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Sketch vs Carve - What's the difference?

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Sketch is a related term of carve.


As nouns the difference between sketch and carve

is that sketch is sketch (short musical, dramatic or literary work or idea) while carve is (obsolete) a carucate.

As a verb carve is

(archaic) to cut.

sketch

English

(wikipedia sketch)

Alternative forms

* scetch

Verb

(es)
  • To make a brief, basic drawing.
  • I usually sketch with a pen rather than a pencil.
  • To describe briefly and with very few details.
  • He sketched the accident, sticking to the facts as they had happened.

    Noun

    (es)
  • A rapidly executed freehand drawing that is not intended as a finished work, often consisting of a multitude of overlapping lines.
  • *
  • *:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2012-03, author=
  • , title=, volume=100, issue=2, page=106, magazine=(American Scientist) , title= Pixels or Perish , passage=Drawings and pictures are more than mere ornaments in scientific discourse. Blackboard sketches , geological maps, diagrams of molecular structure, astronomical photographs, MRI images, the many varieties of statistical charts and graphs: These pictorial devices are indispensable tools for presenting evidence, for explaining a theory, for telling a story.}}
  • A rough design, plan, or draft, as a rough draft of a book.
  • A brief description of a person or account of an incident; a general presentation or outline.
  • A brief, light, or unfinished dramatic, musical, or literary work or idea; a short, often humorous or satirical scene or play, frequently as part of a revue or variety show, a skit; or, a brief musical composition or theme, especially for the piano; or, a brief, light, or informal literary composition, such as an essay or short story.
  • (lb) An amusing person.
  • Keeping sketch : to keep a lookout.
  • Descendants

    * German: (l)

    carve

    English

    (Carving)

    Verb

  • (archaic) To cut.
  • * Tennyson
  • My good blade carved the casques of men.
  • To cut meat in order to serve it.
  • You carve the roast and I'll serve the vegetables.
  • To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work.
  • to carve a name into a tree
  • * {{quote-book, year=1920, year_published=2008 , edition=HTML, author=Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • , title=Thuvia, Maiden of Mars citation , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , passage=The facades of the buildings fronting upon the avenue within the wall were richly carven
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 citation , passage=The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.}}
  • (snowboarding) To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
  • (figuratively) To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
  • * South
  • who could easily have carved themselves their own food.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2010
  • , date=December 29 , author=Sam Sheringham , title=Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=The Reds carved the first opening of the second period as Glen Johnson's pull-back found David Ngog but the Frenchman hooked wide from six yards. }}
  • To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Lie ten nights awake carving the fashion of a new doublet.

    Derived terms

    * carver * carvery * carve out * carved in stone * carve up * carve-up

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A carucate.
  • half a carve of arable land
    (Burrill)

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