sheer
- Adjective. (context, textiles) Very thin or transparent.
- Adjective. Pure; unmixed; being only what it seems to be.
- Adjective. Very steep; almost vertical or perpendicular.
- Adjective. Used to emphasize the amount or degree of something.
- Adverb. (archaic) clean; quite; at once.
- Noun. (nautical) The curve of the main deck or gunwale from bow to stern.
- Noun. (nautical) An abrupt swerve from the course of a ship.
- Verb. (nautical) To swerve from a course.
- Verb. (obsolete) To shear.
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