(v. t.) To separate the parts of with, or as with, a sharp instrument; to make an incision in; to gash; to sever; to divide.
(v. t.) To sever and cause to fall for the purpose of gathering; to hew; to mow or reap.
(v. t.) To sever and remove by cutting; to cut off; to dock; as, to cut the hair; to cut the nails.
(v. t.) To castrate or geld; as, to cut a horse.
(v. t.) To form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.; to carve; to hew out.
(v. t.) To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce; to lacerate; as, sarcasm cuts to the quick.
(v. t.) To intersect; to cross; as, one line cuts another at right angles.
(v. t.) To refuse to recognize; to ignore; as, to cut a person in the street; to cut one's acquaintance.
(v. t.) To absent one's self from; as, to cut an appointment, a recitation. etc.
(v. i.) To do the work of an edged tool; to serve in dividing or gashing; as, a knife cuts well.
(v. i.) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
(v. i.) To perform the operation of dividing, severing, incising, intersecting, etc.; to use a cutting instrument.
(v. i.) To make a stroke with a whip.
(v. i.) To interfere, as a horse.
(v. i.) To move or make off quickly.
(v. i.) To divide a pack of cards into two portion to decide the deal or trump, or to change the order of the cards to be dealt.
(n.) An opening made with an edged instrument; a cleft; a gash; a slash; a wound made by cutting; as, a sword cut.
(n.) A stroke or blow or cutting motion with an edged instrument; a stroke or blow with a whip.
(n.) That which wounds the feelings, as a harsh remark or criticism, or a sarcasm; personal discourtesy, as neglecting to recognize an acquaintance when meeting him; a slight.
(n.) A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove; as, a cut for a railroad.
(n.) The surface left by a cut; as, a smooth or clear cut.
(n.) A portion severed or cut off; a division; as, a cut of beef; a cut of timber.
(n.) An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving; as, a book illustrated with fine cuts.
(n.) The act of dividing a pack cards.
(n.) The right to divide; as, whose cut is it?
(n.) Manner in which a thing is cut or formed; shape; style; fashion; as, the cut of a garment.
(n.) A common work horse; a gelding.
(n.) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
(n.) A skein of yarn.
(a.) Gashed or divided, as by a cutting instrument.
(a.) Formed or shaped as by cutting; carved.
(a.) Overcome by liquor; tipsy.
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.
Cutaway
Definition:
(a.) Having a part cut off or away; having the corners rounded or cut away.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Why are only women on Mock the Week compilations laughing cutaways?"
(2) Scattered throughout are cutaways of undulating hills and stoic ruminants filming exterior shots of sheep against a backdrop of yawning bees.
(3) Calibration of strain gauges attached to a cutaway die wall was achieved by compression of rubber-like materials in the die, Breon Polyblend 504 being more effective than red rubber for this purpose.
(4) Still, we could have done with a Jubilee-style cutaway to the sodden picnickers sitting on drenched rugs, clutching rain-diluted fizz as their bottoms, now unquestionably soggy, sank into the mud.
(5) The Disney Channel recently made headlines by featuring a lesbian family in kids' show Good Luck Charlie , but the closest Disney have got to an LGBT feature-film family is Frozen's brief cutaway to a father and kids in a sauna.
(6) The year started with Alabama governor George Wallace standing on the steps of the state capitol in hickory-striped trousers and a cutaway coat declaring: "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation for ever."
(7) Video interiors is a form of display in which digitized pixels interior to objects are revealed by cutaway blocks.
(8) PA's new service, which will launch on 5 May, will distribute up to 30 news, sport and entertainment stories a day, supplying raw footage of interviews, plus cutaways and general images to allow publishers to create their own distinct video packages.
(9) It's a welcome return, as was the cutaway earlier of Poehler giggling as George Clooney whispered sweet nothings into her ear.
(10) Progress has brought us to leaders’ debate night in 2015, with its “sentiment-tracking” worms , pre-prepared insta-verdicts, and constant cutaways to graphs measuring volumes of tweets.
(11) It was delivered in a year that started with Alabama governor George Wallace standing on the steps of the state capitol in hickory-striped pants and a cutaway coat declaring, “Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever,” and ended with President Kennedy’s assassination.
(12) Dressed in swirling marbled silks, cobalt blue lace gowns and cutaway tuxedo evening suits, the dancers performed a modern ballet routine standing on tables dotted with champagne glasses, and traversed the room stepping from chair to chair.
(13) 8.55am BST As those who are watching the live video feed will have noted, Prof Botha is not being pictured giving evidence – all the images are of other sections of the court, mainly Roux and the judge, plus occasional cutaways to Pistorius.
(14) When one bereaved mother excitedly tells the support group that she is pregnant, a fleeting cutaway catches the pain on the face of an older woman who is denied that option of continuation.
(15) Cutaway to Kevin Spacey in character as House of Card’s Francis Underwood and then the ladies came on screen to save the opening, sitting in the front row complete with popcorn and 3D glasses – Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.
(16) The core cast were, and remain, all white (making the pilot’s brief cutaways to Joy Lin, who “knows Photoshop”, all the more cringe-worthy).
(17) While Family Guy has often featured trademark cutaway musical segments, some of them winning Emmy awards in their own right, a full-time musical career is now clearly an option.
(18) Anyone who watches ESPN's MLS coverage has occasionally seen cutaway shots of Lalas in these eagle's nest vantage points, as if to illustrate the macro perspective he's supposed to provide.
(19) She once tweeted: “Why are only women on Mock the Week compilations laughing cutaways?