carve
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: hobbies
lifestyle
snowboarding
sports
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-der.
Proto-Germanic *kerbaną
Proto-West Germanic *kerban
Old English ċeorfan
Middle English kerven
English carve
From Middle English kerven, from Old English ceorfan, from Proto-West Germanic *kerban, from Proto-Germanic *kerbaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“to scratch”). Cognate with West Frisian kerve, Dutch kerven, Low German karven, German kerben (“to notch”); also Old Prussian gīrbin (“number”), Old Church Slavonic жрѣбии (žrěbii, “lot, tallymark”), Ancient Greek γράφειν (gráphein, “to scratch, etch”).
Inflected forms:
form: carves
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: carving
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: carved
pos: verb
tags: past
form: carved
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: carven
pos: verb
tags: archaic
participle
past
form: carves
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To cut.
pos: verb
tags: archaic
examples: My good blade carves the casques of men, / My tough lance thrusteth sure, / My strength is as the strength of ten, / Because my heart is pure.
gloss: To cut meat in order to serve it.
pos: verb
examples: You carve the roast and I’ll serve the vegetables.
gloss: To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work, especially with cuts that are curved rather than only straight slices.
pos: verb
examples: to carve a name into a tree
The facades of the buildings fronting upon the avenue within the wall were richly carven[…].
The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.
gloss: To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
pos: verb
gloss: To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: […] who could easily have carved themselves their own food.
The Reds carved the first opening of the second period as Glen Johnson's pull-back found David Ngog but the Frenchman hooked wide from six yards.
gloss: To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
pos: verb
examples: Lie ten nights awake carving the fashion of a new doublet.
gloss: A carucate.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: ... half a carve of arable land in Ballyncore, one carve of arable land in Pales, a quarter of arable land in Clonnemeagh, half a carve of arable land in Ballyfaden, half a carve of arable land in Ballymadran, ...
Whereof John de Ditton holds a moiety of the village for half a carve of land.
gloss: The act of carving
pos: noun
examples: Give that turkey a careful carve.
Related words: kerf
Derived words: becarve
carvability
carvable
carveability
carveable
carved in stone
carve out
carver
carvery
carve up
carving knife
cut and carve
file carving
forcarve
overcarve
recarve
undercarve
Translations:
lang: Finnish
word: leikata
lang: Galician
word: tallar
lang: German
word: tranchieren
lang: German
word: zerlegen
lang: Hawaiian
word: ʻokiʻoki
lang: Hungarian
word: felvág
lang: Hungarian
word: szeletel
lang: Hungarian
word: felszeletel
lang: Hungarian
word: szel
lang: Italian
word: trinciare
lang: Italian
word: scalcare
lang: Macedonian
word: траншира
roman: tranšira
lang: Persian
word: بریدن
roman: boridan
lang: Portuguese
word: trinchar
lang: Russian
word: разреза́ть
roman: razrezátʹ
lang: Russian
word: ре́зать
roman: rézatʹ
lang: Russian
word: разре́зать
roman: razrézatʹ
lang: Spanish
word: trinchar
lang: Swedish
word: skära upp
lang: Tamil
word: வெட்டு
roman: veṭṭu
lang: Ukrainian
word: розрі́зати
roman: rozrízaty
lang: Ukrainian
word: розрі́зувати
roman: rozrízuvaty