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Razorable


Definition:

  • (a.) Ready for the razor; fit to be shaved.

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.

Shave


Definition:

  • () obs. p. p. of Shave.
  • (v. t.) To cut or pare off from the surface of a body with a razor or other edged instrument; to cut off closely, as with a razor; as, to shave the beard.
  • (v. t.) To make bare or smooth by cutting off closely the surface, or surface covering, of; especially, to remove the hair from with a razor or other sharp instrument; to take off the beard or hair of; as, to shave the face or the crown of the head; he shaved himself.
  • (v. t.) To cut off thin slices from; to cut in thin slices.
  • (v. t.) To skim along or near the surface of; to pass close to, or touch lightly, in passing.
  • (v. t.) To strip; to plunder; to fleece.
  • (v. i.) To use a razor for removing the beard; to cut closely; hence, to be hard and severe in a bargain; to practice extortion; to cheat.
  • (v. t.) A thin slice; a shaving.
  • (v. t.) A cutting of the beard; the operation of shaving.
  • (v. t.) An exorbitant discount on a note.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) A hand tool consisting of a sharp blade with a handle at each end; a drawing knife; a spokeshave.
  • (v. t.) The act of passing very near to, so as almost to graze; as, the bullet missed by a close shave.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Threadneedle Street has shaved 0.75 points off borrowing costs in but has not moved since April and with rising energy bills likely to push inflation close to 5% in the coming months is thought more likely to raise bank rate than cut it when the Bank meets this week.
  • (2) The veteran almost had one with the best effort of the first half, a typical drive from the edge of the Stoke penalty area that shaved Thomas Sorensen's left-hand upright, though that possibly said more about the quality of the attacking play in the first half than the dynamism of Scholes's attempt.
  • (3) On the day of the procedure, the patient arrives at 7 a.m., is shaved, prepared and operated on by a senior surgeon before impatient operations begin.
  • (4) We feel that the myomucosal advancement flap is a valuable technique to overcome some of the problems in reconstruction of the vermilion after lip-shave.
  • (5) But he had been warned in advance by the school not to get his head shaved.
  • (6) The thermode is stuck to the shaved skin on the back of the rat, allowing heat pulses up to 51 degrees C to be applied.
  • (7) They were on the whole satisfied with antenatal classes (there seemed to be a need for more information in the form of an on-the-ward postnatal class), disliked the practice of perineal shaves (but did not object to enemas or rupture of membranes) and felt they had adequate analgesia (although not for after-pains or the discomfort of haemorrhoids in the puerperium).
  • (8) Additional studies showed that this increased activity was not affected by testing animals in the presence of environmental stimuli such as objects which could be manipulated, or by odors from mouse shavings from male and female mice.
  • (9) They win this game, it could be fear the Gillette shaved chin.
  • (10) They sat me in a chair and just shaved most of my hair off in weird concentric rings so I looked like a tonsured 14th-century monk who had had brain surgery.
  • (11) O'Neill highlighted the different way her son's friend Tesni had been treated for having her head shaved at the charity event last Saturday.
  • (12) "If we can shave a couple of inches off the [goal frame], we'll be OK," Dalglish said.
  • (13) "Shave your beard if you're brown, and you best salute the crown, or they'll do you like Brazilians and shoot your arse down."
  • (14) Then it's time for him to go, shave, and pick up his GQ award.
  • (15) Available results indicated that wood shaving is a good adsorbent.
  • (16) The funniest hairstyle I’ve ever had The time I tried to give myself a touch-up with clippers and shaved out a whole tuft of hair.
  • (17) In 1997, Taylor's health again hit the headlines when she had an operation for a brain tumour, and had to shave off her hair.
  • (18) The cutaneous autografts, whether full-thickness punch grafts, split-thickness shave grafts, or epidermal suction grafts, retained their capacity of pigmentation.
  • (19) But I feel that there are more important things for women to worry about than whether it's right or wrong to shave their legs, and one of those things is for women to stop beating themselves up so much.
  • (20) Percutaneous nitroglycerin absorption was studied in shaved rats by monitoring unchanged plasma drug concentrations for up to 4 hr.

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