sheer

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• Australian, Received-Pronunciation: /ʃɪə̯/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /ʃɪː/
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• British, Southern, Standard: /ˈʃɪj.ə/
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• US: /ʃɪɚ/
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• /ʃɛː/ East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
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• New-Zealand: /ʃiə̯/
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• Scotland: /ʃiɾ/
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• Scotland: /ʃiɹ/
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• rhymes with -ɪə(ɹ)
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• homophone: Scheer
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• homophone: shear
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• homophone: share (cheer–chair merger)
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• CMU ARPABET: SH IH1 R Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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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”).

Perhaps from Dutch scheren (“to move aside, skim”); see also shear.

137 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: tejdukshëm — very thin or transparent
• Arabic: شَفَّاف (šaffāf) — very thin or transparent
• Bulgarian: тънък (tǎnǎk) — very thin or transparent
• Bulgarian: прозрачен (prozračen) — very thin or transparent
• Chinese Mandarin: 透明 (tòumíng) — very thin or transparent
• Dutch: flinterdun — very thin or transparent
• Finnish: läpinäkyvä — very thin or transparent
• Finnish: harsomainen — very thin or transparent
• Finnish: seitinohut — very thin or transparent
• Finnish: läpikuultava — very thin or transparent
• French: transparent — very thin or transparent
• French: diaphane — very thin or transparent
• German: hauchdünn — very thin or transparent
• German: transparent — very thin or transparent
• German: durchsichtig — very thin or transparent
• Hungarian: áttetsző — very thin or transparent
• Hungarian: vékony — very thin or transparent
• Hungarian: könnyű — very thin or transparent
• Irish: mín — very thin or transparent
• Japanese: 透明な (tōmei na) — very thin or transparent
• Norwegian Bokmål: gjennomskinnelig — very thin or transparent
• Old Saxon: skir — very thin or transparent
• Polish: przezroczysty — very thin or transparent
• Portuguese: fino — very thin or transparent
• Russian: прозра́чный (prozráčnyj) — very thin or transparent
• Serbo-Croatian: proziran — very thin or transparent
• Serbo-Croatian: прозиран — very thin or transparent
• Slovak: číry — very thin or transparent
• Slovak: priesvitný — very thin or transparent
• Spanish: fino — very thin or transparent
• Spanish: transparente — very thin or transparent
• Spanish: muy delgado — very thin or transparent
• Swedish: skir — very thin or transparent
• Turkish: ince — very thin or transparent
• Ukrainian: прозо́рий (prozóryj) — very thin or transparent
• Arabic: شَدِيْد (šadīd) — downright; complete
• Bulgarian: пълен (pǎlen) — downright; complete
• Bulgarian: абсолютен (absoljuten) — downright; complete
• Danish: ren og skær — downright; complete
• Finnish: silkka — downright; complete
• Finnish: puhdas — downright; complete
• Finnish: pelkkä — downright; complete
• French: pur — downright; complete
• French: absolu — downright; complete
• French: total — downright; complete
• Italian: vero e proprio — downright; complete
• Japanese: 純粋な (junsui-na) — downright; complete
• Latin: merus — downright; complete
• Latvian: pilnīgs — downright; complete
• Māori: kaha — downright; complete
• Polish: czysty — downright; complete
• Russian: по́лный (pólnyj) — downright; complete
• Russian: чи́стый (čístyj) — downright; complete
• Spanish: puro — downright; complete
• Spanish: mero — downright; complete
• Spanish: gran — downright; complete
• Spanish: grosso — downright; complete
• Spanish: enorme — downright; complete
• Spanish: tremendo — downright; complete
• Swedish: ren och skär — downright; complete
• Swedish: rena rama — downright; complete
• Ukrainian: по́вний (póvnyj) — downright; complete
• Ukrainian: чи́стий (čýstyj) — downright; complete
• Finnish: silkka — (used to emphasize)
• Finnish: pelkkä — (used to emphasize)
• German: bloß — (used to emphasize)
• German: schier — (used to emphasize)
• German: pur — (used to emphasize)
• German: rein — (used to emphasize)
• Italian: mero — (used to emphasize)
• Russian: су́щий (súščij) — (used to emphasize)
• Russian: чи́стый (čístyj) — (used to emphasize)
• Russian: настоя́щий (nastojáščij) — (used to emphasize)
• Ukrainian: чи́стий (čýstyj) — (used to emphasize)
• Ukrainian: і́стиний (ístynyj) — (used to emphasize)
• Ukrainian: спра́вжній (správžnij) — (used to emphasize)
• Bulgarian: отвесен (otvesen) — straight up and down; vertical; perpendicular
• Bulgarian: вертикален (vertikalen) — straight up and down; vertical; perpendicular
• Chinese Mandarin: 峻峭 (jùnqiào) — straight up and down; vertical; perpendicular
• Chinese Mandarin: 陡峭 (dǒuqiào) — straight up and down; vertical; perpendicular
• Dutch: recht — straight up and down; vertical; perpendicular
• Dutch: steil — straight up and down; vertical; perpendicular
• Finnish: äkkijyrkkä — straight up and down; vertical; perpendicular
• Finnish: pystysuora — straight up and down; vertical; perpendicular
• Finnish: suora — straight up and down; vertical; perpendicular
• French: vertical — straight up and down; vertical; perpendicular
• French: abrupt — straight up and down; vertical; perpendicular
• German: steil — straight up and down; vertical; perpendicular
• German: vertikal — straight up and down; vertical; perpendicular
• German: senkrecht — straight up and down; vertical; perpendicular
• Ancient Greek: ἠλίβατος (ēlíbatos) — straight up and down; vertical; perpendicular
• Ancient Greek: αἰπύς (aipús) — straight up and down; vertical; perpendicular
• Latvian: stāvs — straight up and down; vertical; perpendicular
• Māori: mote — straight up and down; vertical; perpendicular
• Māori: taparere — straight up and down; vertical; perpendicular
• Norwegian Bokmål: rett — straight up and down; vertical; perpendicular
• Norwegian Bokmål: vertikal — straight up and down; vertical; perpendicular
• Norwegian Bokmål: bratt — straight up and down; vertical; perpendicular
• Polish: urwisty — straight up and down; vertical; perpendicular
• Portuguese: direto — straight up and down; vertical; perpendicular
• Russian: вертика́льный (vertikálʹnyj) — straight up and down; vertical; perpendicular
• Russian: отве́сный (otvésnyj) — straight up and down; vertical; perpendicular
• Spanish: escarpado — straight up and down; vertical; perpendicular
• Spanish: acantilado — straight up and down; vertical; perpendicular
• Spanish: vertical — straight up and down; vertical; perpendicular
• Ukrainian: перпендикуля́рний (perpendykuljárnyj) — straight up and down; vertical; perpendicular
• Ukrainian: прямови́сний (prjamovýsnyj) — straight up and down; vertical; perpendicular
• Ukrainian: вертика́льний (vertykálʹnyj) — straight up and down; vertical; perpendicular
• Finnish: täysin — clean
• Finnish: tyystin — clean
• Finnish: vallan — clean
• Finnish: tykkänään — clean
• Finnish: aivan — quite
• Finnish: varsin — quite
• Finnish: täysin — quite
• Finnish: oitis — at once
• Finnish: kerralla — at once
• Catalan: estor — a sheer curtain or fabric
• Finnish: voilee — a sheer curtain or fabric
• Finnish: voile — a sheer curtain or fabric
• Finnish: valoverhokangas — a sheer curtain or fabric
• Finnish: valoverho — a sheer curtain or fabric
• Finnish: ketka — nautical: curve of main deck
• Greek: βιάρισμα (viárisma) — nautical: curve of main deck
• Greek: λουνάδα (lounáda) — nautical: curve of main deck
• Greek: καραβίζι (karavízi) — nautical: curve of main deck
• Greek: σιμότητα (simótita) — nautical: curve of main deck
• Hebrew: כְּפָף (kfaf) — nautical: curve of main deck
• Bulgarian: отклонение от курса (otklonenie ot kursa) — nautical: abrupt swerve
• Finnish: jiiraus — nautical: abrupt swerve
• Bulgarian: отклонявам се от курса (otklonjavam se ot kursa) — nautical: swerve from course
• Finnish: jiirata — nautical: swerve from course
• Finnish: poiketa kurssista — nautical: swerve from course
• Hebrew: סוֹטֵט (sotet) — nautical: swerve from course
• Manx: crogh — nautical: swerve from course
• Russian: отклоня́ться от ку́рса (otklonjátʹsja ot kúrsa) — nautical: swerve from course
• Ukrainian: відхиля́тися від ку́рсу (vidxyljátysja vid kúrsu) — nautical: swerve from course