Sheer word meaning and definition
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Meaning and definition for "sheer" word
[adv] straight up or down without a break
[adjective] very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front; "a bluff headland"; "where the bold chalk cliffs of England rise"; "a sheer descent of rock"
[adjective] not mixed with extraneous elements; "plain water"; "sheer wine"; "not an unmixed blessing"
[adjective] so thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks"
[verb] cause to sheer; "She sheered her car around the obstacle"
[verb] turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right"
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\Sheer\, adv. Clean; quite; at once. [Obs.] --Milton.
\Sheer\, v. t. [See {Shear}.] To shear. [Obs.] --Dryden.
\Sheer\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Sheered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sheering}.] [D. sheren to shear, cut, withdraw, warp. See {Shear}.] To decline or deviate from the line of the proper course; to turn aside; to swerve; as, a ship sheers from her course; a horse sheers at a bicycle. {To sheer off}, to turn or move aside to a distance; to move away. {To sheer up}, to approach obliquely.
\Sheer\, n. 1. (Naut.)
(a) The longitudinal upward curvature of the deck, gunwale, and lines of a vessel, as when viewed from the side.
(b) The position of a vessel riding at single anchor and swinging clear of it. 2. A turn or change in a course. Give the canoe a sheer and get nearer to the shore. --Cooper. 3. pl. Shears See {Shear}. {Sheer batten} (Shipbuilding), a long strip of wood to guide the carpenters in following the sheer plan. {Sheer boom}, a boom slanting across a stream to direct floating logs to one side. {Sheer hulk}. See {Shear hulk}, under {Hulk}. {Sheer plan}, or {Sheer draught} (Shipbuilding), a projection of the lines of a vessel on a vertical longitudinal plane passing through the middle line of the vessel. {Sheer pole} (Naut.), an iron rod lashed to the shrouds just above the dead-eyes and parallel to the ratlines. {Sheer strake} (Shipbuilding), the strake under the gunwale on the top side. --Totten. {To break sheer} (Naut.), to deviate from sheer, and risk fouling the anchor.
Synonyms for sheer
bluff, bold, cobwebby, curve, cut, diaphanous, filmy, gauzy, gossamer, perpendicularly, plain, pure, see-through, slew, slue, steep, swerve, thin, transparent, trend, unmingled, unmixed, vaporous, veer
See also: channelise | channelize | direct | guide | head | maneuver | manoeuvre | peel off | point | steer | turn | yaw |
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Let's analyse "sheer" as pure text. This string has Five letters in One syllable and Two vowels. 40% of vowels is 1.4% more then average English word. Written in backwards: REEHS. Average typing speed for these characters is 1430 milliseconds. [info]
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Numerology Hearts desire number calculated from vowels:
sheer: 5 + 5 = 10, reduced: 1 . and the final result is One. |
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