Definitions for CARVE
kɑrvcarve

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. carveverb

   form by carving

   "Carve a flower from the ice"

2. carve, chip atverb

   engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface

   "carve one's name into the bark"

3. carve, cut upverb

   cut to pieces

   "Father carved the ham"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. carveverb

   To cut.

2. carveverb

   To cut meat in order to serve it.

3. carveverb

   To shape to sculptural effect.

4. carveverb

   To perform a series of turns without pivoting. When the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.

5. carveverb

   To produce something using skill.

6. Etymology: kerven, from ceorfan, from kerbanan (cf. West Frisian kerve, Dutch kerven, German kerben ‘to notch’), from gerebh- ‘to scratch’ (cf. Old Prussian gīrbin ‘number’, Old Church Slavonic ‘lot, tallymark’, Ancient Greek γράφειν ‘to scratch, etch’).

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To CARVEverb

   Etymology: ceorfan, Sax. kerven, Dutch.

   1. To cut wood, or stone, or other matter, into elegant forms.

   Taking the very refuse among those which served to no use, he hath carved it diligently when he had nothing else to do. Wisdom, xiii. 13.

   Had Democrates really carved mount Athos into a statue of Alexander the Great, and had the memory of the fact been obliterated by some accident, who could afterwards have proved it impossible, but that it might casually have been? Richard Bentley.

   2. To cut meat at the table.3. To make any thing by carving or cutting.

   Yet fearing idleness, the nurse of ill,
   In sculpture exercis’d his happy skill; And carv’d in iv’ry such a maid so fair,
   As nature could not with his art compare,
   Were she to work. Dryden.

   4. To engrave.

   O Rosalind! these trees shall be my books,
   And in their barks my thoughts I’ll character;
   That every eye, which in this forest looks,
   Shall see thy virtue witness’d every where.
   Run, run, Orlando, carve on every tree,
   The fair, the chaste, the unexpressive she. William Shakespeare.

   5. To chuse one’s own part.

   He had been a keeper of his flocks, both from the violence of robbers and his own soldiers; who could easily have carved themselves their own food. South.

   How dares sinful dust and ashes invade the prerogative of providence, and carve out to himself the seasons and issues of life and death? South.

   The labourer’s share, being seldom more than a bare subsistence, never allows that body of men opportunity to struggle with the richer, unless when some common and great distress emboldens them to carve to their wants. John Locke.

   6. To cut; to hew.

   Or they will buy his sheep forth of the cote,
   Or they will carve the shepherd’s throat. Edmund Spenser, Pastorals.

   Brave Macbeth, with his brandish’d steel,
   Like valour’s minion, carved out his passage. William Shakespeare.

2. To Carveverb

   1. To exercise the trade of a sculptor.2. To perform at table the office of supplying the company from the dishes.

   I do mean to make love to Ford’s wife; I spy entertainment in her; she discourses, she carves, she gives the leer of invitation. William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor.

   Well then, things handsomely were serv’d;
   My mistress for the strangers carv’d. Matthew Prior.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. carve

   Carving is the act of using tools to shape something from a material by scraping away portions of that material. The technique can be applied to any material that is solid enough to hold a form even when pieces have been removed from it, and yet soft enough for portions to be scraped away with available tools. Carving, as a means for making stone or wooden sculpture, is distinct from methods using soft and malleable materials like clay, fruit, and melted glass, which may be shaped into the desired forms while soft and then harden into that form. Carving tends to require much more work than methods using malleable materials. Kinds of carving include:

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. carve

   Carve means to cut, shape, or sculpt a piece of material such as wood, stone, or meat into a particular form or design, often using tools like knives or chisels. It can also metaphorically refer to establishing or creating something significant or notable.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Carveverb

   to cut

2. Carveverb

   to cut, as wood, stone, or other material, in an artistic or decorative manner; to sculpture; to engrave

3. Carveverb

   to make or shape by cutting, sculpturing, or engraving; to form; as, to carve a name on a tree

4. Carveverb

   to cut into small pieces or slices, as meat at table; to divide for distribution or apportionment; to apportion

5. Carveverb

   to cut: to hew; to mark as if by cutting

6. Carveverb

   to take or make, as by cutting; to provide

7. Carveverb

   to lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan

8. Carveverb

   to exercise the trade of a sculptor or carver; to engrave or cut figures

9. Carveverb

   to cut up meat; as, to carve for all the guests

10. Carvenoun

    a carucate

11. Etymology: [AS. ceorfan to cut, carve; akin to D. kerven, G. kerben, Dan. karve, Sw. karfva, and to Gr. gra`fein to write, orig. to scratch, and E. -graphy. Cf. Graphic.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Carve

   kärv, v.t. to cut into forms, devices, &c.: to make or shape by cutting: to cut up (meat) into slices or pieces: to apportion or distribute: (Shak.) to speak with suavity.—v.i. to exercise the trade of a sculptor.—p.adj. Carv′en, carved.—ns. Carv′er, one who carves: a sculptor: a carving-knife; Carv′ing, the act or art of carving, a branch of sculpture usually performed on wood or ivory: the device or figure carved: the act or art of cutting up meat at table.—Carve out, to hew out: to gain by one's exertions.—Cut and carve, to refine. [A. S. ceorfan, to cut; Dut. kerven; Ger. kerben, to notch.]

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British National Corpus

1. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'CARVE' in Verbs Frequency: #1002

Anagrams for CARVE »

1. caver

2. crave

3. varec

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of CARVE in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of CARVE in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of CARVE in a Sentence

1. Jerome Kemp:

   I believe every one of our clients has the right to expect the information they share with us ... is protected by confidentiality. There would be no carve out in respect to a central bank or any other client.

2. Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Live":

   It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

3. Anna Pierce:

   As soon as you take off, you can see the path the glaciers took to carve out Niagara Falls, just seeing all that water rushing from one lake to the other is awe-inspiring.

4. Oliver Wendell Holmes:

   Speak clearly, if you speak at all carve every word before you let it fall.

5. Joe Manchin:

   Anytime there's a carve out, you eat the whole turkey.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=CARVE
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Carve
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=CARVE
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carve
5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/CARVE
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=CARVE