shave

Betekenis (Engels)

Verb

1. To make (the head, skin etc.) bald or (the hair) shorter by using a tool such as a razor or electric clippers to cut the hair close to the skin.
2. To cut anything in this fashion.
3. To remove hair from one's face by this means.
4. To cut finely, as with slices of meat.
5. To skim along or near the surface of; to pass close to, or touch lightly, in passing.
6. To reduce in size, weight, time taken etc., usually by a small amount.
7. To be hard and severe in a bargain with; to practice extortion on; to cheat.
8. (slang) To buy (a note) at a discount greater than the legal rate of interest, or to deduct in discounting it more than the legal rate allows.

Noun

1. An instance of shaving.
2. A thin slice; a shaving.
3. (slang) An exorbitant discount on a note.
4. (slang) A premium paid for an extension of the time of delivery or payment, or for the right to vary a stock contract in any particular.
5. A hand tool, mainly for woodworking, consisting of a sharp blade with a handle at each end.
6. (informal) A narrow miss or escape; a close shave.

Sinonieme

shaving

scrape

plane

cut

sharpen

pare

shear

trim

scratch

cut hair

scrape off

shorten

rake

razor

🪒

reduce

graze

whittle

clip

brush

dig

skin

get shaved

shavings

lower

delve

cleave

sweep

pluck out

separate

scrabble

shave off

sever

peel

knock off

haircut

💇

shave the head

remove

dress

👗

mow

hoax

hoodwink

hull

humbug

husk

impose

jockey

joyride

juggle

kiss

😗

leach

lessen

motor

moult

nip

pare off

peel off

pinch

planing

pluck

pod

pound

💷

raze

relegate

ricochet

ride

rook

scrape together

scraping

sham

shaved

shell

🐚

shortchange

shred

shuck

skim

spoof

strip

swindle

thin

tidy

tonsure

tool

touch

trick

tweak

weave

welch

cut the hair

make thin

plane off

rutter

skim off

skim over

cut off the hair

thicknesser

shape roughly

tool around

abase

knife plane

bamboozle

barber

💈

beat

bilk

bluff

bring down

cheat

chisel

chop down

circumvent

claw

con

crop

crossout

cruise

curtail

cut down

cut off

deceive

decorticate

degrade

downgrade

drive

drive around

drop

dupe

excoriate

exfoliate

expel

extirpate

facing

flatten

flay

fool

gouge

grate

gyp

hit

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ʃeɪv/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: shaven

Geërf van Old English: sċafan

Verwante met Fries: skave

Verwante met Nederlands: schaven

Verwante met Nederduits: schaven

Verwante met Duits: schaben

Verwante met Deens: skave

Verwante met Nuwe Noors: skava

Verwante met Sweeds: skava

Verwante met Yslands: skafa

Verwante met Goties: 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌽

Geërf van Middle English: shave

Geërf van Old English: sceafa

In summary

Inherited from Middle English shaven, schaven, from Old English sċafan (“to shave, scrape, shred, polish”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaban, from Proto-Germanic *skabaną (“to scratch”), from Proto-Indo-European *skabʰ- (“to cut, split, form, carve”).
Cognate with West Frisian skave, Dutch schaven (“to shave, plane”), Low German schaven (“to scrape, scratch, shave”), German schaben (“to scrape, shave”), Danish skave, Norwegian Nynorsk skava, Swedish skava (“to scrape, chafe”), Icelandic skafa, Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌽 (skaban, “to shear, shave”).

Sinne

And after the bath a shave would not be bad .