(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.
Incrust
Definition:
(v. t.) To cover or line with a crust, or hard coat; to form a crust on the surface of; as, iron incrusted with rust; a vessel incrusted with salt; a sweetmeat incrusted with sugar.
(v. t.) To inlay into, as a piece of carving or other ornamental object.
Example Sentences:
(1) Complications were hemorrhagia in 1 patient and incrustation in 2.
(2) Postoperatively, bladder capacity was adequate without evidence of incrustation or ossification.
(3) These chalky deposits next to metacarpo-phalangeal articulations were always associated with chalky incrustation of the radio-carpal joint.
(4) In 19 cases over-all (6.4%) an auxiliary procedure was required to decrease incrusted stone burden and enable stent retrieval.
(5) In our report we have tried to find some links between the degree of incrustation and the duration of using the device.
(6) This line of research prompts the questions: are incrustates and inflammatory debris beneficial for contraceptive effect, or counterproductive?
(7) The role of the mineral content of the nervous tissue in the pathogenesis of the incrustation is discussed.
(8) These incrustations were less radiolucent than the surrounding tissues.
(9) We report the first case of unilateral, upper tract obstruction secondary to incrustation and stone formation on a silicone double-J ureteral stent.
(10) Inorganic incrustates and cellular accumulations on used IUDs, 50 Szontaghs, 13 Copper T-200s, 3 Gravigards and 2 Lippes Loops, were examined.
(11) With regard to the present cases, we review the limited literature available on the coexistence of incrusted cystitis and E. coli uroinfection and discuss the mechanisms through which E. coli could induce formation of lithiasis and incrustations in the urinary tract.
(12) Dissolved substances constitute the external mucilaginous layer and elements intimately incrusted in the wall.
(13) Incrustate on the surface of IUD appears to have a primary role in induction of the process.
(14) Incrustation occurred at the injection site during administration in all treated groups.
(15) Furthermore, an improperly fashioned stoma may make fitting of an ostomy appliance difficult, resulting in urinary leakage with secondary dermatitis and incrustation.
(16) Incrustation occurred in 9.2% of the stents retrieved before 6 weeks, 47.5% indwelling 6 to 12 weeks and 76.3% thereafter.
(17) Microscopic and chemical analyses revealed the highest incrustation rate on Teflon and the lowest on polyurethane (about four times lower than on Teflon).
(18) Fe3+ is located in the cytoplasm of nephrothelium of tumour-affected kidney tubules, intensively incrustates the cell cytoplasm in the primary tumoural node and is revealed in separate nuclei of the primary node cells.
(19) A method for the determination of acrylamide traces as a residue of anti-incrustation agents in sugar was developed.
(20) The presence of an incrustate could be observed both during in vitro as well as in vivo ultrasonographic studies.