CREATING BY REMOVAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does creating by removal mean? 

• CREATING BY REMOVAL (noun)
  The noun CREATING BY REMOVAL has 1 sense:

1. the act of creating by removing something

  Familiarity information: CREATING BY REMOVAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CREATING BY REMOVAL (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)