initialize vs carve up

initialize and carve up both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
initialize	No	No	Yes	No
carve up	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, carve up is a hypernym of initialize; that is, carve up is a word with a broader meaning than initialize:

Other hypernyms of initialize include dissever, divide, separate, split, split up.

initialize (verb)	carve up (verb)
divide (a disk) into marked sectors so that it may store data	separate into parts or portions
assign an initial value to a computer program