Tear

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Tear may refer to:

• Tears, a watery secretion from the eyes
• Tearing, the act of ripping fabric or other materials
• Tear (scratch), a type of scratch used by turntablists

Elements in fiction

• Tear, a character Tear Grants in video game Tales of the Abyss
• Tear (Wheel of Time), a nation in a series of novels

Titles of creative works

• Tears (film), a 2000 South Korean film directed by Im Sang-soo
• Tears (Joseph Williams album)
• Tears (The Crocodiles album)
• Tears (The Crüxshadows album), 2001
• "Tears", a poem by Walt Whitman
• "Tears", a poem by Edward Thomas

Songs

• "Tears", a song by The Stone Roses on their 1994 album Second Coming
• "Tears" (Ken Dodd song), a UK number 1 in 1965
• "Tears" (Rush song), 1976
• "Tears" (X Japan song), 1993
• "Tears" (Fayray song), 2000
• "Tears" (Rockell song)
• "Tear" (song), a 1993 song by Lotion
• "Tear", 1998 song by Smashing Pumpkins on their album Adore
• "Tear", 2002 song by Red Hot Chili Peppers on By the Way
• "Tears", a jazz song performed by guitarist Django Reinhardt
• "Tears", a 2007 song by Tinie Tempah feat. Cleo Sol

People

• Robert Tear (1939–2011), Welsh singer

See also

• The Tears, an English rock band
• Screen tearing, a visual display artifact
• Tearfund, a British charity
• Tare (disambiguation)