sheer

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

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