What's the difference between carving and craving?

Carving


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Carve
  • (n.) The act or art of one who carves.
  • (n.) A piece of decorative work cut in stone, wood, or other material.
  • (n.) The whole body of decorative sculpture of any kind or epoch, or in any material; as, the Italian carving of the 15th century.

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.

Craving


Definition:

  • (p pr. & vb. n.) of Crave
  • (n.) Vehement or urgent desire; longing for; beseeching.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The most common reasons cited for relapse included craving, social situations, stress, and nervousness.
  • (2) The results indicated that smoke, as opposed to sham puffs, significantly reduced reports of cigarette craving, and local anesthesia significantly blocked this immediate reduction in craving produced by smoke inhalation.
  • (3) Scores on the "dependent smoking" subscale of the smoking motivation questionnaire correlated significantly with overall withdrawal severity, craving, and increased irritability.
  • (4) A cocaine craving scale that has proven reliable and practical in clinical treatment research with cocaine-using subjects is presented.
  • (5) The smoking-specific item "craving" reflected this pattern, though in attenuated form, suggesting that the observed exacerbation of withdrawal symptomatology was not simply due to generalized dysphoria, as queried in both instruments.
  • (6) However, craving for alcohol was found to be significantly raised over baseline after exposure to low alcohol drinks.
  • (7) There are many "smoking cessation therapies" – gums, patches and sprays – that reduce cravings for cigarettes, while allowing the smoker to avoid the adverse effects of tobacco.
  • (8) Craving for alcohol decreased after both active and passive immunization against ADH.
  • (9) So should we indulge our nut cravings or will that just add inches to the waist?
  • (10) In the regions concerned, there seems a craving for normality, to put back the clock on the destruction wrought by Isis.
  • (11) Only 32 per cent of women perceived that their cravings were linked to menstrual cycles.
  • (12) Principal-components analysis revealed six factors (Dysphoric Moods, Well-being, Physical Symptoms, Personal Space, Food Cravings, Depression) that accounted for 70% of the variance in daily ratings.
  • (13) In addition to high-protein foods, some of the women craved fruits and sweets.
  • (14) In the present study we met attitudes that made some people bear numet needs instead of craving their legal rights.
  • (15) Harry Kane has been craving opponents as accommodating as Bournemouth since the spring.
  • (16) This study reports on 285 smokers in cessation clinics who answered self-report measures of withdrawal symptoms and craving after quitting cigarettes "cold turkey."
  • (17) Decrease in cocaine craving correlated with decrease in plasma homovanillic acid (pHVA).
  • (18) Ibogaine, an indolalkylamine, has been claimed to be effective in abolishing drug craving in heroin and cocaine addicts.
  • (19) TV watching (i.e., nondietary activity) and subjective measures of craving and tension-anxiety also were assessed.
  • (20) Craving boldness is too often a euphemism for wishing Labour's predicament were something other than what it is; that there was a way to promise immediate improvement in everyone's lives without giving them money.