scheren
Pronunciation: /ˈʃeːrən/
“scheren” is a German word. Its 9 meanings in English:
verb
- to shear (sheep etc.)
- to clip, prune (a hedge)
- to cut, shave, trim (hair)
- to exploit; to defraud of, cheat for
- to bother (someone); to trouble (someone), to be of interest (to someone)
- to care (about something); to mind (something)
- to go into a certain direction
- to scram; to beat it
- to shear, to apply a shearing transformation to (displacing each point of a geometric figure in fixed direction by an amount proportional to its signed distance, thus preserving the area of the figure.)
Etymology
From Middle High German schërn, from Old High German skëran, from Proto-West Germanic *skeran, from Proto-Germanic *skeraną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut”). Akin to Low German scheren, Dutch scheren, West Frisian skarre, English shear, Danish skære.
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