The act of removing hair with a razor.

synonym: shave.

Roget 203: narrowness etc. adj.; closeness, exility^†; exiguity etc. (little) 193.    line; hair's breadth, finger's breadth; strip, streak, vein.    monolayer; epitaxial deposition [Eng.].    thinness etc. adj.; tenuity; emaciation, macilency^†, marcor^†.    shaving, slip etc. (filament) 205; thread paper, skeleton, shadow, anatomy, spindleshanks^†, lantern jaws, mere skin and bone.    middle constriction, stricture, neck, waist, isthmus, wasp, hourglass; ridge, ghaut^†, ghat^†, pass; ravine etc. 198.    narrowing, coarctation^†, angustation^†, tapering; contraction etc. 195.    ... show more

Roget 204: layer, stratum, strata, course, bed, zone, substratum, substrata, floor, flag, stage, story, tier, slab, escarpment; table, tablet; dess^†; flagstone; board, plank; trencher, platter.    plate; lamina, lamella; sheet, foil; wafer; scale, flake, peel; coat, pellicle; membrane, film; leaf; slice, shive^†, cut, rasher, shaving, integument etc. (covering) 223; eschar^†.    stratification, scaliness, nest of boxes, coats of an onion.    monolayer; bilayer; trilayer [Bioch.].    ... show more

Roget 205: filament, line; fiber, fibril; funicle^†, vein; hair, capillament^†, cilium, cilia, pilus, pili; tendril, gossamer; hair stroke; veinlet^†, venula^†, venule^†.    wire, string, thread, packthread, cotton, sewing silk, twine, twist, whipcord, tape, ribbon, cord, rope, yarn, hemp, oakum, jute.    strip, shred, slip, spill, list, band, fillet, fascia, ribbon, riband, roll, lath, splinter, shiver, shaving.    beard etc. (roughness) 256; ramification; strand.    ... show more

Polish: golenie się

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

synonyms: paring, sliver.

Roget 32: smallness etc. adj.; littleness etc. (small size) 193; tenuity; paucity; fewness etc. (small number) 103; meanness, insignificance (unimportance) 643; mediocrity, moderation.    small quantity, modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight^†, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau^†, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet^†, flitter, gobbet^†, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive^†; snip, snippet; snick^†, snack, snatch, slip, scrag^†; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair.    nutshell; thimbleful, spoonful, handful, capful, mouthful; fragment; fraction etc. (part) 51; drop in the ocean.    animalcule etc. 193.    trifle etc. (unimportant thing) 643; mere nothing, next to nothing; hardly anything; just enough to swear by; the shadow of a shade.    finiteness, finite quantity.    ... show more

Polish: heblowina, ostrużyna, strużyna

The act of brushing against while passing.

synonyms: grazing, skimming.