Definitions for Shaving
ˈʃeɪ vɪŋshav·ing

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. shave, shavingnoun

   the act of removing hair with a razor

2. paring, sliver, shavingnoun

   a thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something

3. grazing, shaving, skimmingnoun

   the act of brushing against while passing

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. shavingnoun

   A thin, shaved off slice of wood, metal, or other material.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Shavingnoun

   Any thin slice pared off from any body.

   Etymology: from shave.

   Take lignum aloes in gross shavings, steep them in sack, changed twice, till the bitterness be drawn forth; then take the shavings forth and dry them in the shade, and beat them to powder. Francis Bacon.

   By electrick bodies I do not conceive only such as take up shavings, straws, and light bodies, but such as attract all bodies palpable whatsoever. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours.

   The shavings are good for the fining of wine. John Mortimer.

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1. Shaving

   Shaving is the removal of hair, by using a razor or any other kind of bladed implement, to slice it down—to the level of the skin or otherwise. Shaving is most commonly practiced by men to remove their facial hair and by women to remove their leg and underarm hair. A man is called clean-shaven if he has had his beard entirely removed.Both men and women sometimes shave their chest hair, abdominal hair, leg hair, underarm hair, pubic hair, or any other body hair. Head shaving is much more common among men. It is often associated with religious practice, the armed forces, and some competitive sports such as swimming, running, and extreme sports. Historically, head shaving has also been used to humiliate, punish, for purification or to show submission to an authority. In more recent history, head shaving has been used in fund-raising efforts, particularly for cancer research organizations and charitable organizations which serve cancer patients. The shaving of head hair is also sometimes done by cancer patients when their treatment may result in hair loss.

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1. shaving

   Shaving is the process of removing hair from the body or face by using a razor or any other blading implement, sliding it over the skin to cut hair follicles at the skin's surface.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Shaving

   of Shave

2. Shavingnoun

   the act of one who, or that which, shaves; specifically, the act of cutting off the beard with a razor

3. Shavingnoun

   that which is shaved off; a thin slice or strip pared off with a shave, a knife, a plane, or other cutting instrument

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1. Shaving

   Shaving is the removal of hair, by using a razor or any other kind of bladed implement, to slice it down to the level of the skin. Shaving is most commonly practiced by men to remove their facial hair and by women to remove their leg and underarm hair. A man is called clean-shaven if he has had his beard entirely removed. Both men and women sometimes shave their undercheek hair, chest hair, abdominal hair, leg hair, underarm hair, pubic hair or any other bodily hair. Head shaving is much more common among men. It is often associated with religious practice, the armed forces and some competitive sports such as swimming, running and extreme sports. Historically, head shaving has also been used to humiliate, punish and show submission to an authority, and also as part of a fund-raising efforts, particularly for cancer research organizations and charitable organizations that serve cancer patients. The shaving of head hair is also sometimes done by cancer patients when their treatment may result in partial hair loss. It has become common for men with partial male pattern baldness.

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How to pronounce Shaving?

1. Alex

   US English

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   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

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   Indian

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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How to say Shaving in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Shaving in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Shaving in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of Shaving in a Sentence

1. Neil Paine:

   Putting in that pitch clock and the rules around it has been single handedly responsible for shaving off 25 minutes of kind of dead time off a baseball game, i think that’s probably still a positive in the net sense, but at the same time you do lose a little bit of that other stuff.

2. Woody Allen, Without Feathers:

   Whosoever shall not fall by the sword or by famine, shall fall by pestilence so why bother shaving?

3. Woody Allen, "Without Feathers":

   Whosoever shall not fall by the sword or by famine, shall fall by pestilence, so why bother shaving?

4. Israeli Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon:

   There is no danger to the banks' stability. They profit when they are sleeping and shaving, all the time we are scared the banks will collapse but in the meantime, citizens collapse.

5. Gennadiy Goldberg:

   This brings considerable downside risks to GDP revisions, likely shaving 0.3 percentage point.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Shaving
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Shaving
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Shaving
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaving
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Shaving
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Shaving
8. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Shaving