tallado
adj.
carved
tallado (m)
n.
carving
tallar
v.
cut, incise; shape; measure; work; bother, annoy; gossip
tallado
= carved, carving.
Ex: The following two combinations of furniture will present differente meanings: a leather chair, plush carpets and wood panelling versus leather bound books, carved oak book cases and a computer.
Ex: She situates the vessels in the context of Icelandic carving traditions in horn, bone, and walrus ivory = Ella sitúa las vasijas en el contexto de la tradición islandesa de la escultura en astas de cuernos, huesos y marfil de morsa.
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* silla tallada en tronco = log chair.
* tallado en madera = wood carving.
tallar
= carve, cut, carve out, hew.
Ex: What the presidency needs is a job description; not one carved in a tablet of stone and certainly not one which would form all future presidents in the same sanitised mould.
Ex: Fraktur, cut with a contrived formality that belied its cursive origins, became the most successful of all the gothic types, surviving as a book face in Germany until the mid twentieth century.
Ex: In consequence, deafened people have to carve out a sense of identity by developing associations & communicative strategies.
Ex: Oak was shaped by splitting with wooden wedges, and by hewing with axes or adzes.
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* tallar con una navaja = whittle.