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Word: sheer (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

  • textiles Very thin or transparent.
  • Pure; unmixed; being only what it seems to be.
  • Straight up and down; vertical; perpendicular.

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Adverb:

  • archaic clean; quite; at once.

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Noun:

  • nautical An abrupt swerve from the course of a ship.
  • nautical The curve of the main deck or gunwale from bow to stern.

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Verb:

  • nautical To swerve from a course.
  • obsolete To shear.

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