Dictionary Definition
carve
Verb
1 form by carving; "Carve a flower from the
ice"
2 engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface;
"carve one's name into the bark" [syn: chip at]
3 cut to pieces; "Father carved the ham" [syn:
cut
up]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
Old English ċeorfan, from West Germanic *kerfan. Cognate with Dutch kerven, and perhaps ultimately with Greek γράφειν.Verb
- To cut.
- To cut meat in order to serve it.
- To shape to sculptural effect.
- : To perform a series of turns without pivoting. When the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
Derived terms
Translations
cut
- German: schneiden
- Hungarian: ró
cut meat
- German: tranchieren, zerlegen
turn without pivoting
Extensive Definition
Carving can mean
- Rock carving
- Wood carving
- Stone carving
- Meat carving
- Ivory carving
- Bone carving
- Ice carving
- Skiing or snowboarding carving style, defined by a type of 'S-turn.'
- EQ carving, an application of equalization in audio mixing
carve in German: Schnitzen
carve in Russian: карвинг
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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,
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