What's the difference between carve and hew?

Carve


Definition:

  • (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.

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.

Hew


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To cut with an ax; to fell with a sharp instrument; -- often with down, or off.
  • (v. t.) To form or shape with a sharp instrument; to cut; hence, to form laboriously; -- often with out; as, to hew out a sepulcher.
  • (v. t.) To cut in pieces; to chop; to hack.
  • (n.) Destruction by cutting down.
  • (n.) Hue; color.
  • (n.) Shape; form.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The disruption by means of the Hews press yielded a more active preparation as compared with ultrasonic disintegration.
  • (2) I suspect that means he does in fact hew pretty closely to what the Bible says.
  • (3) The concept of using examination content guidelines as sources for curriculum content is presented, using the ASCP Board of Registry grids and a task list developed for HEW as a basis for proficiency examinations.
  • (4) During this latter period, training support provided by HEW remained essentially constant, that by the Environmental Protection Agency decreased to less than half, while that from the universities approximately tripled.
  • (5) On his Twitter feed, the governor said the bus bridge will run from Barclays Center, MetroTech and Hewes St stations, using special lanes up 3rd Avenue, and returning down Lexington Avenue.
  • (6) Historians Hew Strachan, Max Hastings, Margaret MacMillan, Chris Clark, Niall Ferguson, Richard Evans , Norman Stone and others have answered to Kitchener's Your Country Needs You.
  • (7) These experiments allow comparison of the properties of TEW lysozyme with those of the hen egg white (HEW) enzyme reported previously (Banerjee, S. K., Holler, E., Hess, G. P., and Rupley, J.
  • (8) North Korean universities have their own fairly sophisticated Intranet system, though the material posted to it is closely vetted by authorities and hews to propaganda.
  • (9) Thus, blocking of the lymphocytotoxic response of cystadenocarcinoma patients towards HeW cells may be utilized to monitor the isolation of ovarian carcinoma-associated antigen.
  • (10) The fictional family bore strong similarities to Franzen’s own, his father a railway engineer, his mother a housewife, although, he says, as “writing becomes more autobiographical, the less it hews to actual lived experience.
  • (11) The amino acid composition indicated similarities and differences as compared with that of hen egg white (HEW) lysozyme.
  • (12) Instead, we need to press Labor to hew to its best instincts over the long term, whoever the next prime minister might be.
  • (13) A cell-mediated cytotoxicity test, quantitated by postlabeling with tritiated thymidine, was used to asses immune reactivity of cancer patients to the HeW cell line derived from serous cystadenocarcinoma of the ovary.
  • (14) The magnitude of the low pH difference spectrum is enhanced by binding of saccharide for HEW and Oxa-62-lysozymes but not for TEW lysozyme.
  • (15) "The director must hew to the rule of law and accountability," the ACLU's German said.
  • (16) Palin's speech, like many others, mostly hewed faithfully to Beck's official theme of the rally, which was paying tribute to America's armed forces.
  • (17) In 1969 a study by an HEW commission documented the need for further legislation.
  • (18) This Note contends that the Act and related HEW regulations preclude states from exempting health care facilities' research expenditures and education expenditures from the scope of the states' certificate-of-need programs.
  • (19) Hew Strachan, a prominent military historian who is on the advisory board, has warned that the commemorations "will be repetitive, sterile and possibly even boring" if the centenary turns into "Remembrance Sunday writ large".
  • (20) HEW's Health Care Financing Administration links uniform reporting and Medicare reimbursement under the provisions of the proposed System for Hospital Uniform Reporting.

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