Shorn vs Shave - What's the difference?
shorn | shave |
(shear)
To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears.
* 1819 , Walter Scott, Ivanhoe :
* Shakespeare
To remove the fleece from a sheep etc by clipping.
(physics) To deform because of shearing forces.
(Scotland) To reap, as grain.
(figurative) To deprive of property; to fleece.
a cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger
* Dryden
the act of shearing, or something removed by shearing
* Youatt
(physics) a force that produces a shearing strain
(geology) The response of a rock to deformation usually by compressive stress, resulting in particular textures.
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.
As verbs the difference between shorn and shave
is that shorn is past tense of shear while shave is to make bald by using a tool such as a razor or pair of electric clippers to cut the hair close to the skin.As a noun shave is
an instance of shaving.shorn
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* horns ----shear
English
(wikipedia shear)Verb
- So trenchant was the Templar’s weapon, that it shore asunder, as it had been a willow twig, the tough and plaited handle of the mace, which the ill-fated Saxon reared to parry the blow, and, descending on his head, levelled him with the earth.
- the golden tresses were shorn away
- (Jamieson)
Noun
(en noun)- short of the wool, and naked from the shear
- After the second shearing, he is a two-shear' ram; at the expiration of another year, he is a three-' shear ram; the name always taking its date from the time of shearing.
Derived terms
* megashear * shearerAdjective
(head)Anagrams
* English irregular verbsshave
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)
