Carve

Definition

carve /kɑ:v/ v ၁။ (က) ~ ( in sth ) ; ~ sth ( out of/from/of/in sth ) ပန္းပုထုသည္။ ထြင္းထုသည္။ Michelangelo carved in marble. ❍ The statue was carved out of stone. (ခ) ~ sth ( into sth ) ထြင္းထုသည္။ carve wood. ၂။ ထြင္းသည္။ carve one's initials on a tree. ၃။ ~ sth ( for sb ) (အသား ကို အခ်ပ္အလႊာျဖစ္ေအာင္)လီွးသည္၊ ဖ်က္သည္။ Would you like to carve? ❍ carve a joint/turkey/leg of mutton ❍ Please carve me another slice/carve another slice for me. ❏ carver n ၁။ ထြင္းထုသူ။ ပိုင္းျဖတ္သူ။ ၂။ = CARVING KNIFE ❏ carve sth out (for oneself) [ PHRV ] တစ္ခုခု ေအာင္ျမင္ ၿပီးေျမာက္ေအာင္ ႀကိဳးစားလုပ္သည္။ She carved out a name for herself as a reporter. ❏ carve sth up [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ပိုင္းကန္႔သည္။ The territory was carved up by the occupying powers. ❏ carving n [C, U] ပန္းပု႐ုပ္။ ပန္းပုလက္ရာ။ ❏ carving knife n သားလီွးဓား။ ❍ knife

Examples

1. He carved a statue of her out of an old log.
2. She carved his name on her school desk.
3. The river has carved a series of spectacular gorges.