Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun shears

1 sense of shears

Sense 1
shears -- (large scissors with strong blades)
       => scissors, pair of scissors -- (an edge tool having two crossed pivoting blades)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun shear

2 senses of shear

Sense 1
shear -- ((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")
       => deformation -- (alteration in the shape or dimensions of an object as a result of the application of stress to it)

Sense 2
shear -- (a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it)
       => edge tool -- (any cutting tool with a sharp cutting edge (as a chisel or knife or plane or gouge))

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb shear

4 senses of shear

Sense 1
shear -- (cut with shears; "shear hedges")
       => snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back -- (cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden")

Sense 2
fleece, shear -- (shear the wool from; "shear sheep")
       => shave, trim -- (cut closely; "trim my beard")

Sense 3
shear -- (cut or cut through with shears; "shear the wool off the lamb")
       => cut -- (separate with or as if with an instrument; "Cut the rope")

Sense 4
shear -- (become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain)
       => change -- (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night")