(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.
Gouge
Definition:
(n.) A chisel, with a hollow or semicylindrical blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.; a similar instrument, with curved edge, for turning wood.
(n.) A bookbinder's tool for blind tooling or gilding, having a face which forms a curve.
(n.) An incising tool which cuts forms or blanks for gloves, envelopes, etc. from leather, paper, etc.
(n.) Soft material lying between the wall of a vein aud the solid vein.
(n.) The act of scooping out with a gouge, or as with a gouge; a groove or cavity scooped out, as with a gouge.
(n.) Imposition; cheat; fraud; also, an impostor; a cheat; a trickish person.
Example Sentences:
(1) John, who has just been released from prison on licence after serving four years for gouging a man’s eye out , admits: “I used to see Tyson on the television.
(2) Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have accused Turing of price-gouging.
(3) There was a deep gouge across the back of his head and blood was welling through his copper- coloured hair.
(4) Make a hole in the radius with a small gouge with insertion of the pin to the fracture site and then drive it into the proximal fragment.
(5) How it gouges money from those who don’t own only to put it in the pockets of those who do.
(6) The following technical devices have been adopted: -- curved unilateral incision into deep fascia --interlaminar space widening by chisels and gouges, avoiding the use of rongeurs -- sodium succinate methylprednisolone injection into dural sac.
(7) "I bought her, and I still can't believe this, I might as well have gouged out my own eyeballs with a rusty spoon, but I bought her a personalised number plate which was M155 LTD. Miss Living The Dream.
(8) The crumpled metal cockpit floor featured large gouges.
(9) Olympe de Gouges, born in 1748, led in Paris, the brilliant and dissolute life of a rather mediocre writer and a passionate feminist, demanding for women the right to go into politics.
(10) Their white tents stood near the brown earth gouged by the armoured trucks that had carried them there – the closest point to Mosul they had reached before an assault on Iraq’s second largest city.
(11) Topology favoring attachment was inherent in 0.45-mum filters and was produced in plastic by gouging irregular excavations 10 to 15 micrometer deep.
(12) Karen McVeigh Governor Christie (@GovChristie) We have activated temporary hotlines to report price gouging.
(13) Greedy, gouging bastards, depriving students of their last few pennies in a relentless quest for profit.
(14) Yemen's humanitarian crisis leaves a million people in dire straits – in pictures Read more Maurer, who recently visited Yemen and Iran to negotiate broader humanitarian access, said air raids had gouged craters in the streets of the Yemeni capital Sana’a.
(15) Crash patterns-such as cut and damaged vegetation, gouges, debris scatter, burn areas, etc.,-and their spatial relations can be very effectively evaluated by the analysis of stereo aerial photographs.
(16) He has people eating their sons in pies, men with their eyes gouged out, and merciless sexual jealousy.
(17) With a chisel or a gouge, cuts are made in the cortical surface of the bone on both sides of the fracture line, and numerous scales are lifted but remain attached at the base, like the petals of a flower.
(18) In what will come as welcome news to defenders across the land, chippy Chelsea striker Diego Costa may also be leaving these shores to gouge, elbow, snarl and kick his way around his old La Liga stamping ground.
(19) The worst of the episodes involved Mousa Dembélé, who gouged at Diego Costa’s eyes during a wider mêlée sparked by a confrontation between Danny Rose and Willian.
(20) ); (2) exploitation of bark surface insects and the use of trunks as a platform to locate terrestrial prey (Saguinus fuscicollis, S. nigricollis, and Callimico); (3) manipulative foraging and bark stripping to locate concealed insects and small vertebrates (Leontopithecus); and (4) tree gouging and year-round exudate feeding (many Callithrix).