different between fabricate vs carve

English

Etymology

From Latin fabric?tus, perfect passive participle of fabricor, fabric? (“build, forge”), from fabrica (“a fabric, building, etc.”); see fabric and forge. Compare with French fabrique.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fæb.??.ke?t/

Verb

fabricate (third-person singular simple present fabricates, present participle fabricating, simple past and past participle fabricated)

1. (transitive) To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to construct; to build.

   to fabricate a bridge or ship

2. (transitive) To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce.

   to fabricate computer chips

3. (transitive) To invent and form; to forge; to devise falsely.

   to fabricate a lie or story

4. (transitive, cooking) To cut up an animal as preparation for cooking, particularly used in reference to fowl.

Synonyms

• manufacture, cook up, make up, trump up, invent

Related terms

• fabrication
• fabricator

Translations

Further reading

• fabricate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• fabricate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Latin

Verb

fabric?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of fabric?

English

Etymology

From Middle English kerven, from Old English ceorfan, from Proto-West Germanic *kerban, from Proto-Germanic *kerban?, from Proto-Indo-European *gerb?- (“to scratch”). Cognate with West Frisian kerve, Dutch kerven, Low German karven, German kerben (“to notch”); also Old Prussian g?rbin (“number”), Old Church Slavonic ?????? (žr?bii, “lot, tallymark”), Ancient Greek ??????? (gráphein, “to scratch, etch”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /k??v/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??v/
  • Homophone: calve (Received Pronunciation)
• Rhymes: -??(?)v

Verb

carve (third-person singular simple present carves, present participle carving, simple past carved or (obsolete) corve, past participle carved or (archaic) carven or (obsolete) corven)

1. (archaic) To cut.
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Sir Galahad

     My good blade carves the casques of men.

2. To cut meat in order to serve it.

3. To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work.
4. (snowboarding) To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
5. (figuratively) To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.

   • […] who could easily have carved themselves their own food.
6. To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

carve (plural carves)

1. (obsolete) A carucate.
   • 1862, Calendar of the Patent and Close Rolls of Chancery in Ireland

     ... half a carve of arable land in Ballyncore, one carve of arable land in Pales, a quarter of arable land in Clonnemeagh, half a carve of arable land in Ballyfaden, half a carve of arable land in Ballymadran, ...

   • 1868, John Harland (editor), Wapentake of West Derby, in Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, (translating a Latin text c. 1320-46), page 31

     Whereof John de Ditton holds a moiety of the village for half a carve of land.

2. The act of carving

Anagrams

• Caver, caver, crave, varec