İngilizce-Türkçe-Almanca sözlük

1. şeffaf ve ince (kumaş).
2. sırf; bütünüyle: It was sheer luck. Şanstan başka bir şey değildi. That´s sheer nonsense! Bütünüyle saçma o!.
3. sarp, dik. katiksiz, sirf, safi, halis; dimdik, sarp; tül gibi, incecik, dimdik, (çarpmamak için) yolunu degistirmek, yönünü degistirmek. v.sap:adj.dik. v.sap:adj.dik. s.
4. sırf; bütünüyle: It was sheer luck. Şanstan başka bir şey değildi. That´s sheer nonsense! Bütünüyle saçma o!. rotadan sapmak, yolundan sapmak, sapmak. tam, bütün, düpedüz, sırf, katışıksız, dik, dikey, şeffaf, transparan. addüpedüz, büsbütün, tamamen, dimdik, doğrudan.
5. rotayı şaşırmak, yolundan ayrılmak, sapmak; tek demirde geminin yatma vaziyeti, borda veya güverte kavsi; borda çalım, yön değiştirmek, sarp/halis/ince, yoldan sapma, alargaya çıkmak, dön, sheer off sapmak; dimdik, tül gibi incecik, sırf, sarp, katıksız,.
6. katıksız. sırf. safi. halis. dimdik. sarp. tül gibi incecik. (birşeye çarpmamak için) aniden yön değiştirmek. sapmak.
7. kumaş ince ve saydam. halis. saf. sırf. dimdik. rotadan ayrılmak / sapmak. hızla yön değiştirmek. dönmek. düpedüz.
8. sap dik.

Etymology : perhaps alteration of 1shear
Pronunciation : shir
Function : verb
Date : 1539

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1. swerve, sudden change of direction, abrupt change of course. swerve, change course suddenly, change direction abruptly; cause to change course quickly, cause to swerve. thin and nearly transparent; not combined with anything else; utter, complete; very steep, almost perpendicular. adcompletely, totally; very steeply. sheer\sheer\, n.
2. (naut.) (a) the longitudinal upward curvature of the deck, gunwale, and lines of a vessel, as when viewed from the side. (b) the position of a vessel riding at single anchor and swinging clear of it.
3. a turn or change in a course. give the canoe a sheer and get nearer to the shore. ooper.
4. pl. shears see: shear.sheer batten (shipbuilding), a long strip of wood to guide the carpenters in following the sheer plan.sheer boom, a boom slanting across a stream to direct floating logs to one side.sheer hulk. see: shear hulk, under hulk.sheer plan, orsheer draught (shipbuilding), a projection of the lines of a vessel on a vertical longitudinal plane passing through the middle line of the vessel.sheer pole (naut.), an iron rod lashed to the shrouds just above the dead-eyes and parallel to the ratlines.sheer strake (shipbuilding), the strake under the gunwale on the top side.
5. Bright; clear; pure; unmixed.
6. Very thin or transparent; applied to fabrics; as, sheer muslin.
7. Being only what it seems to be; obvious; simple; mere; downright; as, sheer folly; sheer nonsense.
8. Stright up and down; vertical; prpendicular.
9. Clean; quite; at once.
10. To shear.
11. To decline or deviate from the line of the proper course; to turn aside; to swerve; as, a ship sheers from her course; a horse sheers at a bicycle.
12. The longitudinal upward curvature of the deck, gunwale, and lines of a vessel, as when viewed from the side.
13. The position of a vessel riding at single anchor and swinging clear of it.
14. A turn or change in a course.
15. Shears See Shear. cause to sheer; "She sheered her car around the obstacle" directly; "he fell sheer into the water" straight up or down without a break.
16. 1. emphasis You can use sheer to emphasize that a state or situation is complete and does not involve or is not mixed with anything else. His music is sheer delight Sheer chance quite often plays an important part in sparking off an idea. = pure.
17. A sheer cliff or drop is extremely steep or completely vertical. There was a sheer drop just outside my window.
18. Sheer material is very thin, light, and delicate. sheer black tights.