Carve vs Shape - What's the difference?
carve | shape | Synonyms |
(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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(figuratively) To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
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To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
* Shakespeare
The status or condition of something
Condition of personal health, especially muscular health.
The appearance of something, especially its outline.
A figure with unspecified appearance; especially a geometric figure.
Form; formation.
* 2006 , Berdj Kenadjian, Martin Zakarian, From Darkness to Light :
(iron manufacture) A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.
(iron manufacture) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.
A mould for making jelly, blancmange etc., or a piece of such food formed moulded into a particular shape.
*1918 , (Rebecca West), The Return of the Soldier , Virago 2014, p. 74:
*:‘And if I'm late for supper there's a dish of macaroni cheese you must put in the oven and a tin of tomatoes to eat with it. And there's a little rhubarb and shape .’
To give something a shape and definition.
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, title= To form or manipulate something into a certain shape.
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, title= (of a country, person, etc) To give influence to.
To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
(obsolete) To imagine; to conceive.
* Shakespeare
Carve is a synonym of shape.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between carve and shape
is that carve is (obsolete) a carucate while shape is (obsolete) to imagine; to conceive.As verbs the difference between carve and shape
is that carve is (archaic) to cut while shape is to give something a shape and definition.As nouns the difference between carve and shape
is that carve is (obsolete) a carucate while shape is the status or condition of something.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
citation, publisher=The Gutenberg Project , passage=The facades of the buildings fronting upon the avenue within the wall were richly carven
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.
citation, page= , passage=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. }}
- Lie ten nights awake carving the fashion of a new doublet.
Derived terms
* carver * carvery * carve out * carved in stone * carve up * carve-upAnagrams
* *shape
English
Noun
(en noun)- The used bookshop wouldn't offer much due to the poor shape of the book.
- The vet checked to see what kind of shape the animal was in.
- We exercise to keep in good physical shape .
- He cut a square shape out of the cake.
- What shape shall we use for the cookies? Stars, circles, or diamonds?
- What if God's plans and actions do mold the shape of human events?
Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* contest shape * * in no shape to * * in shape * out of shape * shapeless * shapely * shapesmith * shape-shifter * shape-shifting * shipshape * take shape * the shape of things to come * whip into shapeSee also
*Verb
- The professor never pretended to the academic prerogative of forcing his students into his own channels of reasoning; he entered into and helped shape the discussion but above all he made his men learn to think for themselves and rely upon their own intellectual judgments.
Revenge of the nerds, passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}
- Grace shaped her limbs, and beauty decked her face.
Wigan 2-2 Arsenal, passage=Bendtner's goal-bound shot was well saved by goalkeeper Ali Al Habsi but fell to Arsahvin on the edge of the area and the Russian swivelled, shaped his body and angled a sumptuous volley into the corner. }}
- (Shakespeare)
- Oft my jealousy / Shapes faults that are not.