sheer
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[edit] English
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[edit] Etymology 1
From Old Norse skírr (“‘pure, bright, clear’”)[1], cognate with Danish skær, German schier (“‘sheer’”), Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌴𐌹𐍂𐍃 (skeirs), “‘clear, lucid’”).
[edit] Adjective
sheer (comparative sheerer or more sheer, superlative sheerest or most sheer)
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- (textiles) Very thin or transparent.
- Her light, sheer dress caught everyone's attention.
- Pure; unmixed; being only what it seems to be.
- I think it is sheer genius to invent such a thing.
- This poem is sheer nonsense.
- Straight up and down; vertical; perpendicular.
- It was a sheer drop of 180 feet.
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- (very thin or transparent): diaphanous, see-through, thin
- (pure, unmixed): downright, mere, pure, undiluted, unmitigated
- (straight up and down): perpendicular, steep, vertical
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sheer (comparative more sheer, superlative most sheer)
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[edit] Noun
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sheer (plural sheers)
- (nautical) The curve of the main deck or gunwale from bow to stern.
- (nautical) An abrupt swerve from the course of a ship.
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to sheer (third-person singular simple present sheers, present participle sheering, simple past and past participle sheered)
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- Notes:
Part or all of this page has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
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- Anagrams of eehrs
- here's