Definition of cut in English English dictionary
- To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it
- To remove and place in memory for later use
Select the text, cut it, and then paste it in the other application.
- To form or shape by cutting
I have three diamonds to cut today.
- The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards
The player next to the dealer makes a cut by placing the bottom half on top.
- Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball
- A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc
The drummer on the last cut of their CD is not identified.
- A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance
- Circumcised
- Carved into a shape; not raw
- (Can we clean up() this sense?) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point
- To separate from prior association; to remove a portion of a recording during editing
Travis was cut from the team.
- Reduced
Cut brandy is a liquor made of brandy and hard grain liquor.
- To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so
This road cuts right through downtown.
- The result of cutting
- The act of cutting
He made a fine cut with his sword.
- To reduce, especially intentionally
They're going to cut salaries by fifteen percent.
- To perform an incision, for example with a knife
I cut the skin on my arm.
- A share or portion
The lawyer took a cut of the profits.
- To ignore as a social snub
After the incident at the dinner party, people started to cut him on the street.
- Emotionally hurt
- A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point
- To stab (a person)
We don't want your money no more. We just going to cut you.
- An opening resulting from cutting
Look at this cut on my finger!.
- To not attend a class, especially when not permitted
I cut fifth period to hang out with Angela.
- To dilute a liquid, usually alcohol
The bartender cuts his beer to save money and now it's all watery.
- 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
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- Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles
That's the premise of the overload principle, and it must be applied, even to ab training, if you're going to develop a cut, ripped midsection.
- An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point
- To divide a pack of playing cards into two
If you cut then I'll deal.
- To cease recording activities
After the actors read their lines, the director yelled Cut!.
- A slab, especially of meat
That’s our finest cut of meat.
- To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument
Would you please cut the cake?.
- To change direction suddenly
The football player cut to his left to evade a tackle.
- To enter a queue in the wrong place
One student kept trying to cut in front of the line.
- The manner or style a garment is fashioned in
I like the cut of that suit.
- Having been cut
- {n} a cleft or wound with an edged tool, slice of meat lop, canal, picture, impression, fool
- {v} to carve, hew, lop, shape, cross, divide, part
- {a} prepared for use, hewed, lopped, hurt
- The right to divide; as, whose cut is it? Manner in which a thing is cut or formed; shape; style; fashion; as, the cut of a garment
- If you say that someone or something is a cut above other people or things of the same kind, you mean they are better than them. Joan Smith's detective stories are a cut above the rest
- {f} make an incision; trim, clip; reduce; carve; make an audio recording (i.e. of music, etc.); weaken a solution by mixing in another substance; be absent from; disqualify someone from participating; stop the acting in a scene that is being recorded (Film)
- form by probing, penetrating, or digging; "cut a hole"; "cut trenches"; "The sweat cut little rivulets into her face"
- If you say that a situation or solution is cut and dried, you mean that it is clear and definite. Unfortunately, things cannot be as cut and dried as many people would like We are aiming for guidelines, not cut-and-dried answers. = clear-cut
- hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction; "cut a pingpong ball"
- to cut something to the bone: see bone to cut corners: see corner to cut the mustard: see mustard to cut someone to the quick: see quick to cut a long story short: see story to cut your teeth on something: see tooth
- (v ) In a window system, to remove a selected object and place it into the temporary memory of the clipboard Contrast with delete
- When the term "cut" is mentioned, most consumers think of shape But, cut and shape are different Cut refers to the proportions, symmetry, and polish of the diamond In its rough state, a diamond's beauty is well concealed Through cutting, the magnificent optical beauty of a diamond is revealed A diamond cutter's challenge is to balance beauty with weight retention from the rough diamond crystal But, because size is important to many consumers, often cutters sacrifice diamond beauty in order to save weight, maximizing the size of the finished diamond
- pass directly and often in haste; "We cut through the neighbor's yard to get home sooner"
- fashioned or shaped by cutting; "a well-cut suit"; "cut diamonds"; "cut velvet"
- cut down; "the tree is down"
- (film) an immediate transition from one shot to the next; "the cut from the accident scene to the hospital seemed too abrupt"
- in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball; "he took a vicious cut at the ball"
- In electronic text or graphic production, the transfer of objects from one file to a temporary storage area in memory called the clipboard from where they can be pasted into a different page, file or into the DTP work area
- The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise
- Formed or shaped as by cutting; carved
- When a child cuts a tooth, a new tooth starts to grow through the gum. Many infants do not cut their first tooth until they are a year old
- the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage; "an editor's deletions frequently upset young authors"; "both parties agreed on the excision of the proposed clause"
- cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch; "Turn off the stereo, please"; "cut the engine"; "turn out the lights"
- pass through or across; "The boat cut the water"
- the division of a deck of cards before dealing; "he insisted that we give him the last cut before every deal"; "the cutting of the cards soon became a ritual"
- If you cut something, you use a knife or a similar tool to divide it into pieces, or to mark it or damage it. If you cut a shape or a hole in something, you make the shape or hole by using a knife or similar tool. Mrs. Haines stood nearby, holding scissors to cut a ribbon The thieves cut a hole in the fence Mr. Long was now cutting himself a piece of the pink cake You can hear the saw as it cuts through the bones. thinly cut cucumber sandwiches. Cut is also a noun. The operation involves making several cuts in the cornea
- To move or make off quickly
- The point in a piece where the shot the audience is watching stops and another shot appears on screen A good example is when you see two people talking; we start out on the character speaking, then cut to the other person's reaction and hear what they have to say
- 1) One selection (one song) on a pre4ecorded music format 2) A term with the same meaning as Mute (to turn off a channel or a signal) 3) To reduce gain of a particular band of frequencies (with an equalizer) 4) To not pass a particular band of frequencies (said of a filter)
- shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of; "cut my hair"
- penetrate injuriously; "The glass from the shattered windshield cut into her forehead"
- If you say that someone can't cut it, you mean that they do not have the qualities needed to do a task or cope with a situation. He doesn't think English-born players can cut it abroad
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened"
- cut a caper
- To frolic or romp; to dance about in a frantic or ridiculous manner
I thought he intended to cut a caper round the bed; but suddenly composing himself, he fell on his knees.
- cut a dash
- To make a display of oneself; to give a conspicuous impression
- cut a rug
- To dance, especially in a vigorous manner and in one of the dance styles of the first half of the twentieth century
Young-generation patrons seem to be as fascinated watching the more mature dancers cut a rug.
- cut a swath
- Variant form of cut a wide swath
- cut a swathe
- Alternative spelling of cut a swath
- cut a wide swath
- To behave in an expansive, flagrantly showy, or pushy manner, especially in public venues; to exert sweeping influence
With his signature red beret and class-based rhetoric, president Hugo Chavez has cut a wide swath through this oil-rich but impoverished nation.
- cut a wide swath
- To clear a broad track through a grassland, woodland, geographical region, or other area, either by natural means or by human action
The twister cut a wide swath of destruction in Utica, a town of 2,000 people about 90 miles southwest of Chicago.
- cut a wide swathe
- Alternative spelling of cut a wide swath
- cut and dried
- lacking freshness or spontaneity
- cut and dried
- simple, straightforward, clear, or certain
Take care when guessing, since problems do not always have cut-and-dried answers.
- cut and dried
- decided, set, settled, not open to change
- cut and paste
- Composing a document by piecing together components of other documents
- cut and paste
- to delete text or other data in one document and insert it in the same or different one
- cut and run
- To abandon a position as quickly as possible
President Bush laid out the scenario we face if the United States decides to cut and run.
- cut and run
- To hurry away; to escape
- cut and run
- To sail away quickly by cutting the yarns that hold the sails furled
- cut back
- To reduce the amount of (something)
Some U.S. banks are cutting back their dealings with embassies and other foreign institutions in the United States because of the difficulty of complying with money-laundering rules, the Wall Street Journal reported.
- cut back
- To reduce consumption
He needs to cut back on doughnuts. He weighs 289 pounds!.
- cut back
- To reduce spending
We need to cut back heavily on office supplies. Is there another vendor we can use?.
- cut capers
- To engage in brief frolics, romps, or frantic, ridiculous dances
I was smoking my pipe quietly by my dismantled steamer, and saw them all cutting capers in the light, with their arms lifted high.
- cut corners
- To do a less than thorough or complete job; to do something poorly or take short cuts
The guy who built the fence cut corners when sinking the posts, and the fence fell over in the last storm.
- cut corners
- To bypass a prescribed route so as to gain competitive advantage or to circumvent traffic signals or other rules of the road
I believe the old man did not ride fair, as he cut corners.
- cut down
- To insult, to belittle
- cut down
- To bring down by cutting
They want to cut down several trees to make room for the parking lot.
- cut down
- To reduce the amount of something
Please don't put the candy jar right next to my desk. I'm trying to cut down on sugar.
- cut fastball
- A pitch thrown with an offset grip and a moderate amount of added pressure by middle finger yielding a combination of backspin and some sidespin, resulting in motion to the left when thrown by a right handed pitcher with velocity only slightly diminished from that of a fastball
His cut fastball tends to break bats.
- cut fastballs
- plural form of split-finger fastball
- cut glass
- Glass that has been cut, using an abrasive wheel, into a decorative pattern of facets
- cut in
- To intrude or interrupt
- cut in
- When painting, to paint edges, corners, or trim in preparation for rolling larger areas
- cut in
- Especially, to dance with someone who is already dancing by replacing his or her partner
- cut it
- To suffice; to be effective or successful
Sometimes, professional tools are necessary and homespun solutions just don't cut it.
- cut it close
- To judge or finish something close to its limit
Driving 300 miles on one tank of gas was cutting it close, but we arrived safely.
- cut it fine
- to achieve something at the last possible moment, or with no margin for error
- cut it out
- To stop; refrain from; halt
Would you please cut it out? I'm trying to get some work done here.
- cut like a knife
- To be very sharp (of a character, or remark)
- cut like a knife
- To sting severely, to cause a sensation of stinging, especially said of cold weather
To my small hands, the bitter wind cuts like a knife, freezing my fingers and numbing my circulation.''.
- cut line
- A line on the front wall, above which the ball must hit for a serve
- cut no ice
- To have no influence (on)
- cut of one's jib
- A person's general appearance, manner, or style, or the implications thereof
Let's just say I don't like the cut of your jib, Mr. Tate..
- cut off
- fuse
A thermal cut-off.
- cut off
- To swerve in front of (another car)
- cut off
- To end abruptly
My phone call was cut off before I could get the information.
- cut off
- To remove via cutting
- cut off
- To interrupt (someone speaking)
That dingbat cut me off as I was about to conclude my theses.
- cut off
- To isolate or remove from contact
- cut off one's nose to spite one's face
- To harm oneself as a result of attempting to harm an adversary
- cut offs
- plural form of cut off
- cut one loose
- to fart
- cut one some slack
- To be lenient with; to give grace to someone after a mistake
- cut one's coat according to one's cloth
- live according to one's means, and not more
- cut one's losses
- To discontinue an effort that seems unlikely ever to bear fruit
- cut one's teeth
- To begin; to gain early experience
He cut his teeth flying model airplanes as a child, so aeronautical engineering came naturally.
- cut oneself
- To deliberately make incisions in one's skin as a form of self-harm
- cut out
- To remove or shape by cutting
Cut out the letters and paste them on the poster.
- cut out
- Well suited; appropriate; fit for a particular activity or purpose
We've got our work cut out for us.
- cut out
- To remove, omit
If we cut out the middle-man, we will both have better profits.
- cut out
- To stop working, to switch off; (of a person on the telephone etc.) to be inaudible, be disconnected
Can you say that again? You keep cutting out.
- cut out
- To refrain from (doing something, using something etc.)
He had to cut out smoking in order to be prepared for the marathon.
- cut out
- To intercept
- cut red tape
- To reduce bureaucracy
This insurance company is an expert at cutting red tape to process your claim faster.
- cut scene
- A typically non-interactive cinematic narrative technique used in video games to advance the story. Cut scenes may be presented with either full motion video or may be done with the game engine. Cut scenes presented in-engine can be interactive, the player may be able to change the camera angle or press a button to perform an action
- cut scenes
- plural form of cut scene
- cut short
- Make shorter by cutting
- cut short
- interrupt and curtail before the planned end time
The party was cut short because everything was getting broken.
- cut somebody some slack
- to be patient or lenient with somebody; to relax standards or expectations
Cut the new guy some slack. He's only been here for two days.
- cut someone some slack
- To make allowances for someone, and not treat a failure severely
- cut splice
- Two ropes spliced together to form an eye which lies shut when taut
- cut the cheese
- To flatulate
Hey, who cut the cheese?.
- cut the crap
- stop talking about irrelevant things
- cut the mustard
- To suffice; to be good or effective enough
Give me the bigger hammer. This little one just doesn't cut the mustard.
- cut the muster
- Mistaken form of cut the mustard
- cut the rug
- Alternative form of cut a rug
- cut through
- To deal with something quickly in order to lessen the problem
Allies warned— the Communists today that they might cut through the prisoner exchange problem by releasing in South Korea 32000 North Koreans who do not want to go home.
- cut through
- To make a detour across, as opposed to around
We had to cut through the park on our way to the mall.
- cut to black
- a film punctuation in which the picture is instantaneously darkened
- cut to the chase
- To get to the point; to get on with it; to state something directly
We don't have much time here. Could you cut to the chase?.
- cut to the quick
- To get to the most essential idea or point
Alfar's analysis cuts to the quick of the socioeconomic structures that underlie marriage, primogeniture, monarchy, and imperialism.
- cut to the quick
- To hurt a person deeply, especially emotionally
I was cut to the quick at the idea of having lost the inestimable privilege of listening to the gifted Kurtz.
- cut up
- Wounded with multiple lacerations
He is cut up pretty bad.
- cut up
- To severely criticize or censure; to subject to hostile criticism
The reviewer cut up the book mercilessly.
- cut up
- To cut into smaller pieces, parts, or sections
With a little practice, you can cut up a whole chicken yourself for frying.
- cut up
- To lacerate; to wound by multiple lacerations; to injure or damage by cutting, or as if by cutting
The attackers cut him up pretty bad.
- cut up
- Emotionally upset; mentally distressed
She was seriously cut up over her dog disappearing.
- cut up
- To aggressively move in front of another vehicle while driving. US: cut off
One night coming home from work, I was driving through a quiet housing estate and had a driver cut me up. I had my window open, and mouthed some obscenity towards him.
- cut up
- To distress mentally or emotionally
And even Scrooge was not so dreadfully cut up by the sad event.
- cut up
- To behave like a clown or jokester (a cut-up); to misbehave; to act in a playful, comical, boisterous, or unruly manner to elicit laughter, attention, etc
We need to talk about Johnny's tendency to cut up in class.
- cut up
- Having been cut into smaller pieces
Put the cut up vegetables in the pot.
- cut wind
- To pass gas; to break wind
- cut-and-paste
- pieced together from several sources
- cut-and-thrust
- A vehement argument
He never got used to the cut-and-thrust of political debate.
- cut-off
- Alternative spelling of cutoff
- cut-off
- Having had shirt sleeves or pantlegs shortened by cutting material from the end
- cut-out
- the separation of a group of cattle from a herd; the place where they are collected
- cut-out
- A space produced when something is removed by cutting; the piece so cut out
- cut-out
- A device that disconnects an electric circuit under certain dangerous circumstances
- cut-out
- a railway cutting
- cut-out
- A trusted middleman, especially in espionage
- cut-price
- That is offered for sale at less than the normal price
- cut-rate
- Offered for sale or rent at a lower than usual rate
- cut-throat razor
- A straight razor
- cut-throat razors
- plural form of cut-throat razor
- cut down
- If you cut down on something or cut down something, you use or do less of it. He cut down on coffee and cigarettes, and ate a balanced diet Car owners were asked to cut down travel If you spend more than your income, can you try to cut down?
- cut lunch
- {i} (Australia) box lunch, packed lunch, light afternoon meal packed to be eaten in a different location
- cut someone deep
- (Ev ile ilgili) Scar someone in an emotional way
- a cut
- {n} dawk
- cut corners
- (deyim) 1. (Fig.) Take shortcuts; to save money or effort by finding cheaper or easier ways to do something.2. Do something in the easiest, quickest, or cheapest way, often harming the quality of your work
- cut in
- (cut somebody in on) Include somebody, cut somebody in informal to allow someone to take part in a plan or to make money from it
- cut in
- (MACHINE) if a part of a machine cuts in, it starts to operate when it is needed
- cut in
- (DRIVING) Drive in front of a moving car suddenly in a dangerous way
- cut in
- Interrupt someone who is speaking by saying something
- cut loose
- (deyim) to free from control or restraint (cut us loose from the contract)
- cut loose
- (deyim) to act without restraint (enjoyed cutting loose at nightclubs)
- A cut
- sneck
- Cutting
- giri
- Cutting
- giriº
- a cut
- incision
- cut across
- If an issue or problem cuts across the division between two or more groups of people, it affects or matters to people in all the groups. The problem cuts across all socioeconomic lines and affects all age groups
- cut across
- be contrary to ordinary procedure or limitations; "Opinions on bombing the Serbs cut across party lines
- cut across
- cut using a diagonal lines
- cut across
- make a shortcut, take a shorter route across
- cut across
- be contrary to ordinary procedure or limitations; "Opinions on bombing the Serbs cut across party lines"
- cut across
- travel across or pass over; "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day"
- cut away
- – Separating or releasing of the main canopy and risers from the harness by activating riser releases A procedure for handling a malfunctioned main canopy that must be followed by deployment of the reserve
- cut away
- move quickly to another scene or focus when filming; "`cut away now!' the director shouted
- cut away
- To release the main parachute, cutting away is a standard emergency procedure prior to deploying the reserve More properly known as a breakaway, the technique did involve using a simple release system activated by pulling a handle
- cut away
- {i} cutaway, formal jacket coat which is short in front and has long tails in the rear; model or illustration which has part of the exterior removed in order to show the interior
- cut away
- move quickly to another scene or focus when filming; "`cut away now!' the director shouted"
- cut away
- remove by cutting off or away; "cut away the branch that sticks out"
- cut away
- {f} cut off (e.g., "I asked my son to cut away the branches that stick out on the tree"); move fast to another scene or focus on something else when filming (e.g., "While filming the war scene, the director shouted 'cut away now!' when the soldier was wounded ")
- cut back
- If you cut back something such as expenditure or cut back on it, you reduce it. They will be concerned to cut back expenditure on unnecessary items The Government has cut back on defence spending We have been cutting back a bit: we did have thirteen horses, but now it's nine. see also cutback
- cut back
- cut down on, reduce something, use less of something (e.g.: "I drink too much coffee, I decided to cut back")
- cut back
- return in time; "the film cut back to an earlier event in the story
- cut back
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of; "dress the plants in the garden"
- cut back
- return in time; "the film cut back to an earlier event in the story"
- cut back
- cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"
- cut back
- place restrictions on; "curtail drinking in school"
- cut corners
- do something the cheapest or easiest way; "Cut corners to make a cheaper product
- cut corners
- attempt to save time (or money, etc.) in a way that lowers quality, make detrimental cutbacks in an effort to economize
- cut down
- cut with a blade or mower; "mow the grass"
- cut down
- cut down; "the tree is down"
- cut down
- cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"
- cut down
- intercept (a player)
- cut down
- If you cut down a tree, you cut through its trunk so that it falls to the ground. A vandal with a chainsaw cut down a tree. = chop down
- cut down
- cause to come or go down; "The policeman downed the heavily armed suspect"; "The mugger knocked down the old lady after she refused to hand over her wallet"
- cut down
- {f} degrade, insult; reduce, decrease; cause to fall by cutting
- cut down
- cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow; "strike down a tree"; "Lightning struck down the hikers"
- cut down
- cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete
- cut down
- {s} curtailed; cut off, chopped off, hewn
- cut down on
- cut back, reduce something, use less of something (e.g.: "I have been eating too many sweets, I decided to cut down on them")
