(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.
Suite
Definition:
(n.) A retinue or company of attendants, as of a distinguished personage; as, the suite of an ambassador. See Suit, n., 5.
(n.) A connected series or succession of objects; a number of things used or clessed together; a set; as, a suite of rooms; a suite of minerals. See Suit, n., 6.
(n.) One of the old musical forms, before the time of the more compact sonata, consisting of a string or series of pieces all in the same key, mostly in various dance rhythms, with sometimes an elaborate prelude. Some composers of the present day affect the suite form.
Example Sentences:
(1) The suits ensures the conditions for the function of the musculoskeletal apparatus and the cardiovascular system which are close to those on the Earth.
(2) Many problems at the macroscopic level require clarification of how an animal uses a compartment of suite of muscles and whether morphological differences reflect functional ones.
(3) It is concluded that the present method for demonstration of aryl sulphatase activity is not well suited for microscopical identification of lysosomes in rat liver parenchymal cells.
(4) Quantitative esophageal sensibility, therefore is concluded to be particularly suited to evaluation by electric stimulation.
(5) We ganged up against the tweed-suited, pipe-smoking brigade.
(6) This variability, coupled with the lack of extreme specificity in the secondary auditory cortex, suggests that secondary cortical neurons are not well suited for the role of "vocalization detectors."
(7) In addition to working with hist colleagues on general review and health-policy matters, he also handled issues related to the special needs of children and helped to get third-party benefit packages altered to better suit the treatment needs of children.
(8) Ligament tissue seems to be less well suited to the microsphere technique; however, further study is warranted.
(9) Stimulus-response characteristics suggested that this system was well suited for a role in tonic inhibition of sympathetic activity.
(10) During placement of the Fletcher suit one of the ureters is catheterized by a special stent which appears on the X-rays control used for dosimetry.
(11) CIE has several operational advantages over ELISA and best suited to laboratories with limited resources.
(12) While the Spielberg of popular myth is Mr Nice Guy, Lean was known as an obsessive, cantankerous tyrant who didn't much like actors and was only truly happy locked away in the editing suite.
(13) A sweet-talking man in a suit who enlists the most successful barrister in town holds remarkable sway, I’ve learned.
(14) These studies thus provide a well-characterized repertoire of MAbs that are well suited for potential clinical trials involving the radiolocalization and possibly therapy of human colon carcinoma lesions.
(15) As Aesop reminds us at the end of the fable: “Nobody believes a liar, even when he’s telling the truth.” When leaders choose only the facts that suit them, people don’t stop believing in facts – they stop believing in leaders This distrust is both mutual and longstanding, prompting two clear trends in British electoral politics.
(16) Short of setting up a hotline to the Met Office – or, more prosaically, moving to a country where the weather best suits our condition, as Dawn Binks says several sufferers she knows have done – migraineurs can do little to ensure that the climate is kind to them.
(17) A test suite has been developed for evaluating hearing aids.
(18) Owing to its broad spectrum of action (covering both gram-positive and gram-negative microorganisms and anaerobes) and its consistently strong molar action, mezlocillin is well suited as a beta-lactam combination component for intensive care patients.
(19) These design methods are suited for constructing the most efficient gradient coil that meets a specified homogeneity requirement.
(20) What we’re saying is the advertising is false.” Prosecutors are not asking the court to halt the company’s services while the suit proceeds.