to carve
- verb
- /kɑrv/
- Specialized
Examples
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Below me, the second creek had carved out a small beach of round stones.
Fiction book (1997) -
We've carved out a simple life here.
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Advertisers in the early twentieth century tried to carve out a market share.
Academic text (2005) -
A few women succeeded in carving out political identities for themselves over the course of the Revolution.
Academic text (2011) -
The lab has carved out a niche in the increasingly crowded world of digital humanities.
Academic text (2016) -
Similarly, in New York v. Quarles, the Court carved out a "public safety" exception to Miranda.
Academic text (2001) -
The digital forensics team worked hard to carve the necessary files from the damaged hard drive.
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Using specialized software, the technician was able to carve important data fragments from the corrupted storage device.
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To recover the lost information, they needed to carve the files from a deep scan of the digital archive.
Antonyms
Phrasal Verbs
Make a wooden statue that shows cultural or spiritual beliefs to honor tradition
How Complete
- Specialized
Surface Forms
Etymology
Carve originally meant 'to cut' from the old English ceorfan, and computer experts borrowed the idea for recovering files by 'cutting out' data pieces. A helpful way to remember this is to picture someone cutting pieces from a broken block to find what is inside, so to carve files is to recover them by finding their pieces.