Definition of Sheer

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Definition of Sheer

Sheer

Bright; clear; pure; unmixed.

Very thin or transparent; -- applied to fabrics; as, sheer muslin.

Being only what it seems to be; obvious; simple; mere; downright; as, sheer folly; sheer nonsense.

Stright up and down; vertical; prpendicular.

Clean; quite; at once.

To shear.

To decline or deviate from the line of the proper course; to turn aside; to swerve; as, a ship sheers from her course; a horse sheers at a bicycle.

The longitudinal upward curvature of the deck, gunwale, and lines of a vessel, as when viewed from the side.

The position of a vessel riding at single anchor and swinging clear of it.

A turn or change in a course.

Shears See Shear.

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Sheer Quotations

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar Wilde

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.
Charles Spurgeon

From the moment I was six I felt sexy. And let me tell you it was hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.
Bette Davis

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
W. E. B. Du Bois

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.
Henry Miller

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. White

On the 27th we came to the Cascade Rapids. The first or Little Cascade has about two feet fall, the second or Grand Cascade, a mile farther, is about a six foot sheer drop.
Ernest Thompson Seton

It's through sheer will that I can sing.
Harvey Fierstein

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
Friedrich Engels

Sheer Translations

sheer in Spanish is puro

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