Carver vs Sculpture - What's the difference?
carver | sculpture |
Someone who carves.
(dated) A carving knife.
(dated) A butcher.
An armchair as part of a set of dining chairs (originally for the person who is to carve the meat).
*2000 , (JG Ballard), Super-Cannes , Fourth Estate 2011, p. 215:
*:She began a circuit of the dining room, peering at the baronial fireplace with its andirons the size of torture racks, and heavy oak carvers like gnarled thrones.
(uncountable) The art of shaping figures or designs in the round or in relief, professionally performed by a sculptor
(countable) A work of art created by sculpting.
* Dryden
Works of art created by sculpting, as a group.
To fashion something into a three-dimensional figure.
To represent something in sculpture.
To change the shape of a land feature by erosion etc.
As nouns the difference between carver and sculpture
is that carver is someone who carves while sculpture is the art of shaping figures or designs in the round or in relief, professionally performed by a sculptor.As a proper noun Carver
is {{surname}.As a verb sculpture is
to fashion something into a three-dimensional figure.carver
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* Carver (surname)Anagrams
*sculpture
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(en-noun) (wikipedia sculpture)- There, too, in living sculpture , might be seen / The mad affection of the Cretan queen.
