different between shin vs calves

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n/
• Rhymes: -?n

Etymology 1

From Middle English shyn, shine, from Old English scinu, from Proto-Germanic *skin?. Cognate with West Frisian skine, Dutch scheen, German Schiene.

Noun

shin (plural shins)

1. The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone: Shinbone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

   Synonym: tibia

2. A fishplate for a railway.

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Related terms

• shinbone

Translations

Verb

shin (third-person singular simple present shins, present participle shinning, simple past and past participle shinned)

1. (Britain, as "shin up") To climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like.

   Synonym: shinny (US)

2. To strike with the shin.
3. (US, slang) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment.

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   • 1845, December 13, New York Commercial Advertiser

     The Senator was shinning around, to get gold for the rascally bank-rags which he was obliged to take.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• sheen, š?n

Noun

shin (plural shins)

1. The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others): Shin (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Translations

Further reading

• Shin (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Nish, hins, his'n, hisn, nish, sinh

Esperanto

Pronoun

shin

1. H-system spelling of ?in

Hausa

Etymology

From Arabic ????? (š?n).

Noun

shin f

1. shin (letter of the Arabic alphabet)

Irish

Pronoun

shin

1. Lenited form of sin.

Japanese

Romanization

shin

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish sinni.

Pronoun

shin (emphatic shinyn)

1. (personal pronoun) we, us

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kævz/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??vz/
• Homophone: carves (Received Pronunciation)

Noun

calves

1. plural of calf

Verb

calves

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calve

Anagrams

• Sclave, claves

Middle English

Etymology 1

From calf (“calf (young cow)”) +? -es (“plural affix”).

Noun

calves

1. plural of calf (“calf (young cow)”)

Etymology 2

From calf (“calf (anatomy)”) +? -es (“plural affix”).

Noun

calves

1. plural of calf (“calf (anatomy)”)