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TO CARVE OUT

Definition: TO CARVE OUT

TO CARVE OUT

1. To make or get by cutting, or as if by cutting; to cut out. ``[Macbeth] with his brandished steel . . . carved out his passage.'' --Shak. Fortunes were carved out of the property of the crown. --Macaulay.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: TO CARVE OUT

Specialty definitions using "TO CARVE OUT": cook, frozen dessert, cook, ice creamICE-CREAM CHEFTucumo. (references)
Etymologies containing "TO CARVE OUT": Diglyph. (references)

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Commercial Usage: TO CARVE OUT

DomainTitle

Books

  • Hard Times in Paradise: An American Family's Struggle to Carve Out a Homestead in California's Redwood Mountains (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: TO CARVE OUT

Language Translations for "TO CARVE OUT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

Stein). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

刻み出す , 刻みつける (to engrave), 刻み付ける (to engrave). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

きざみつける (to engrave), きざみ す. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

otay arvecay outay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: TO CARVE OUT

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-o-o-r-t-t-u-v"

-1 letter: outercoat.

-2 letters: corotate, evocator, overcoat.

-3 letters: cavetto, curtate, cutover, outrace, outrate, outrave, outvote, overact, overcut, touraco.

-4 letters: acuter, avocet, cavort, coater, cooter, corvet, coteau, cottae, cottar, cotter, couter, covert, curate, curvet, cutter, octave, octavo, outact, outate, outeat, rotate, tauter, tooter, touter, turaco, vector.

-5 letters: actor, acute, avert, caret, carte, carve, cater, caver, cooer, cotta, court.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-o-o-r-t-t-u-v"
 

+5 letters: overcultivation, subcontraoctave.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TO CARVE OUT


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      43 41 52 56 45      4F 55 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01000011 01000001 01010010 01010110 01000101 00100000 01001111 01010101 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#67 &#65 &#82 &#86 &#69 &#32 &#79 &#85 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0043 0041 0052 0056 0045      004F 0055 0054

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5449237355256392495554

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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