Top Sheer Quotes

Barack Obama is probably one of the brightest in terms of sheer intelligence... also probably the best orator we've ever had as a president.

I'm inspired by the sheer ingenuity and intelligence possessed by my fellow band mates.

Sheer Definition

(v. i.) Bright; clear; pure; unmixed.

(v. i.) Very thin or transparent; -- applied to fabrics; as, sheer muslin.

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

(v. i.) Stright up and down; vertical; prpendicular.

(adv.) Clean; quite; at once.

(v. t.) To shear.

(v. i.) 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.

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

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

(n.) A turn or change in a course.

(n.) Shears See Shear.