Shaving

Definition: Shaving

Shaving

Noun

1. The act of removing hair with a razor.

2. A thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something.

3. The act of brushing against while passing.

Date "shaving" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1532. (references)

Domain	Definition
Dream Interpretation	To dream that you are being shaved, portends that you will let imposters defraud you. To shave yourself, foretells that you will govern your own business and dictate to your household, notwithstanding that the presence of a shrew may cause you quarrels. If your face appears smooth, you will enjoy quiet, and your conduct will hot be questioned by your companions. If old and rough, there will be many squalls or, the matrimonial sea. If your razor is dull and pulls your face, you will give your friends cause to criticize your private life. If your beard seems gray, you will be absolutely devoid of any sense of justice to those having claims upon you. For a woman to see men shaving, foretells that her nature will become sullied by indulgence in gross pleasures. If she dreams of being shaved, she will assume so much masculinity that men will turn from her in disgust. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Electrical Engineering	Removing material from the surface of a disk recording medium to obtain a new recording surface. Source: European Union. (references)
Literature	Shaving Bondmen were commanded by the ancient Gauls to shave, in token of servitude. In the Turkish seraglio the slaves are obliged to shave their chins, in token of their servitude. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Mechanical Engineering	Method of finishing gears being similar to shaping. The tool is a gear like shaving wheel with tooth flanks interrupted by cutting grooves, and the gear and cutting tool are on crossed axes. Source: European Union. (references)
Metallurgy	The first method consists in removing metal -- from a blank by means of a cutting tool. Source: European Union. (references)
	Removal in a die of small amounts of material from a pressing in order to reduce it to the exact required dimensions. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Shaving

Synonyms: grazing (n), paring (n), shave (n), skimming (n), sliver (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Filament	Strip, shred, slip, spill, list, band, fillet, fascia, ribbon, riband, roll, lath, splinter, shiver, shaving.
Layer	Plate; lamina, lamella; sheet, foil; wafer; scale, flake, peel; coat, pellicle; membrane, film; leaf; slice, shive, cut, rasher, shaving, integument; (covering); eschar.
Smallness	Small quan modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive; snip, snippet; snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	But shaving points off of a football game, man that's un-American (The Longest Yard; writing credit: Albert S. Ruddy; Tracy Keenan Wynn) I'm shaving with it. (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) Yes, Icut my tongue when I was shaving this morning (Topper; writing credit: Eric Hatch; Jack Jevne) I was gonna get you a tie clip or some shaving lotion, but I didn't know what you'd like (Norma Rae; writing credit: Harriet Frank Jr.; Irving Ravetch) My dad thought of it while he was shaving. (Top Secret!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; David Zucker)
Movie/TV Titles	Shaving Muggs (1953) Chinese Shaving Scene (1902) Comic Shaving (1897) The Shaving (1990)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
References	The 2001 Report on Shaving and Hair Care Products: World Market Segmentation by City (reference) The 2000-2005 Outlook for Men’s Shaving Products in Latin America (reference) The 2003-2008 World Outlook for Men’s Oil Shaving Preparations (reference) The World Market for Pre-Shave, Shaving, or After-Shave Preparations: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	Shaving (reference) Shaving Products [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) The 2000-2005 World Outlook for Men’s Shaving Products [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference) The Art of Shaving (reference) The Shaving of Shagpat (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	The Art of Shaving (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Shaving Lucky (reference) Shaving Peaches [IMPORT] (reference) She Commenced to Shaving (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods	Panasonic ES4001S CYBER Double Head Shaving System (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	U.S. American National Red Cross Hospital No. 5, Auteuil, France. : A convalescent soldier shaving outside of one of the hospital tents. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Patent Democratic Republican steam shaving shop. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Williams' shaving soap The leader through 20 administrations. Credit: Library of Congress.		Chopping ice before shaving it to be used in icing shrimp boat, Morgan City, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Empty collapsible tubes: a tin mine for war industry. Some of the millions of old tooth paste, shaving cream and other metal tubes received at the Newark, New Jersey reclamation plant of the Tin Salvage Institute. Frank Thomas, age 19, works at the trimmi. Credit: Library of Congress.		Cowhand shaving. Quarter Circle 'U' Ranch, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Negro strawberry picker shaving near Hammond, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress.		A migrant packinghouse worker shaving. Deerfield Florida. Credit: Library of Congress.
	William Stamper, age eighty two, shaving oak sticks for chair braces in his workshop. Lake of the Ozarks passover area, Missouri. Credit: Library of Congress.		Questers antique shop. Lady with shaving bowl I. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Play	Caption	Play	Caption
	Shaving with an electric shaver.		Turning on electric hair clippers and shaving hair.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Removal of a suspicious lesion by shaving or curettage is not recommended. (references)
Business		Local production of deodorants and shaving products is very low. It covers only two percent of the total market. (references)
		It pays special attention to different segments of that market such as skin and hair care products, make-up, perfume, hair color, nail and oral care products, shaving products and deodorants. (references)
		Leading deodorant brands include Fa, Lady’s Speed Stick, Rexona and Secret while leading shaving cream and foam brands are Gillette, Florena, Nivea, Denim, Old Spice, Mennen and Harley Davidson. (references)
Children	Bulgaria	Degrading and severe punishment, such as the shaving of a child's head, reduction in diet, severe beatings, and long periods of solitary confinement, are common at the schools. (references)
Civil Liberties	Tanzania	Following the January demonstrations, there were reports of isolated cases of harassment of individuals who were perceived as supporters of radical Islam, including the alleged forcible shaving of beards of certain Muslims who had been detained. (references)
Economic History	Brazil	Best prospects for US exports include facial and body skincare, sun protection creams and lotions, shampoos and "men's products", including perfumes, good quality lotions and shaving preparations, ethnic products (dark skin cosmetics and toiletries), hair treatment and dental products. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	BEARD, n. The hair that is commonly cut off by those who justly execrate the absurd Chinese custom of shaving the head.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Walter Cronkite	That's about every morning as I'm shaving. But by the time I've finished shaving and got the newspaper in hand, I want to go after the next story.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Shaving" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 83.33% of the time. "Shaving" is used about 132 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)	83.33%	110	30,952
Adjective (general or positive)	9.09%	12	101,599
Noun (singular)	5.3%	7	133,076
Noun (proper)	2.27%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	132	N/A

Expressions using "shaving": gear shaving ♦ shaving board ♦ shaving bowl ♦ shaving brush ♦ shaving cream ♦ shaving foam ♦ shaving fog ♦ shaving horse ♦ shaving mirror ♦ shaving mug ♦ shaving set ♦ shaving soap ♦ shaving stick. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "shaving": shaving-brush, shaving-brush tree, shaving-cream, shaving-mirror, shaving-pot.
	Ending with "shaving": beard-shaving, comer-shaving, genital-shaving, head-shaving.
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 "shaving"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		rruajtje (shave), ashkël (chip, kindling wood, matchwood, shavings, sliver, splinter, tinder). (various references)

Arabic		‏قشارة (peeling), ‏حلق (aspire, circle, ear ring, fauces, flatten out, flit, float, fly, fly off, gorge, gullet, hawk about, larynx, pharynx, plane, ring, rise, soar, take off, throat, tower, trim), ‏حلاقة (shave). (various references)

Asturian		pastia d'afaitase (shaving cream). (various references)

Bemba		amafuta yakubeyo umwefu (shaving cream). (various references)

Bulgarian		шевинговане, бръснене (shave). (various references)

Cebuano		sabon igpamalbas (shaving cream). (various references)

Chinese		刮 (scrape, scraped, scraping, shaved, shaven). (various references)

Czech		holení. (various references)

Danish		skrabning (abrasion, brushing, scraping), tandhjulsshaving (gear shaving), grat (burr, flash, overflow, paring, spew, trimming). (various references)

Dutch		roterend schrapen (gear shaving), rondschrapen (gear shaving), nasnijden, het overtollige (burr, paring, trimming), afvijlsel (burr, paring, trimming), afsnijdsel (burr, meat scraps, meat trimmings, paring, trimming), afkrabben (scrape, scrape off, scratch off). (various references)

Esperanto		razpeniko (shaving-brush). (various references)

Faeroese		rakisápa (shaving cream). (various references)

Finnish		vierintäkaapiminen (gear shaving), parranajo (a shave), lastu (chip), jälkileikkaaminen. (various references)

French		rasage (shearing). (various references)

Frisian		skearsjippe (shaving cream). (various references)

German		span (boring, chip, filing, flake, piece of kindling, spill). (various references)

Greek		ξύρισμα (shave). (various references)

Hebrew		ת�'לחת (shave), �'לוח (shave, shaven), � סורת (sawdust, shavings). (various references)

Hungarian		borotválkozás (shave). (various references)

Indonesian		pencukuran (trimming down), cukuran (instrument for shaving). (various references)

Inuktitut		ungijaup uasatinga (shaving cream). (various references)

Italian		truciolo (chip), rasatura (shave). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		髭剃り (shaver), シアン化物 (Caesar, cyanide, schema, scheme, shade, shading, shake, shake hands, shaker, shale oil, shape-up, share, shared, shareware, sharing, shaver, shaving cream, shaving foam, shaving lotion, sheik dollar). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ひ�'そり (shaver), シェー�"ング . (various references)

Korean		면도 (shave). (various references)

Macedonian		krem za bricenje (shaving cream). (various references)

Manx		slissag (collop, cutting, rasher, round of bread, slice), scryss (grin, growl, growler, ill-natured person, paring, peel, rind, scowl, scraping). (various references)

Norwegian		barberkost (shaving-brush). (various references)

Pig Latin		avingshay.(various references)

Portuguese		rectificação (correction, cross-linking, flatting, hone, rectification, transformation), rebarbas (shavings), rebarba (barb, burr, fash), limalha (filings, rasping, scobs), fitas de carpinteiro (shavings), ato de se barbear, ato de fazer a barba, aparas de madeira (excelsior, shavings), apara (clipping). (various references)

Provencal		crema de rasar (shaving cream). (various references)

Romanian		surcele (kindling), ras (shave, shaven, smooth-faced), bãrbierit (shave, shaven). (various references)

Romansch		crema da far la barba (shaving cream). (various references)

Russian		шевингование, бритье (shave). (various references)

Samoan		kulimi seleava (shaving cream). (various references)

Scottish		bearradaireachd (pruning;, shearing). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		brijanje (shave). (various references)

Sicilian		crema di varva (shaving cream). (various references)

Spanish		afeitado (shave, shaven). (various references)

Swedish		rak-. (various references)

Turkish		tıraş (shave). (various references)

Turkmen		яonuюga (filling). (various references)

Ukrainian		гоління (shave), вирівнювання поверхні, обрізання (amputation, circumcision, clipping). (various references)

Vietnamese		x� phòng cạo râu (shaving-soap, shaving-stick), kem cạo râu (shaving-cream), bát để x� phòng cạo râu (shaving-bowl). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "shaving": shavings. (additional references)
	Words ending with "shaving": reshaving. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Shaving" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: savini, savino, scavving, scavvying, shabini, shavien, Shavng, swaving. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "shaving" (pronounced shā"ving)
4	-ā" v i ng	behaving, braving, caving, craving, engraving, misbehaving, paving, raving, saving, staving, waiving, waving.
3	-v i ng	approving, absolving, achieving, arriving, believing, calving, caregiving, carving, conceiving, conniving, conserving, curving, deceiving, delving, depriving, deriving, deserving, disapproving, disbelieving, dissolving, diving, driving, earthmoving, evolving, forgiving, giving, grieving, halving, having, heaving, improving, interleaving, interweaving, involving, jiving, leaving, lifesaving, living, loving, misgiving, moving, observing, perceiving, preserving, proving, receiving, relieving, reliving, removing, reserving, resolving, retrieving, reviving, revolving, revving, serving, shelving, shoving, sieving, skydiving, solving, starving, striving, surviving, thanksgiving, thieving, thriving, unbelieving, undeserving, unforgiving, unnerving, unswerving, weaving.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-g-h-i-n-s-v"
	-1 letter: ashing, having, saving, vanish.
	-2 letters: gains, gnash, hangs, nighs, sangh, savin, shiva, vangs, vigas, vinas.
	-3 letters: agin, ains, anis, gain, gash, ghis, gins, hags, hang, hins, hisn, nags, nigh, sain, sang, shag, shin, shiv, sigh, sign, sing, sinh, snag, vagi, vain, vang, vans, viga, vigs, vina, visa.
	-4 letters: ain, ais, ani, ash, gan, gas.
	Words containing the letters "a-g-h-i-n-s-v"
	+1 letter: shavings, sheaving.
	+2 letters: lavishing, ravishing, reshaving, shaveling, vanishing.
	+3 letters: evanishing, harvesting, shavelings, varnishing, vinegarish.
	+4 letters: enravishing, misbehaving, ravishingly, shivareeing, vagabondish, vanishingly, vanquishing, vouchsafing.
	+5 letters: earthmovings, nonvanishing, slaveholding, thanksgiving, venographies.
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Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
shaving pussy	1,466	shaving bikini area	58
shaving	1,354	wood shaving	56
shaving pubic hair	323	body shaving	56
head shaving	308	man shaving	52
pubic shaving	215	shaving razor	52
shaving cream	211	bikini line shaving	51
shaving brush	124	shaving pubes	49
shaving vagina	102	shaving pubic area	44
woman shaving	100	bikini shaving	43
leg shaving	94	head shaving woman	42
tip for shaving	94	shaving genitals	41
shaving kit	91	shaving foam	40
shaving product	87	cock shaving	38
genital shaving	71	shaving bump	36
shaving mug	70	shaving ball	36
shaving girl	69	chest shaving	36
shaving penis	67	teen shaving	36
the art of shaving	64	shaving mirror	32
female head shaving	64	shaving set	31
shaving soap	58	male pubic hair shaving	30
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Shaving

Definition: Shaving

Shaving

Noun

Specialty Definition: Shaving

Specialty Definition: Shaving

Synonyms: Shaving

Synonyms within Context: Shaving

Filament

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Crosswords: Shaving

Modern Usage: Shaving

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Commercial Usage: Shaving

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Image Slideshow: Shaving

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Sounds Captioned with "Shaving".

Non-Fiction Usage: Shaving

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

Spoken Usage: Shaving

Walter Cronkite

Usage Frequency: Shaving

Expressions: Shaving

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Shaving

Modern Translation: Shaving

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Shaving

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