English Explanatory Dictionary

carve

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb

To cut.
To cut meat in order to serve it.
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.
To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.

noun

A carucate.
The act of carving

Pronunciation

/kɑɹv/ En-us-carve.ogg /kɑːv/ En-uk-carve.ogg

Word forms

carve carves carving carved carven

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”).

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

Finnish: leikata Galician: tallar German: tranchieren German: zerlegen Hawaiian: ʻokiʻoki Hungarian: felvág Hungarian: szeletel Hungarian: felszeletel Hungarian: szel Italian: trinciare Italian: scalcare Macedonian: траншира Persian: بریدن Portuguese: trinchar Russian: разреза́ть Russian: ре́зать Spanish: trinchar Swedish: skära upp Tamil: வெட்டு Ukrainian: розрі́зати Ukrainian: розрі́зувати

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