shave
US: /ˈʃeɪv/
UK: /ʃˈeɪv/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
shave /ʃeiv/- danh từ
- sự cạo râu, sự cạo mặt
- to have a shave: cạo râu, cạo mặt
- dao bào (gỗ...)
- sự đi sát gần; sự suýt bị (tai nạn)
- to have a close shave of it: suýt nữa thì nguy, tí nữa thì chết
- sự đánh lừa, sựa lừa bịp
- sự cạo râu, sự cạo mặt
- ngoại động từ (shaved; shaved, shaven)
- cạo (râu, mặt)
- bào sơ qua (gỗ); cắt sát (cỏ)
- đi lướt sát (không chạm)
- to shave another car: lướt sát qua một chiếc xe khác
- hút, suýt
- to shave death: hút chết
- nội động từ
- cạo râu, cạo mặt
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ), (thông tục) khó mặc cả, khó chơi (trong chuyện làm ăn)
Advanced English dictionary
verb, noun+ verb
1 to cut hair from the skin, especially the face, using a RAZOR: [V] Mike cut himself shaving. + [VN] The nurse washed and shaved him. + a shaved head
See also -
2 [VN] to cut a small amount off a price, etc: The firm had shaved profit margins.
Phrasal Verbs: shave sth<->off
shave sth off sth
1 to remove a BEARD or MOUSTACHE by shaving: Charles decided to shave off his beard.
2 to cut very thin pieces from the surface of wood, etc: I had to shave a few millimetres off the door to make it shut.
3 to reduce a number by a very small amount: Keith shaved a tenth of a second off his best time in the 200 metres.
+ noun
an act of shaving: I need a shave. + to have a shave
Idioms see CLOSE adj.
Thesaurus dictionary
v.
1 shear (off), cut (off), trim, clip, crop, snip off, remove:
He made a mistake in shaving off his beard, as it hid his weak chin
2 pare, scrape, plane, whittle:
If you shave just a hair off this side, it will fit into the hole.
n.
3 close shave. narrow escape, Colloq narrow or near squeak, US squeaker:
That was a close shave! - You almost fell out the window!
Collocation
ADJ.
close, smooth
You can get a really close, smooth shave with this new double-bladed razor.
VERB + SHAVE
need
He badly needed a shave.
| get, have
He had a bath and a quick shave first.
| give sb
Concise dictionary
shaven|shaves|shaved|shavingʃeɪvnoun
+the act of removing hair with a razor
verb
+remove body hair with a razor
+cut closely
+cut the price of
+cut or remove with or as if with a plane
+make shavings of or reduce to shavings
+touch the surface of lightly
