(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?
Prune
Definition:
(v. t.) To lop or cut off the superfluous parts, branches, or shoots of; to clear of useless material; to shape or smooth by trimming; to trim: as, to prune trees; to prune an essay.
(v. t.) To cut off or cut out, as useless parts.
(v. t.) To preen; to prepare; to dress.
(v. i.) To dress; to prink; -used humorously or in contempt.
(n.) A plum; esp., a dried plum, used in cookery; as, French or Turkish prunes; California prunes.
Example Sentences:
(1) A case of "Prune Belly" syndrome, its sonographic diagnosis, from the 15th week and its monitoring by sonography and biochemical exams of fetal urine for study of renal function is described.
(2) With an incidence of between 1 in 30,000 and 1 in 50,000 births, prune-belly syndrome (PBS) is a rare malformation syndrome.
(3) We report the clinical findings, diagnostic problems and treatment of a 1-year-old Coloured child (with classic 'prune belly syndrome') in whom the spleen had undergone torsion, thus simulating an intra-abdominal abscess.
(4) Others have found more striking-power, or more simple poetry, but none an interpretation at once so full (in the sense of histrionic volume) and so consistently bringing all the aspects together, without any shirking or pruning away of what is inconvenient.
(5) That is, when distal branches are pruned off surgically, the axon compensates by producing extra proximal branches.
(6) The current controversies revolving around the fetal treatment of hydrocephalus and obstructive uropathies (posterior urethral valves, prune belly syndrome, hydronephrosis) are compared and contrasted with the remarkably similar controversies that raged when fetal transfusions were first introduced.
(7) This organization supports rapid pruning of the list of drugs.
(8) The X-linked prune (pn) eye-colour mutation of Drosophila melanogaster has a highly specific, complementary lethal interaction with the conditional dominant Killer of prune (awdK-pn) mutation.
(9) Aggressive surgical management of patients with the prune belly syndrome provides improved abdominal wall function and appearance, and offers excellent testicular salvage.
(10) The prune belly syndrome is a well-recognized entity consisting of deficient abdominal musculature, cryptorchid testes, and urinary tract abnormalities most consistent with an obstructive phenomenon.
(11) Reduction cystoplasty is a useful procedure to treat a large, poorly functioning bladder in boys with prune belly syndrome who are candidates for urinary tract reconstruction.
(12) Staff, which account for half of the NHS's costs, are being pruned, and services are now following.
(13) Their growth could be divided into three distinct phases: first, a period of initial outgrowth (55-70%) during which the basic skeleton of major neurites is formed; second, a shorter period of rapid growth (70-80%) during which the basic skeleton is elaborated by the addition of many side branches; and third, a period of maturation (80-95%) during which the branches formed during earlier growth appear to be pruned.
(14) As the protests were staged the centre-left cabinet in Portugal called an emergency session to try to prune more from public spending, as it grappled with a debt and deficit crisis that has thrown the spotlight back on to the country.
(15) The pathophysiology of hyperammonemic encephalopathy in association with the prune belly syndrome and a review of the literature are presented.
(16) Male infants predominate and have either isolated genital abnormalities, hydronephrotic conditions, or classic prune-belly syndrome.
(17) Under the conditions of chronic caloric restriction, the phenomenon of exuberance was retarded and pruning was not observed.
(18) Cholangiograms showed attenuation and pruning of the intrahepatic bile ducts, some with beading and dilatation of the common bile duct.
(19) The majority of the new class of mutations, designated pnts-e, do not interact with the mutation Killer of prune (Kpn) at all of the experimental temperatures, i.e., pnts-e, Kpn flies do not die.
(20) It will need lots of tweaking to avoid annoying people – it's already being prodded to see whether it takes more or fewer clicks to reach the phone-dialer (more), and whether you can still set wallpaper (no, but your friends do with their picture – you may need to prune your friends).