shave的意思|shave的解释-里氏词典

Shave \Shave\ (sh[=a]v),
obs. p. p. of {Shave}. --Chaucer.

His beard was shave as nigh as ever he can. --Chaucer.

Shave \Shave\, v. t. [imp. {Shaved} (sh[=a]vd);p. p. {Shaved} or
{Shaven} (sh[=a]v"'n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Shaving}.] [OE.
shaven, schaven, AS. scafan, sceafan; akin to D. schaven, G.
schaben, Icel. skafa, Sw. skafva, Dan. skave, Goth. scaban,
Russ. kopate to dig, Gr. ska`ptein, and probably to L.
scabere to scratch, to scrape. Cf. {Scab}, {Shaft}, {Shape}.]
1. 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.

2. 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.

I'll shave your crown for this. --Shak.

The laborer with the bending scythe is seen
Shaving the surface of the waving green. --Gay.

3. To cut off thin slices from; to cut in thin slices.

Plants bruised or shaven in leaf or root. --Bacon.

4. To skim along or near the surface of; to pass close to, or
touch lightly, in passing.

Now shaves with level wing the deep. --Milton.

5. To strip; to plunder; to fleece. [Colloq.]

{To shave a note}, to buy it at a discount greater than the
legal rate of interest, or to deduct in discounting it
more than the legal rate allows. [Cant, U.S.]

Shave \Shave\, 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.

Shave \Shave\, n. [AS. scafa, sceafa, a sort of knife. See
{Shave}, v. t.]
1. A thin slice; a shaving. --Wright.

2. A cutting of the beard; the operation of shaving.

3.
(a) An exorbitant discount on a note. [Cant, U.S.]
(b) 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. [Cant, U.S.] --N. Biddle.

4. A hand tool consisting of a sharp blade with a handle at
each end; a drawing knife; a spokeshave.

5. The act of passing very near to, so as almost to graze;
as, the bullet missed by a close shave. [Colloq.]

{Shave grass} (Bot.), the scouring rush. See the Note under
{Equisetum}.

{Shave hook}, a tool for scraping metals, consisting of a
sharp-edged triangular steel plate attached to a shank and
handle.

That makes it difficult to interpret BASF's decision to shave only DM2 from last year's DM12 dividend. Judging by the 5 per cent rise in the shares, the market was braced for something worse.
After the severe-looking Dewey was ridiculed by tart-tongued Alice Roosevelt Longworth as "the little man on the wedding cake," campaign manager Herbert Brownell urged the New York governor to shave off his mustache.
Now, though, new technology may enable dealers to shave costs.
"I think they can shave another 5% off their schedules," said John Casesa, an analyst with Wertheim Schroder & Co. "People are negative right now, and a car is a postponable purchase." General Motors Corp. already is hedging.
This type of restructuring, which is taking place at all major German oil concerns in one form or another, is expected to shave costs through a higher efficiency of intra-company operations.
Getting rid of both can shave more than a third off a machine's weight.
A shave and a haircut used to cost nothing, if you were a United States senator and were shaved and trimmed in the United States Senate barber shop.
Here are four snippets: Plane is used to shave wood; what you fly in is an aircraft, jet, airliner, helicopter, etc. Eponymous.
But he says he would shave that back a bit now - 'where is the growth going to come from?' he asks. Longer-term judgments need to take account of deeper shifts that are taking place in Hong Kong's economic structures.
The Rebs might shave twice a day, but they're still collegians.
"Some don't even shave yet.
In May it bought the Wilkinson Sword wet shave operations, building a Dollars 500m razor and blade business. Meanwhile, Warner-Lambert has continued to build its OTC medicines business, the largest in the US.
For example, Time recently said it would do away with its magazine development group, a move Mr. MacDonald said could shave $30 million in annual costs.
To test the razor, Gillette has asked a number of employees to come in early every morning and shave at the factory here.
These girls grow up to be easygoing, goodhearted wives and mothers whose husbands walk out on them and the kids move in with exotic, "liberated" types who live in apartment courts and don't shave their legs.
He said that only North America is oversupplied with oil but that excess inventory should be eliminated if OPEC members live up to their commitment to shave one million barrels off their total production this month.
This fall, Gillette said it was introducing a new razor, called Sensor, which would be priced higher than the current brands but also is designed to offer a closer shave.
Hambrick, of Ladera Heights, won a $150,000 employee suggestion award for an idea that will shave weeks off the time needed for International Business Machines Corp. to prepare a semi-annual report on minority employees.
For it sent enough of a trigger to the markets to allow the authorities to shave rates even though the Germans had left their main rates unchanged.
"It was a close shave," said Maj. Trevor Hayes, a police spokesman.
"The experts told me that if I had any chance of winning, I had to shave my beard and stay away from Ollie North.
Men will have to get haircuts, shave, and cover any tattoos.
It's not a good idea to shave long-haired dogs, though, since the coat protects them from sunburn and for some breeds it insulates them from the heat.
Halving it would shave only 2 percentage points off gearing.
With the money from its stock sale, it plans to shave about $110 million from its $367 million in long-term debt.
Further, it shave tested the product in-house for years on a panel of 500 employees who dutifully (voluntarily) came to work each day unshaven.
In the early 1970s and Sino-American "pingpong diplomacy," Mr. Lee produced a rubber doll of the former U.S. president, in need of a shave, holding a pingpong paddle and ball.
"It's back to the days when a gentleman could get a haircut, a shave, manicure _ the works for under a buck," said Merchant. "I found out the original prices from a 102-year-old man whose hair I cut.
By removing loans from its books and selling them, the bank figures it's lowering its overall cost of lending, thus allowing it to shave a quarter to one-half percentage point off a home loan.
'We managed to shave 20 per cent off the cost of developing one plant.' Fewer mistakes.

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