(v. i.) Very thin or transparent; -- applied to fabrics; as, sheer muslin.
(v. i.) Being only what it seems to be; obvious; simple; mere; downright; as, sheer folly; sheer nonsense.
(v. i.) Stright up and down; vertical; prpendicular.
(adv.) Clean; quite; at once.
(v. t.) To shear.
(v. i.) 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.
(n.) The longitudinal upward curvature of the deck, gunwale, and lines of a vessel, as when viewed from the side.
(n.) The position of a vessel riding at single anchor and swinging clear of it.
(n.) A turn or change in a course.
(n.) Shears See Shear.
Example Sentences:
(1) Problems associated with school-based clinics include vehement opposition to sex education, financing, and the sheer magnitude of the adolescents' health needs.
(2) They argue that the US, the world's largest producer of greenhouse gases per capita (China recently surpassed us in sheer volume), needs to lead the fight to limit carbon emissions, rather continuing to block global treaties as it has done in the past.
(3) But with the advantages and attractions that Scotland already has, and, more importantly, taking into account the morale boost, the sheer energisation of a whole people that would come about because we would finally have our destiny at least largely back in our own hands again – I think we could do it.
(4) Obviously, the sheer number of lasers being used both clinically and experimentally indicates a great potential for further advancement and refinement in technique and surgical outcomes.
(5) I was amazed by the sheer scale of the operation, easily mistaken for a full military assault on a kraken.
(6) We can inhabit only one version of being human – the only version that survives today – but what is fascinating is that palaeoanthropology shows us those other paths to becoming human, their successes and their eventual demise, whether through failure or just sheer bad luck.
(7) The report, extracts of which were published by the investigative news website Exaro , is said to include “devastating detail” of the corporation’s “sheer scale of awareness” of the late star’s activities.
(8) There is a policy review process, a manifesto and the small matter of winning another election between here and catastrophe, but the sheer barbarism of the outlined idea is breathtaking.
(9) Back in the 1970s, a severe economic crisis revealed the sheer unsustainability of government policies.
(10) So we started asking them ridiculous questions about being single," says Lucas, "and the sheer number of misunderstandings about each other's lives felt like comedic material."
(11) He skirted round the issue of historic responsibility for the misery but referred to the sheer scale of the sacrifice, pointing out that, among more than 14,000 parishes in the whole of England and Wales, only about 50 so-called "thankful parishes" saw all their soldiers return.
(12) But all that has changed since I discovered the sheer joy of hunting down items with “reduced” stickers at my local Waitrose.
(13) TUC general secretary Brendan Barber welcomed the letters, which argue against the Conservative party's position that the sheer scale of the UK deficit means public spending must be cut immediately.
(14) This year though, the annual fest of tit tape, weepy self-congratulation and sheer star power will be remembered for more than a frock faux pas: there was a serious cock-up .
(15) Brown, from Sheerness in Kent, who was to earn £15,000 a year from the role, has apologised for causing offence with the messages she posted between the ages of 14 and 16.
(16) I hope that people feel inspired enough, maybe in the sheer face of loss, to just do what they should be doing in life.
(17) David Winnick, the MP for Walsall North, said: "None of [May's] excuses can explain away the sheer incompetence and shambles that have occurred on her watch."
(18) Through combination with a spherical disc face perpendicular to the axis of rotation, which protrudes only slightly from the hemispherical catheter tip, with a maximum at the center and minimum at the lateral borders, the lathing head has only a slight risk of perforation and no undesired sheering forces (Figures 2a to 2d).
(19) Redwoods are taller, but giant sequoias win for sheer mass: the General Sherman's trunk has a volume of 1,487 cubic metres and is estimated to weigh over 2,000 tonnes.
(20) "Some of you may have heard we have a new judge this year," said Forsyth, summoning his finest brow-raise and hauling the audience at least temporarily on side by sheer force of showbiz will.
Speer
Definition:
(n.) A sphere.
(v. t.) To ask.
Example Sentences:
(1) Speer said if Dhu had been correctly diagnosed on either of her earlier trips to hospital and given appropriate antibiotics it would have prolonged and, depending on how early they were given, possibly saved her life .
(2) Had she been taken to hospital at 7am that morning, when she told police she could not feel her legs and wanted to go to hospital, there may have been some chance of survival, though Speers said at that point her hopes would have rested as much on intervention to help her falling blood pressure than on antibiotics.
(3) The years peeled away and I realised that I was listening to an interview I had once done with, of all people, Albert Speer, Hitler's long-since-dead architect.
(4) Speers asks what are these non-legislative measures you will take to reduce spending?
(5) But there is no doubt who Hitler's architect was: Albert Speer.
(6) Dr Sandra Thompson, an expert in Indigenous health, and Dr David Speer, an expert in microbiology and infectious diseases like staphylococcal infection, both told the coroner that a chest x-ray would have been an ordinary test to perform and would have picked up the infection.
(7) The site was laid out by Albert Speer Jr, son of Hitler’s architect, who also planned the Beijing Olympics – a strangely prescient choice, given his father coined the idea of “ruin value” in his grandiose Nazi works.
(8) Speers asks about other colleagues within the union movement.
(9) That person, implausibly enough, was Albert Speer, a young architect in his 20s from Mannheim, who at the time he met the Führer had built nothing of the least interest.
(10) In his private moments, Speer undoubtedly thought he fitted perfectly into the noble neo-classical Prussian tradition whose canonical exponent was Karl-Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841), designer of scores of buildings including the Schauspielhaus and the Altes Museum in Berlin.
(11) The pavilion itself, a power-temple designed by Hitler's architect Albert Speer in 1938, acts as a tyrannical shell for a reconstruction of the Kanzlerbungalow, or Chancellor's Bungalow, built in Bonn in 1964 by modernist architect Sep Ruf.
(12) Following the prior work of Rosenberg et al, Rosenberg and VanCamp, and Speer et al, we started clinical trials with cis-dichlorodiammineplatinum(II) in April 1971.
(13) Sky News political editor David Speers asks Howes about the current position of Workplace Minister Bill Shorten.
(14) No credit was given to Speer, who was dead by then.
(15) It seemed a shame not to use it, and so it became the basis of a film about Speer, largely in his own words.
(16) I was with Speer when he paid his first visit to the Zeppelinfeld at Nürnberg, long after the war.
(17) Since the isolation of a recombinant containing a cDNA sequence for human phenylalanine hydroxylase (hPH) (Woo et al., 1983; Speer et al., 1986) prenatal diagnosis by linked restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLPs) has become possible for families in which phenylketonuria (PKU) occurs (Lidsky et al., 1985a).
(18) These had since been moved indoors into a large sun room, and Speer, anticipating our arrival, had picked out some of the better goodies.
(19) Her reaction is as unlikely as the sight of Albert Speer, in another scene, shifting uncomfortably when Hitler congratulates himself on having cleansed Germany of the "Jewish poison".
(20) Japan was initially deeply reluctant to work with Australian shipbuilder ASC or share technology, but Sky news reporter David Speers, who is on a Japanese-government funded trip to Japan, reported on Tuesday that Japan was now “willing to partner with the ASC even though this would require sharing sensitive military technology in an unprecedented manner”.