different between shive vs chive

English

Etymology 1

A parallel form of sheave, from a Proto-Germanic base which probably existed in Old English (though it is not attested before the Middle English period). Cognate with German Scheibe, late Old Norse skífa (“slice”), brauðskífa (“slice of bread”) (whence Danish skive (“disc, slice”)), Dutch schijf (“disc, slice”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?v/

Noun

shive (plural shives)

1. A slice, especially of bread.
   • 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.

2. (obsolete) A sheave.
3. A beam or plank of split wood.
4. A flat, wide cork for plugging a large hole or closing a wide-mouthed bottle.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English schyfe, schyffe, from Proto-Germanic *skib?-; cognate with German Schäbe, Dutch scheef, and Low German Schääv, all ‘fragment of the woody core of flax or hemp’.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?v/

Noun

shive (plural shives)

1. A splinter or fragment of the woody core of flax or hemp broken off in braking or scutching
2. A plant fragment remaining in scoured wool.
3. A piece of thread or fluff on the surface of cloth or other material.
4. (papermaking) A dark particle or impurity in finished paper resulting from a bundle of incompletely cooked wood fibres in the pulp.

Synonyms

• (wood fragment of the husk of flax or hemp): boon, shove

Translations

References

Etymology 3

Variant of shiv.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??v/

Noun

shive (plural shives)

1. Alternative form of shiv
   • 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.

Etymology 4

See shiva

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???v?/

Noun

shive

1. Alternative spelling of shiva
   • 2010, William Labov, 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.

Derived terms

• sit shive

Translations

Anagrams

• hives

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English cyve, from Old French cive, from Latin cepa (“onion”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?a?v/
• Rhymes: -a?v

Noun

chive (plural chives)

1. A perennial plant, Allium schoenoprasum, related to the onion.
2. (in the plural) The leaves of this plant used as a herb.
3. (obsolete) The style and stigma of a flower, especially saffron.
   • 1577, Raphael Holinshed et al., The Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Ireland, London: John Hunne, Book 3, Chapter 14, “Of English Saffron,”^[1]

     […] in the place wher he bled, Saffron was after found to grow, whereupon the people séeyng the color of the chiue as it stoode, (although I doubt not but it grewe there long before) adiudged it to come to the bloude of Crocus, and therefore they gaue it his name.

   • 1610, Edmund Bolton, The Elements of Armories, London: George Eld, Chapter 28, p. 156-157,^[2]

     […] to abate, and allay the fulnesse of red, we doe not see white vsed (as a colour too remote) but rather yellow, and that so farre-forth as some doe grinde a Chiue of Saffron with Vermillion, to make it the more pleasant, whereas white in like proportion mixed, would dimne, and decay it […]

   • 1633, John Gerard, The Herball or Generall Historie of Plants, London, Chapter 38, “Of Stitchwort,”^[3]

     The chiues or threds in the middle of the floure are sometimes of a reddish, or of a blackish colour.

   • 1648, Robert Herrick, “The Temple” in Hesperides, London: John Williams and Francis Eglesfield, pp. 104-105,^[4]

     The Saint, to which the most he prayes

     And offers Incense Nights and dayes,

     The Lady of the Lobster is,

     Whose foot-pace he doth stroak & kisse;

     And, humbly, chives of Saffron brings,

     For his most cheerfull offerings.

Translations

See also

• Chinese chives
• scallion
• shallot
• spring onion

References

• “chive” in the Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, 1974 edition.
• Chives on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Allium schoenoprasum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Allium schoenoprasum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Allium schoenoprasum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• chive at USDA Plants database

Etymology 2

From Romani chive, chiv, chivvomengro (“knife, dagger, blade”).

Alternative forms

• chieve, chife, chiv

Noun

chive (plural chives)

1. (thieves' cant) A knife.
2. (thieves' cant) A file.
3. (thieves' cant) A saw.

Derived terms

• chive fencer (“street seller of cutlery”)
• shiv (“makeshift knife”)

Verb

chive (third-person singular simple present chives, present participle chiving, simple past and past participle chived)

1. (thieves' cant) To stab.
2. (thieves' cant) To cut.

Derived terms

• chive the darbies (“to cut off fetters”)
• chiving lay (“theft by cutting coach components”)
• chiving the froe (“theft by cutting women's pockets”)
• shiv (“to stab”)

References

• [Francis Grose] (1785) , “Chive”, in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 2nd edition, London: Printed for S. Hooper, […], OCLC 1179630700.
• Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890) , “chive”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant […], volume I (A–K), Edinburgh: […] The Ballantyne Press, OCLC 882571771, page 246
• Farmer, John Stephen (1891) Slang and Its Analogues?^[9], volume 2, pages 97–98
• Eric Partridge, A Dictionary of the Underworld, London, Macmillan Co., 1949

Spanish

Verb

chive

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of chivar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of chivar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of chivar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of chivar.