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carved 音标拼音: [k'ɑrvd] a. 有雕刻的 有雕刻的 carved adj 1: made for or formed by carving (` carven' is archaic or literary); " the carved fretwork"; " an intricately carved door"; " stood as if carven from stone" [ synonym: { carved}, { carven}] [ ant: { uncarved}] Carve \ Carve\ ( k[ aum] rv), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. { Carved} ( k[ aum] rvd); p. pr. & vb. n. { Carving}.] [ AS. ceorfan to cut, carve; akin to D. kerven, G. kerben, Dan. karve, Sw. karfva, and to Gr. gra` fein to write, orig. to scratch, and E. - graphy. Cf. { Graphic}.] 1. To cut. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Or they will carven the shepherd' s throat. -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To cut, as wood, stone, or other material, in an artistic or decorative manner; to sculpture; to engrave. [ 1913 Webster] Carved with figures strange and sweet. -- Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To make or shape by cutting, sculpturing, or engraving; to form; as, to carve a name on a tree. [ 1913 Webster] An angel carved in stone. -- Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster] We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone. -- C. Wolfe. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To cut into small pieces or slices, as meat at table; to divide for distribution or apportionment; to apportion. " To carve a capon." -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 5. To cut: to hew; to mark as if by cutting. [ 1913 Webster] My good blade carved the casques of men. -- Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster] A million wrinkles carved his skin. -- Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster] 6. To take or make, as by cutting; to provide. [ 1913 Webster] Who could easily have carved themselves their own food. -- South. [ 1913 Webster] 7. To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan. [ 1913 Webster] Lie ten nights awake carving the fashion of a new doublet. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] { To carve out}, to make or get by cutting, or as if by cutting; to cut out. "[ Macbeth] with his brandished steel . . . carved out his passage." -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] Fortunes were carved out of the property of the crown. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster]
carved \ carved\ adj. formed by carving or having a design carved into the surface. [ Narrower terms: { sliced}] Syn: carven. [ WordNet 1. 5 PJC]
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