sheer

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义
英 /ʃɪə̯/|/ʃɪː/|/ˈʃɪj.ə/    美 /ʃɪə̯/|/ʃɪɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A sheer curtain or fabric.
    — Use sheers to maximize natural light.
  2. The curve of the main deck or gunwale from bow to stern.
  3. An abrupt swerve from the course of a ship.
动词 v.
  1. To swerve from a course.
    — I sheered her well inshore—the water being deepest near the bank, as the sounding–pole informed me.
  2. Obsolete spelling of shear. alt-of,obsolete
    — So thick, our navy scarce could sheer their way
形容词 adj.
  1. Very thin or transparent.
    — Her light, sheer dress caught everyone’s attention.
  2. Pure in composition; unmixed; unadulterated. obsolete
    — 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. Downright; complete; pure. broadly
    — I think it is sheer genius to invent such a thing.
  4. Used to emphasize the amount or degree of something.
    — The army's sheer size made it impossible to resist.
  5. Very steep; almost vertical or perpendicular.
    — It was a sheer drop of 180 feet.
副词 adv.
  1. Clean; completely; at once. archaic
    — Hector the ashen lance of Ajax smote / With his broad faulchion, at the nether end, / And lopp’d it sheer.

词形变化

sheerer comparative more sheer comparative sheerest superlative most sheer superlative more sheer comparative most sheer superlative sheers plural sheers plural sheers present,singular,third-person sheering participle,present sheered participle,past sheered past

词汇关系

近义词
diaphanous filmy gauzy gossamer see-through sheer
反义词
opaque
上位词
thin translucent
衍生词
semisheer sheerish sheerly sheerness sheer-to-waist supersheer ultrasheer break sheer plank-sheer sheer hulk
相关词
total slope transparent sheer khurma

词源

词源 1
From Middle English shere, scheere, schere, skere, from Old English sċǣre (“pure, sheer; shining, clear”), from Proto-Germanic *skairiz; supplanted the semantically close shire (dialectal), from Middle English schyre, schire, shire, shir, from Old English sċīr (“clear, bright; brilliant, gleaming, shining, splendid, resplendent; pure”), beside which existed Middle English skyr, from Old Norse skírr (“pure, bright, clear”), both from Proto-Germanic *skīriz (“pure, sheer”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₁y- (“luster, gloss, shadow”).
Cognate with Danish skær, German schier (“sheer”), German Low German schier (“sheer, pure, unadulterated”; “completely, almost”), Dutch schier (“almost”), Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌴𐌹𐍂𐍃 (skeirs, “clear, lucid”). Outside Germanic, cognate to Albanian hir (“grace, beauty; goodwill”).
词源 2
Perhaps from Dutch scheren (“to move aside, skim”); see also shear.
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