shave

(Anglais)

Verb

1. (transitive) 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. (transitive) To cut anything in this fashion.
3. (intransitive) To remove hair from one's face by this means.
4. (transitive) 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. (archaic, transitive) To be hard and severe in a bargain with; to practice extortion on; to cheat.
8. (US, dated, slang, transitive) 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.
9. (Multicultural-London-English, slang, transitive) To injure by employing a knife.

Noun

1. An instance of shaving.
2. A thin slice; a shaving.
3. (US, dated, slang) An exorbitant discount on a note.
4. (US, dated, 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.

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ʃeɪv/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: shaven

Hérité de ancien anglais: sċafan

Appartenant à frison occidental: skave

Appartenant à néerlandais: schaven

Appartenant à bas-allemand: schaven

Appartenant à allemand: schaben

Appartenant à danois: skave

Appartenant à norvégien nynorsk: skava

Appartenant à suédois: skava

Appartenant à islandais: skafa

Appartenant à gotique: 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌽

Hérité de moyen anglais: shave

Hérité de ancien anglais: 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 scrape”), from Proto-Indo-European *skabʰ- (“to cut, split, form, carve”).
Cognate with West Frisian skave, Dutch schaven, Low German schaven, German schaben, Danish skave, Norwegian Nynorsk skava, Swedish skava, Icelandic skafa, Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌰𐌱𐌰𐌽 (skaban), all roughly “to scrape, chafe, shave, plane, remove the outer lay of”.

Concepts

raser

se raser

rasage

raboter

tailler

usiner

faire la barbe

dresser

barbifier

farder

peler

rabot

amenuiser

Synonymes

shaving

scrape

plane

sharpen

pare

cut

trim

shear

scratch

cut hair

shorten

scrape off

graze

clip

reduce

razor

🪒

rake

whittle

dress

👗

cleave

dig

haircut

💇

shave off

shave the head

scrabble

delve

get shaved

skin

sweep

shavings

sever

remove

mow

peel

knock off

brush

lower

separate

pluck out

drive

downgrade

bring down

degrade

claw

decorticate

hoax

hit

deceive

hoodwink

circumvent

Traductions

rasieren

radere

afeitar

scheren

golić

barbear

afaitar

sich rasieren

afeitarse

raspar

rasurar

ξυρίζω

afeitado

ξύρισμα

radersi

Phrases

And after the bath a shave would not be bad .

Et après le bain, un rasage ne serait pas mauvais.