sheer
A sheer curtain or fabricA sheer curtain or fabric.
» It's a sheer waste of time.
Це пусте гаяння часу.
Meaning
3 sensesA sheer curtain or fabric.
Use sheers to maximize natural light.
The curve of the main deck or gunwale from bow to stern.
An abrupt swerve from the course of a ship.
Examples
69 sentencesIt's a sheer waste of time.
Це пусте гаяння часу. — Ahha
This is sheer nonsense.
Це повна нісенітниця. — deniko
deDas ist lauterer Unsinn. — brauchinet
That was sheer nonsense.
We survived by sheer luck.
ruМы выжили по чистой случайности. — Biga
It is a sheer waste of time.
Це тільки даремна трата часу. — deniko
ruЭто пустая трата времени. — marafon
deDas ist reine Zeitverschwendung. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
Origin
From Middle English shere, scheere, schere, skere, from Old English sċǣre (“pure, sheer; sFrom Middle English shere, scheere, schere, skere, from Old English sċǣre (“pure, sheer; shining, clear”), from Proto-Germanic *skairiz; supplanted the semantically close shire (dialectal), from Middle English schyre, schire, shire, shir, from Old English sċīr (“clear, bright; brilliant, gleaming, shining, splendid, resplendent; pure”), beside which existed Middle English skyr, from Old Norse skírr (“pure, bright, clear”), both from Proto-Germanic *skīriz (“pure, sheer”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₁y- (“luster, gloss, shadow”).
Perhaps from Dutch scheren (“to move aside, skim”); see also shear.
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