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yearn | carve |

As verbs the difference between yearn and carve

is that yearn is to long, have a strong desire (for something) or yearn can be (scotland) to curdle, as milk while carve is (archaic) to cut.

As a noun carve is

(obsolete) a carucate.

yearn

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) giernan, from (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)
  • To long, have a strong desire (for something).
  • * All I yearn for is a simple life.
  • To long for something in the past with melancholy, nostalgically
  • To be pained or distressed; to grieve; to mourn.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Falstaff he is dead, and we must yearn therefore.
  • To pain; to grieve; to vex.
  • * Shakespeare
  • It would yearn your heart to see it.
  • * Shakespeare
  • It yearns me not if men my garments wear.
    Derived terms
    () * yearner * yearnful * yearnly * yearning * yearnsome * yearny

    Etymology 2

    See .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (Scotland) To curdle, as milk.
  • Anagrams

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    carve

    English

    (Carving)

    Verb

  • (archaic) To cut.
  • * Tennyson
  • My good blade carved the casques of men.
  • To cut meat in order to serve it.
  • You carve the roast and I'll serve the vegetables.
  • To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work.
  • to carve a name into a tree
  • * {{quote-book, year=1920, year_published=2008 , edition=HTML, author=Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • , title=Thuvia, Maiden of Mars citation , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , passage=The facades of the buildings fronting upon the avenue within the wall were richly carven
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 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.}}
  • (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
  • who could easily have carved themselves their own food.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2010
  • , date=December 29 , author=Sam Sheringham , title=Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton , work=BBC 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. }}
  • To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Lie ten nights awake carving the fashion of a new doublet.

    Derived terms

    * carver * carvery * carve out * carved in stone * carve up * carve-up

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A carucate.
  • half a carve of arable land
    (Burrill)

    Anagrams

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