Shave

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To make (the head, skin etc.) bald or (the hair) shorter by using a tool such as a razor or electric clippers to cut the hair close to the skin.
2. fiil To cut anything in this fashion.

   “The Lab'rer vvith the bending Scythe is ſeen / Shaving the Surface of the vvaving Green; […]”

3. fiil To remove hair from one's face by this means.

   “I had little time to shave this morning.”

4. fiil To cut finely, for example slices of meat.
5. fiil To skim along or near the surface of; to pass close to, or touch lightly, in passing.

   “Now shaves with level wing the deep.”

6. fiil To reduce in size, weight, time taken etc., usually by a small amount.

   “Kingsman’s two-hour 20-minute running time could have been shaved by around a fifth, without losing a great deal.”

7. fiil To be hard and severe in a bargain with; to practice extortion on; to cheat.
8. fiil To buy (a note) at a discount greater than the legal rate of interest, or to deduct in discounting it more than the legal rate allows.
9. fiil To injure by employing a knife.

   “Took one of the goons, the fuck they gonna do? Shave him in the heart then the mandem smoke a zoot”

10. isim An instance of shaving.

    “I instructed the barber to give me a shave.”

11. isim A thin slice; a shaving.

    “a jolly mealy 'tator, with a shave of butter, and a shake of pepper”

12. isim An exorbitant discount on a note.

    “Being unable to pay the note at maturity, Laws went with Starr to one Snyder, to whom the note was sold at a “shave,” as the parties called it, of 10 per cent.”

13. isim 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.

    “If this were a dishonest transaction, why did the companies settle? If it were not, why did the heirs submit to a shave of one-half their claims?”

14. isim A hand tool, mainly for woodworking, consisting of a sharp blade with a handle at each end.
15. isim A narrow miss or escape; a close shave.

    “"[…] I had an awful shave getting into the harbour," remarked Archie.”

16. özel isim A surname.