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CREATING BY REMOVAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of creating by removing something
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("creating by removal" is a kind of...):
creation; creative activity (the human act of creating)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "creating by removal"):
dig; digging; excavation (the act of digging)
carving; cutting (removing parts from hard material to create a desired pattern or shape)
boring; drilling (the act of drilling)
gouge (the act of gouging)
cutting; film editing (the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film)
