cut
verbEtymology
From Middle English cutten, of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse *kytja, *kutta, from Proto-Germanic *kutjaną, *kuttaną (“to cut”), of uncertain origin, perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *kwetwą (“meat, flesh”) (compare Old Norse kvett (“meat”)). Sometimes instead compared to French couteau, itself from Latin culter (“knife”). Compare Scots kut, kit (“to cut”)); also akin to Middle Swedish kotta (“to cut or carve with a knife”) (compare dialectal Swedish kåta, kuta (“to cut or chip with a knife”), Swedish kuta, kytti (“a knife”)), Norwegian Bokmål kutte (“to cut”), Norwegian Nynorsk kutte (“to cut”), Icelandic kuta (“to cut with a knife”), Old Norse kuti (“small knife”), Norwegian kyttel, kytel, kjutul (“pointed slip of wood used to strip bark”). Displaced native Middle English snithen (from Old English snīþan; compare German schneiden), which still survives in some dialects as snithe or snead. See snide. Adjective sense of "drunk" (now rare and now usually used in the originally jocular derivative form of half-cut) dates from the 17th century, from cut in the leg, to have cut your leg, euphemism for being very drunk.
Definitions
To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
- You must cut this flesh from off his breast.
- MARA: We are forty against four hundred. // KLINGON: Four thousand throats may be cut in one night by a running man.
To admit of incision or severance
To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
- The panels of white-wood that cuts like cheese, / But lasts like iron for things like these;
To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
- Travis was cut from the team.
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To ignore as a social rebuff or snub.
- After the incident at the dinner party, people started to cut him on the street.
- The ordinary people greet him (Aaron Burr) warmly while the respectable folk tend to cut him dead.
To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.
- The camera then cut to the woman on the front row who was clearly overcome and crying tears of joy.
To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time.
- Select the text, cut it, and then paste it in the other application.
To enter a queue in the wrong place.
- One student kept trying to cut in front of the line.
- Excuse me, do you mind if I cut?!
To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
- This road cuts right through downtown.
- Neither Joleon Lescott nor Vieira appeared to make any contact with Dyer as he cut between them.
- Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.
To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while…
To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it.
To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
To change direction suddenly.
- The football player cut to his left to evade a tackle.
To divide a pack of playing cards into two parts, often followed by placing the two parts…
To divide a pack of playing cards into two parts, often followed by placing the two parts back together in the opposite order.
- If you cut then I'll deal.
To make, negotiate
To make, negotiate; to finalise, conclude; to issue.
- I'll cut a check for you.
- I didn't deserve it, but he cut me a deal.
- to cut a deal, to cut deals
To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug.
- The best malt whiskies are improved if they are cut with a dash of water.
- The bartender cuts his beer to save money and now it's all watery.
- Drug dealers sometimes cut cocaine with lidocaine.
To exhibit (a figure having some trait).
- The Bender family cut a very distinct profile.
- Arsenal were starting to work up a head of steam and Tractor Boys boss Paul Jewell cut an increasingly frustrated figure on the touchline.
To stop, disengage, or cease.
- The schoolchildren were told to cut the noise.
- Cut the engines when the plane comes to a halt!
To renounce or give up.
To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with…
To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball, or (in tennis) striking it with the racket inclined.
To lose body mass, aiming to keep muscle but lose body fat.
To perform (an elaborate dancing movement etc.).
- to cut a caper
- 'Choke, chicken, there's more a-hatching,' said Miss Mag, in a sort of aside, and cutting a flic-flac with a merry devilish laugh, and a wink to Puddock.
To run or hurry.
- ‘Look here, you're nearest his size. Cut up to your rooms and give Ipps your dinner things and a clean shirt for him.’
- Now one of us had better cut down to Courtfield on a bike […]
Having been cut.
Reduced.
- The pitcher threw a cut fastball that was slower than his usual pitch.
- Cut brandy is a liquor made of brandy and hard grain liquor.
Carved into a shape
Carved into a shape; not raw.
Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among…
Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
- Or how 'bout Shane DiMora? Could he possibly get rip-roaring cut this time around?
- That's the premise of the overload principle, and it must be applied, even to ab training, if you're going to develop a cut, ripped midsection.
Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
Upset, angry
Upset, angry; emotionally hurt.
- ‘Here y'are,’ says the happy butcher, dragging out a bucket. ‘Good riddance. But me dogs'll be cut tonight, I tell ya. That's their grub.’
Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
- I was dev’lish cut—uncommon—been dining with some chaps at Greenwich.
The act of cutting.
- He made a fine cut with his sword.
The result of cutting.
- a smooth or clear cut
An instruction to cease recording.
- Near-synonym: scene!
The neighborhood
- synonymcarve
- synonymchive
- synonymcut
- synonymgash
- synonymincide
- synonymincise
- synonymlacerate
- synonymrace
- synonymshare
- synonymsnead
- synonymsnick
- synonymslash
- neighborcopy
- neighborpaste
- neighbordivide
- neighborimpale
- neighborabscind
- neighborbecarve
- neighborchamfer
- neighbordelimb
- neighbordock
- neighbordrib
- neighborexcide
- neighborpoll
Derived
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Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at cut. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at cut. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at cut
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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