What's the difference between shaved and shaven?

Shaved


Definition:

  • (imp.) of Shave
  • (p. p.) of 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.

Shaven


Definition:

  • () of Shave

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But normally, shaven-headed and shaven-faced, he could pass for a jumbo-sized Bob Crow .
  • (2) He was flanked by a triumvirate of aides, the excitable and matronly chief usher, a man at a computer screen who looked like a bedraggled version of Prince William, and a shaven-headed man who did absolutely nothing all day except fall asleep midway through the morning session.
  • (3) My shaven-headed Barbie was a squealing contestant.
  • (4) In terms of the public eye since the departure of Jeremy Paxman from Newsnight, we are now back to an entirely clean shaven BBC TV newsreading workforce too.
  • (5) That's what they were doing when an impassive, shaven-headed Lemtongthai stood in the dock to receive the strictest sentence ever imposed in South Africa for wildlife crime: Framing the rhino as a symbol of Africa and poaching as an affront to African pride, Judge Prince Manyathi sentenced him to 40 years.
  • (6) His shaven head shows off the fine, sculpted skull.
  • (7) Because of a continued requirement by the U.S. Army for clean-shaven faces, a significant racial furor and hostility has been aroused, and definitive medical care has been difficult to achieve.
  • (8) Police wearing black balaclavas raided Udaltsov's Moscow flat at around dawn, before carting the thin shaven-headed activist away for questioning at the investigative committee's headquarters.
  • (9) Nor is there much sign of Thanos, the studio's go-to background baddie, though his minion Nebula turns up in the form of Doctor Who's shaven-headed Karen Gillan.
  • (10) A total of 27 tests were conducted, covering three brands of half-mask respirators; facial hair on test subjects ranged from clean-shaven to bearded.
  • (11) The in vivo photodegradation of chlorpromazine (CPZ) in the skin was investigated after systemic administration of 3H-CPZ to shaven Wistar rats and exposure to UV-A.
  • (12) Stocky and shaven-headed, Clapper is part boardroom, part boxer.
  • (13) After 6 hr the dressing was removed, the shaven area was washed with ethanol and the dressing and washings were counted for 14C.
  • (14) He was filmed holding his left hand to his bloody, shaven head while continuing to drive with his right hand until it was safe to stop.
  • (15) The Beard Liberation Front has lamented the decision to go clean-shaven, saying: "We support people's right to dress and appear as they want so, while we regret Jeremy Paxman's decision to shave off his gravitas-adding beard, the choice should be entirely up to him, BBC pogonophobia notwithstanding."
  • (16) When the Guardian met Liu Xia around that time, she might have passed for a grad student despite her 49 years: a slight figure with a shaven head and a cigarette between her fingers.
  • (17) He's not quite clean shaven, his cropped hair a little grown out, and white bristles show through.
  • (18) Shaven and unshaven rats were exposed to a cold stress at 4 degrees C for 6 hr (SE and UE).
  • (19) But none of these events, not even Andy Murray reaching the final of the Australian Open, has generated half as much hullabaloo as the appearance on a stage in San Francisco of an ill-shaven old boy in jeans and sneakers to present his latest commercial product to the world.
  • (20) Georgios is a stern man, still strong, smartly shaven and dressed in a clean green polo short and jeans.

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