What's the difference between carving and sculpturing?
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.
Sculpturing
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sculpture
Example Sentences:
(1) In 1986, Bill Heine erected a 25ft sculpture of a shark falling through the roof of his terraced house in Oxford .
(2) Before you take out your bucket and spade, though, you might like to look at the sand sculpture festival (until 5 September; prices vary from day to day) for inspiration.
(3) The outer coat turned to be extremely sculptured, presenting as interlaced crests of various height.
(4) These include 250 pieces of Greek and Roman pottery and sculpture, and 1,500 Greek and Ottoman gold, silver and bronze coins.
(5) Scanning electron microscopy revealed that the variant produced conidia of anomalous size, shape and surface-sculpturing.
(6) Pertinent information concerning impression making, sculpturing, coloring, and processing to insure esthetically and functionally accepted prostheses is presented.
(7) Narrow paths weave among moss-covered ornate arches and towers on the 80-acre site, and huge abstract sculptures and staircases lead nowhere, but up to the sky.
(8) And while Altmejd presents sexual scenes of cartoonish horror and disgust, Lucas's art has embraced lavatorial humour, abjection, self-denigration, the pithy sculptural one-liner and the obscene gesture.
(9) Photographer Jennifer Pattison chose to trace the steps of her own father, who had depression in the past, by photographing objects that he made while rehabilitating, from ceramic pots to sculptures made entirely of feathers.
(10) This paper will give evidence of the exact wounds that Pizarro received in his final sword fight, as well as a facial sculpture of the skull now identified as that of the conqueror of Peru.
(11) 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?
(12) It is the latest in a series of sculpture commissions to occupy the elegant neoclassical galleries, which stretch back 86 metres from the museum's main entrance on the banks of the Thames.
(13) The couple met at Nottingham Polytechnic in 1986, and moved to London in the early Nineties - just as the Young British Artist phenomenon gathered steam and media attention - where Noble studied sculpture at the Royal College of Art .
(14) Fay Ballard in her garden with a sculpture JG Ballard made in the early 1960s.
(15) While she works on them, the sculptures live in rooms like this for weeks until they are ready.
(16) On the contrary, an exquisite haute couture dress - like the ones that Cristóbal Balenciaga created in his 1950s heyday - can look as perfect as a beautiful painting or sculpture.
(17) European paintings and sculptures were regularly presented.
(18) In the African American neighborhood south of the Midway, Gates gutted a string of condemned buildings and then turned them into sculpture, covertly turning his collectors into patrons of urban renewal .
(19) Cleary recounted last week how he and his colleagues instead held their discussions amid the Rodins and Moores in the National Gallery of Australia’s sculpture garden and how he had taken all of the mobile phones from the group and placed them in a bag well away from the discussions.
(20) Long-term correction can be accomplished by sculpturing of the involved cusps.