Carve
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English
Verb
Carve (third-person singular simple present carves, present participle carving, simple past carved or (archaic) carven, past participle carved)
- To cut meat in order to serve it.
- To shape to sculptural effect.
- (snowboarding): To perform a series of turns without pivoting. When the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
- (figuratively) To produce something using skill.
- (archaic) To cut.
Adverbs for Carve
curiously; richly; marvelously; elaborately; skillfully; exquisitely; delicately; ornately; cunningly; ingeniously; fantastically; medievally; wearily.
Derived terms
Thesaurus
cut up, dado, dichotomize, dike, dissect, dissever, ditch, divide, divide into shares, divide up, divide with, divvy up, docket, efform, enchase, engrave, enroll, enscroll, enter, excise, extract, fashion, figure, file, fill out, fissure, fix, flute, forge, form, formalize, found, frame, furrow, gash, goffer, gouge, grave, groove, grow, gully, hack, halve, harvest, hatch, hew, impanel, incise, index, inscribe, insculpture, insert, jigsaw, jot down, knead, knock out, lance, lay out, lick into shape, line, list, lithograph, log, machine, make a memorandum, make a note, make an entry, make out, make prints, mark, mark down, matriculate, mill, mine, mint, minute, model, mold, note, note down, parcel, parcel out, pare, part, partition, place upon record, pleat, plow, poll, portion, post, post up, print, process, prune, pump, put down, put in writing, put on paper, put on tape, rabbet, raise, rear, record, reduce to writing, refine, register, rend, rifle, rive, rough out, roughcast, roughhew, rut, saw, scissor, score, scrape, scratch, sculp, sculpt, sculpture, set, set down, sever, shape, share, share out, share with, slash, slice, slice the pie, slice up, slit, smelt, snip, solder, split, split up, stamp, stipple, streak, striate, subdivide, sunder, tabulate, tailor, take down, tape, tape-record, tear, thermoform, tool, trench, trough, videotape, weld, whittle, work, wrinkle, write, write down, write in, write out, write up, allot, amputate, apportion, assemble, autolithograph, ax, be a printmaker, bisect, block out, book, butcher, calendar, canal, canalize, carve up, cast, catalog, chalk, chalk up, chamfer, channel, character, chase, check in, chip, chisel, chop, chronicle, cleave, convert, corrugate, crack, crease, create, cribble, crimp, crosshatch, cultivate, cut, cut away, cut in two, cut off,
Etymology
Middle English kerven, from Old English ċeorfan, from Proto-Germanic *kerbanan (cf. West Frisian 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’).
Pronunciation
- IPA: /kɑːv/
- Rhymes: -ɑː(r)v
