(n.) The iron lap used by diamond polishers in finishing the facets of the gem.
(v. t.) To pare or shave off the rough or thick parts of (hides or leather).
Example Sentences:
(1) In so far as can be gleaned , the 120,000 families whose feral ways Mr Pickles and the prime minister like pointing to were totted up using outdated surveys concerned not with the school skiving, crime and loutishness that dominated yesterday's spin.
(2) The play opens with a scene where nosey neighbours spot someone on sickness benefit in the street and assume they must be skiving instead of working.
(3) Perhaps the culprit was skiving off the wedding of a despised but vengeful cousin when he posted.
(4) Are we salt of the earth yeomen, or skiving thickos milking the system, or drains on the already stretched infrastructure?
(5) Are workers seen as a burden, a cost, people who would rather skive and shirk responsibilities, and who have to be supervised rigorously at all times?
(6) The medial heel skive technique involves selectively removing small amounts of the medial portion of the plantar heel of the positive cast of the foot to create a unique varus wedging effect within the heel cup of the foot orthosis.
(7) I was doing a lot of skiving and was put on report for a while.
(8) From the start of his tenure, Wilshaw had a habit of making comments that shocked people: accusing teachers of skiving off at 3pm , saying “bad parents” should be fined.
(9) When my mother dropped by her boss's flat to persuade her to come to a rally that had been organised in downtown Reykjavik, she was assuaging her guilt from skiving off work by baking furiously.
(10) The leading edge of the bar must be properly skived and tapered to provide an even surface with the forward part of the soles of the shoes.
(11) There was anger at Duncan Smith’s mantra that he was ending the “something for nothing culture”, and the subtext that people who tried to claim sickness benefits were skiving.
(12) The Kaastrup Plant near Skive was opened in spring 1986.
(13) Sure, it was holiday-time: daily matches, skiving from work, the cities aglitter with flags and foreigners.
(14) Christopher Millross says: "I'll be skiving but only whilst still in the office as our boss is a power-crazed inadequacy-riddled fool who can't bare to think he's not in control for ninety minutes."
(15) 10.45am: So, two questions: 1) Are any office-based readers either a) being allowed to getting out of work to watch the England (or indeed USA) match, or b) planning to skive off this afternoon?
(16) Amino acid analysis of the alpha-globins of "Skive" Danish Mus musculus musculus (Hbaw3) establishes that its hemoglobin is comprised of about one-third alpha chain 2 as expected plus a greater amount of a unique alpha chain that has not been described previously.
(17) A monologue lets us in on his thoughts – about the joy of skiving school and chasing the sun round the sky.
(18) They skive off to the loo for a sneaky fag, and return grinning.
Slive
Definition:
(v. i.) To sneak.
(v. t.) To cut; to split; to separate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lynton may, to take one example, have been thinking of what Berger had to say about the analysis of Frans Hals’s two last paintings by the scholar of Netherlands art Seymour Slive.
(2) Slive closely shows how the paintings work technically as group portraits of the governors and governesses of the Haarlem almshouses where the impoverished Hals himself received charity; but Berger says of Slive’s analysis, “It’s as though the author wants to mask the images, as though he fears their directness and accessibility.” However prone Slive may be to an art historian’s preference for painterly values over social discourse, his analysis is nevertheless closer to the heart of the matter than Berger’s fanciful account of a kind of class stand-off between the destitute artist and the governors, not least because on another and more likely reading, given Hals’s approach to portraiture even of men and women in their prime, these two groups are painted with compassion but above all with a sharp eye for laying down what was before him.