Object

• sheep: You can milk or shear the once pregnant sheep or cow the day it was supposed to be born.

• wool: No, you yourself are the hairdresser, since you only shear wool and take little care for your flock.

Converse of object

• prune: Now is the time to take the same pruning shears to the agenda.

• pink: Use this template to cut out the required number of net circles, using pinking shears for a decorative finish if you like.

Adjective modifier

• right-lateral: This must cause the same amount of right-lateral shear in eastern Iran.

• oscillatory: It is therefore natural to study the macroscopic parameters of the fluids under different conditions, such as steady and oscillatory shear.

• vertical: Relative importance of lateral and vertical shear on Rutford Ice Stream, Antarctica.

• magnetic: The effects of oblique propagation and a magnetic field shear are taken into account.

Modifies a noun

• modulus: In reality the values of shear modulus G are much lower.

• viscosity: Predicting the shear viscosity of heavily filled materials can thus also be complex.

• stress: The maximum shear stress is given by the radius of the largest circle.

• stiffness: Example calculations are included together with graphs showing the effect of lay-up on the shear stiffnesses.

• deformation: Here, after demonstrating that shear deformation alone makes little qualitative difference, the case of initial curvature is examined in some detail.

• strength: Greater shear strength due to larger tooth cross section.

Noun used with modifier

• masonry: The vertical reinforcement of the masonry shear wall should be anchored into the floor to ensure loads transfer.

• poultry: To butterfly chicken, use poultry shears or a sharp knife to split the bird lengthways along one side of the backbone.

• velocity: Using these analytical solutions, the effect of the velocity shear on the damping rate of the surface wave can easily be investigated.

Present participle complement

• thin: Under simple shear, typically, the same polymer solutions are strongly shear thinning.