carve

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /kɑːv/    美 /kɑɹv/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A carucate. obsolete
    — ... 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, ...
  2. The act of carving
    — Give that turkey a careful carve.
动词 v.
  1. To cut. archaic
    — 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
  4. To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
  5. To take or make, as by cutting; to provide. figuratively
    — […] who could easily have carved themselves their own food.
  6. To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
    — Lie ten nights awake carving the fashion of a new doublet.

词形变化

carves present,singular,third-person carving participle,present carved past carved participle,past carven archaic,participle,past carves plural

词汇关系

衍生词
becarve carvability carvable carveability carveable carved in stone carve out carver carvery carve up carving knife cut and carve file carving forcarve overcarve recarve undercarve
相关词
kerf

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
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”).
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