carve

[Carve]

When you cut a design into a piece of wood or marble, you carve it. Headstone engravers carve people's names and the dates of their births and deaths into gravestones.

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To cut.

Verb
cut to pieces; "Father carved the ham"

Verb
form by carving; "Carve a flower from the ice"

Verb
engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface; "carve one''s name into the bark"

v. t.
To cut.

v. t.
To cut, as wood, stone, or other material, in an artistic or decorative manner; to sculpture; to engrave.

v. t.
To make or shape by cutting, sculpturing, or engraving; to form; as, to carve a name on a tree.

v. t.
To cut into small pieces or slices, as meat at table; to divide for distribution or apportionment; to apportion.

v. t.
To cut: to hew; to mark as if by cutting.

v. t.
To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.

v. t.
To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.

v. i.
To exercise the trade of a sculptor or carver; to engrave or cut figures.

v. i.
To cut up meat; as, to carve for all the guests.

n.
A carucate.

Carve

Carve , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Carved ; p. pr. & vb. n. Carving.] [AS. ceorfan to cut, carve; akin to D. kerven, G. kerben, Dan. karve, Sw. karfva, and to Gr. to write, orig. to scatch, and E. -graphy. Cf. Graphic.] 1. To cut. [Obs.]
Or they will carven the shepherd's throat.
2. To cut, as wood, stone, or other material, in an artistic or decorative manner; to sculpture; to engrave.
Carved with figures strange and sweet.
3. To make or shape by cutting, sculpturing, or engraving; to form; as, to carve a name on a tree.
An angel carved in stone.
We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone.
4. To cut into small pieces or slices, as meat at table; to divide for distribution or apportionment; to apportion. "To carve a capon." Shak. 5. To cut: to hew; to mark as if by cutting.
My good blade carved the casques of men.
A million wrinkles carved his skin.
6. To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
Who could easily have carved themselves their own food.
7. To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
Lie ten nights awake carving the fashion of a new doublet.
To carve out, to make or get by cutting, or as if by cutting; to cut out. "[Macbeth] with his brandished steel . . . carved out his passage." Shak.
Fortunes were carved out of the property of the crown.

Carve

Carve, v. i. 1. To exercise the trade of a sculptor or carver; to engrave or cut figures. 2. To cut up meat; as, to carve for all the guests.

Carve

Carve, n. A carucate. [Obs.] Burrill.

To cut.

To exercise the trade of a sculptor or carver; to engrave or cut figures.

A carucate.

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Usage Examples

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.

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Other Usage Examples

It's hard now to imagine that kind of travel and the daily tasks they simply took for granted. If a wagon axle broke, you had to stop and carve a new one. To cross a river, you sometimes had to build a raft.

We have to compete in a universe of 200 networks, so we have to carve out our own niche, and to me, that niche is just basic shoe-leather journalism with some good journalists at the helm you can trust as presenters.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.