shin
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shin 1
(shĭn)n.
1.
a. The front part of the leg below the knee and above the ankle.
b. The shinbone.
2. A cut of meat from the lower foreleg of beef cattle.
v. shinned, shin·ning, shins
v.tr.
1. To climb (a rope or pole, for example) by gripping and pulling alternately with the hands and legs.
2. To kick or hit in the shins.
v.intr.
1. To climb something by shinning it.
2. To move quickly on foot.
shin 2
(shēn, shĭn)n.
One of the two forms of the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet, distinguished from the letter sin by having a dot above the right side of the letter. See Table at alphabet.
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shin
(ʃɪn)n
1. (Anatomy) the front part of the lower leg
2. (Anatomy) the front edge of the tibia
3. (Cookery) chiefly Brit a cut of beef, the lower foreleg
vb, shins, shinning or shinned
4. (when: intr, often foll by up) to climb (a pole, tree, etc) by gripping with the hands or arms and the legs and hauling oneself up. Also (US): shinny
5. (tr) to kick (a person) in the shins
[Old English scinu; related to Old High German scina needle, Norwegian dialect skina small disc]
shin
(ʃɪn)n
(Letters of the Alphabet (Foreign)) the 21st letter in the Hebrew alphabet (ש), transliterated as sh
[from Hebrew shīn, literally: tooth]
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shin1
(ʃɪn)n., v. shinned, shin•ning. n.
1. the front part of the leg from the knee to the ankle.
2. the lower part of the foreleg in cattle.
3. the shinbone or tibia, esp. its sharp edge or front portion.
v.t., v.i. 4. to climb (a pole or the like) by holding fast with the legs after drawing oneself up with the hands.
[before 1000; Middle English shine, Old English scinu, c. Middle Dutch, Middle Low German schēne, Old High German scina shin, needle]
shin2
(ʃin, ʃɪn)n.
the 21st letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
[1895–1900; < Hebrew shīn, akin to shēn tooth]
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shin
Past participle: shinned
Gerund: shinning
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Noun | 1. | ![]() body part - any part of an organism such as an organ or extremity leg - a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle |
2. | shin - a cut of meat from the lower part of the leg cut of meat, cut - a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass | |
3. | shin - the 22nd letter of the Hebrew alphabet Hebraic alphabet, Hebrew alphabet, Hebrew script - a Semitic alphabet used since the 5th century BC for writing the Hebrew language (and later for writing Yiddish and Ladino) alphabetic character, letter of the alphabet, letter - the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech; "his grandmother taught him his letters" | |
4. | ![]() leg - a human limb; commonly used to refer to a whole limb but technically only the part of the limb between the knee and ankle leg bone - a bone of the leg | |
Verb | 1. | shin - climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling climb - move with difficulty, by grasping |
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shin
[ʃɪn]Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
shin
(ʃin) noun the front part of the leg below the knee. He kicked him on the shins.espinilla
verb – past tense, past participle shinned – (usually with up) to climb by alternate movements of both arms and both legs. He shinned up the tree.trepar, escalar
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shin
→ espinillaMultilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
shin
n espinilla; — splints síndrome m de estrés de la tibia medial, dolor m de espinilla debido a ejercicio excesivoEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.