carve

CEFRC1

/kɑɹv/

verb

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    To cut a shape into wood, stone, or another material.

  2. 02

    verb

    To cut cooked meat into pieces.

Examples

  • At times I confuse curve with carve.

  • He taught his sons how to carve wood.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. To cut meat in order to serve it.

  2. 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.

  3. To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.

More examples

In context

  • Whereof John de Ditton holds a moiety of the village for half a carve of land.

  • You carve the roast and I’ll serve the vegetables.

  • to carve a name into a tree

Quick test

Two questions on this entry. Nothing is scored.

Question 1 · Quick check

Using a sharp knife, the chef began to blank the roasted turkey into slices.

Practise this properly in the app, where the word comes back before you forget it.

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Origin

verb

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”).