Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
Ääntäminen
Southern England:
- Tuntematon aksentti:
Haettu sana löytyi näillä lähdekielillä:
Määritelmät
Substantiivi
- A slice, especially of bread.
- A splinter or fragment of the woody core of flax or hemp broken off in braking or scutching
- (obsolete) A sheave.
- A plant fragment remaining in scoured wool.
- A beam or plank of split wood.
- A piece of thread or fluff on the surface of cloth or other material.
- A flat, wide cork for plugging a large hole or closing a wide-mouthed bottle.
- (papermaking) A dark particle or impurity in finished paper resulting from a bundle of incompletely cooked wood fibres in the pulp.
Esimerkit
- In my cool room with the shutters shut and the thin shives of air and light coming through the slats, I cried myself to sleep in an overloud selfpitying transport.
- So every alleyway down here, every shadow big enough to hide a shive artist with a grudge, is a warm invitation to rewrite history.
- There are some cultural details in Schissel’s story that are specific to the Jewish community: the family sits shive (seven days of mourning for the dead), and the preference for silence at that time.
Taivutusmuodot