Definition of Carve

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Definition of Carve

Carve

To cut.

To cut, as wood, stone, or other material, in an artistic or decorative manner; to sculpture; to engrave.

To make or shape by cutting, sculpturing, or engraving; to form; as, to carve a name on a tree.

To cut into small pieces or slices, as meat at table; to divide for distribution or apportionment; to apportion.

To cut: to hew; to mark as if by cutting.

To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.

To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.

To exercise the trade of a sculptor or carver; to engrave or cut figures.

To cut up meat; as, to carve for all the guests.

A carucate.

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Carve Quotations

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.
Charles Spurgeon

Carve every word before you let it fall.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens.
James Hillman

I needed to carve out my own place and find out what I was going to do.
Rosanne Cash

As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was my wife's money and little bits I was picking up for journalism.
Jonathan Coe

It's the same with people knowing absolutely everything there is to know about an actor. I actually think the more personal information you have about an actor, the more you have to carve out for yourself when you go to a movie and see them in it.
Holly Hunter

But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?
Robert Browning Hamilton

It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft.
James Houston

Carve Translations

carve in Dutch is beeldhouwen, uithakken, uithouwen
carve in French is ciseler, buriner
carve in German is schnitzen, zerschneiden
carve in Spanish is labrar

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