English-Portuguese translations for carve

• esculpir
• cortar
  Ainda no que respeita aos limites - e vou terminar com este ponto -, o controlo constitui um todo que não podemos partir ou cortar em fatias. There are more limits - and I shall end on this point - since control is a single entity that we cannot carve or cut up into slices.
  As directivas sectoriais sozinhas não mais farão do que “cortar às fatias o salame” do interesse público em geral e excluir sectores em benefício das empresas. Directives on a sectoral basis alone will only result in ‘salami slicing’ of the overall public interest and carve out sectors for business benefit.
• entalhar
• talhar
• trinchar

Definition of carve

• To cut
• To cut meat in order to serve it
• To shape to sculptural effect; to produce by cutting, or to cut into a finished work
• To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path
• To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan
• A carucate

Examples

• You carve the roast and Ill serve the vegetables.
• to carve a name into a tree

Related words

• carved
• carvestrene
• woodcarver
• carver
• carvel-built
• uncarved
• carve out
• carve turn
• carved in stone