Sheer

Sheer may refer to:

  • Sheer fabric, a semi-transparent and flimsy fabric
  • Sheer (ship), a measure of longitudinal deck curvature in naval architecture
  • Sheer curation, a lightweight approach to digital curation
  • Sheer Islands, Nunavut, Canada
  • Sheer Music, a record label
  • Ireen Sheer, a German-British pop singer
  • The Sheer, a Dutch pop band

Famous quotes containing the word sheer:

    “Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death ... others through sheer inability to cross the street.”
    —Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)

    “The sheer rapture
    that I would take
    to mould a clear
    and frigid statue;”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “Information networks straddle the world. Nothing remains concealed. But the sheer volume of information dissolves the information. We are unable to take it all in.”
    —Günther Grass (b. 1927)