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Määritelmät
Verbit
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) To avoid one's lessons or work (chiefly at school or university); shirk.
- To pare or shave off the rough or thick parts of.
Substantiivit
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) Something very easy, where one can slack off without penalty.
- A rotating iron disk coated with oil and diamond dust used to polish the facets of a diamond.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) An act of avoiding lessons or work.
- An angled cut or bevel at the edge of something.
Esimerkit
- Thus, American diamond cutters would talk of a skive (after Dutch schijf), where their British colleagues would say disk or wheel.
- Truancies, rather bewilderingly, have risen among children on the programme; the government hopes this is because children skive more as they get older.
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