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Cutting away parts to create a desired shape
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carving
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, verbal noun from carve .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a carving knife (= for cutting meat ) ▪ Dad always used to sharpen the carving knife. carving fork carving knife COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN knife ▪ His carving knife was only about half an inch wide at the centre ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Carving is the act of using tools to shape something from a material by scraping away portions of that material. The technique can be applied to any material that is solid enough to hold a form even when pieces have been removed from it, and yet soft enough ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a sculpture created by carving (as wood or ivory or stone) cutting away parts to create a desired shape [syn: cutting ] creating figures or designs in three dimensions [syn: sculpture ]
Usage examples of carving.
She did not care to dwell too long on what these Acheronian carvings might mean.
Whole walls were covered with painting and carving, many of them illustrating the life of Akha and the great battles he had fought, as well as the battles he would fight when again enough humans had faith in his strength.
The Brazilian girl on the ship told me that she had gone with her family to see a native village, and bought beadwork there, and carvings.
Sherwood came upon some exotic trinkets, simple but impressive carvings of bears, in bone and walrus ivory.
Since the six-syllable formula is the special mantra of Avalokitesvara, low relief carving of that Bodhisattva might be found with it.
From the rear of one great temple stretched a low black passage which Carter followed far into the rock with a torch till he came to a lightless domed hall of vast proportions, whose vaultings were covered with demoniac carvings and in whose centre yawned a foul and bottomless well like that in the hideous monastery of Leng where broods alone the High-Priest Not To Be Described.
In the carving it may be seen that the throats of the girls are encircled by ropelike collars, presumably woven of some vegetable substance.
Crested heads capped in drifts, and cold eye sockets scalloped with crusts of rimed ice, the carvings aligned their uncanny awareness and sampled his stalking presence.
Zhentilar, one of the Black Blades that have spent years carving up the Dales and the dalefolk that live in them.
The worn old beam above him, with its tiny carving of a watchful owl and its wandering sweep of darker wood, was as familiar to him as his own right hand.
Nothing there had been disturbingly different, not the trees and the vegetation, not even the unusual carvings, and certainly not the fine bridge.
The abrogation of the Reciprocity Treaty and encouragement of the Fenian Raids by the American people had put the Canadians on their mettle and stiffened their backbone, so that neither retaliatory threats or honeyed allurements had any effect in changing their minds from carving out their own destiny under the broad folds of the Union Jack.
Sometimes, while watching Fingo carve, Francis would sit on a bench in the corner of the workshop and sketch, trying to visualize details of the carving which were, as yet, only roughly hewed in the wood.
Sometimes, while watching Fingo carve, Francis would sit on a bench in the corner of the workshop and sketch, trying to visualize details of the carving which were, as yet, only roughly hewed in the wood.
The carving had been done nearly six centuries ago by a sculptor named Fingo, to whom the Beatus Leibowitz not yet canonized had appeared in a vision.