carve (verb)
61slice — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 flat piece of food ADJECTIVE ▪ big, generous, great, huge, large, thick ▪ little, small, thin …
62crab — I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English crabbe, from Old English crabba; akin to Old High German krebiz crab and perhaps to Old English ceorfan to carve more at carve Date: before 12th century 1. plural crabs also crab any of… …
63shape — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 physical outline ADJECTIVE ▪ basic, simple ▪ The children cut the paper into various simple shapes. ▪ overall ▪ characteristic, distinctive …
64career — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 series of jobs that a person has ADJECTIVE ▪ long ▪ brief, short ▪ brilliant, distinguished, glittering (esp. BrE), illustrious …
65path — noun 1 way across land ADJECTIVE ▪ long ▪ narrow ▪ steep ▪ winding ▪ cobblestone (esp. AmE), dirt …
66chisel — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. trim, pare, sculpt, carve; slang, swindle, cheat. See deception, sculpture, form. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. gouge, blade, edge; see knife , tool 1 . v. 1. [To work with a chisel] Syn. carve, hew, incise …
67etch — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. engrave, incise, scratch, carve, corrode. See engraving. II (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To remove metal with acid] Syn. cut, eat away, corrode, scratch; see bite 3 , carve 1 . 2. [To use etching as an… …
68engrave — I (Roget s IV) v. 1. [To impress deeply] Syn. stamp, fix, imprint; see embed 1 , mark 1 . 2. [To carve letters, designs, etc. on a surface, as for printing] Syn. etch, incise, lithograph, cut, scratch, burn, ornament with incised designs,… …
69sculpture — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Latin sculptura, from sculptus, past participle of sculpere to carve, alteration of scalpere to scratch, carve Date: 14th century 1. a. the action or art of processing (as by carving, modeling, or welding)… …
70grave — I. transitive verb (graved; graven or graved; graving) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English grafan; akin to Old High German graban to dig, Old Church Slavic pogreti to bury Date: before 12th century 1. archaic dig, excavate 2 …
