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Today, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don't grow the peas or raise the chicken that they serve for dinner; instead they hunt and gather in the grocery store. They go through catalogs or department stores to buy clothes instead of shearing sheep, carding wool, and weaving cloth for skirts and coats and blankets.
Helen Fisher

Meaning of "shearing" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SHEARING

shearing  [ˈʃɪərɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SHEARING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Shearing is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SHEARING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Shear

Shear as a noun may refer to: ▪ Bias, in clothing design, fabric may be cut on the shear ▪ Cosmic shear, an effect of distortion of image of distant galaxies due to deflection of light by matter, as predicted by general relativity ▪ Shear, a form of fault in rocks ▪ Simple shear, a special case of deformation of a fluid ▪ Shear, in fluid dynamics, refers to the shear stresses and responses thereto in fluids ▪ Shear mapping, a particular type of mapping in linear algebra, also called transvection ▪ Shear rate, a gradient of velocity in a flowing material ▪ Shear stress in physics, refers to a stress state that will cause shearing when it exceeds a material's shear strength ▪ Shear matrix in geometry, a linear transformation shearing a space ▪ Shear strength, shear strength ▪ Shear strength, the shear strength of soil under loading ▪ Shear line, where the inner cylinder ends and the outer cylinder begins in a cylinder lock ▪ Shear line...

Definition of shearing in the English dictionary

The definition of shearing in the dictionary is the act of shearing a sheep or flock of sheep.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SHEARING


admiring
ədˈmaɪərɪŋ
aspiring
əˈspaɪərɪŋ
bioengineering
ˌbaɪəʊˌɛndʒɪˈnɪərɪŋ
cheering
ˈtʃɪərɪŋ
clearing
ˈklɪərɪŋ
endearing
ɪnˈdɪərɪŋ
engineering
ˌɛndʒɪˈnɪərɪŋ
firing
ˈfaɪərɪŋ
gearing
ˈɡɪərɪŋ
hearing
ˈhɪərɪŋ
inspiring
ɪnˈspaɪərɪŋ
interfering
ˌɪntəˈfɪərɪŋ
layering
ˈleɪərɪŋ
mountaineering
ˌmaʊntɪˈnɪərɪŋ
pioneering
ˌpaɪəˈnɪərɪŋ
retiring
rɪˈtaɪərɪŋ
sheepshearing
ˈʃiːpˌʃɪərɪŋ
steering
ˈstɪərɪŋ
tiring
ˈtaɪərɪŋ
wiring
ˈwaɪərɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SHEARING

sheaf
sheaflike
sheafy
sheal
shear
shear pin
shear strength
shear stress
shear stud
shearer
shearing gang
shearing shed
shearleg
shearlegs
shearling
shearman
shears
shearwater
sheatfish
sheath

WORDS THAT END LIKE SHEARING

ball bearing
Baring
bearing
bring
caring
child-bearing
child rearing
daring
file sharing
file-sharing
glaring
interest-bearing
overbearing
paring
photo-sharing
roaring
soaring
sparing
staring
tearing
wearing

Synonyms and antonyms of shearing in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «SHEARING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «shearing» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of shearing

Translation of «shearing» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SHEARING

Find out the translation of shearing to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of shearing from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «shearing» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

esquila
570 millions of speakers

English

shearing
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बाल काटना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

القص
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ножницы
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cisalhamento
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

গা থেকে লোম ছাঁটা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cisaillement
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Shearing
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Scher
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

せん断
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

전단
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Shearing
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự xén lông trừu
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வெட்டுதல்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

कपाट
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kesme
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tosatura
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

cięcie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

ножиці
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

forfecare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

διάτμηση
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

skeer
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skjuvning
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

klipping
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of shearing

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SHEARING»

The term «shearing» is quite widely used and occupies the 34.958 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SHEARING» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about shearing

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3 QUOTES WITH «SHEARING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word shearing.
1
Helen Fisher
Today, most women are surrounded by ingenious gadgets. They don't grow the peas or raise the chicken that they serve for dinner; instead they hunt and gather in the grocery store. They go through catalogs or department stores to buy clothes instead of shearing sheep, carding wool, and weaving cloth for skirts and coats and blankets.
2
Austin O'Malley
In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
3
Henry David Thoreau
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHEARING»

Discover the use of shearing in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to shearing and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Governing Security: Explorations of Policing and Justice
Government has been radically transformed over the past few decades; this book traces the nature of various governmental changes by looking at security and accesses how justice can be conceived within the governance of security.
Clifford D. Shearing, Les Johnston, 2013
2
Imagining Security
This book considers how the issue of security is shaped by a range of actors and agencies in the public, private and nongovernmental sectors.
Jennifer Wood, Clifford Shearing, 2013
3
Mechanics Of Materials (In Si Units)
6.21 and 6.22 For the beam and loading shown, consider section n-n and determine the shearing stress at (a) point a, (b) point b. Problems 337 200 kN 200 kN 150 mm 75 mm 75 mm 75 mm 50 mm 100 kN HOkN Fig. P6.22 and P6. 24 180mm ...
Beer, Johnston & Dewolf, 2004
4
The New Environmental Governance
First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Cameron Holley, Neil Gunningham, Clifford Shearing, 2013
5
Private policing
The increased use of private policing has led to a growing awareness that policing can no longer be thought of as just being about crime, but as the enforcement of order and the way it can be both established and maintained.
Clifford D. Shearing, Philip C. Stenning, 1987
6
Pressure Ulcers: Guidelines for Prevention and Management
Body weight pulls the deep tissues attached to the bone in one direction while the surface (skin) or tissue sticks to the sheets and remains stationary. The body skeleton actually slides downward inside the skin. (See Shearing ...
JoAnn Maklebust, Mary Sieggreen, 2001
7
Shearing shed corral: for sheep
6096 (7 SHEET) This shearing shed and corral is intended primarily for sorting and shearing flocks of sheep. No provision is made for feed or water. A slotted floor is used in the shearing shed, except in the shearing, wool-packing, and storage ...
United States. Agricultural Research Service, 1971
8
Seasonal Work in New Zealand
The New Zealand shearing industry is a very busy one indeed, with approximately 13,000 shearers and shearing hands (rouseabouts) being required for the 2 to 3 month long main shearing season which usually takes place over the months ...
Gary Andrews, Heidi Andrews, 1996
9
Shearing in the Riveria, New South Wales
Indeed, one of the minor excitements of shearing was then and there transacted. Mr Gordon had more than once warned a dark sullen-looking man that he did not approve of his style of shearing. He was temporarily absent, and on his return ...
Rolf Bolderwood
10
Cold and Hot Forging: Fundamentals and Applications
In all the aforementioned methods, plastic flow lateral to the shearing direction is increasingly prevented, while compressive stress increases during the shearing operation. Both tendencies exercise a positive influence over the geometry ...
Taylan Altan, Gracious Ngaile, Gangshu Shen, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHEARING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term shearing is used in the context of the following news items.
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Paedophile author Colin Shearing jailed after fleeing UK
Instead of appearing for sentencing, Shearing travelled to Portsmouth and caught a ferry to France where he booked into three different hotels in Paris. «BBC News, May 15»
2
Exploding batteries filmed in 3D
"We all walk around with lithium-ion batteries in our pockets every single day - and by and large, nothing goes wrong," said senior author Paul Shearing, from ... «BBC News, Apr 15»
3
Farmers fund shearing school campaign
WAFARMERS' crowdfunding campaign has raised more than two-thirds of the money needed to send animal rights campaigner Jona Weinhofen to shearing ... «The Land Newspaper, Apr 15»
4
Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce comes out swinging against …
The group urged its Facebook supporters to share what it called "the heartbreaking truth", that "this is what most sheep used for wool look like after 'shearing'.". «ABC Online, Apr 15»
5
Shearing king David Fagan calls time
Shearing legend David Fagan is out of the running to complete a double of the two major titles at the Golden Shears by being eliminated from the PGG ... «Waikato Times, Apr 15»
6
Shearing legend David Fagan about to hang up clippers
World famous shearer David Fagan, who is planning on retiring this year, aged 53, competes in the open heats of Gore's Southern Shears 50th anniversary ... «Stuff.co.nz, Feb 15»
7
Shear success: 10-year record tumbles
Bathurst, NSW, shearer Stacey Te Huia smashed the world record, shearing 530 Merino ewes in nine hours at Parkdale Merino stud, Dubbo, on Friday. «The Land Newspaper, Feb 15»
8
Shearing records set for a clipping
SHEARING 600 Merino ewes will be all in a day's work for Kiwi Stacey Te Huia this Friday - all going to plan - when the gun shearer has a crack at setting a new ... «The Land Newspaper, Feb 15»
9
Penske Automotive renames commercial vehicle dealership, names …
Shearing joins Penske Automotive from Daimler Trucks North America where he served as vice president of national accounts. Prior to that, he was general ... «Fleet Owner, Feb 15»
10
David Fagan to hang up the shears
David Fagan, 53, is a name well known in the shearing sheds of Te Kuiti and the world, with 631 titles, which include 16 wins at the Golden Shears and five ... «Stuff.co.nz, Feb 15»

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