carve vs shoehorn

carve

verb
  • To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan. 

  • To cut meat in order to serve it. 

  • To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work. 

  • To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path. 

  • To take or make, as by cutting; to provide. 

noun
  • The act of carving 

shoehorn

verb
  • To force (something) into (a tight space); to squeeze (something) into (a schedule, etc); to exert great effort to insert or include (something); to include (something) despite potent reasons not to. 

  • To use a shoehorn. 

  • To force some current event into alignment with some (usually unconnected) agenda, especially when it is fallacious. 

noun
  • A smooth tool that assists in putting the foot into a shoe, by sliding the heel in after the toe is in place. This reduces discomfort and damage to the back of the shoe. By slipping it into the back of the shoe behind the heel, the user prevents the heel from squashing down the back of the shoe and causing difficulty; instead the heel slides down the smooth shoehorn, which then comes out easily once the foot is in place. 

  • Anything by which a transaction is facilitated; a medium. 

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