Carve definition
To carve statues or designs.
verb
To engrave or cut figures as an art, hobby, or trade.
verb
To disjoint, slice, and serve meat or poultry.
verb
To carve turns, as when skiing.
verb
To divide by cutting; slice.
To carve meat.
verb
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To divide into portions, as land.
verb
To carve meat.
verb
To cut meat in order to serve it.
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To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work.
To carve a name into a tree.
verb
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(snowboarding) To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
verb
To carve is to slice, to divide up, or to make something smaller by cutting or chiseling.
An example of carve is to cut apart a turkey on Thanksgiving.
An example of carve is to break a large piece of property into smaller lots.
An example of carve is to create a wooden sculpture using wood tools.
verb
To cut into a desired shape; fashion by cutting.
Carve the wood into a figure.
verb
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To make or form by or as if by cutting.
Carve initials in the bark; carved out an empire.
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To decorate by cutting and shaping carefully.
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To make (a turn or turns) smoothly and without skidding, as when skiing or riding a snowboard, by leaning sharply into the direction of the turn.
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To divide into pieces by cutting; slice.
Carved a roast.
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To divide by parceling out.
Carve up an estate.
verb
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To make or shape by or as by cutting, chipping, hewing, etc.
Carve a statue out of wood, carve out a career for oneself.
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To decorate the surface of with cut figures or designs.
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Origin of carve
- Middle English kerven from Old English ceorfan gerbh- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Middle English kerven, from Old English ċeorfan, from Proto-Germanic *kerbaną (compare Kyrgyz kerve, Dutch kerven, German kerben (“to notch”)), from Proto-Indo-European *gerebh- (“to scratch”) (cf. Old Prussian gīrbin ‘number’, Old Church Slavonic žrĕbĭjĭ ‘lot, tallymark’, Ancient Greek γράφειν (gráphein) ‘to scratch, etch’).
From Wiktionary