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Meaning: Complete and without restriction or qualification; sometimes used informally as intensifiers Synonyms: sheer; right-down; out-and-out; downright; absolute; rank Context examples: absolute freedom / an absolute dimwit / a downright lie / out-and-out mayhem / an out-and-out lie / a rank outsider / many right-down vices / got the job through sheer persistence / sheer stupidity Similar: complete (having every necessary or normal part or component or step)
Meaning: Not mixed with extraneous elements Synonyms: unmixed; unmingled; sheer; plain Context examples: plain water / sheer wine / not an unmixed blessing Similar: pure (free of extraneous elements of any kind)
Meaning: Very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front Synonyms: Context examples: a bluff headland / where the bold chalk cliffs of England rise / a sheer descent of rock Similar: steep (having a sharp inclination)
Meaning: So thin as to transmit light Synonyms: vapourous; vaporous; see-through; gauzy; gauze-like; cobwebby; diaphanous; filmy; transparent; gossamer; sheer Context examples: a hat with a diaphanous veil / filmy wings of a moth / gauzy clouds of dandelion down / gossamer cobwebs / sheer silk stockings / transparent chiffon / vaporous silks Similar: thin (of relatively small extent from one surface to the opposite or in cross section)
Meaning: Turn sharply; change direction abruptly Classified under: Verbs of walking, flying, swimming Synonyms: veer; trend; swerve; slue; slew; sheer; curve; cut Context examples: The car cut to the left at the intersection / The motorbike veered to the right Hypernyms (to "sheer" is one way to...): turn (change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense) Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "sheer"): peel off (leave a formation) yaw (swerve off course momentarily) Sentence frames: Something ----s
Meaning: Cause to sheer Classified under: Verbs of walking, flying, swimming Context example: She sheered her car around the obstacle Hypernyms (to "sheer" is one way to...): channelise; channelize; direct; guide; head; maneuver; manoeuver; manoeuvre; point; steer (direct the course; determine the direction of travelling) Sentence frame: Somebody ----s something
Meaning: Straight up or down without a break Synonyms: perpendicularly; sheer
Meaning: Directly Context example: he fell sheer into the water "It's a long lane that has no turning." (English proverb) "As you sow, so shall you reap." (Bulgarian proverb) "Many are the roads that do not lead to the heart." (Arabic proverb) "He whom the shoe fits should put it on." (Dutch proverb) Useful links: Pronunciation of steep Meaning of yaw Meaning of channelise Meaning of head Meaning of manoeuvre
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