Word Finder - cuts

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The act of cutting.

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He made a fine cut with his sword.

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The result of cutting.

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a smooth or clear cut

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An opening resulting from cutting; an incision or wound.

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Look at this cut on my finger!

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A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.

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a cut for a railroad

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A share or portion.

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The lawyer took a cut of the profits.

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A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.

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Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.

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In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball.

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In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained a preannounced score, so that the rest of the competition is less pressed for time and more entertaining for spectators.

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A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play.

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The director asked the cast to note down the following cuts.

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A particular version or edit of a film.

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The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.

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The player next to the dealer makes a cut by placing the bottom half on top.

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The card obtained by dividing the pack.

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The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.

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I like the cut of that suit.

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A slab, especially of meat.

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That’s our finest cut of meat.

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An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.

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A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.

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An unkind act; a cruelty.

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A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc.

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The drummer on the last cut of their CD is not identified.

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A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits were removed for the creation of some feature such as a ditch or pit.

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A haircut.

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The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.

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A string of railway cars coupled together.

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An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.

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a book illustrated with fine cuts

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A common workhorse; a gelding.

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The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.

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A skein of yarn.

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That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.

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Don't buy his coke: it's full of cut.

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A notch shaved into an eyebrow.

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A time period when one tries to lose fat while retaining muscle mass.

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A hidden or secure place.

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(heading) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.

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To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.

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(heading, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.

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(audio, usually as imperative) To cease recording activities.

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After the actors read their lines, the director yelled, "Cut!"

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To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.

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The camera then cut to the woman on the front row who was clearly overcome and crying tears of joy.

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To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.

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To remove and place in memory for later use.

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Select the text, cut it, and then paste it in the other application.

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To enter a queue in the wrong place.

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One student kept trying to cut in front of the line.

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To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.

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This road cuts right through downtown.

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To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it.

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To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.

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To change direction suddenly.

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The football player cut to his left to evade a tackle.

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To divide a pack of playing cards into two.

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If you cut then I'll deal.

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To write.

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cut orders;  cut a check

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To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug.

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Drug dealers sometimes cut cocaine with lidocaine.

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To exhibit (a quality).

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To stop or disengage.

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Cut the engines when the plane comes to a halt!

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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.

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To lose body mass after bulking, aiming to keep the additional muscle but lose the fat.

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To perform (a dancing movement etc.).

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(with "the") Corporal punishment at school.

The cuts on the limbs were definitely fresh.

She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority.

She started to saw at them with the knife.  The wood was thick and wet.  She shifted closer, gasping when the root healed the cuts she'd just made.  Furious at the latest trick from the Immortal underworld, Katie sawed furiously at the root, until her arm ached.  She'd barely made a dent when she switched arms.

In quarrying the cuts are generally 4 or 5 in.

From Luang Prabang the river cuts its way southwards for two degrees through a lonely jungle country among receding hills of low elevation.

The wheels for making deep cuts are made of iron, and are fed with sand and water.

Patterns are produced by combining straight and curved cuts.

Some of its sources are near Zebak, close to the great bend of the Oxus northwards, so that it cuts off all the mountainous area included within that bend from the rest of Badakshan.

Wheels of fine sandstone fed with water are used for making slighter cuts and for smoothing the rough surface left by the iron wheels.

When fighting was a part of the Sikh's duty, long hair and iron rings concealed in it protected his head from sword cuts.

As the machine is drawn forward the disk revolves and cuts deeply into the ground, and by reason of its inclination crowds the earth outwards and thus turns a furrow.

The engraver, who is very rarely the designer, then cuts the otitlines into the block with a knife, afterwards removing the superfluous wood with gouges and chisels.

In the course of the 17th century many other works of the same nature were issued, including some in which the cuts were roughly colored by hand; but the execution of these is not as good as contemporary European work.

In the surface of the metal the workman cuts grooves wider at the base than at the top, and then hammers into them gold or silver wire.

As an illustrator in black and white he also deserves to be remembered, especially for the cuts to Dalziel's Bible, already mentioned, and his illustrations to George Eliot's Romola, which appeared in the Cornhill Magazine.

They are - normally hard and remain so, even at a faint red heat; much deeper cuts can therefore be taken at a high speed without blunting the tool.

Each cone cuts out an area on the surface equally inclined to the cone axis.

To the south the rivulet of the Mance soon forms a formidable obstacle as its bed cuts its way through the sandstone.

In 1557 the Portuguese were permitted to erect factories on the peninsula, and in 1573 the Chinese built across the isthmus the wall which still cuts off the barbarian from the rest of the island.

For this purpose a horizontal bar Shaft armed with vertical cutting chisels is used, which cuts boring.

The large trepan or cutter weighs about 16 tons, and cuts a hole of from 9 to 15 ft.

To guard against this it is now customary to use some speed-checking appliance, independent of the engine-man, which reduces or entirely cuts off the steam supply when the cage arrives at a particular point near the surface, and applies the brake if the load is travelling too quickly.

It is to be noticed that each number is the sum of the numbers immediately 35 above and to the left of it; and 35 that the numbers along a line, termed a base, which cuts off an equal number of units along the top row and column are the co efficients in the binomial expansion of (I+x) r - 1, where r represents the number of units cut off.

Archean rocks - gneiss, schist and granite - cover large areas through which the Nile cuts its way in alternate narrow gorges and open reaches.

In the vicinity is the Karolinen canal, which cuts off a bend in the Danube between Lauingen and Dillingen.

A briquette may therefore be defined as a solid figure bounded by a pair of parallel planes, another pair of parallel planes at right angles to these, a base at right angles to these four planes (and therefore rectangular), and a top which is a surface of any form, but such that every ordinate from the base cuts it in one point and one point only.

Corvaeus enumerates 70 varieties, Pamphilus cuts them down to 6, John de Indagine to 27, and Tricassus Mantuanus raises them to 80.

When they have been reduced to the correct thickness they are examined by the " tryer," who cuts out one or two blanks from each fillet with a hand machine and weighs them on a delicate balance.

The Medway, however, cuts through the entire hill system, rising in the Forest Ridges of Sussex, flowing N.E.

Sheerness lies at the mouth of the Medway, a narrow branch of which cuts off a tongue of land termed the Isle of Grain lying opposite Sheerness.

Except where the Humber cuts through a low chalk ridge, between north and south Ferriby, dividing it into the Wolds of Yorkshire and of Lincolnshire, the shores and adjacent lands are nearly flat.

As soon as the plate has lost a certain amount of weight corresponding to the value of the electric energy represented by the coin, the plate rises out of the liquid and cuts off the current.

It lies in a flat agricultural fen district, drained by numerous cuts, some of which are navigable.

It includes the Sunda Islands, the Moluccas, New Guinea, and the Philippine Islands, but excludes the Andaman-Nicobar group. The equator passes through the middle of the archipelago; it successively cuts Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes and Halmahera, four of the most important islands.

It contemplates the assumption of the vow for a limited period only, and gives particular details as to the atoning ceremonies at the sanctuary by which the vow must be recommenced if broken by accidental defilement, and the closing sacrifice, at which the Nazarite on the expiry of his vow cuts off his hair and burns it on the altar, thus returning to ordinary life.

The seneschal of the court, a coward who has been watching for such an opportunity, cuts off the dragon's head, and, presenting it to the king, claims the reward, much to the dismay of Iseult and her mother.

The material is sometimes won by the aid of channelling machines which make a series of cuts at right angles to each other in the face of the rock; a block is then broken off at its base by wedges forced into the cuts, and its removal permits access to other blocks.

When blasting is resorted to, advantage is taken of the natural cuts or joints, as the rock is readily thrown or worked off these.

Those genera, like Paradoxides, Olenus, Asaphus, Phillipsia and others, in which this groove cuts the posterior edge of the head-shield on the inner side of its angle are referred to the Opisthoparia; those, like Dalmanites and Phacops, in which it cuts the lateral border in front of the posterior angle, belong to the Proparia.

But in certain genera, like Conocoryphe, Calymmene and Triarthrus, it cuts the margin of the head-shield so close to the posterior angle that the distinction between the two groups practically breaks down.

This subdivision is already necessary in Maryland, where the mountain belt is represented by the Blue Ridge, which is rather a narrow upland belt than a ridge proper where the Potomac cuts across it; while the piedmont belt, relieved by occasional monadnocks stretches from the eastern base of the Blue Ridge to the coastal plain, into which it merges.

In certain parts of the plateau there are narrow anticlinal uplifts, an outlying effect of mountain-making compression; here a ridge rises if the exposed strata are resistant, as in Chestnut ridge of western Pennsylvania; but here a valley is excavated if the exposed strata are weak, as in Sequatchie Valley, a long narrow trough which cuts off a strip of the plateau from its greater body in Tennessee.

Every circle through the limiting points cuts all circles of the system orthogonally; 5.

A somewhat similar relationship cuts off Canada from the Atlantic on the east, the north-eastern coast of Labrador belonging to Newfoundland.

He urges very rightly that if alteration is carried beyond a certain point it cuts away its own foundation, and so all certainty is destroyed.

The silk drawn by the rows of teeth on the drum through the porcupine rollers (or porcupine sheets in some cases) covers the whole of the drum, hooked at certain intervals round the teeth; and when a sufficient weight is on the machine, it is stopped, and an attendant cuts, with a knife, the silk along the back of each row of teeth, thus leaving a fringe of silk hooked on the pins or teeth.

Geographically the Safed Koh is not an isolated range, for there is no break in the continuity of water divide which connects it with the great Shandur offshoot of the Hindu Kush except the narrow trough of the Kabul river, which cuts a deep waterway across where it makes its way from Dakka into the Peshawar plains.

The process of cooling is thus represented by a path which runs vertically downwards till it cuts the 0 Molecular Percentage of Na t S04 Siluer Copper FIG.

The river is locked up to Godalming, and navigation is assisted by cuts.

As freezing progresses, at each successive temperature reached the frozen austenite has the carbon-content of the point on Aa which that temperature abscissa cuts, and the still molten part or " mother-metal " has the carbon-content horizontally opposite this on the line AB.