📖 S — The English dictionary · page 33

shameless — Everyday, meaning 1: Shameless describes someone who behaves badly and does not feel embarrassed about it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Shameless can describe a bad act done openly, with no attempt to hide it.↗ Example: «Shameless coward!» cried the wolf.↗ · The shameless fox ate the whole pie and grinned at us.↗ · She told one lie after another, quite shamelessly.↗ · Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O shameless nation; (Prophets ZEP.2.1, JPS 1917)↗

shamelessly — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: In a way that shows no shame or embarrassment.↗

shampoo — Everyday, meaning 1: A liquid soap for washing hair.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A liquid for washing carpets, cars or pets.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To wash hair or a carpet with shampoo.↗ Example: I wash my hair with shampoo twice a week.↗ · Keep the shampoo out of your eyes.↗ · Baby shampoo does not sting.↗ · We shampooed the dog in the garden.↗ · Rinse out all the shampoo.↗ · The cleaners shampooed the carpet.↗ · This shampoo smells of apples.↗

shamrock — Everyday, meaning 1: A shamrock is a small green plant with three round leaves on each stem, like clover.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: The shamrock is a symbol of Ireland, worn on Saint Patrick's Day.↗ Example: On Saint Patrick's Day, Granny pinned a shamrock to my coat.↗ · A shamrock has three leaves.↗ · (church) Saint Patrick used the shamrock to teach about the Trinity.↗ · The Irish rugby team has a shamrock on its shirts.↗ · We drew shamrocks on cards for our pen pals in Ireland.↗ · Four-leaf clovers are rare; a shamrock has only three leaves.↗ · He plucked the shamrocks and put them in his pocket.↗

shan — Everyday, meaning 1: A piece of the word «shan't», which means «shall not», as in «I shan't go».↗ It is not a word by itself in English.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (a name) The Shan are a people of Myanmar (Burma) and nearby lands, with their own language; Shan State is in Myanmar.↗ Example: «I shan't!» shouted the cross little boy.↗ · «I shan't be able to reach the key,» said Alice.↗ · We shan't be long — wait here.↗ · Shan't is short for shall not.↗ · The Shan people live in the hills of Myanmar.↗ · And they put his armour in the house of the Ashtaroth; and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.↗ (Prophets 1SA.31.10, JPS 1917)↗ · all the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan; and they came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.↗ (Prophets 1SA.31.12, JPS 1917)↗

shang — Everyday, meaning 1: (Mandarin, pinyin) «Shàng» means «up», «on» or «above», and also «to go up» or «to go to», as in «shàng xué» (go to school); to an English ear it sounds like «shahng», and it is not an English word.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (Mandarin) «Shàng» can mean «last» or «previous», as in «shàng ge yuè» (last month), and «Shànghǎi» is the city name meaning «on the sea».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (history) The Shang was an early dynasty (ruling family) of ancient China, famous for bronze work and writing on oracle bones.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (a name) Shang is also a Chinese surname and given name.↗ Example: The Shang dynasty ruled part of ancient China.↗ · Shang kings asked questions by writing on oracle bones.↗ · In Mandarin, «shàng» means up.↗ · «Wǒ shàng xué» means «I go to school».↗ · The city name Shanghai means «on the sea».↗ · Our museum has a bronze pot from the Shang period.↗

shanghai — Everyday, meaning 1: Shanghai is a huge city on the east coast of China, one of the biggest cities in the world, with a famous river front and tall towers.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old, informal) To shanghai someone is to trick or force them into doing something they did not want to do; long ago it meant kidnapping sailors to work on ships.↗ Example: Shanghai is one of the biggest cities on Earth.↗ · My cousin flew to Shanghai for work.↗ · Shanghai has one of the busiest ports in the world.↗ · The Shanghai Tower is very tall.↗ · In the old story, a sailor was shanghaied onto a ship.↗ · I was shanghaied into helping with the washing-up!↗ · Lots of people in Shanghai speak Shanghainese as well as Mandarin.↗

shank — Everyday, meaning 1: The shank is the lower part of a leg, between the knee and the ankle.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A shank is a cut of meat from that part of an animal's leg, such as a lamb shank.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (old use, in fairy tales) A «Bony-shanks» is a thin, bony-legged creature, a sort of witch or giant.↗ Example: The knight hurt his shank when he fell from the horse.↗ · Mum cooked a lamb shank with carrots for supper.↗ · The old woman was called Bony-shanks because her legs were so thin.↗

shanty — Everyday, meaning 1: A small, roughly built hut or shack made from scrap materials.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A sea shanty: a song sailors sang together while working, to keep time when pulling ropes.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «Shanty town»: an area of very poor homes made of scrap, at the edge of a city.↗ Example: The sailors sang a shanty as they hauled the ropes.↗ · We sang «Drunken Sailor» in music class.↗ · The family lived in a shanty made of tin sheets.↗ · Shanty towns grow at the edges of many big cities.↗ · The old fisherman knew every sea shanty.↗ · The shanty had no running water.↗

shape — Everyday, meaning 1: A shape is the outline or form of something, like a circle, square or triangle.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A shape is also a flat or solid figure in maths.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To shape something is to make it into a certain form, like shaping clay.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «In good shape» means fit and healthy or in good condition.↗ Example: This shape has 4 equal sides.↗ · How many shapes are triangles?↗ · What is the perimeter of the shape?↗ · Draw a shape with 5 sides.↗ · She shaped the clay into a bowl.↗ · Clouds come in all shapes and sizes.↗ · Dad runs every morning to stay in shape.↗ · The new playground is taking shape.↗ · BRIAH, Beriah, giving shape, Genesis i. i. (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

shaped — Everyday, meaning 1: Shaped means having a certain form, like a heart-shaped cookie.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Shaped is the past form of shape: she shaped the dough into balls.↗ Example: A field is shaped like a square with sides of 30 m.↗ · She cut 12 star-shaped cookies.↗ · A garden shaped like a rectangle is 8 by 5 meters.↗ · How much fence is needed for a triangle-shaped pen?↗ · He shaped the sand into a castle.↗ · The pool is kidney-shaped.↗ · The cake was shaped like a dinosaur.↗ · Thus Iktomi lives alone in a cone-shaped wigwam upon the plain.↗ · Thy teeth are like a flock of ewes all shaped alike, which are come up from the washing; whereof all are paired, and none faileth among them.↗ (Writings SNG.4.2, JPS 1917)↗

shapeless — Everyday, meaning 1: Having no clear or definite shape.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (clothes) Loose and baggy, not fitting the body.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Not well organised: a shapeless story.↗ Example: The clay was a shapeless lump until she made a pot.↗ · He wore a big, shapeless jumper.↗ · A shapeless figure moved in the mist.↗ · Water is shapeless; it takes the shape of the glass.↗ · The essay was long and shapeless.↗ · The melted snowman became a shapeless heap.↗

shapely — Everyday, meaning 1: Shapely means having a pleasing, well-balanced shape or form.↗ Example: The shapely little boat bobbed on the lake.↗ · We admired the shapely trees in the park.↗ · The castle had shapely towers and tall windows.↗

shapen — Early Modern English, meaning 1: Formed or made into a particular shape.↗

shard — Everyday, meaning 1: A sharp, broken piece of glass, pottery, metal or ice.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (archaeology) A broken piece of old pottery found in the ground, also called a potsherd.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (figurative) A small sharp bit of something, like «a shard of light» or «a shard of memory».↗ Example: A shard of glass lay on the kitchen floor after the cup broke.↗ · Don't touch the shards — let me sweep them up.↗ · The archaeologists found Roman pottery shards in the field.↗ · A shard of ice fell from the gutter.↗ · A shard of sunlight came through the gap in the curtains.↗ · From the top of the Shard you can see all of London.↗ · Wrap the broken shards in newspaper before you throw them away.↗

share — Everyday, meaning 1: To share is to give parts of something to others so each person has some: share the pizza.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To share is to use something together: share a room, share a toy.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To share is to tell others: share your ideas.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A share is one part that someone gets: my share of the cake.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Shares are parts of a company that people can own.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: To share an experience or fate means to go through the same thing as others.↗ Example: Max has 8 cards and shares them equally among 4 friends.↗ How many cards does each friend get?↗ · Sam and Mia share 10 grapes equally.↗ · 15 pencils are shared among 5 children.↗ · Please share the crayons with your table.↗ · My sister and I share a bedroom.↗ · Who would like to share their story?↗ · Don't share your password with anyone.↗ · I ate my share of the cake.↗ · Uraschimataro himself very nearly shared the same fate.↗ · This particular phraseology is one of several hints that the SY may share a particular literary affiliation with the Sifre Emet, the poems of Psalms, Proverbs, and Job.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)↗ · 15) As the Arabic numeral system of notation apparently originated from the Selirot philosophy of the Sefer Yetzirah, it is proper to share the view of those who claim the Hebrews as its inventors (E. (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · And who will hearken unto you in this matter? for as is the share of him that goeth down to the battle, so shall be the share of him that tarrieth by the baggage; they shall share alike.'↗ (Prophets 1SA.30.24, JPS 1917)↗

shareholder — Everyday, meaning 1: (money) A person or organisation that owns shares (small parts) in a company, and so owns a small part of it.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Someone who may get a share of the company's profits, called dividends.↗ Example: Grandma is a shareholder in a big supermarket company.↗ · The shareholders voted for a new boss.↗ · Each shareholder got a dividend from the profits.↗ · The biggest shareholder owns half the company.↗ · If 5 shareholders share £500 equally, each gets £100.↗ · Shareholders can lose money if the company does badly.↗

sharer — Everyday, meaning 1: A sharer is a person who shares something with others.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A sharer is someone who shares a flat or house (UK: house sharer).↗ Example: Mia is a good sharer with her crayons.↗ · 12 sweets shared between 3 sharers gives 4 each.↗ · The flat has 4 sharers.↗ · Be a good sharer at playtime.↗ · Each sharer got the same number of stickers.↗

shark — Everyday, meaning 1: A shark is a large fish with a long body, fins, rows of sharp teeth and a skeleton made of cartilage instead of bone.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Informally, a shark is a person who cheats others out of money, like a loan shark.↗ Example: The shark swam close to the boat.↗ · Sharks have many rows of teeth.↗ · The whale shark is the biggest fish in the sea.↗ · Swim between the flags at the beach.↗ · A hammerhead shark has a head shaped like a hammer.↗ · Sharks breathe through gills.↗ · We saw sharks at the aquarium.↗ · Most sharks are not dangerous to people.↗

sharp — Everyday, meaning 1: Sharp means having a thin edge or fine point that can cut or pierce: a sharp knife.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A sharp pain is sudden and strong.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A sharp turn or bend changes direction quickly.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Sharp means clever and quick to notice.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Sharp words are unkind or angry.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: «At three o'clock sharp» means exactly at three.↗ Everyday, meaning 7: In music, a sharp is a note a half-step higher (♯).↗ Everyday, meaning 8: Sharp can also mean brief and intense, over in a short, forceful burst.↗ Example: Be careful — the knife is very sharp.↗ · I felt a sharp pain in my foot.↗ · The road has a sharp bend.↗ · Sharpen your pencil before the test.↗ · Be at the gate at nine o'clock sharp.↗ · She has sharp eyes and spotted the owl.↗ · Wrap broken glass so its sharp edges can't cut.↗ · Play C sharp on the piano.↗ · The fight was short and sharp.↗ · Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of broom.↗ (Writings PSA.120.4, JPS 1917)↗ · Thy tongue deviseth destruction; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.↗ (Writings PSA.52.4, JPS 1917)↗ · But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.↗ (Writings PRO.5.4, JPS 1917)↗

sharpen — Everyday, meaning 1: To sharpen something is to make its edge or point sharper, like sharpening a pencil or a knife.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To sharpen a skill is to make it better by practice.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: When a picture, sound or feeling sharpens, it becomes clearer or stronger.↗ Example: Please sharpen your pencil before the test.↗ · Dad sharpens the kitchen knives on a stone.↗ · Practising every day will sharpen your spelling.↗ · The eagle's eyes are sharp; it doesn't need to sharpen them!↗ · The picture sharpened when I turned the lens.↗ · I need to sharpen my coloured pencils.↗ · Quiz games help sharpen your memory.↗ · The beaver sharpened the end of the stick with its teeth.↗ · Then he sat down and began sharpening his knife again.↗ · but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his plowshare, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.↗ (Prophets 1SA.13.20, JPS 1917)↗