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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