Shave vs Beard - What's the difference?
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To make bald by using a tool such as a razor or pair of electric clippers to cut the hair close to the skin.
To cut anything in this fashion.
To remove hair from one's face by this means.
To cut finely, as with slices of meat.
To skim along or near the surface of; to pass close to, or touch lightly, in passing.
* Milton
* 1899 ,
(archaic) To be hard and severe in a bargain with; to practice extortion on; to cheat.
(US, slang, dated, transitive) To buy (a note) at a discount greater than the legal rate of interest, or to deduct in discounting it more than the legal rate allows.
An instance of shaving.
A thin slice; a shaving.
(US, slang, dated) An exorbitant discount on a note.
(US, slang, dated) A premium paid for an extension of the time of delivery or payment, or for the right to vary a stock contract in any particular.
A hand tool consisting of a sharp blade with a handle at each end; a spokeshave.
Facial hair on the chin, cheeks and jaw.
The cluster of small feathers at the base of the beak in some birds.
The appendages to the jaw in some cetaceans, and to the mouth or jaws of some fishes.
The byssus of certain shellfish.
The gills of some bivalves, such as the oyster.
In insects, the hairs of the labial palpi of moths and butterflies.
(botany) Long or stiff hairs on a plant; the awn.
A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out.
That part of the underside of a horse's lower jaw which is above the chin, and bears the curb of a bridle.
(printing, dated) That part of a type which is between the shoulder of the shank and the face.
(LGBT, slang) A woman who accompanies a gay male in order to give the impression that he is heterosexual.
(obsolete) To grow hair on the chin and jaw.
To boldly and bravely oppose or confront, often to the chagrin of the one being bearded.
* Macaulay
* Barnaby , December 6, 1943
* Ross Macdonald, The Chill , 1963, pg.92, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard of (a man), in anger or contempt.
To deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.
In transitive terms the difference between shave and beard
is that shave is to cut finely, as with slices of meat while beard is to deprive (an oyster or similar shellfish) of the gills.As a proper noun Beard is
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) shaven, schaven, from (etyl) , (etyl) skafa.Verb
- The labourer with the bending scythe is seen / Shaving the surface of the waving green.
- I had little time to shave this morning.
- Now shaves with level wing the deep.
Derived terms
* aftershave * reshave * shave brush / shaving brush * shaving bump * shave cream / shaving cream * shave foam / shaving foam * shave down * shave off * shaveling * unshavedEtymology 2
(etyl) sceafaNoun
(en noun)- I instructed the barber to give me a shave .
- (Wright)
Derived terms
* close shaveAnagrams
*beard
English
Noun
(en noun)- the beard of grain
Derived terms
* beardedSee also
* (wikipedia) * goatee * hair * moustache, mustache * pogonophobia * sideburns, sideboards * whiskers * awnVerb
(en verb)- Robin Hood is always shown as bearding the Sheriff of Nottingham.
- No admiral, bearded by three corrupt and dissolute minions of the palace, dared to do more than mutter something about a court martial.
- We need all our operatives to insure the success of my plan to beard this Claus in his den...
- . . . I bearded the judge in his chambers and told him that it shouldn't be allowed.