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We found 45 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word sheer:
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 General (33 matching dictionaries)
- sheer, sheer: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
- sheer: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
- sheer: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
- sheer, sheer, sheer: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
- sheer: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
- Sheer, sheer: Wordnik [home, info]
- sheer: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
- Sheer: Wiktionary [home, info]
- sheer: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
- sheer: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
- sheer: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
- sheer: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
- sheer: Dictionary.com [home, info]
- sheer: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
- sheer: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
- sheer: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
- Sheer (disambiguation), Sheer (textile), Sheer, The Sheer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
- Sheer: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
- sheer: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
- sheer: Rhymezone [home, info]
- sheer: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
- sheer: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
- SHEER: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848) [home, info]
- sheer: All About Homonyms [home, info]
- sheer: Free Dictionary [home, info]
- sheer: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words [home, info]
- sheer: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
- sheer: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
- sheer: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
- sheer: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
- sheer: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]
Art (2 matching dictionaries)
- SHEER: Shakespeare Glossary [home, info]
- Sheer: Natural Magick [home, info]
Business (1 matching dictionary)
- sheer: Legal dictionary [home, info]
Computing (1 matching dictionary)
- sheer: Encyclopedia [home, info]
Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
- sheer: online medical dictionary [home, info]
Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
- sheer: Sound-Alike Words [home, info]
Slang (1 matching dictionary)
- Sheer: Urban Dictionary [home, info]
Sports (1 matching dictionary)
- SHEER: Glossary of Canoe Terminology [home, info]
Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
- Sheer: Fabric Glossary [home, info]
- Sheer: AUTOMOTIVE TERMS [home, info]
- Sheer: Textile [home, info]
- sheer: SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language [home, info]
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Quick definitions from Macmillan ()
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Quick definitions from WordNet (sheer)
▸ verb: cause to sheer ( "She sheered her car around the obstacle")
▸ verb: turn sharply; change direction abruptly
▸ adjective: not mixed with extraneous elements ( "Sheer wine")
▸ adjective: very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front ( "A sheer descent of rock")
▸ adjective: so thin as to transmit light ( "Sheer silk stockings")
▸ adverb: directly ( "He fell sheer into the water")
▸ adverb: straight up or down without a break
▸ name: A surname (very rare: popularity rank in the U.S.: #78273)
▸ Word origin
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