(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.
Woodcutting
Definition:
(n.) The act or employment of cutting wood or timber.
(n.) The act or art of engraving on wood.
Example Sentences:
(1) Having read Gill's own account of his experimental sexual connections with his dog in a later craft community at Pigotts near High Wycombe, his woodcut The Hound of St Dominic develops some distinctly disconcerting features.
(2) The next day I began to draw, half-copying the woodcuts from the Chronicle, half exorcising my memory.
(3) They were printed cheaply on a single side of paper, which contained lyrics, tunes and woodcut illustrations, as well as news, prophecy, political or religious messages, satire and comedy.
(4) You can tell by the figures in the Japanese woodcut behind him, Geishas in a Landscape .
(5) Age, time spent outdoors in the fall multiplied by a clothing index, and woodcutting were significantly associated with Lyme disease in logistic regression analyses.
(6) Oxford #2 The woodcut-style sleeve of The Eraser is the work of longstanding Radiohead collaborator and friend Stanley Donwood.
(7) Like the figures who constantly climb the endless flight of stairs in an MC Escher woodcut, there seems to be something impossibly wrong with the envelope of time and space that contains Yang's characters.
(8) A sixteenth century woodcut depicting atypical congenitally corrected transposition is described.
(9) In 1986 he made a wonderful series of Schleifenbilder (curlicues or whorls), in which he made images from a series of abstract whorls on a Dürer woodcut of a triumphal carriage.
(10) Kuusik lost his entire installation, which included a handmade suit patterned with scribbles that he had done when he was six and paintings based on the Dance of Death, Hans Holbein's woodcuts – "16th century pop art".
(11) A host of pamphlets with woodcut illustrations reflected public alarm at the epidemic proportions and severity of the new disease, with its disabling and sometimes deadly consequences.
(12) The world has turned upside down , as in some old woodcut: the horse is whipping the carter, and the lawyers are in protest.
(13) There is given a concise and woodcut-like survey over the history of cytology with was born by the pioneering of Hooke, Grew, Malpighi, and van Leeuwenhoek at the end of XVIIth century and three crises of this science.
(14) It’s easy to assume – after a look at a woodcut of the company comic Will Kempe skipping to pennywhistle and drum – that all the actors just got up, from the dead if necessary, and danced.
(15) He had worked with Libanus Press on a limited Thomas edition, and had exhibited some early Blake woodcuts in 1995.
(16) Before, I always thought of hanging as an abstract, faraway event existing only in ancient woodcuts or the minds of passing clouds.