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ALL meanings of carve

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  • verb carve If you carve a piece of cooked meat, you cut slices from it so that you can eat it. 3
  • verb carve If you carve a career or a niche for yourself, you succeed in getting the career or the position that you want by your own efforts. 3
  • verb carve Carve out means the same as carve. 3
  • verb carve If a road is carved through a place, it is built so that it goes through that place. 3
  • verb carve to cut or chip in order to form something 3
  • verb carve to decorate or form (something) by cutting or chipping 3
  • verb carve to slice (meat) into pieces 3
  • verb transitive carve to make or shape by or as by cutting, chipping, hewing, etc. 3
  • verb transitive carve to decorate the surface of with cut figures or designs 3
  • verb transitive carve to divide by cutting; slice 3
  • verb transitive carve to divide into portions, as land 3
  • intransitive verb carve to carve statues or designs 3
  • intransitive verb carve to carve meat 3
  • verb carve If you carve a piece of cooked meat, you cut slices from it so that you can eat it. 3
  • verb carve If you carve an object, you make it by cutting it out of a substance such as wood or stone. If you carve something such as wood or stone into an object, you make the object by cutting it out. 3
  • verb carve If you carve writing or a design on an object, you cut it into the surface of the object. 3
  • noun carve Cut (a hard material) in order to produce an aesthetically pleasing object or design. 1
  • transitive verb carve material: sculpt 1
  • transitive verb carve shape: sculpt 1
  • transitive verb carve meat: cut, slice 1
  • verb with object carve to cut (a solid material) so as to form something: to carve a piece of pine. 1
  • verb with object carve to form from a solid material by cutting: to carve a statue out of stone. 1
  • verb with object carve to cut into slices or pieces, as a roast of meat. 1
  • verb with object carve to decorate with designs or figures cut on the surface: The top of the box was beautifully carved with figures of lions and unicorns. 1
  • verb with object carve to cut (a design, figures, etc.) on a surface: Figures of lions and unicorns were carved on the top of the box. 1
  • verb with object carve to make or create for oneself (often followed by out): He carved out a career in business. 1
  • verb without object carve to carve figures, designs, etc. 1
  • verb without object carve to cut meat. 1
  • noun carve (Obsolete (No longer in use)) Alternative term for carucate. 0
  • verb carve (archaic) To cut. 0
  • verb carve To cut meat in order to serve it. 0
  • verb carve To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work. 0
  • verb carve (snowboarding) To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path. 0
  • verb carve (figuratively) To take or make, as by cutting; to provide. 0
  • verb carve To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan. 0
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