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the act of saying no to everything that isn't the statue.
means To cut into or shape a hard material like wood or stone with a sharp tool, or to slice cooked meat at the table.
from From Old English 'ceorfan,' meaning to cut or hew, a deep Germanic root with cousins in Dutch 'kerven' and German 'kerben,' both still meaning to notch or carve. The word is also distantly related to Greek 'graphein,' to scratch or write — so the carver and the writer share an ancestral gesture: dragging a sharp thing across a surface to leave a mark.
- michelangelo's logic
- freeing the figure trapped inside the marble
- thanksgiving terror
- more ER hand injuries than any other holiday
- word root
- from Old English meaning to cut
- skiing slang
- clean edge turns that leave no skid
- jack-o'-lantern origin
- irish carved turnips before pumpkins existed
mount rushmore — four us presidents carved into south dakota granite, completed 1941
great sphinx of giza — limestone statue carved from single outcrop in egypt, ~2500 bce
terracotta army — 8,000 life-sized soldiers carved and sculpted in xi'an, china, ~210 bce