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Shin vs Calve - What's the difference?

shin | calve |

As verbs the difference between shin and calve

is that shin is to climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like while calve is to give birth to a calf.

As a noun shin

is the front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone.

shin

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) shine, from (etyl) scinu, from (etyl) . Cognate with West Frisian skine, Dutch scheen, German Schiene.

Noun

(en noun)
  • The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone.
  • A fishplate for a railway.
  • (Knight)
    Synonyms
    * tibia

    Verb

    (shinn)
  • To climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like.
  • to shin up a mast
  • To strike with the shin.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=January 5 , author=Mark Ashenden , title=Wolverhampton 1 - 0 Chelsea , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=The warning signs had been there as Peter Cech had already had to palm away a stinging shot from Ronald Zubar but immediately afterwards the Blues goalkeeper could only watch in horror as defender Boswinga shinned the ball into his own net from Hunt's corner. }}
  • (US, slang) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment.
  • (Bartlett)
    Synonyms
    * shinny (US)
    Derived terms
    * shinny * shin bone * shin leaf * shin splints

    Etymology 2

    Ultimately from (etyl) . Compare Shamash.

    Alternative forms

    * sheen *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
  • Anagrams

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    calve

    English

    Verb

    (calv)
  • To give birth to a calf.
  • To assist the giving of birth of a calf.
  • To break off or shed a large piece.
  • The glacier was starting to calve even as we watched.
    The sea was dangerous because of icebergs calving off the nearby glacier.

    Anagrams

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