skiving
skiving is the present participle and gerund of skive.
Noun
skiving (plural skivings)
Meaning of skive
Verb (1)
skive (third-person singular simple present skives, present participle skiving, simple past and past participle skived)
- To avoid one's lessons or work (chiefly at school or university); shirk.
- Truancies, rather bewilderingly, have risen among children on the programme; the government hopes this is because children skive more as they get older.2006, The Economist, Young offenders: Arrested development
- Synonyms:
- skive off, skip, play hooky, play truant
Verb (2)
skive (third-person singular simple present skives, present participle skiving, simple past and past participle skived)
- To pare or shave off the rough or thick parts of.
- In the leather industry skive has another connotation, concerning splitting the skin perpendicularly to its thickness into thin layers. Imagine now being able to skive at the nanoscale.2009, Geoffrey A. Ozin, André C. Arsenault, Ludovico Cademartiri, Nanochemistry: A Chemical Approach to Nanomaterials, →ISBN, page 99
Forms of skiving
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Phrases with skiving
Questions about skiving
- What does skiving mean?
- Skiving means a piece made in skiving (paring or splitting) leather, especially the part from the inner, or flesh, side.
- What is skiving the present participle and gerund of?
- Skiving is the present participle and gerund of skive.
- What part of speech is skiving?
- Skiving is a noun.
- What is the plural of skiving?
- The plural of skiving is skivings.
Words near skiving in the dictionary
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