You can cut through cloth with a pair of shears, but if the cloth is translucent it’s sheer. People who write about a “shear blouse” do so out of sheer ignorance.
n (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
n a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it
v cut with shears
shear hedges
v shear the wool from
shear sheep
v cut or cut through with shears
shear the wool off the lamb
v become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain
ANN's Daily Aero-Term (06.13.13): Directional Shear The component of wind shear which is due to a change in wind direction with height, e.g., southeasterly winds at the surface and southwesterly winds aloft.
June 13, 2013 - The Aero-News Network
ANN's Daily Aero-Term (06.13.13): Directional Shear The component of wind shear which is due to a change in wind direction with height, e.g., southeasterly winds at the surface and southwesterly winds aloft.
June 13, 2013 - The Aero-News Network
Weekend food program brings ‘Shear Blessings’ to Houston children [Episcopal Diocese of Texas] Last summer, Melissa Peter had the idea of helping children in Houston’s Third Ward and began asking how to help at Blackshear Elementary School. To her surprise, the administration told her they received almost no community support, and she resolved to make a difference with the help of Holy Spirit Episcopal Church and School in Houston. Together with Holy Spirit’s ...
June 13, 2013 - Worldwide Faith News
Turkey: Tear gas halts, music plays Istanbul's Gezi Park has seen days of sheer madness, but they have been punctuated with moments of beauty and joy.
June 13, 2013 - CNN
'Terminator 5': Paramount Grabs The Distribution Rights Further confirmation that Terminator 5 is actually somehow happening, despite the sheer awfulness of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines and Terminator Salvation: Paramount Pictures is now in negotiations to own the distribution rights for the Terminator franchise.
June 12, 2013 - ScreenCrave