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shiv

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for shiv.

Editorial note

Go to the duty-free shop and buy a glass bottle, and now you are ready to make a shiv.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

A male given name from Sanskrit mainly used in India.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of shiv gathered in one view.

noun

A male given name from Sanskrit mainly used in India.

noun

A diminutive of the female given name Siobhan.

verb

(transitive, slang) To stab (someone) with a shiv.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for shiv.

noun

A male given name from Sanskrit mainly used in India.

noun

A diminutive of the female given name Siobhan.

verb

(transitive, slang) To stab (someone) with a shiv.

verb

(transitive, slang, by extension) To stab (someone) with anything not normally used as a stabbing weapon.

Example sentences

1

Go to the duty-free shop and buy a glass bottle, and now you are ready to make a shiv.

2

I'm sure they don't expect a how-to on making a shiv half way through a KA video.

3

First you have to shiv IE to accept it as a DOM node.

4

I admit that I may overemphasize but it's never as simple as just using a shiv.

5

Its more of a shiv to convert react elements/calls into native UI elements, using a native server to receive streams/messages (unsure which) and convert them.

6

Fragmentation isn't really an issue for either Shiv or Proxygen.

7

BJP alliance with Shiv Sena is since last 25 years!

8

Being a ninja was about dressing up as a gardener so nobody would suspect that you were about to shiv them with an abnormally pointy trowel.

9

> Police on Sunday arrested a man they identified as Shiv Kumar Yadav, a 32-year-old driver who works for Uber, in the case.

10

* Formed political alliances with leaders such as Yeddyurappa who has many cases of corruption pending and parties such as Shiv Sena who are notorious for using violence to target ethnic groups.

11

* Make my sarcastic claims so over-the-top that the recipient cannot help but realize I'm being facetious - usually works, but it's a broadsword where I usually prefer a shiv.

12

I've always taken it to be that it's a polyfill if it's somewhat elegant, or where a newer technology encompasess a superset of an older one and a shiv if it's somewhat hackish or where older technologies are made to stand in for newer ones.

Quote examples

1

Prof Baba Shiv is a Neuroeconomist from Stanford, and has been looking at the neurological effects of "emotional attraction" to a product.

2

The "shiv'a" (literally, "seven") is a lot more than just the mourning period - it is also the period when others are required to come and comfort the mourners.

3

One of the odd personality changes that I've noticed in myself after 25-ish years on the Internet is that I now have essentially zero tolerance for whinges[1] of the form: "This one thing he said is completely and utterly wrong, therefore he is a pillock and should be shanked with a shiv.[2] (Well yes, the rest of what he said is perfectly true.

4

Ignore the payment details, the pickup service itself was bloody convenient when I visited Bangalore last month, because I didn't need to have two phone conversations on a pick up about "where are you saar?" and "I see a building called Shiv Sagar on my left".

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use shiv in a sentence?

Go to the duty-free shop and buy a glass bottle, and now you are ready to make a shiv.

What does shiv mean?

A male given name from Sanskrit mainly used in India.

What part of speech is shiv?

shiv is commonly used as noun, verb.