shaving

«shaving» in Mova's school dictionary: The act of cutting hair off close to the skin with a razor — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (-ing form of shave); noun (shaving, shavings)

meaning for a pupil

1) The act of cutting hair off close to the skin with a razor. tree →

2) Shavings are very thin curly pieces cut off wood or other things, for example when sharpening a pencil. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life, pencil shavings collect in a sharpener; wood shavings are used as bedding for hamsters and rabbits. In design and technology, shavings come from planing wood. Phrases: shaving cream, shaving foam, pencil shavings, wood shavings.

examples

• Dad is shaving in the bathroom. tree →
• Empty the pencil shavings into the bin. tree →
• The hamster sleeps in wood shavings. tree →
• Shaving foam looks like whipped cream. tree →
• The plane made long curly shavings. tree →
• We sprinkled chocolate shavings on top. tree →
• He cut himself while shaving. tree →
• He searched among the shavings--no one! tree →

note

As a noun for the bits it is usually plural: "shavings". Spelling: drop the e of "shave": shaving. Safety: shaving foam is not food, even if it looks like cream.

In the corpora

• Shaving does not change how thick, dark or fast hair grows; cut hair just has a blunt tip that feels coarser.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «shaving» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.