carve

Significado (Inglés)

Verb

1. To cut.
2. To cut meat in order to serve it.
3. 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.
4. To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
5. To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
6. To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.

Noun

1. (obsolete) A carucate.
2. The act of carving

Conceptos

cortar

esculpir

tallar

labrar

trinchar

grabar

cincelar

recortar

entallar

tajar

cortar al ras

despostar

labrar la piedra

tallar la piedra

amputar

cercenar

cortar la carne

podar

sesgar

talar

trocear

tronchar

trozar

truncar

desbastar

igualar

labrar la madera

labrar madera

arañar

rajar

reasguñar

hacer una incisión

aserrar

serrar

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/kɑɹv/

Etimología (Inglés)

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”).