What's the difference between butting and cutting?

Butting


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of But
  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Butt
  • (n.) An abuttal; a boundary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Now it’s time for clarity on the skyline.” Looming 160m above Fenchurch Street, towering over several conservation areas and butting into the background of most views of London, the Walkie-Talkie is perhaps the most egregious example of such incoherence.
  • (2) There seems to have been a bit of an argument between the pair moments before the incident, then Meyler went to retrieve went to the Newcastle technical area to retrieve the ball for a throw-in and was head-butted by Pardew.
  • (3) There are lots of ifs and buts, a lot of factors that nobody can control,” he said.
  • (4) In 2010 David Cameron made a “no ifs, no buts” promise to reduce annual net migration below 100,000.
  • (5) In an extract from his book Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography, in Sydney's Daily Telegraph , Tyson says he was furious that Evander Holyfield had head butted him: "I just wanted to kill him.
  • (6) Alan Pardew denied head-butting Hull's David Meyler in a touchline altercation but conceded he would be "stupid" not to expect the Football Association to come down hard on him in the coming days.
  • (7) Anyway, Peter had grabbed me, I’d head-butted him – we’d been fighting for ages.
  • (8) And, for the record, his latest speech included 35 ifs and 44 buts.
  • (9) Mailer responded at a Manhattan dinner party in 1977 by throwing a glass of whiskey in Vidal's face, head-butting him and then throwing a punch.
  • (10) When an officer arrived at the Enghien-les-Bains casino and asked him to leave, Sharif, 71, grew angrier still, began swearing, and then head-butted the policeman.
  • (11) Speaking as both pro- and anti-independence camps traded fresh claims and counter-claims, Davidson said: "No ifs, no buts – those are the rules for any new member.
  • (12) Net migration rose to 260,000 in the year to June – an increase of 78,000 on the previous year, making a mockery of Cameron’s critical 2010 election “no ifs, no buts” pledge to bring net migration down below 100,000 before the 2015 election.
  • (13) "We want to talk more about those things and less about the 'ah, buts'," he said.
  • (14) There’s a difference – I had nothing to apologise for.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Roy Keane head-butted Peter Schmeichel on a 1998 pre-season tour in Asia.
  • (15) He was sitting in a cafe, telling a friend how he’d recently met two Silicon Valley power couples, each with a profoundly autistic child, when a teacher at the next table overheard and butted in: “There’s an epidemic of autism in Silicon Valley.
  • (16) "He hasn't head-butted him but he has gone through the action and when you are 10 yards away from the referee you are going to be red-carded and rightly so.
  • (17) Fernando Llorente double steers Swansea to vital win over Sunderland Read more With Tom Huddlestone back to something approaching his imperious best in central midfield, Hull would have won had Fraizer Campbell not rescued Palace courtesy of an 89th-minute equaliser as Pardew made his first return to this ground since he infamously butted David Meyler here in March 2014.
  • (18) Newcastle United last night fined Alan Pardew £100,000 after the manager lost control on the touchline and head-butted the Hull City midfielder David Meyler during his side's 4-1 win at the KC Stadium on Saturday .
  • (19) Apparently, the cause can be attributed to the helmet-face mask that has encouraged the use of the head as the primary point of contact in blocking, tackling, and head butting.
  • (20) If Heathrow is picked, it will mean a reversal in Conservative policy since David Cameron as opposition leader ruled out backing a third runway with “no ifs, no buts”.

Cutting


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cut
  • (n.) The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc.
  • (n.) Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or scion cut off from a stock for the purpose of grafting or of rooting as an independent plant; something cut out of a newspaper; an excavation cut through a hill or elsewhere to make a way for a railroad, canal, etc.; a cut.
  • (a.) Adapted to cut; as, a cutting tool.
  • (a.) Chilling; penetrating; sharp; as, a cutting wind.
  • (a.) Severe; sarcastic; biting; as, a cutting reply.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A subsample of patients scoring over the recommended threshold (five or above) on the general health questionnaire were interviewed by the psychiatrist to compare the case detection of the general practitioner, an independent psychiatric assessment and the 28-item general health questionnaire at two different cut-off scores.
  • (2) McDonald said cutting better deals with suppliers and improving efficiency as well as raising some prices had only partly offset the impact of sterling’s fall against the dollar.
  • (3) The playing fields on which all those players began their journeys have been underfunded for years and are now facing a renewed crisis because of cuts to local authority budgets.
  • (4) Finally, the automatized measurement system cuts the time spent by a factor of more than five.
  • (5) We could do with similar action to cut out botnets and spam, but there aren't any big-money lobbyists coming to Mandelson pleading loss of business through those.
  • (6) It comes as the museum is transforming itself in the wake of major cuts in its government funding and looking more towards private-sector funding, a move that has caused some unease about its future direction.
  • (7) Chromatolysis and swelling of the cell bodies of cut axons are more prolonged than after optic nerve section and resolve in more central regions of retina first.
  • (8) Guardian Australia reported last week that morale at the national laboratory had fallen dramatically, with one in three staff “seriously considering” leaving their jobs in the wake of the cuts.
  • (9) It is proposed that this "zipper-like" mechanism represents the normal cutting process of the septum during cell separation.
  • (10) Limitations include the facts that the tracer inventory requires a minimal survival period, can only be done postmortem, and has low resolution for cuts of the vagal hepatic branch.
  • (11) White lesions (NRL) against a gray background on cut section of brain increase in size with increasing time of arrest.
  • (12) She was clearly elected on a pledge not to cut school funding and that’s exactly what is happening,” Corbyn said.
  • (13) We are in the middle of the third year of huge cuts in acute hospitals' budgets," said Porter.
  • (14) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.
  • (15) Leaders of Tory local government are preparing radical proposals for minimum 10% cuts in public spending in the search for savings.
  • (16) Size comparison of the newly discovered Msp I fragment with a restriction map of the apolipoprotein A-I gene revealed that most likely the cutting site at the 5'-end of the normally seen 673 bp fragment is lost giving rise to the observed 719 bp Msp I fragment.
  • (17) The drugs were moderately potent inhibitors of both E. electricus and C. elegans acetylcholinesterase but at concentrations too high to account for their abilities to contract cut worms.
  • (18) Although various micronutrients (vitamins and trace elements) have also been found to have either a positive or negative association, findings were more clear-cut for the different food items contributing the micronutrients than for the specific micronutrients themselves.
  • (19) On taking office Lansley admitted this was not a deep enough cut.
  • (20) "If you are not prepared to learn English, your benefits will be cut," he said.