carve

Reikšmė (anglų kalba)

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

Tariama kaip (IPA)

/kɑɹv/

Etimologija (anglų kalba)

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”).