carve
/kɑɹv/ verbo B2En español: cortar, tallar, esculpir, entallar
- 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, especially with cuts that are curved rather than only straight slices. · to carve a name into a tree
- To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
- To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
- To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
He/she/it carves · Pasado carved · Participio pasado carved · Forma en -ing carving
Formas del verbo
- Forma base
- carve
- He/she/it
- carves
- Pasado
- carved
- Participio pasado
- carved
- Forma en -ing
- carving
Phrasal verbs y expresiones
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Morrel obeyed; the count arose, and unlocking a closet with a key suspended from his gold chain, took from it a little silver casket, beautifully carved and chased, the corners of which represented four bending figures, similar to the Caryatides, the forms of women, symbols of the angels aspiring to heaven.
There was a tiny fountain in the middle of the room, that shot a spray of green perfume into the air, to fall back into a beautifully carved green marble basin.
As they were disputing, they passed a statue carved in stone, which represented “a Lion strangled by a Man.” The traveler pointed to it and said: “See there!
He went to a cupboard and reaching up to a high shelf took down a square green bottle, the contents of which he poured into a green-gold dish, beautifully carved.
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