carve
Betekenis (Engels)
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- To cut.
- To cut meat in order to serve it.
- 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.
- To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
- To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
- To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
Concepten
Synoniemen
chip at
carve wood
nip off
slice into
cut stone
cut to
delve into
operate on
rip open
sculp
slice off
slice up
snip off
work stone
cut fine
act of carving
enscribe
shave wood
carved wooden door
cut away
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Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/kɑɹv/
Etymologie (Engels)
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”).
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