carve

«carve» in Mova's school dictionary: to cut wood, stone, ice or another hard material… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (carve, carves, carved, carving)

meaning for a pupil

1) To carve is to cut wood, stone, ice or another hard material carefully to make a shape or pattern. tree →

2) To carve meat is to cut cooked meat into slices. tree →

3) To carve words or a picture into something is to cut them into its surface. tree →

4) To carve out something (a place, a career) is to make it for yourself with effort. tree →

5) Rivers and glaciers carve valleys by wearing away rock. tree →

sense in the lessons

In art and design lessons, pupils carve soap, clay or pumpkins at Halloween. In geography, rivers carve valleys and canyons, like the Grand Canyon carved by the Colorado River. In history, early people carved tools and pictures. In everyday life, an adult carves the roast or turkey. Phrases: «carve a pumpkin», «carve the turkey», «carved in stone» (can never change), «carve out».

examples

• We carved faces into pumpkins for Halloween. tree →
• Grandpa carved a little bird from wood. tree →
• Dad carved the turkey at Thanksgiving. tree →
• Someone carved their name into the tree. tree →
• The river carved a deep valley over millions of years. tree →
• The statue was carved from marble. tree →
• She carved out a place for herself in the team. tree →
• Only adults should use sharp carving knives. tree →
• She saw the new altar with the painted pictures and the carved angels. tree →

note

Past: carved. Noun: carving (a carving = a carved object). Person: carver. Safety: children carving should use child-safe tools and have an adult help. «Carved in stone» means fixed and unchangeable.

In the corpora

• The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai is a woodblock print, so many copies were made from the carved blocks.
• In Whitby in England, people once carved snake heads on ammonites and sold them as snakes turned to stone.
• Carve a roast chicken and you can count two legs, two wings and two breasts, each a different muscle.
• On mountains in Yunnan people carved rice terraces like giant steps, and in Zhejiang farmers keep fish among the rice.
• Carving or peeling bark wounds a tree and lets in disease that can kill it.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «carve» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.