shive
pronunciation
How to pronounce shive in British English:
UK [ʃaɪv]
How to pronounce shive in American English:
US [ʃaɪv]
Word Origin
- shive (n.)
- early 13c., "slice of bread; thin piece cut off," perhaps from an unrecorded Old English *scifa, cognate with Old Saxon sciva, Middle Dutch schive, Dutch schijf, Old High German sciba, German Scheibe; see skive (v.1). From 1869 as "thin, flat cork for a bottle."
Example
- 1. Mr shive said last week that he was aiming for 77 new listings this year compared to 36 last year .
- 2. Mr shive , like many of his regional competitors , has tried hard in the past year to attract foreign listings .
- 3. In addition to the measurements of fibre length and widthdistributions , the image analysis program reports shive content , fibre curl , kink , coarseness , fines ( both length-weighted and area - weighted ) , hardwood andsoftwood ratios and vessel cell content .