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"ref": "2006, The Economist, Young offenders: Arrested development",
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"ref": "2007 April 30, Jon Bentham, “How to...... do work experience”, in The Guardian",
"text": "Work experience as an arsey teenager is pretty straightforward: disappear into the storeroom, smoke a few cigarettes, text your mates and watch the minute hand tick slowly by. If there's nowhere suitable to hide, all you need is a vacant computer and you can chat to your skiving associate in the building next door.",
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"roman": "krǎškam",
"sense": "To slack off",
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"sense": "To slack off",
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"sense": "To slack off",
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"sense": "To slack off",
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"ref": "2011, Catherine Forde, Sugarcoated",
"text": "Another school skive! I only realised this when my dentist's receptionist told me to expect a fair wait till I could be seen.",
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"ref": "2011, Ian Stewart, Jack Cohen, Terry Pratchett, The Science Of Discworld II: The Globe, page 202",
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"ref": "1820, Robert Jameson, A System of Mineralogy, in which Minerals are Arranged According to the Natural History Method, page 18",
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"ref": "1827, Thomas Gill, Gill's technological Repository; or Discoveries and Improvements in the Useful Arts, page 10",
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"ref": "1838, Lewis Feuchtwanger, A Treatise on Gems: In Reference to Their Practical and Scientific Value, page 36",
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"ref": "2013, F. Y. Golding, The Manufacture Of Boots And Shoes",
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"ref": "2009, Geoffrey A. Ozin, André C. Arsenault, Ludovico Cademartiri, Nanochemistry: A Chemical Approach to Nanomaterials, page 99",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "2011, Paul Carpenter, The Leather lace Bullwhip, page 31",
"text": "Following the photo above from top to bottom, round off each end and skive the flesh side then using an old chisel the same width of the lace, cut a hole – open this out and thread each lace into the opposing hole – pull tight gently and flatten with a rubber hammer or other item, but gently.",
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"ref": "2013, Daniel H. Kim, Alexander R. Vaccaro, Curtis A. Dickman, Surgical Anatomy and Techniques to the Spine E-Book, page 135",
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{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2009, Geoffrey A. Ozin, André C. Arsenault, Ludovico Cademartiri, Nanochemistry: A Chemical Approach to Nanomaterials, page 99",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Paul Carpenter, The Leather lace Bullwhip, page 31",
"text": "Following the photo above from top to bottom, round off each end and skive the flesh side then using an old chisel the same width of the lace, cut a hole – open this out and thread each lace into the opposing hole – pull tight gently and flatten with a rubber hammer or other item, but gently.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2013, F. Y. Golding, The Manufacture Of Boots And Shoes",
"text": "When two pieces of leather have to be overlapped they must be suitably skived.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2013, Daniel H. Kim, Alexander R. Vaccaro, Curtis A. Dickman, Surgical Anatomy and Techniques to the Spine E-Book, page 135",
"text": "An oblique view of the operative field may predispose the surgeon to skive unilaterally toward a vertebral artery.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To pare or shave off the rough or thick parts of."
],
"links": [
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"pare",
"pare"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈskaɪv/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-aɪv"
},
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "skive"
}
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