(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.
Stave
Definition:
(n.) One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; esp., one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc.
(n.) One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc.
(n.) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.
(n.) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.
(n.) To break in a stave or the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst; -- often with in; as, to stave a cask; to stave in a boat.
(n.) To push, as with a staff; -- with off.
(n.) To delay by force or craft; to drive away; -- usually with off; as, to stave off the execution of a project.
(n.) To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.
(n.) To furnish with staves or rundles.
(n.) To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run.
(v. i.) To burst in pieces by striking against something; to dash into fragments.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ukraine has said it needs $35 billion over the next two years to stave off bankruptcy.
(2) "They have staved off closure for a while but it did seem like they were flogging a dead horse and towards the end it did seem like the prices were really not attractive," said Jelensky, who said he preferred to buy online.
(3) Newspapers have been lobbying hard to stave off a Leveson law of any kind, arguing that the press is already subject to laws ranging from libel to data protection and computer misuse acts to guard against illegal activities.
(4) Hammond’s budget measures promised to stave off the looming crisis for Southwold – at least temporarily.
(5) On Monday, after months of intense talks with two US hedge funds, the Co-op Group – which also owns pharmacies, grocers and funeral homes – was forced to cede majority control of its bank as part of its battle to plug a £1.5bn capital shortfall and stave off nationalisation.
(6) Deep cuts to the US food stamps programme, designed to keep low-income Americans out of hunger in the aftermath of the economic recession, have forced increasing numbers of families such as theirs to rely on food banks and community organisations to stave off hunger.
(7) David Cameron should be instructing his ministers to back off councils because we already know there’s a huge funding gap in adult social care.” Cameron ‘buying off’ Tory MPs threatening to rebel over council cuts Read more Earlier this week, Oxfordshire county council received an extra £8.9m over two years as part of a government deal for rural counties in an attempt to stave off a potential backbench Tory rebellion at Westminster.
(8) While Auden and Britten are much grander characters than, say, Maggie Smith's nervy vicar's wife in Bed Among the Lentils or Thora Hird's Doris in A Cream Cracker Under the Settee trying to stave off the care home, they share the same disappointments – loneliness, self-doubt, age.
(9) On Friday, at the end of a week which saw the spectre of bankruptcy loom large over the ancient capital, the Italian government said it had approved a last-minute decree that would give an urgently-needed injection of funds to the city, thus staving off imminent disaster.
(10) The UN seeks $2.1bn to stave off the worst, while the UK alone has licensed more than £3.3bn of arms sales since the war began almost two years ago.
(11) Forage was ensiled in 10 900-kg concrete stave silos; 2 per year were assigned to one of five treatments consisting of control, treatment with an enzyme-chemical product, or treatment with one of three different types of lactic acid bacterial inoculants.
(12) It may help stave off a possible crisis of leadership in the event of the Dalai Lama's death.
(13) Uber has been given a boost in its attempts to stave off proposed changes to regulating the taxi trade in London , after the competition authority said the reforms would not serve the public interest.
(14) Along with Hytner's own production of the comedy One Man Two Guv'nors, it has staved off the financial difficulties that have troubled so many organisations in less commercial artforms since the government funding cuts of 2010.
(15) It is also evidence of a realisation that following the UN climate change talks in Paris the world is fast moving away from fossil fuels and towards low-carbon solutions in an attempt to stave off global warming.
(16) As we reported on November 24th 2010 : Trades unions brought parts of Portugal to a grinding halt as a general strike shut down most public transport in protest at cuts being introduced to stave off an Irish-style debt crisis.
(17) The company, which runs 1,270 shops, half of them in the UK, and employs 10,000 people worldwide, needs to raise around £180m to stave off collapse.
(18) The coming debate is about two things: what governments can do to attempt to regulate, or otherwise stave off, the now predictably terrifying consequences of global warming beyond 2C by the end of the century.
(19) Thames Water , one of seven companies in southern and eastern England that introduced restrictions on water use on 5 April, said the recent downpours may have staved off further curbs against drought but did not amount to "a long-term fix".
(20) Anything that comes out of the leadership of those two Committees that is labeled "NSA reform" is almost certain to be designed to achieve the opposite effect: to stave off real changes in lieu of illusory tinkering whose real purpose will be to placate rising anger.