A casual, usually short-sleeved, shirt with a protruding collar and a small number of buttons extending a short distance below the collar (and not all the way down the front of the shirt).

A broad piece of defensive armor, held in hand, formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body. / (figuratively) One who protects or defends.

To protect, to defend. / (UK, intransitive); (electricity) to protect from the influence of

A wedge. / A thin piece of material, sometimes tapered, used for alignment or support.

To fit one or more shims to a piece of machinery. / To adjust something by using shims. / To adjust the homogeneity of a magnetic field, after the mechanical devices once used for the purpose.

(informal, often derogatory) A transsexual person, especially a trans woman; (loosely) a drag queen or transvestite.

A word, especially seen as a test, to distinguish someone as belonging to a particular nation, class, profession etc.

A radical change in thinking from an accepted point of view to a new one, necessitated when new scientific discoveries produce anomalies in the current paradigm.

The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone: Shinbone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia / A fishplate for a railway

(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. / To strike with the shin.