carve-out

  • 31carve something out — 1) take something from a larger whole, esp. with difficulty carving out a 5 percent share of the overall vote 2) establish or create something through painstaking effort he managed to carve out a successful photographic career for himself …

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  • 32carve — [kɑːv] verb [I/T] 1) to make an object by cutting it from stone or wood, or to make a pattern by cutting into stone or wood 2) to cut a large piece of meat into pieces before you serve it • carve out sth (for yourself) carve sth up …

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  • 33carve — verb (carved; carving) Etymology: Middle English kerven, from Old English ceorfan; akin to Old High German kerban to notch, Greek graphein to scratch, write Date: before 12th century transitive verb 1. to cut with care or precision …

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  • 34carve — 1 *cut, slit, hew, chop, slash Analogous words: shape, fashion, form (see MAKE): *separate, divide, part 2 Carve, incise, engrave, etch, chisel, sculpture, sculpt, sculp are comparable when they denote to cut an outline or a shape out of or into… …

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  • 35Carve — Исполнитель Slipknot Альбом Демо 1996 года Дата выпуска 1 января 1996 Дата записи 1996 …

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  • 36carve — [kärv] vt. carved, carving [ME kerven < OE ceorfan < IE base * gerebh , to scratch: see GRAPHIC] 1. to make or shape by or as by cutting, chipping, hewing, etc. [carve a statue out of wood or stone, carve a career] 2. to decorate the… …

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  • 37carve — O.E. ceorfan (class III strong verb; past tense cearf, pp. corfen) to cut, cut down, slay; to carve, cut out, engrave, from W.Gmc. *kerfan (Cf. O.Fris. kerva, Du. kerven, Ger. kerben to cut, notch ), from PIE root *gerbh to scratch, making carve… …

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  • 38carve — [v] cut carefully with sharp instrument block out, chip, chisel, cleave, dissect, dissever, divide, engrave, etch, fashion, form, grave, hack, hew, incise, indent, insculpt, model, mold, mould, pattern, rough hew, sculpt, shape, slash, slice,… …

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  • 39carve — v. 1) (C) he carved an ornament for me; or: he carved me an ornament 2) (D; tr.) to carve from, out of (to carve a figure from ivory) 3) (d; intr.) to carve in (to carve in wood) * * * [kɑːv] or: he carved me an ornament out of (to carve a figure …

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  • 40carve — carver, n. /kahrv/, v., carved, carving. v.t. 1. to cut (a solid material) so as to form something: to carve a piece of pine. 2. to form from a solid material by cutting: to carve a statue out of stone. 3. to cut into slices or pieces, as a roast …

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