carve
verbenomattesté dans les dialogues
- Royaume-Uni//kɑːv//
- États-Unis//kɑɹv//
To cut meat in order to serve it.
verbe
- 1
archaïqueTo cut.
My good blade carves the casques of men, / My tough lance thrusteth sure, / My strength is as the strength of ten, / Because my heart is pure.
- 2
To cut meat in order to serve it.
You carve the roast and I’ll serve the vegetables.
- 3
To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work, especially with cuts that are curved rather than only straight slices.
to carve a name into a tree
The facades of the buildings fronting upon the avenue within the wall were richly carven[…].
The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.
- 4
To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
- 5
figuréTo take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
[…] who could easily have carved themselves their own food.
The Reds carved the first opening of the second period as Glen Johnson's pull-back found David Ngog but the Frenchman hooked wide from six yards.
- 6
To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
Lie ten nights awake carving the fashion of a new doublet.
Étymologie
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *kerbaną Proto-West Germanic *kerban Old English ċeorfan Middle English kerven English carve From Middle English kerven, from Old English ceorfan, from Proto-West Germanic *kerban, from Proto-Germanic *kerbaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gerbʰ- (“to scratch”). Cognate with West Frisian kerve, Dutch kerven, Low German karven, German kerben (“to notch”); also Old Prussian gīrbin (“number”), Old Church Slavonic жрѣбии (žrěbii, “lot, tallymark”), Ancient Greek γράφειν (gráphein, “to scratch, etch”).
nom
- 1
obsolèteA carucate.
... half a carve of arable land in Ballyncore, one carve of arable land in Pales, a quarter of arable land in Clonnemeagh, half a carve of arable land in Ballyfaden, half a carve of arable land in Ballymadran, ...
Whereof John de Ditton holds a moiety of the village for half a carve of land.
- 2
The act of carving
Give that turkey a careful carve.
Formes
- pluriel
- carves
- passé
- carved
- participe passé
- carved, carven
- participe présent
- carving
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- carves