carve

Signification (Anglais)

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

Concepts

tailler

sculpter

graver

découper

couper

ciseler

trancher

buriner

dépecer

cisailler

entailler

hacher

émincer

creuser

rayer

travailler

battant

porte

raser

inciser

scier

sciotter

voyait

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/kɑɹv/

Étymologie (Anglais)

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”).