carve

Meaning

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.

engrave

chip at

carve wood

nip off

slice into

cut stone

cut to

delve into

operate on

rip open

saw off

sculp

slice off

slice up

snip off

work stone

cut fine

act of carving

enscribe

shave wood

carved wooden door

cut away

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kɑɹv/

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”).