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# shearing

«shearing» in Mova's school dictionary: **cutting the wool off a sheep, usually once a year** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (shearing; uncountable); verb form (present participle of «shear»: shearing); adjective (shearing shed)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Shearing is cutting the wool off a sheep, usually once a year. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shearing/#m1)

2) «Shearing» is the -ing form of «shear»: cutting with big scissors (shears) or clippers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shearing/#m2)

3) (science) Shearing is when forces push parts of something in opposite directions so it slides or breaks, as in a «shearing force». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shearing/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In Australia and New Zealand shearing is a big part of farm life: shearers work in a «shearing shed» in spring and compete in shearing contests. In science, it explains why materials snap or why the ground slips in earthquakes. Phrases: «sheep shearing», «shearing shed», «shearing season», «shearing force».

### examples

- The farmer is shearing the sheep before summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shearing/#x1)
- Shearing does not hurt the sheep, like a haircut. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shearing/#x2)
- We visited a shearing shed in New Zealand. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shearing/#x3)
- A fast shearer can finish a sheep in about a minute. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shearing/#x4)
- The strong wind was shearing branches off the trees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shearing/#x5)
- Shearing season is the busiest time on the farm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shearing/#x6)
- At last, after fruitlessly shearing off nine of the Chudo-Yudo's heads, and finding himself embedded in the ground up to his armpits, Ivan flings his cap at the hut. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shearing/#x7)

### note

Verb forms: shear, shears, sheared, shearing; past participle sheared or shorn. Homophone trap: «shear» (cut) and «sheer» (very steep, or complete: «sheer luck») sound the same.

### In the corpora

- [And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal was shearing his sheep.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1SA.725/)
- [And as he was at the shearing-house of the shepherds in the way,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2KI.313/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «shearing» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shearing/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.