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# shaving

«shaving» in Mova's school dictionary: **The act of cutting hair off close to the skin with a razor** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (-ing form of shave); noun (shaving, shavings)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The act of cutting hair off close to the skin with a razor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shaving/#m1)

2) Shavings are very thin curly pieces cut off wood or other things, for example when sharpening a pencil. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shaving/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life, pencil shavings collect in a sharpener; wood shavings are used as bedding for hamsters and rabbits. In design and technology, shavings come from planing wood. Phrases: shaving cream, shaving foam, pencil shavings, wood shavings.

### examples

- Dad is shaving in the bathroom. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shaving/#x1)
- Empty the pencil shavings into the bin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shaving/#x2)
- The hamster sleeps in wood shavings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shaving/#x3)
- Shaving foam looks like whipped cream. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shaving/#x4)
- The plane made long curly shavings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shaving/#x5)
- We sprinkled chocolate shavings on top. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shaving/#x6)
- He cut himself while shaving. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shaving/#x7)
- He searched among the shavings--no one! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shaving/#x8)

### note

As a noun for the bits it is usually plural: "shavings". Spelling: drop the e of "shave": shaving. Safety: shaving foam is not food, even if it looks like cream.

### In the corpora

- [Shaving does not change how thick, dark or fast hair grows; cut hair just has a blunt tip that feels coarser.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/6-growing-skin-hair-and-food/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «shaving» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/shaving/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.