(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Childcare carves out a hefty third of household income for one in three families, overshadowing mortgage repayments as the biggest family expenditure .
(2) In stage I, a tympanoplasty is performed before transplantation of the carved cartilage framework.
(3) The striking weakness of Clegg's thesis was what it left out in its attempt to carve out a position for restless party activists as their poll ratings dip (down to 14% according to ICM) as Miliband tones down his own anti-Lib Dem rhetoric to woo them.
(4) "We carved out a few chances, but it was tough to break them down."
(5) But he quickly carved out a niche, introducing to an English-speaking audience the works of German-language writers, notably Friedrich Hölderlin, but also Brecht, Rilke, Grass and others.
(6) Syria’s five-year conflict has taken on an ethnic dimension, with Kurdish groups carving out their own regions and periodically battling groups from Syria’s Arab majority, whose priority is to overthrow Assad.
(7) It has been awfully hard-won, carved slowly out of a big block of human agony.
(8) Damn them and their hands for what they are doing.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The video, released on Thursday, showed men smashing up artefacts dating back to the seventh century BC Assyrian era, toppling statues from plinths, smashing them with a sledgehammer and breaking up a carving of a winged bull with a drill.
(9) His best collaborators and students, such as Joyce Molyneux, late of the Carved Angel in Dartmouth, and Stephen Markwick, also late of Markwick's in Bristol, first reproduced his style, then refreshed it with their own imaginations, and the eclectic style of cooking associated with the 1980s.
(10) By the end of the year, Koizumi's displaced will have moved into homes being built in an area carved into a mountaintop two miles from the coast.
(11) He has urged the prime minister to carve out a British business bank from RBS and give it a mandate to expand rapidly to help cash-starved small businesses, as well as supporting exports and other sectors identified as strategically important.
(12) It even had carved oak bears as newel posts on its modest staircase.
(13) A new instrumentation for posterior spinal surgery consists of metallic rods carved with diamond-shaped asperities on which vertebral hooks or screws can be screwed in any position, level, or degree of rotation.
(14) Using Koufonissi as a base, there are daily excursions by caique and ferry to nearby islands, including Iraklia, where walkers can follow a pilgrims' trail across the high lands to spectacular St John's Cave, carved into a limestone cliff.
(15) His face was found carved into tree trunks all over Celtic lands and his hold over the early Britons was so powerful that early Christians relented and adopted the green man's image as a force for good and a symbol of new life and renewal.
(16) This station, with its quarter-mile, 300kph trains, a huge cocktail bar, a branch of Foyles stocked with 20,000 titles, a smart Searcy's restaurant and brasserie, independent coffee bars, floors covered in timber and stone rather than sticky British airport-style carpet, new gothic carvings, newly cast gothic door handles, and a nine-metre-high sculpture of lovers meeting under the station clock?
(17) But as the dust settled, the spacecraft's cameras looked down on a landscape carved by ancient river systems.
(18) That would imply setting a global carbon budget of how much the world could emit in future, which would then have to be carved up among all countries.
(19) The intricate wood carving, the elegant furniture, the panelled walls, the grand entrance hall and the cantilevered stairs are undeniably impressive.
(20) It is possible Aquascutum could be carved up between the two, as YGM wants its south-east Asian operations.
Carver
Definition:
(n.) One who carves; one who shapes or fashions by carving, or as by carving; esp. one who carves decorative forms, architectural adornments, etc.
(n.) One who carves or divides meat at table.
(n.) A large knife for carving.
Example Sentences:
(1) John Carver witnessed signs of much-needed improvement from the visitors in a purposeful spell either side of the interval but it was not enough to prevent a fifth successive Premier League defeat.
(2) If at times Van Gaal’s players let themselves down with careless concessions of possession, Carver knew his side had been reprieved when, back to goal, Wayne Rooney controlled the ball on his chest, swivelled and dinked a shot wide.
(3) John Carver accuses Newcastle’s Mike Williamson of getting sent off deliberately Read more
(4) Correlations were determined for male (n = 225) and female (n = 242) college students between sets of undesirable personality traits (anxiety, stress reactivity, anger, and alienation) and desirable personality traits (instrumentality, achievement strivings, and optimism measured by the Scheier-Carver [1987] Life Orientation Test), and a series of outcome variables related to health (self-reported health complaints and health maintenance behaviors and beliefs) and academic performance (academic expectations and actual grade point average).
(5) Significantly Moussa Sissoko, Carver’s key midfielder, failed to make much of an impact throughout, leaving Sunderland’s Lee Cattermole free to dominate central midfield.
(6) The sending-off could have been a straight red,” admitted Carver.
(7) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Liverpool 2-0 Newcastle United: John Carver bemoans penalty decision Carver, who continued his protest as the officials left the field at half-time, said: “The game hinged on a huge decision.
(8) Carver-Taylor worked steadily, through the fourth graders, then the fifth graders, talking and joking with them.
(9) Not long after the break, and shortly after watching Yannick Bolasie dodge Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa before brushing the crossbar with a shot, Carver introduced Ben Arfa at Luuk De Jong's expense.
(10) I want to play Champions League football – with Newcastle if possible.” If that delighted Alan Pardew’s successor, the bad news is that Santon’s departure with a view to completing a £3m transfer in May further reduces Carver’s defensive options.
(11) A moot point, with speculation swirling that he may replace John Carver at Newcastle United during the summer.
(12) I love me some peanuts and George Washington Carver !” Trump didn’t even meet the low bar for the latter, though.
(13) She was inspired on her course by a fellow student who asked her if she had ever read any Raymond Carver because Malton's work had echoes of him.
(14) This poses a problem for Carver; there are no surviving burial records for the cemetery, and instead names are scattered through thousands of records in the parishes where they lived or died.
(15) This article (a) reexamines the evidence relevant to Ingram's proposal that self-awareness is a nonspecific factor involved in virtually all forms of psychopathology and argues that this conclusion is not warranted by the existing evidence; (b) takes issue with his premise that the fact that self-awareness is associated with a variety of psychological dysfunctions poses a conceptual dilemma; (c) corrects several important inaccuracies and mischaracterizations in his presentation of Carver and Scheier's (1981) cybernetic control theory and Pyszczynski and Greenberg's (1987) self-regulatory perseveration theory; and (d) critiques the "self-absorption" model that he proposed as an alternative to extant theories and concludes that this conceptualization does not add to the understanding of either self-awareness processes or psychopathology.
(16) In this issue, Peterson and Seligman and Carver and Scheier review an impressive series of studies which together suggest that there may be health risks associated with attributing bad outcomes to internal, stable, and global causes and with failing to maintain a generalized expectancy for good outcomes.
(17) Carver believes he will find up to 4,000 more when the main excavation starts next year.
(18) It was with her red-and-white Maryland Medicaid card that Carver-Taylor found the dental care she needed, relief from pain, and her future career.
(19) We conceded a real poor goal,” acknowledged Carver, although he refused to criticise Krul’s part in it.
(20) They are blaming it on the dentists.” One of Harper’s former students, Belinda Carver-Taylor, was at the meeting too.