SKIVING

Definition: SKIVING

SKIVING

Noun

1. A piece made in paring or splitting leather; specifically, the part from the inner, or flesh, side.

2. The act of paring or splitting leather or skins.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Domain	Definition
Building & Civil Engineering	To dig in thin layers. Source: European Union. (references)
Industry	Removal of damaged material by rasp or knife prior to making a repair. Source: European Union. (references)
Mechanical Engineering	Method of manufacturing internal and external spur or helical gears with a gear like cutting tool in crossed axis arrangement. Source: European Union. (references)
Slang	Verb. Source: Unclear. Definition: To avoid doing something that should be done or needs to be accomplished. Context: Used when somone is skipping lectures or not doing homework. Social Source: British Students at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Crosswords: SKIVING

Specialty definitions using "SKIVING": SKIVING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ V-BELT SKIVER. (references)

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	Skiving leather in saddle shop. Alpine, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.		Hand skiving of leather. Saddle shop, Alpine, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

"SKIVING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 95.00% of the time. "SKIVING" is used about 20 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	95%	19	80,337
Noun (proper)	5%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	20	N/A

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "SKIVING": boyo-larrikin-rugby-skiving.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "SKIVING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		磨 (skive, Whet, Whetted, Whetting). (various references)

Danish		skærfning, afroemning (removal). (various references)

Dutch		splitten, uitwerken (act, be effective, bring about, finish, have effect, work out), roterend schaven (peeling, Shear-Speed), rondschaven (peeling, Shear-Speed). (various references)

Finnish		vierintäkuorinta (peeling, Shear-Speed), vierintäjyrsintä leikkuupyörällä (peeling, Shear-Speed), ohentaminen, ohennus, kuoriminen (cornhusking, husking, maize husking, skimming). (various references)

French		taillage � la molette, pelage (skin), parage, excavation en couches minces, débridage, écroutage. (various references)

German		Schärfen (acrimonies, edge, grind, hone, poignancies, pungencies, sharpen, sharpnesses, whet), Schälen (Hull, husk, pare, paring, peel, shell, shuck, skin, to pare, to peel), Wälzschälen (peeling, Shear-Speed), Abschaelen. (various references)

Greek		κόψιμο σε φύλλα, καθάρισμα (cleaning, clearance, scour), ρεφιλάρισμα, εκσκαφή κατά λεπτάς στρώσεις, αποφλοίωση με κύλιση (peeling, Shear-Speed), τρόχισμα (grinding). (various references)

Italian		scavo a tratti, scarnitura, molatura (acuminate, grinding, sharpen, surface grinding, to grind tools, whet 3)grounding). (various references)

Pig Latin		ivingskay

Portuguese		faceado, escavação em camadas finas, desbaste (paring, thinning). (various references)

Spanish		rebajado (segmental), excavación por capas delgadas, biselado de parches. (various references)

Swedish		skärfling, grävning i tunna lager. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"SKIVING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Kinvig, scavving, scavvying, skieing, sliving, swiving. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: vikings.
	Words within the letters "g-i-i-k-n-s-v"
	-1 letter: skiing, viking, vising.
	-2 letters: ginks, kings.
	-3 letters: gink, gins, inks, king, kins, nisi, sign, sing, sink, skin, vigs.
	-4 letters: gin, ink, ins, kin, sin, ski, vig, vis.
	-5 letters: in, is, si.
	Words containing the letters "g-i-i-k-n-s-v"
	+2 letters: skivvying, skydiving.
	+3 letters: skydivings.
	+5 letters: moviemakings, overstriking, thanksgiving.
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