sheer

I 1. [ʃiə] adjective

1) (absolute: Her singing was a sheer delight; It all happened by sheer chance.) skrajen

2) (very steep: a sheer drop to the sea.) zelo strm

3) ((of cloth) very thin: sheer silk.) zelo fin

2. adverb

(verticaly: The land rises sheer out of the sea.) navpično

II [ʃiə]

- sheer off/away

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I [šíə]

1.

noun

nautical

odklon (odmik) od določene smeri, nagel obrat ali odklon od ravne poti;

2.

intransitive verb nautical

napraviti nagel odklon od določene smeri ali ravne poti; figuratively odmakniti se, oddaljiti se (from od), ločiti se

to sheer off — oditi, oddaljiti se, ločiti se; nautical odmakniti se od določene smeri

to sheer up nautical bližati se od strani

II [šíə]

1.

adjective

(zelo) strm, navpičen; skrajen; tanek, zelo fin (tkanina); pravi, pravcat; čist, nepomešan, nerazredčen, neponarejen; popoln, sam, gol

sheer ale — nerazredčeno pivo

a sheer cliff — navpična skalnata obala

by sheer force — s silo

by sheer necessity — iz čiste (same, gole, absolutne) potrebe

a sheer descent of rock — navpična skala

sheer rock — čista (sama, prava, pravcata, gola) skala

sheer waste — čista (gola) potrata

sheer impossibility — popolna nemožnost

it is sheer nonsense — to je pravi nesmisel;

2.

adverb

navpično; popolnoma, čisto; naravnost, direktno

plant torn sheer out by the roots — s korenino vred izpuljena rastlina

rocks rise sheer from the valley — skale se dvigajo navpično iz doline;

3.

noun

prozorna (bombažna ali platnena) tkanina