| 单词 | carve |
| 释义 | carve (once / 249 pages) v When you cut a design into a piece of wood or marble, you carve it. Headstone engravers carve people's names and the dates of their births and deaths into gravestones. You might carve your initials into the tree in your backyard, or carve a walking stick out of a large branch. Some artists work by carving shapes from clay or granite, and a chef learns to carve, or precisely cut up, large cuts of meat and poultry. The Old English root word is ceorfan, "to cut, slay, carve, or engrave." WORD FAMILYcarve: carved, carver, carves, carving+/carved: uncarved/carver: carvers/carving: carvings USAGE EXAMPLESWealthy businessmen and officials were purchasing elaborate carvings as luxurious gifts or, in some cases, bribes. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) He etched the name “Evans” into it and carved an intricate pattern. Washington Post(Dec 31, 2016) China will shut down domestic ivory carving workshops and factories by April. Los Angeles Times(Dec 30, 2016) 1v engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface carve one's name into the bark Syn|Hypo|Hyper chip at chisel carve with a chisel engrave, grave, inscribe, scratchcarve, cut, or etch into a material or surface engrave, etchcarve or cut a design or letters into characterengrave or inscribe characters on cut separate with or as if with an instrument 2v form by carving Carve a flower from the ice Hypo|Hyper hew, hew out make or shape as with an axe grave, sculpt, sculptureshape (a material like stone or wood) by whittling away at it fretcarve a pattern into rough-hew, roughcasthew roughly, without finishing the surface honeycombcarve a honeycomb pattern into cut separate with or as if with an instrument forge, form, mold, mould, shape, workmake something, usually for a specific function 3v cut to pieces Father carved the ham Syn|Hypo|Hyper cut up shave make shavings of or reduce to shavings filet, filletcut into filets cut separate with or as if with an instrument |
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