Carve vs Recarve - What's the difference?
carve | recarve |
(archaic) To cut.
* Tennyson
To cut meat in order to serve it.
To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work.
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, chapter=1 (snowboarding) To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
(figuratively) To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
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To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
* Shakespeare
To carve again or into a new form.
*{{quote-news, year=2008, date=March 2, author=Tracie Rozhon, title=Preserving the Best of the Old, work=New York Times
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As verbs the difference between carve and recarve
is that carve is to cut while recarve is to carve again or into a new form.As a noun carve
is a carucate.carve
English
(Carving)Verb
- My good blade carved the casques of men.
- You carve the roast and I'll serve the vegetables.
- to carve a name into a tree
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citation, passage=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.}}
- who could easily have carved themselves their own food.
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- Lie ten nights awake carving the fashion of a new doublet.
Derived terms
* carver * carvery * carve out * carved in stone * carve up * carve-upAnagrams
* *recarve
English
Verb
(recarv)citation