- present participle of carve.
carving
Americannoun
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carvings
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the act of fashioning or producing by cutting into or shaping solid material, as wood.
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a carved design or figure.
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Before carving out a career in sports broadcasting and voice acting, Horton was just a teenaged high school basketball reject.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Michael Hill, a professor of chemistry at Occidental College, puts it more bluntly: "LASIK is just a fancy way of doing traditional surgery. It's still carving tissue -- it's just carving with a laser."
From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026
In Kanazawa, workers dressed in full-body overalls haul large blocks of ice across the factory floor, before starting on the delicate work of carving perfect spheres, cubes and rectangular blocks with cut corners.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
The satellite image shows an enormous chunk of the glacier has fallen away, carving an enormous path of rock and debris where water rushed through the valley.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
In the dining room, I study a carving of a whale tail that Dad made.
From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila
According to the company’s website, the business sells precious and semi-precious crystal pendants, carvings and chains.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2026
For crucial scenes portraying the palace hallway in Egypt, where Moses talks to the Pharaoh, they built cardboard boxes as the columns in the palace, and “reskinned” them with intricate carvings using AI.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
In 1886 an American naval ship brought statues, wooden carvings, feather headdresses and stone tools to the Smithsonian Institution.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
Their recognizable silhouettes, complete with coiled tails, even appear in ancient Egyptian rock carvings.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 19, 2025
She examines the carvings on the stone and the vines twining around them, but her gaze keeps returning to Marco.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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