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Shaving vs. Thorn — What's the Difference?

Shaving vs. Thorn — What's the Difference?

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Shaving

Shaving is the removal of hair, by using a razor or any other kind of bladed implement, to slice it down—to the level of the skin or otherwise. Shaving is most commonly practiced by men to remove their facial hair and by women to remove their leg and underarm hair.

Thorn

A modified branch in the form of a sharp woody structure.

Shaving

A thin slice or sliver, as of wood or metal, that is shaved off.

Thorn

Any of various other sharp protuberances, such as a spine.

Shaving

The act of one that shaves.
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Thorn

Any of various shrubs, trees, or woody plants bearing such sharp structures.

Shaving

(countable) A thin, shaved off slice of wood, metal, or other material.

Thorn

Any of various sharp protuberances on an animal.

Shaving

(uncountable) The action of having a shave.

Thorn

One that causes sharp pain, irritation, or discomfort
He is a thorn in my side.

Shaving

Present participle of shave

Thorn

The runic letter þ, used in Old English, Middle English, and Old Norse manuscripts to represent both the voiceless sound (th) of Modern English thin and the voiced sound (th) of Modern English this, and in modern Icelandic orthography to represent the voiceless sound (th).

Shaving

The act of one who, or that which, shaves; specifically, the act of cutting off the beard with a razor.

Thorn

(botany) A sharp protective spine of a plant.

Shaving

That which is shaved off; a thin slice or strip pared off with a shave, a knife, a plane, or other cutting instrument.

Thorn

Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns, especially a hawthorn.
The white thorn
The cockspur thorn

Shaving

The act of removing hair with a razor

Thorn

(figurative) That which pricks or annoys; anything troublesome.

Shaving

A thin fragment or slice (especially of wood) that has been shaved from something

Thorn

A letter of Latin script (capital: Þ, small: þ), borrowed from the futhark; today used only in Icelandic to represent the voiceless dental fricative, but originally used in several early Germanic scripts, including Old English where it represented the dental fricatives that are today written th (Old English did not have phonemic voicing distinctions for fricatives).

Shaving

The act of brushing against while passing

Thorn

To pierce with, or as if with, a thorn (sharp pointed object).

Thorn

A hard and sharp-pointed projection from a woody stem; usually, a branch so transformed; a spine.

Thorn

Any shrub or small tree which bears thorns; especially, any species of the genus Cratægus, as the hawthorn, whitethorn, cockspur thorn.

Thorn

Fig.: That which pricks or annoys as a thorn; anything troublesome; trouble; care.
There was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me.
The guilt of empire, all its thorns and cares,Be only mine.

Thorn

The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter , capital form . It was used to represent both of the sounds of English th, as in thin, then. So called because it was the initial letter of thorn, a spine.

Thorn

To prick, as with a thorn.
I am the only rose of all the stockThat never thorn'd him.

Thorn

Something that causes irritation and annoyance;
He's a thorn in my flesh

Thorn

A sharp-pointed tip on a stem or leaf

Thorn

A Germanic character of runic origin

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