ALL meanings of shorn
shorn
S s - adjective shorn animal: sheared 1
- adjective shorn hair, fur: shaved off 1
- verb shorn a past participle of shear. 1
- verb with object shorn to cut (something). 1
- verb with object shorn to remove by or as if by cutting or clipping with a sharp instrument: to shear wool from sheep. 1
- verb with object shorn to cut or clip the hair, fleece, wool, etc., from: to shear sheep. 1
- verb with object shorn to strip or deprive (usually followed by of): to shear someone of power. 1
- verb with object shorn Chiefly Scot. to reap with a sickle. 1
- verb with object shorn to travel through by or as if by cutting: Chimney swifts sheared the air. 1
- verb without object shorn to cut or cut through something with a sharp instrument. 1
- verb without object shorn to progress by or as if by cutting: The cruiser sheared through the water. 1
- verb without object shorn Mechanics, Geology. to become fractured along a plane as a result of forces acting parallel to the plane. 1
- verb without object shorn Chiefly Scot. to reap crops with a sickle. 1
- noun shorn Usually, shears. (sometimes used with a singular verb) scissors of large size (usually used with pair of). any of various other cutting implements or machines having two blades that resemble or suggest those of scissors. 1
- noun shorn the act or process of shearing or being sheared. 1
- noun shorn a shearing of sheep (used in stating the age of sheep): a sheep of one shear. 1
- noun shorn the quantity, especially of wool or fleece, cut off at one shearing. 1
- noun shorn one blade of a pair of large scissors. 1
- noun shorn Usually, shears. (usually used with a plural verb). Also, sheers. Also called shear legs, sheerlegs. a framework for hoisting heavy weights, consisting of two or more spars with their legs separated, fastened together near the top and steadied by guys, which support a tackle. 1
- noun shorn a machine for cutting rigid material, as metal in sheet or plate form, by moving the edge of a blade through it. 1
- noun shorn Mechanics, Geology. the tendency of forces to deform or fracture a member or a rock in a direction parallel to the force, as by sliding one section against another. 1
- noun shorn Physics. the lateral deformation produced in a body by an external force, expressed as the ratio of the lateral displacement between two points lying in parallel planes to the vertical distance between the planes. 1
- adjective shorn If grass or hair is shorn, it has been cut very short. 0
- adjective shorn If a person or thing is shorn of something that was an important part of them, it has been removed from them. 0
- noun shorn Shorn is the past participle of shear. 0
- abbreviation SHORN shear 0