Sheer

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Very thin or transparent.

   “Her light, sheer dress caught everyone’s attention.”

2. sıfat Pure in composition; unmixed; unadulterated.

   “If she say I am not fourteen pence on the score for sheer ale, score me up for the lying’st knave in Christendom.”

3. sıfat Downright; complete; pure.

   “I think it is sheer genius to invent such a thing.”

4. sıfat Used to emphasize the amount or degree of something.

   “The army's sheer size made it impossible to resist.”

5. sıfat Very steep; almost vertical or perpendicular.

   “It was a sheer drop of 180 feet.”

6. zarf Clean; completely; at once.

   “Hector the ashen lance of Ajax smote / With his broad faulchion, at the nether end, / And lopp’d it sheer.”

7. isim A sheer curtain or fabric.

   “Use sheers to maximize natural light.”

8. isim The curve of the main deck or gunwale from bow to stern.
9. isim An abrupt swerve from the course of a ship.
10. fiil To swerve from a course.

    “I sheered her well inshore—the water being deepest near the bank, as the sounding–pole informed me.”

11. fiil Obsolete spelling of shear.

    “So thick, our navy scarce could sheer their way”

12. özel isim A surname.