Word Finder - shearing

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To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears.

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To remove the fleece from a sheep etc by clipping.

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To deform because of forces pushing in opposite directions.

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To transform by displacing every point in a direction parallel to some given line by a distance proportional to the point’s distance from the line.

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To make a vertical cut in the coal.

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To reap, as grain.

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To deprive of property; to fleece.

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The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.

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The material cut off in this way.

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the whole shearing of a flock; the shearings from cloth

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Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions.

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The act or operation of reaping.

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The act or operation of dividing with shears.

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the shearing of metal plates

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The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.

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The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.

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Tending to cut or tear.

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A sheep that has been shorn for the first time

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A sheepskin or lambskin that has gone through a limited shearing process so that the fibers are of uniform depth

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Her coat was lined with shearling.

Then came innumerable varieties of manual work for the erection and keeping up of hedges, the preservation of dykes, canals and ditches, the threshing and garnering of corn, the tending and shearing of sheep and so forth.

For practical purposes it is accurate enough to consider the booms or chords as carrying exclusively the horizontal tension and compression and the web as resisting the whole of the vertical and, in a plate web, the equal horizontal shearing forces.

The theorem that any coplanar system of forces can be reduced to a force acting through any assigned point, together with a couple, has an important illustration in the theory of the distribution of shearing stress and bending moment in a horizontal beam, or other structure, subject to vertical extraneous forces.

During the last few years attention has been directed to the stresses - including shearing stresses - on planes other than horizontal.

The magnitudes of the maximum shearing stresses are indicated by the algebraic differences of the thicknesses of the lines of principal stress.

Angora rabbits are strapped to a board for shearing, kicking powerfully in protest.

This theory relates to beam flexure resulting from couples applied to the beam without consideration of the shearing forces.

The Laboratory has an on-going program developing techniques such as the shearing interferometer, including data processing methods.

Some upbeat, almost jazzy arrangements have their roots with George Shearing, the venerable blind English jazz master.

The teasels were used to raise the nap of the fabric prior to shearing.

Rather, it is simply a means of shearing the least mobile taxable sheep.

This differential shrinkage can lead to a shearing action building up between the two materials, resulting in failure.

The high tide wader roost around the shearing barn at the east end of the level has had fewer birds in recent years.

If this pressure is not relieved in some way, the train may be derailed either (I) by " climbing " the outer rail, with injury to that rail and, generally, to the corresponding wheel-flanges; (2) by overturning about the outer rail as a hinge, possibly without injury to rails or wheels; or (3) by forcing the outer rail outwards, occasionally to the extent of shearing the spikes that hold it down at the curve, thus spreading or destroying the track.

The shearing rate of the paste can be calculated from the squeegee speed, and the properties of the screen and its emulsion.

In his career, he played alongside such jazz greats as Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Max Roach, Benny Goodman, George Shearing and many others.

Shearing, when done by hand, is an age-old practice that does not harm the animal.

The most problematic wool has been Australian merino, due to their shearing practices.

Shearing takes time from May to July of each year.

Cashmere, which comes from goats, can be collected by either shearing the goats or combing them.

Wool, which comes from sheep, is collected by shearing.

The raising and shearing of the sheep is often inhumane and the wool is then chemically treated, which can be bad for your skin.

Sharp or shearing injuries from knives and glass result in cuts (lacerations) and punctures.

Once your hair has been shagged by a strategic shearing, you can maintain this style and build body using mousse and hair pastes that will aid texture.

Trust a good friend and a pair of quality shearing scissors to get the job done.

Furthermore, people with sensitive knees are often advised to avoid the leg extension, because of the shearing forces it places on the joints.

It works the quadriceps in conjunction with the gluteal muscles, and produces compression force, which are safer for the knee than shearing forces.

These exercises may create shearing forces on the joint, which can lead to a possible make knee injury.

On coming of age he got employment at Hempstead, Long Island, making machines for shearing cloth; three years afterwards he set up in this business for himself, having bought the sole right to manufacture such machinery in the state of New York.

The process of shearing takes place in early spring, the average amount of wool yielded FIG.

The force measures the shearing stress, and the couple the bending moment at P; we will reckon these quantities positive when the senses are as indicated in the figure.

The puddle at a was originally held up by the flat head of this pedestal; not so the puddle at b, which under the superincumbent weight settled down and produced the fault bc, accompanied with a shearing or tangential strain or, less probably, with actual fracture in the direction bd.

In repairing this work the perfectly safe form shown by the dotted lines ka, kj was substituted for the flat surface aj, and this alone, if originally adopted, would have prevented dangerous shearing strains.

There is considerable distortion of the clay, resulting from combined shearing and tensile stress, above each of the steps of rock, and reaching its maximum at and above the highest rise ab, where it has proved sufficient to produce a dangerous line of weakness ac, the tension at a either causing actual rupture, or such increased porosity as to permit of percolation capable of keeping open the wound.

Swedes gradually give place to mangolds, rye and clover before the end of April, when shearing of the ewe flock begins, to be finished early in May.

Nearly a month later black-face lambs are marked and the eild sheep are shorn - the shearing of mulch ewes being delayed till the second week of July.

The orthoschists are white mica-schists produced by the shearing of acid rocks, such as felsite and porphyry.

Every solid substance is found to be plastic more or less, as exemplified by punching, shearing and cutting; but the plastic solid is distinguished from the viscous fluid in that a plastic solid requires a certain magnitude of stress to be exceeded to make it flow, whereas the viscous liquid will yield to the slightest stress, but requires a certain length of time for the effect to be appreciable.

The thermal coefficient of expansion of steel and concrete is nearly the same, otherwise changes of temperature would cause shearing stress at the junction of the two materials.

The shearing area of rivets in tension members was made r z times the useful section of plate in tension.

For compression members the shearing area of rivets in butt-joints was made half the useful section of plate in compression.

If A is the area of the plate web in a vertical section, the intensity of shearing stress is fs = S/A and the intensity on horizontal sections is the same.

It has considerable compressive or crushing strength, but is somewhat deficient in shearing strength, and distinctly weak in tensile or pulling strength.

But in a thin slab, with its comparatively small span and light load, the concrete is generally strong enough to bear the shearing stresses unaided, and the reinforcement is devoted to assisting it where the tensile stresses occur.

Maundy Thursday is sometimes known as Sheer or Chare Thursday, either in allusion, it is thought, to the "shearing" of heads and beards in preparation for Easter, or more probably in the word's Middle English sense of "pure," in allusion to the ablutions of the day.

In 1852 he produced "Girls Sewing," "Man Spreading Manure"; 1853, "The Reapers"; 1854, "Church at Greville"; 1855 - the year of the International Exhibition, at which he received a medal of second class - "Peasant Grafting a Tree"; 1857, "The Gleaners"; 1859, "The Angelus," "The Woodcutter and Death"; 1860, "Sheep Shearing"; 1861, "Woman Shearing Sheep," "Woman Feeding Child"; 1862, "Potato Planters," "Winter and the Crows"; 1863, "Man with Hoe," "Woman Carding"; 1864, "Shepherds and Flock, Peasants Bringing Home a Calf Born in the Fields"; 1869, "Knitting Lesson"; 1870, "Buttermaking"; 1871, "November - recollection of Gruchy."

In his eighteenth year, while still a student in Edinburgh, he contributed two valuable papers to the Transactions of the same society - one of which, " On the Equilibrium of Elastic Solids," is remarkable, not only on account of its intrinsic power and the youth of its author, but also because in it he laid the foundation of one of the most singular discoveries of his later life, the temporary double refraction produced in viscous liquids by shearing stress.

An angular velocity R, which gives components - Ry, Ix of velocity to a body, can be resolved into two shearing velocities, -R parallel to Ox, and R parallel to Oy; and then ik is resolved into 4'1+1'2, such that 4/ 1 -R-Rx 2 and 1//2+IRy2 is constant over the boundary.

In driving levels it is necessary to cut grooves vertically parallel to the walls, a process known as shearing; but the most important operation is that known as holing or kirving, which consists in cutting a notch or groove in the floor of the seam to a depth of about 3 ft., measured back from the face, so as to leave the overhanging part unsupported, which then either falls of its own accord within a few hours, or is brought down either by driving wedges along the top, or by blasting.

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.