Carves vs Caves - What's the difference?
carves | caves |
(carve)
(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.
* South
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To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between carves and caves
is that carves is (carve) while caves is (cave).As a noun caves is
.carves
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* *carve
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(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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- who could easily have carved themselves their own food.
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- Lie ten nights awake carving the fashion of a new doublet.