shear in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for shear in the English»French Dictionary

I.shear <pret sheared; pp shorn> [Brit ʃɪə, Am ʃɪr] VB trans

shear grass, hair, sheep:

shear

tondre

II.shorn ADJ

shorn fig:

shorn

dépouillé (of de)

I.shear through VB [Brit ʃɪə -, Am ʃɪr -] (shear through [sth])

shear through metal, screw

cisailler

shear through fig water

fendre

I.shear off VB [Brit ʃɪə -, Am ʃɪr -] (shear off)

shear off metal component:

shear off

céder

II.shear off VB [Brit ʃɪə -, Am ʃɪr -] (shear off [sth], shear [sth] off)

shear off hair, fleece

tondre

shear off accident, storm: branch, part of building

emporter

Translations for shear in the French»English Dictionary

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cisailler tôle

to shear

cisailler

to shear off

cisaillement (de couches géologiques)

shear

tondre mouton, laine

to shear

effort de cisaillement PHYS (exercé)

shear stress

effort de cisaillement (subi)

shear strain

shear in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for shear in the English»French Dictionary

I.shear <sheared, sheared [or shorn]> [ʃɪəʳ, Am ʃɪr] VB trans

1. shear (cut):

shear

tondre

to shear sb's hair

se raser la tête

2. shear fig:

to be shorn of sth

être dépouillé de qc

II.shear <sheared, sheared [or shorn]> [ʃɪəʳ, Am ʃɪr] VB intr TECH

shear

tondre

I.shear off VB trans

1. shear off (cut off):

shear off

tondre

2. shear off (tear off):

shear off

arracher

II.shear off VB intr

shear off

se détacher

Translations for shear in the French»English Dictionary

Your search term in other parts of the dictionary

tondre

to shear

shear Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to shear sb's hair

se raser la tête

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

At this point shear foliaions begin to break down into a rodding lineation or a stretch lineation.

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A professional quality electric shear reduces time spent trimming.

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The old shearing shed was built in 1873 and in 1894 about 265,000 sheep were shorn there.

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The shear deformations that result produce large numbers of dislocations, which is a primary strengthening mechanism of steels.

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Southerly shear across the system led to an initially subtropical appearance, as thunderstorms moved away from the center.

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This sudden drop in shear force means that grease is considered a plastic fluid, and the reduction of shear force with time makes it thixotropic.

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If the grains are densely packed, the grains tend to spread apart from each other as they are subject to shear strain.

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Pressure acts locally, normal to the surface, and shear force acts locally, parallel to the surface.

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The dogs were plucked for their wool, not sheared.

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In substitutional solid solutions, these stress fields are spherically symmetric, meaning they have no shear stress component.

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