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Definition: Shaver |
ShaverNoun1. An adult male who shaves. 2. A young person of either sex (between birth and puberty); "she writes books for children"; "they're just kids"; "`tiddler' is a British term for youngsters". 3. A razor powered by an electric motor. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "shaver" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
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Occupations | Tends machine that splits leather or shoe parts to reduce parts to uniform thickness or to cut parts into two or more layers, by any of following methods: (1) Feeds part between rollers that force part against blade. (2) Positions part against machine guides and depresses pedal to force splitting blade against part. (3) Holds part against guide and horizontal band-blade. Turns setscrews or handwheels to adjust blade or rollers as specified. Verifies thickness of parts with specifications, using gauge. May sharpen machine blades. May be designated according to parts split as Ball-Point Splitter (boot & shoe); Heel-Cover Splitter (boot & shoe); Heel splitter (boot & shoe); Heel-Top-Lift Splitter (boot & shoe); Insole-And-Outsole Splitter (boot & shoe); Sole Splitter (boot & shoe). May be designated according to machine tended as Band Splitter (boot & shoe). (references) |
| Tends machine that trims edges of shoe parts, such as heels, outsoles, or uppers to remove excess material: Turns knobs or setscrews to adjust guides and cutting blade as specified. Holds part against machine guide and presses it against cutter to be trimmed. May depress pedal that raises guide plate to move part into cutter. May be designated according to area or part of shoe trimmed as Heel-Seat Trimmer (boot & shoe); Heel Trimmer (boot & shoe) I; Top-Lift Trimmer (boot & shoe); Top Trimmer (boot & shoe) I. May be designated: Apron Trimmer (boot & shoe); Boot Trimmer (boot & shoe); Cut-Out Worker (boot & shoe); Rolled-Seat Trimmer (boot & shoe); Seat Trimmer (boot & shoe); Upper Trimmer (boot & shoe). Important variables may be indicated by trade names of machines used. (references) | |
| Removes hair and dirt from hog carcasses preparatory to further processing or marketing, performing any combination of following tasks: Shaves and scrapes suspended carcasses to remove dirt and hair, using knife and scraper. Pulls off toenails, using hook. Pulls lever to dip suspended hog into resin tank and peels off hardened resin to remove hair. Applies hot resin with brush to remove remaining hair. May remove eyelids, feet, and bruised areas with knife. May slit ankle joints for insertion of gambrel sticks for hanging carcass prior to shaving. May be designated according to specific activity performed as Resin Worker (meat products); Toe Puller (meat products). (references) | |
| Tends machine that cuts fur from pelts or trims excess fur from hat and cap parts: Turns setscrew to adjust machine guide to accommodate thickness of pelt or fur-covered parts, such as cap linings or ear flaps. Starts machine and feeds articles against machine guide and under feed roller. Removes fur cuttings from machine tray and places items in containers for further processing. Gathers pelts and places pelts in bags for disposal. (references) | |
| Brushes surface of cleaned suede leather garments with stiff handbrush to raise nap. May position garment on form and actuate steam and air pressure to expand garment for ease in brushing. (references) | |
Slang in 1811 | SHAVER. A cunning shaver; a subtle fellow, one who trims close, an acute cheat. A young shaver; a boy. SEA TERM. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: ShaverSynonyms: child (n), electric razor (n), electric shaver (n), fry (n), kid (n), minor (n), nestling (n), nipper (n), small fry (n), tiddler (n), tike (n), tyke (n), youngster (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Shaver |
| Specialty definitions using "shaver": CUNNING SHAVER ♦ OFFICE HELPER. (references) |
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Theater & Movies | |||
Consumer Goods |
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 | O. G. Shaver relaxes in one of the relciner chairs at the Ashe Center for the Aging in Jefferson, NC. Credit: USDA. |  | Caption: Office Workers Using Ediphone Office Outfit, Two Dictators, One Stenographer, One Shaver; March 2, 1912; {29.320/81} (jpg). |
 | The Smyth & Rice Comedians with Walter E. Perkins as A. Keene Shaver in My friend from India by H.A. DuSouchet. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Play | Caption |
 | Shaving with an electric shaver. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Use an electric shaver if you must shave the treated area but only after checking with your doctor or nurse. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Shaver" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.32% of the time. "Shaver" is used about 31 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 90.32% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.45% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 3.23% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 31 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "shaver" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Shaver | Last name | 7,000 | 1,742 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "shaver": A note shaver ♦ electric shaver ♦ Shaver Lake ♦ young shaver. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "shaver": note-shaver. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
braun shaver | 466 | panasonic electric shaver | 26 |
shaver | 378 | seiko shaver | 25 |
shaver lake | 292 | camp edison lake shaver | 25 |
electric shaver | 248 | lake pwc rental shaver | 24 |
panasonic shaver | 157 | best electric shaver | 24 |
shaver lake ca | 153 | 7526 braun shaver syncro | 22 |
ice shaver | 152 | philips shaver | 21 |
norelco shaver | 98 | pubic shaver | 21 |
remington shaver | 98 | rental shaver lake | 21 |
helen shaver | 73 | paint shaver | 20 |
billy joe shaver | 71 | shaver venus | 20 |
braun electric shaver | 44 | shaver lake hotel | 20 |
pussy shaver | 41 | lady shaver | 19 |
shaver lake california | 39 | shaver lake real estate | 19 |
electric shaver review | 38 | remington electric shaver | 19 |
braun shaver part | 36 | remington shaver part | 18 |
camping lake shaver | 36 | personal shaver | 18 |
fabric shaver | 35 | payment shaver | 18 |
bikini shaver | 29 | man shaver | 18 |
norelco electric shaver | 27 | ice shaver machine | 18 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "shaver"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | makinë rroje elektrike, berber (barber, coiffeur, hairdresser), çunak (kid, nipper, sprig). (various references) | |
Arabic | غلام (boy, chap, child, guy, laddie, man, nipper, punk), صبي (boy, gamin, guy, lad, sapling, son, tad), الحلا ق (coiffure). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | самобръсначка (razor, safety razor), хлапак (loon, punk, spalpeen, urchin, yob, youngling), младок (colt, fledgeling, fledgling, sapling, seedling, shaveling, snip, snippet, sprig, sprout, youngster). (various references) | |
Chinese | 剃刮刨机器. (various references) | |
Czech | holicí strojek (electric razor). (various references) | |
Danish | kalkhusarbejder (cutter). (various references) | |
Dutch | schaver. (various references) | |
Farsi | تراشنده (Abrasive), سلمانی (Barber, Haircut), صورت تراش , رنده . (various references) | |
Finnish | sähköparranajokone (electric shaver). (various references) | |
French | rasoir (shrimpfish). (various references) | |
German | Elektrorasierer (shavers). (various references) | |
Greek | ξυριστική μηχανή (razor, safety razor). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מ'לח. (various references) | |
Hungarian | borotváló, villanyborotva (dry-shaver, electric razor), srác (bucko, gutter-snipe, kiddy, mere slip of a boy, tad, urchin), gyerkőc (kiddie, kiddiwink, kiddy, stripling kid, stripling youth). (various references) | |
Indonesian | cukur (razor). (various references) | |
Italian | rasoio (razor), rasatore. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 髭剃り (shaving), シアン化物 (Caesar, cyanide, schema, scheme, shade, shading, shake, shake hands, shaker, shale oil, shape-up, share, shared, shareware, sharing, shaving, shaving cream, shaving foam, shaving lotion, sheik dollar). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひ'そり (shaving), シェーバー . (various references) | |
Korean | 면도기. (various references) | |
Manx | scrysseyder (effacer, eliminator, growler, leveller, parer, scrapper), greie baaree, baareyder (barber, barer, clipper, clipper person, cutter). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | avershay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | plaina (fillister, jointer, plane), cepilho (jointer, jointing-plane, trying-plane, try-plane), barbeiro (barber), aquele que faz a barba, abridor de palhetos. (various references) | |
Romanian | tânãr (adolescent, boy, childish, colt, juvenile, kid, lad, male, stripling, young, youngster, youth, youthful), cãmãtar (pawn-broker, usurer), bãrbier (barber, hairdresser), şmecher (acute, arch, artful, astute, canny, catchy, clever, crafty, cunning, cute, deep, dodger, downy, leery, sharp, shifty, slick, slippery, sly, slyboots, wise guy), ţingãu (stripling). (various references) | |
Russian | юнец (chicken, stripling), электробритва, бритва (razor, razor blade). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | klinac (hobnail, kid, spike), berberin (barber), aparat za brijanje. (various references) | |
Spanish | maquinilla de afeitar (razor, safety razor). (various references) | |
Swedish | ung grabb, rakapparat, pojkvasker (cub). (various references) | |
Turkish | tıraş makinesi (electric razor, razor, safety razor), erkek çocuk (boy, lad, laddie, man child, young shaver), berber (barber, hairdresser). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | голяр, бритва (razor). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | trẻ mới lớn lên, thợ cạo dao cạo, người cạo. (various references) | |
Welsh | eilliwr (barber). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "shaver": shavers. (additional references) | |
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"Shaver" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chaverim, haver, Jhaveri, qhaver, savern, savert, Seaver, shader, shaer, shaev, shaler, Shameer, shaveg, shavel, shavie, shavu, shelver, Shevek, shiveh, Shover, shovier, Shuvorn, staver, suaver, swaver. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "shaver" (pronounced shā"ver) |
| 3 | -ā" v er | engraver, aver, braver, caver, craver, disfavor, Favor, Flavor, graver, Laver, paver, raver, saver, savor, waiver, waver. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: havers. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-h-r-s-v" | |
-1 letter: avers, hares, haver, haves, hears, raves, rheas, saver, share, shave, shear. | |
-2 letters: ares, arse, aver, aves, ears, eras, haes, hare, have, hear, hers, rase, rash, rave, resh, revs, rhea, save, sear, sera, shea, vars, vase, vera. | |
-3 letters: are, ars, ash, ave, ear, era, ers, hae, has, her, hes, rah, ras, res, rev, sae. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-h-r-s-v" | |
+1 letter: halvers, harvest, heavers, reshave, shavers, thraves, wharves. | |
+2 letters: archives, behavers, enravish, harvests, haverels, lavisher, overrash, ravished, ravisher, ravishes, reshaved, reshaven, reshaves, shivaree, shrieval, vanisher. | |
+3 letters: achievers, avouchers, behaviors, chivarees, chivaries, drawshave, flashover, handovers, hangovers, harvested, harvester, haversack, havockers, lavishers, overhands, overhangs, overhasty, overhates, overhauls, overheads, overheaps, overhears, overheats, ravishers, reshaving, revanches, shivareed, shivarees, shortwave, upheavers, vanishers, varnished, varnisher, varnishes, verandahs. | |
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