verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a carving knife (= for cutting meat )
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Dad always used to sharpen the carving knife.
carve a chicken (= cut up a whole chicken that has been cooked )
carve wood (= used a knife to shape it )
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The room was decorated with carved wood.
carve/sculpt a statue
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Some of the statues were carved by Quitainer.
carving fork
carving knife
create/carve out a niche (= do something in a particular way that is different to and better than anyone else )
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She had carved out a niche for herself as a children's television presenter.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
out
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He went to Eastbourne secondary school before carving out a comic career in London.
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Distillers scrambled to develop processing techniques that would allow them to carve out their own niches.
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Over the years they have carved out a powerful position within the town's antique trade.
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A lot of the children started out carving right here, right on these stumps.
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Hepolled so well last year that he couldn't be carved out of the action again.
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The ones you carve out of marble.
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An off-the-lip carved out the Himalayas.
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How do you carve out your identity when your parents were so rebellious and so against the social conventions?
up
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The busiest routes are carved up by bilateral deals between the national airlines at either end.
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I am lying in the cornfield gazing at clouds being carved up by harp-edged leaves above me.
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That was at the very apogee of the age of imperialism, when white men carved up the black continent between them.
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The war has left the sprawling nation carved up into various regions controlled by the government and rebel armies.
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In this sense sovereignty can not be carved up .
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Rather than compete, they would join forces and carve up the market.
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She carved up Muriel Spark and Iris Murdoch at the same time as the bacon.
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They wheeled in the rocket scientists, who started to carve up mortgage securities into itty-bitty pieces.
■ NOUN
career
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He went to Eastbourne secondary school before carving out a comic career in London.
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Now though she's carving out a new career as a fitness guru on the Big Breakfast.
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Pianist-composer Childs is a hometown phenomenon busy carving out a career between the jazz and classical worlds.
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Through hard work and sheer determination, Dennis carved out a career in the building industry.
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In vain he hoped to carve out an alternative career as a journalist and cricket writer.
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Now John, 17, is quietly carving out his career with Barnsley.
face
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It seems children can't resist them: Male speaker Children like to carve faces out of them.
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The soot-black metal of the stoves was carved with grotesque faces from which a dark heat beat out at Quiss.
knife
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A sharp knife is essential when carving any joint.
name
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In the distance below, the three lakes Shimmered - the wind carved its many names On the face of the waters.
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Oh well, she should hear the foreman if they made a mistake carving a name on a tombstone.
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The moonlight illuminated a hand carved wooden name plaque on the freshly painted gate, Honey Cottage.
niche
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On the back of the bicentennial opportunity she had struck fast and hard and carved a unique niche for herself on television.
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Distillers scrambled to develop processing techniques that would allow them to carve out their own niches .
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In carving out a distinctive niche for themselves, a number of options have been open to them.
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In the Bay Area alone, three companies are trying to carve out a niche in the casual clothing market.
shape
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The Kha-Khan was sitting in a chair which had been carved into the shape of a reclining dragon.
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One was a simple wooden structure carved in the shape of the building.
stone
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I never saw anything as beautiful as that stone you were carving .
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She got in without a word, but her face looked like a Mayan stone carving .
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The stone benches with carved angels' heads were crumbling to dust.
wall
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The vulva signs carved on the walls suggest this.
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Once inside, I mounted the battlements and explored hidden alcoves carved into the thick walls .
wood
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Therefore, George carved them into the wood in relief.
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Elephants carved in wood , a bull in terra cotta.
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In 1918 Brancusi produced Endless Column, the first in a series of works usually roughly carved from wood .
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It was an entire village, carved out of wood , four feet square.
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Jonathon now worked on model ships under the eye of Uncle Philip and was learning how to carve them directly from wood .
■ VERB
try
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In the Bay Area alone, three companies are trying to carve out a niche in the casual clothing market.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
not be carved/etched in stone
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John has several new ideas for the show, but nothing is etched in stone yet.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Michelangelo carved this figure from a single block of marble.
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What's the best way to carve a turkey?
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Who's going to carve the turkey?
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Who's going to carve , Dad or Grandpa?
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You start carving while I fetch the vegetables.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Her son holding his head beside the big carved pumpkin, mimicking a wide, toothy grin.
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I am lying in the cornfield gazing at clouds being carved up by harp-edged leaves above me.
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In Fujian, workers are carving roads into red clay hills, scaling bamboo scaffolding, hauling piles of stone.
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Shapes of naked half-men half-beasts writhing in some hideous dance were carved on to the mahogany chair.
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The bust was mutilated in late antiquity, probably by Christians who carved a cross in the forehead.
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This plywood structure has grown bigger and bigger, and he has even carved gothic spires on its top.