Stave vs Shave - What's the difference?

In transitive terms the difference between stave and shave

is that stave is to delay by force or craft; to drive away. Often with off while shave is to cut finely, as with slices of meat.

In intransitive terms the difference between stave and shave

is that stave is to walk or move rapidly while shave is to remove hair from one's face by this means.

stave

English

Noun

(en noun)

One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc.

One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel

(poetry) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.

* Wordsworth

Let us chant a passing stave / In honour of that hero brave.

(label) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.

A staff or walking stick.

Verb

To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst. Often with in .

to stave in a cask

* 1851 ,

Be careful in the hunt, ye mates. Don’t stave the boats needlessly, ye harpooneers; good white cedar plank is raised full three per cent within the year.

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To push, as with a staff. With off .

* South

The condition of a servant staves him off to a distance.

To delay by force or craft; to drive away. Often with off .

to stave off the execution of a project

* Tennyson

And answered with such craft as women use, / Guilty or guilties, to stave off a chance / That breaks upon them perilously.

To burst in pieces by striking against something.

To walk or move rapidly.

To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.

* Sandys

All the wine in the city has been staved .

To furnish with staves or rundles.

(Knolles)

To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron.

to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run

Derived terms

* stave in * stave off

Anagrams

* English contranyms ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==

Verb

to spell (words )

Derived terms

References

shave

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) shaven, schaven, from (etyl) , (etyl) skafa.

Verb

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.

The labourer with the bending scythe is seen / Shaving the surface of the waving green.

To remove hair from one's face by this means.

I had little time to shave this morning.

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

Now shaves with level wing the deep.

* 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.

Derived terms

* aftershave * reshave * shave brush / shaving brush * shaving bump * shave cream / shaving cream * shave foam / shaving foam * shave down * shave off * shaveling * unshaved

Etymology 2

(etyl) sceafa

Noun

(en noun)

An instance of shaving.

I instructed the barber to give me a shave .

A thin slice; a shaving.

(Wright)

(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.

Derived terms

* close shave