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shive englanniksi

1. A slice, especially of bread.

2. 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers:

In my cool room with the shutters shut and the thin shives of air and light coming through the slats, I cried myself to sleep in an overloud selfpitying transport.

3. puhekieltä A sheave.

4. A beam or plank of split wood.

5. A flat, wide cork for plugging a large hole.

6. puhekieltä A splinter; a particle of fluff on the surface of cloth or other material.

7. puhekieltä A particle of impurity in finished paper.

8. (alternative form of)

9. 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day (Vintage 2007), page 50:

So every alleyway down here, every shadow big enough to hide a shive artist with a grudge, is a warm invitation to rewrite history.

10. (alternative spelling of)

11. 2010, w:William Labov|William Labov, http://www.acls.org/publications/audio/labov/default.aspx?id=4462 A Life of Learning

There are some cultural details in Schissel’s story that are specific to the Jewish community: the family sits shive (seven days of mourning for the dead), and the preference for silence at that time.

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