' dilation if it increases the volume, or compaction if it decreases the volume.
The shear center (also known as the elastic axis or torsional axis) is an imaginary point on a section, where a shear force can be applied without inducing any torsion. In general, the shear center is not the centroid. For cross-sectional areas having one axis of symmetry, the shear center is located on the axis of symmetry. For those having two axes of symmetry, the shear center lies on the centroid of the cross-section.
In some materials such as metals, plastics, or granular materials like sand or soils, the shearing motion rapidly localizes into a narrow band, known as a shear band. In that case, all the sliding occurs within the band while the blocks of material on either side of the band simply slide past one another without internal deformation. A special case of shear localization occurs in brittle materials when they fracture along a narrow band. Then, all subsequent shearing occurs within the fracture. Plate tectonics, where the plates of the Earth's crust slide along fracture zones, is an example of this.
Shearing in soil mechanics is measured with a triaxial shear test or a direct shear test.
Shearing, also known as die cutting, is a process which cuts stock without the formation of chips or the use of burning or melting. In strict technical terms, the process of "shearing" involves the use of straight cutting bladesorm of sheet metal or plates, however rods can also be sheared. Shearing-type operations include: blanking, piercing, roll slitting, and trimming.
Usage examples of "shearing".
In a shearing shed in full swing in a good season it would have been quids, half-quids, casers, and at the lowest half-casers permitted.
The wool from Terran sheep raised on Ferguson grew up to eighteen inches long and was remarkably fine, but the Headman was shearing his citizenry closer than ever they did their sheep.
He told me that, but a short time since, a family had been ruined for having sheared the moustache of a Sclavonian--a crime not nearly so atrocious as the shearing of all my front locks, and that I had only to give him my instructions to begin a criminal suit against the abbe, which would make him tremble.
Bogan went pretty free in Bourke after the shearing before last, and in the end he got mixed up in a very ugly-looking business: he was accused of doing two new-chum jackeroos out of their stuff by some sort of confidence trick.
Birds were coming down out of the half darkness upcountry and shearing away off the edge of the mesa and to the north the lightning stood along the rimlands like burning mandrake.
Tore it off with a shreek, terrible, shuddering bang, and then came a grating sound of shearing metal, exploding in his ears, the Norseman yawing violently to the left.
Then he told of the blows that followed, and of his last that wounded Lozelle, shearing through his mail and felling him as an ox is felled by the butcher: How also, when he sprang forward to kill him, this mighty and brutal man had prayed for mercy, prayed it in the name of Christ and of their own mother, whom as a child he knew in Essex: How he could not slaughter him, being helpless, but turned away, saying that he left him to be dealt with by Al-je-bal, whereupon this traitorous dog sprang up and strove to knife him.
After a while she began puzzling and mentally shearing off his beard and shortening and restyling his hair.
His partner slammed a bootheel into the unsharpened back of the blade, shearing the locking pins.
Inoshiro flexed vis facial actuators experimentally, shearing off mulch and grime.
He shouted out his war-cries and the names of chiefs whom he had slain, and the blows of his awful axe rained straight and true, shearing through everything they fell on.
Orgoch, her black hood shrouding her features, sat on a rickety stool, trying without great success to tease cockleburs from a lapful of wool shearings.
Near by is a cornhouse and a small distillery, and the corrals for sheep shearing are not far off.
A chambermaid at the Clarendon Hotel had convinced her that short locks were all the rage, and of course, Lexia agreed to the shearing with alacrity.
Bridges would then be designed for these selected loads, and the process would be safer in dealing with flooring girders and shearing forces than the assumption of a uniform load.