Preferred label

Tear (activity)

Alternative label

Scope note

The act of breaching a substrate resulting in irregular or ragged edge. The result of opening a letter, or of a manipulation.        

Parent concept

Material feature        

uh-linked-data/concept/332        

Related concept       

Letter-opening manipulation        

uh-linked-data/concept/220

The Arts & Architecture ThesaurusⓇ Online, The Getty Research Institute. Concept uri

Not in AAT

The Language of Bindings Thesaurus (LoB) Concept uri

Not in LoB

Scope note source reference

Source

Jana Dambrogio, Daniel Starza Smith, and the Unlocking History Research Group. Letterlocking, The Hidden History of the Letter. Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 2025.

Unlocking History Concept uri

uh-linked-data/concept/545