(v. t.) A keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the face or the head.
(v. t.) A tusk of a wild boar.
Example Sentences:
(1) Perinephric rabbit fat was divided into small particles with scissors and razor blades and then injected subcutaneously into the donor rabbit.
(2) The crucial additional feature of his nature, however, was that the apparently guileless charm was accompanied by a razor-sharp shrewdness.
(3) Senior government sources have confirmed the budget razor gang has the fuel tax credit (formerly known as the diesel fuel rebate) “firmly in its sights” – a scheme that rebates miners and farmers and others for the off-road use of diesel.
(4) The frogs were examined both after dissection (cut with a razor blade) to study the superficial blood vessel pattern, and histologically (the Nissl staining method) to study the distribution of the deep blood capillaries.
(5) Malformations were detected by outer inspection for gross anomalies, by means of the razor blade technique for malformations of organs and by alizarin preparations for detecting anomalies of the osseuos skeleton.
(6) The razor blades were positioned to minimize shearing of tissues during sectioning so that there was no gross tissue disruption or cell death distant from cut edges.
(7) Citing the razor-thin margin by which the NSA's bulk phone-records collection survived a vote last week in the House of Representatives , Wyden and Udall vowed to continue their push to curtail the programme.
(8) Given that the next president could be in a position to replace Supreme Court justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer – two of the members of the razor-thin five-vote majority supporting Roe v Wade – Americans who don’t want to return women to the reproductive dark ages should vote accordingly come November.
(9) The game also makes a lot of mileage out of building up razor-sharp tension, reducing the soundtrack to footfalls and creaking doors and then having horrific monsters amble into view as though this is the natural state of things.
(10) Sadly there's a distinct lack of bushy facial features on show in Germany this summer, although should Gennaro Gattuso steer clear of a razor and Italy go all the way, then he'll surely be eligible to join Batista in the pantheon of hirsute legends.
(11) Instead of laying more razor wire and erecting ever higher fences, Europe’s leaders should end their head-in-the-sand politics and provide meaningful, sustainable solutions.” Migrants attempting the routes frequently report being assaulted and robbed by smugglers and police officers alike.
(12) Paul Mason writes about illegal immigration into Spain – based on a report he presented for BBC Newsnight – under the headline: "The EU is ignoring the human rights abuses behind Morocco's razor wire" (2 September).
(13) Here at least they looked like a team with a plan, and enough razor edge to claw their way out of trouble.
(14) Three or four feet down and the sandy sea floor is thickly cast with razor clams and scallop shells.
(15) Awaiting his razor-sharp skills are four Cambridge lads sporting varying degrees of bum fluff.
(16) Even if they have money in their pockets, they want to wait and see, but we are hopeful that the lifting of sanctions will bring back confidence to customers.” A sales assistant at a men’s beauty shop says a pack of Gillette razors that sold for 170,000 rials (about £3) before the rial nosedived now cost more than 480,000 rials (over £8).
(17) And maybe the best way to question it is to give up the razors and the wax for a while and see how it feels to be totally au naturel.
(18) The remaining 27 were defibulated with the use of various instruments such as knives, razor blades, and scissors.
(19) The Elema EM153 ran at an increased rate when an electric razor was running close to the pacemaker.
(20) Hair accumulated in electric razors and house dust mixed with hair from electric razors should be considered the most promising medium for their cultivation.
Shaver
Definition:
(n.) One who shaves; one whose occupation is to shave.
(n.) One who is close in bargains; a sharper.
(n.) One who fleeces; a pillager; a plunderer.
(n.) A boy; a lad; a little fellow.
(n.) A tool or machine for shaving.
Example Sentences:
(1) We have developed a subcutaneous tissue shaver for the radical treatment of hircismus and hyperhidrosis.
(2) The egg-producing strain, shaver, showed a greater iron status with a stable body iron content from 13 weeks on (53-55 ppm), permitting a constant laying frequency (90%) during an 18-month period, with only a small reduction of egg iron content from 33.8 to 31 ppm.
(3) Using online handles such as "Pirate" and "pirateat40", Shavers sold "investments" to people around the US.
(4) We all want to have a safe and fair economy and the Bitcoin community has made great strides towards this goal since Mr Shavers's operation went out of business last year."
(5) Arthroscopy is an interesting and enlarging technique that visualise the temporomandibular joint and allows surgical technics such as lysis and lavage, prediscal section, retrodiscal cauterisation, oblic protuberance cauterisation, disc suturing or shavering of the articular surfaces.
(6) A judge in the US recently ruled that Bitcoin does amount to "a currency or form of money" in a preliminary hearing over a man in Texas, Trendon Shavers, who is accused by the US financial watchdog, the Securities and Exchange Commission, of running a pyramid scheme masquerading as a Bitcoin investment company .
(7) A tendency of the iron content in the carcass to decrease with age has been observed for both breeds; values were higher for laying shaver hens.
(8) Haematological values and iron content in liver, spleen, kidneys and intestine were determined in Shaver chickens of both sexes at 4, 8, 13 and 18 weeks and in females at 24 weeks (the beginning of the laying period).
(9) Iron data obtained in the present paper reflect the specific genetic adaptation to egg production of the shaver strain.
(10) "In reality BTCST was a sham and a Ponzi [pyramid] scheme in which Shavers used Bitcoin from new investors to make purported interest payments and cover investor withdrawals on existing BTCST investments," the SEC said on Tuesday.
(11) A simple vibratome was fabricated using double-function electric shaver and microscopic platform.
(12) A subcutaneous tissue "shaver" was used in the treatment of axillary bromhidrosis.
(13) Patrick Murck of the Bitcoin Foundation said in a comment: "Compliant with SEC rules or not, Mr Shavers's offering, as alleged, was wrong and harmful to the Bitcoin community.
(14) The SEC alleges that Shavers transferred at least 150,649 Bitcoins into his personal account – which he used to pay for rent, food, utility bills, shopping and gambling.
(15) Operative treatment is facilitated by small joint shavers, burrs, knives, and baskets.
(16) The iron content in internal organs in shaver was higher than in New Hampshire.
(17) Chicks of a conventional poultry flock, Shaver Starcross 288 hybrid, were vaccinated with infectious bronchitis (IB) virus H 120 at the age of 21 days.
(18) Then down on South Congress – a 15-minute stroll across the Colorado River – a more laid-back, country-digging crowd gathered to watch Dawes , Billy Joe Shaver and Night Beds at the free event at the Hotel San José.
(19) Trendon T Shavers, from KcKinney in Texas, was the founder and operator of "Bitcoin Savings and Trust" (BTCST), allegedly raised a total of 700,000 Bitcoins in 2011 and 2012 – then worth about $4.5m – for his scheme, claiming that he made his profits on market arbitrage.
(20) With this shaver the sweat glands can be removed from the undersurface of the axillary skin through a small incision.