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carving

noun as in incision

noun as in statuary

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On the lift, testers fill out scorecards, ranking the planks on up to six criteria, like stability, carving, floatation, and surfability—the ability to slash turns and dump speed.

Transfer the chicken to a carving board and let it rest for 5 minutes.

Egger had been fascinated with milk since she was a child growing up in Minneapolis, where she once placed second in a youth butter carving competition at the Minnesota state fair.

El Morro National Monument is 20 minutes away and home to some 2,000 carvings by Ancestral Puebloans and Spanish and American settlers.

The computer adapts the robot’s carving instructions to each material’s unique properties.

Whole Foods and kitchens across the country should probably start carving out a (very chilled) section for him now.

An esteemed historian of Southern culinary culture, Ferris had all the utensils to do some serious carving on Paula Deen.

One of the men was carrying a carving knife and a live goose.

In the carving, the temple is depicted with a classical pediment front and a colonnade of columns supporting the structure.

In an ancient stone carving, warriors brandishing shields and swords swarm over the columned facade of a grand temple.

The windows are ornamented by tracery, and the façade is enriched by a free use of carving.

The whole of the carving and sculptured work has been executed by Mr. John Roddis.

It is a fine marble, much too hard to admit of minute carving, but taking a high polish.

He has his particular likings and tit-bits, and is very expert in carving out the parts of an animal that please him best.

On the upper part of each of these posts was a rude carving of a hideous human face with prominent teeth.

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On this page you'll find 179 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to carving, such as: design, painting, abstraction, description, illustration, and imitation.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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