What does carve mean?
Definitions for carve
kɑrvcarve
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Princeton's WordNet
carveverb
form by carving
"Carve a flower from the ice"
carve, chip atverb
engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface
"carve one's name into the bark"
carve, cut upverb
cut to pieces
"Father carved the ham"
Wiktionary
carveverb
To cut.
carveverb
To cut meat in order to serve it.
carveverb
To shape to sculptural effect.
carveverb
To perform a series of turns without pivoting. When the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
carveverb
To produce something using skill.
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 Dictionary
To CARVEverb
Etymology: ceorfan, Sax. kerven, Dutch.
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.
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.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.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.
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.To Carveverb
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.
Wikipedia
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:
ChatGPT
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 Dictionary
Carveverb
to cut
Carveverb
to cut, as wood, stone, or other material, in an artistic or decorative manner; to sculpture; to engrave
Carveverb
to make or shape by cutting, sculpturing, or engraving; to form; as, to carve a name on a tree
Carveverb
to cut into small pieces or slices, as meat at table; to divide for distribution or apportionment; to apportion
Carveverb
to cut: to hew; to mark as if by cutting
Carveverb
to take or make, as by cutting; to provide
Carveverb
to lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan
Carveverb
to exercise the trade of a sculptor or carver; to engrave or cut figures
Carveverb
to cut up meat; as, to carve for all the guests
Carvenoun
a carucate
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 Dictionary
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.]
British National Corpus
Verbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'carve' in Verbs Frequency: #1002
Anagrams for carve »
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of carve in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of carve in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of carve in a Sentence
National Development and Reform Commission:
(The firms) created monopolies by agreeing to raise sales prices and to artificially carve up the market.
If Ukraine wants to settle with Russia on better terms (than what others received) they will have to come back to the bondholders for consent, under terms of the deal there is no carve-out for sovereign debt or Paris Club debt.
I’m not too sure if they are actually called sponge crabs, but we have always called them that, they seem to carve out a piece of sponge which is loose fitting on their backs. We only usually get one every year or two, but this summer we have had five already. I don't know if the increase is down to global warming, but I am now trying to find out how far they have spread.
The politicians have always been in conflict on how to carve up the cake. This obstructs any reforms and reveals them as a bunch of liars to international opinion, the wide scope of these protests is evidence of the buildup of the crisis and that it is rubbing salt in the citizens' wounds.
I followed my older brother to the golf course when we were 10 years old, he’s five years older than I am, and he did n’t really want his younger brother hanging out with him, so I managed to carve my path in golf.
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- نقشArabic
- режа, изрязвам, дяламBulgarian
- schnitzen, zerlegen, tranchieren, schneidenGerman
- ĉiziEsperanto
- tallar, trinchar, esculpir, cortarSpanish
- leikataFinnish
- taillerFrench
- farag, váj, vés, róHungarian
- tagliare, intagliare, scolpire, scalcare, trinciareItalian
- caelōLatin
- whao, whaowhaoMāori
- kuchuyQuechua
- ре́зать, высека́ть, разре́зать, разреза́ть, выреза́тьRussian
- oymakTurkish
- оброблятиUkrainian
- 雕刻Chinese
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