cut
IPA: kˈʌt
noun
- The act of cutting.
- The result of cutting.
- An opening resulting from cutting; an incision or wound.
- A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
- An artificial navigation channel as distinguished from a navigable river.
- A share or portion of profits.
- A decrease.
- (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
- (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.
- (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball.
- (golf) In a stroke play competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained a preannounced score, so that the rest of the competition is less pressed for time and more entertaining for spectators.
- (especially theater, film) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play, movie script, speech, etc.
- (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
- (card games) The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
- (card games) The card obtained by dividing the pack.
- The manner or style in which a garment or an article of clothing is fashioned.
- A slab or slice, especially of meat.
- (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
- A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
- An unkind act; a cruelty.
- (slang) An insult
- A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc.
- (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits were removed for the creation of some feature such as a ditch or pit.
- A haircut.
- (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
- (Internet) A dividing line in a Tumblr post, the content below which is hidden until the reader reveals it.
- (rail transport) A string of railway cars coupled together, shorter than a train.
- An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
- (obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding.
- (slang, dated) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
- A skein of yarn.
- (slang, uncountable) That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
- (fashion) A notch shaved into an eyebrow.
- (bodybuilding) A time period when one attempts to lose fat while retaining muscle mass.
- (slang) A hidden, secluded, or secure place.
- (petrochemistry) The range of temperatures used to distill a particular mixture of hydrocarbons from crude oil.
verb
- (chiefly transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
- To perform an incision on, for example with a knife.
- To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument.
- To form or shape by cutting.
- (slang) To wound with a knife.
- (intransitive) To engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin.
- (transitive, intransitive) To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to.
- To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce.
- To castrate or geld.
- To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
- (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
- (transitive, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
- To separate or omit, in a situation where one was previously associated.
- To abridge or shorten a work; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.
- To reduce, especially intentionally.
- To absent oneself from (a class, an appointment, etc.).
- (transitive, social) To ignore as a social rebuff or snub.
- (intransitive, film) To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.
- (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
- (transitive, computing) To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time.
- (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
- (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
- (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it.
- (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
- (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
- (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
- (transitive, slang) To make, to negotiate, to conclude.
- (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug.
- (transitive) To exhibit (a figure having some trait).
- (transitive) To stop, disengage, or cease.
- (transitive) To renounce or give up.
- (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball, or (in tennis) striking it with the racket inclined.
- (bodybuilding) To lose body mass, aiming to keep muscle but lose body fat.
- To perform (an elaborate dancing movement etc.).
adjective
- (participial adjective) Having been cut.
- Reduced.
- (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
- (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
- (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
- (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Upset, angry; emotionally hurt.
- (slang, New Zealand, formerly UK) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
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Examples of "cut" in Sentences
- But that idyll was cut short when he met Marion.
- It can be twisted along its cuts to permute its pieces.
- The discussion was prematurely cut short by the redirect.
- "I didn't cut off his tail, sir; he _cut it off himself_!"
- The budding friendship is cut short during the Hero Hunters arc.
- The dogs are cut open with their hearts and guts still pulsating.
- Cochran wanted to cut the piece and had to be dissuaded by Coward.
- The abrasive cuts the surface of the work piece into three phases.
- The class is cut short, when she is called in about the mortician.
- A springing executory interest cuts short the grantor of the property.
- Eventually, the style was cut short by the austerities of World War II.
- Chemical Co. will cut 200 to 300 jobs •cut costs by another $100 million.
- The only remaining type of cutting that is in very general use is the _step cut_ (sometimes known as trap cut).
- "Fifty dollars reward, for the negro Jim Blake -- has a _piece cut out of each ear_, and the middle finger of the left hand _cut off_ to the second joint."
- A "temple" is a place thus separated, or cut off from other places; for the root of this word, like that of "tempus" (time) is the same as the Greek τέμνω, _to cut_.
- Sacramento Bee and Miami Herald •plans to cut 1600 jobs •slash executive and director pay and halt bonuses www. bloomberg.com Eastman Chemical Co. will cut 200 to 300 jobs •cut costs by another $100 million.
- "But you've all cut the question: tell me now, supposing you had known king David, should you have thought worse of him, should you have been cool to him -- in a word, should you have _cut_ him after his fall?"
- No mess liked to have him permanently because his presence cut off all talk of home or of the prospect of return, of politics or letters, of peace or of war, cut off more than half the talk the men liked to have at sea.
- We didn't go there any more then, and I asked Rose what the reason was, and she said Mrs. Mason was poor now, and ma had 'cut her;' and when I asked her what she _cut_ her with, she only laughed, and said she believed I didn't know any thing.