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snip vs shear

shear vs snip

snip and shear both are nouns.

snip and shear both are verbs.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
snip Yes No Yes No
shear Yes No Yes No
As verbs, shear is a hyponym of snip; that is, shear is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than snip:
  • snip: cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
  • shear: cut with shears
Other hyponyms of snip include poll, pollard, pinch, top, disbud.
snip (noun) shear (noun)
the act of clipping or snipping a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it
a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off) (physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves
snip (verb) shear (verb)
cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain
sever or remove by pinching or snipping cut with shears
cut or cut through with shears
shear the wool from
Difference between snip and shear

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