(v. t.) To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.
(v. t.) To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece.
(v. t.) To reap, as grain.
(v. t.) Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece.
(v. t.) To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4.
(v. t.) A pair of shears; -- now always used in the plural, but formerly also in the singular. See Shears.
(v. t.) A shearing; -- used in designating the age of sheep.
(v. t.) An action, resulting from applied forces, which tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact; -- also called shearing stress, and tangential stress.
(v. t.) A strain, or change of shape, of an elastic body, consisting of an extension in one direction, an equal compression in a perpendicular direction, with an unchanged magnitude in the third direction.
(v. i.) To deviate. See Sheer.
(v. i.) To become more or less completely divided, as a body under the action of forces, by the sliding of two contiguous parts relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact.
Example Sentences:
(1) The sticking probability decreased as the cell receptor concentration was lowered from approximately 10(4) to 10(2) receptors per 4-microns diam liposome and as the shear rate increased from 5 to 22 s-1.
(2) Gonococcal outer membranes were purified by differential ultracentrifugation of sheared organisms treated with EDTA.
(3) This movement generates forward and backward shearing force in the stagnation region as the separated flow migrates back and forth.
(4) This model characterized the abnormal flow by a weak fluctuation of wall shear stress at the site adjacent to the vessel wall.
(5) The hemolytic characteristics of 14 different polydimethyl-siloxane materials were studied, using a rotating disk device to shear whole human blood for 6000 sec.
(6) Since the antithrombin action of heparin fails to interrupt arterial thrombosis, a mediating role for thrombin (EC 3.4.21.5) in the formation of high-shear platelet-dependent thrombus has been unproven.
(7) A propensity for elevated shear in the deep cartilage layer near the contact periphery, observed in nearly all computed stress distributions, is consistent with previous experimental findings of fissuring at that level in the impulsively loaded rabbit knee.
(8) The development of a shear transducer, small enough to be worn comfortably under a normal foot, is described, along with a microcomputer controlled data logger.
(9) In an emergency, the devices use multiple mechanisms – including clamps and shears – to try to choke off the oil flowing up from a pipe and disconnect the rig from the well.
(10) Cement was pressurized into the cavity of the anatomic specimens, and the maximum interface shear strength between the cement plug and the bone was experimentally determined for each revision.
(11) At the divider side walls, wall shear stresses are relatively high and approximately follow the flow rate distribution in time.
(12) Platelet adhesion onto subendothelium of a damaged blood vessel depends upon the presence of von Willebrand factor (vWf) only at high flow shear rate.
(13) Shear stress and first normal stress difference are measured as a function of shear gradient to calculate the apparent shear viscosity eta 1 and the apparent normal viscosity psi 7 as well as an apparent shear modulus G'.
(14) The accepted cause of this shear rate-dependent and time-dependent behavior is the progressive breakdown of rouleaux into individual red cells.
(15) The mean length of a population of microtubules containing GMPPCP increased only by 37% over a 150 min time period after shearing.
(16) By studying the kinetics of urease-catalyzed urea hydrolysis during application of hydrodynamic shear under varying chemical environments, we demonstrate that micromolar quantities of metal ions, in this case adventitious Fe, can accelerate the oxidation of thiol groups on urease and thus inactivate it when the protein is subjected to a shearing stress of order 1.0 Pa.
(17) The viscosity of these materials were measured by using the Ishida-Giken cone and plate high shear rheometer.
(18) The primate skull physical model data and the critical shear strain associated with the threshold for severe diffuse axonal injury were used to scale data obtained from previous studies to man, and thus derive a diffuse axonal injury tolerance for rotational acceleration for humans.
(19) Flagellar filaments were isolated from either culture fluid or concentrated cell suspensions that were subjected to shearing.
(20) Hemodilution seems particularly promising under hemodynamic condition of low shear stresses in vivo.
Sheard
Definition:
(n.) See Shard.
Example Sentences:
(1) Significant differences (p less than 0.05) were determined between the symptomatic and asymptomatic groups for gender, near phoria through a +2.00 D add, accommodative amplitude, positive vergences at near, and both the classical Sheard's and the new criterion.
(2) The purpose of this study was to assess a new criterion for binocular comfort analogous to the classical Sheard's criterion.
(3) The brag was made to a young woman in Toronto, Marjorie Sheard, with whom Salinger had been corresponding, and has come to light after the nine letters sent by the author to Sheard were sold by the now 95-year-old and her family to pay for her care.
(4) He would sign off his letters to Sheard with pseudonyms such as "Fitzdudley", "Wormsley-Bassett" and "Flo and Benjy".
(5) Diane Sheard, UK director of the ONE Campaign, said: “The monitoring of the goals needs a sharp focus on accountability, backed by investments in data collection and use so that citizens have the information they need to ensure that leaders keep their promises.” The UN has estimated that the new goals could cost as much as $172.5tn (£110.67tn) over the 15-year timeframe .
(6) The surface areas of seven Taiwan monkeys were determined by applying the plastic tape on sheard skin.
(7) The new criterion was the best discriminator between the groups, identifying 72% correctly, an improvement of 6% over the classical Sheard's.
(8) Later, in 1942, Salinger would tell Sheard that "God and Harold Ross [the New Yorker's founding editor] alone know what that bunch of pixies on the staff are doing with my poor script" – he was still awaiting its publication, which had been delayed by the war.
(9) Sheard was an aspiring author who had read some of Salinger's first short stories, and got in touch asking for advice.
(10) In three drafts, Heckert hit on Joe Haden, TJ Ward, Montario Hardesty, Phil Taylor, Jabaal Sheard, Greg Little, Buster Skrine, Eric Hagg, Mitchell Schwartz, John Hughes, Travis Benjamin and Billy Winn.
(11) He described it to Sheard as "the first Holden story" – it would appear in altered form as a chapter in The Catcher in the Rye.
(12) Professor Sally Sheard Liverpool • Looking at the situation of ENO ( Music director of embattled English National Opera resigns , 23 March) from across the border, the most obvious question is this: how can a “national” opera company sit in an expensive base in the capital rather than tour the nation it purports to represent?
(13) A rotation of Jabaal Sheard, Paul Kruger and first-round draft pick Barkevious Mingo at outside linebacker ought to ensure a ferocious pass rush – though the latter will miss the start of the season with a lung injury.
(14) Instead of equating the fusional demand with the monocular phoria as is done when Sheard's criterion is applied, the new criterion uses a calculated binocular fusional demand.
(15) Sheard's criterion was the best discriminator for the exophoric group, and amount of heterophoria was the best discriminator for the esophoric group.
(16) It also sends a strong signal to developing countries that we will continue to keep our aid promise to them, and to other rich countries that they too must meet their aid targets.” Concern Worldwide’s executive director, Rose Caldwell, said: “We can be proud that we are the only G7 country to meet the 45-year-old UN commitment to spend 0.7% of GNI on development aid.” Diane Sheard, UK director of the ONE campaign , said: “The promise of a law to protect the UK’s lifesaving aid budget was in all major parties’ 2010 election manifestos.
(17) Closing 24 branches and leaving just two open would be the "nuclear option", Kirklees council leader David Sheard told the Huddersfield Daily Examiner , with the situation set to go to public consultation in the autumn.
(18) Sheard's criterion was a good discriminator for exo deviations, and a variant of Percival's criterion was good for eso deviations.
(19) However, various stepwise discriminant analysis procedures consistently failed to demonstrate that the calculated binocular fusional demand or the new criterion was superior to the near phoria or the classical Sheard's value.