Word Finder - cutting

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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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The action of the verb to cut.

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How many different cuttings can this movie undergo?

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A section removed from a larger whole.

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An abridged selection of written work, often intended for performance.

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The actor had to make his cutting shorter to fit the audition time.

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An open passage at a level lower than the surrounding terrain, dug for a canal, railway, or road to go through.

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• cut

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(sound engineering) The editing of film or other recordings.

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The process of bringing metals to a desired shape by chipping away the unwanted material.

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Boring, drilling, milling, and turning are all different kinds of metal cutting processes.

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The act of cutting one's own skin as a symptom of a mental disorder; self-harm.

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That is used for cutting.

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I need some sort of cutting utensil to get through this shrink wrap.

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Piercing, sharp.

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Of criticism, remarks, etc.: (potentially) hurtful.

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The director gave the auditioning actors cutting criticism.

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Of a beverage: half-sized.

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a cutting chai

He didn't say anything about cutting the rope?

I'm always cutting off more than I can chew.

Dean pointed out the obvious reasons he was suspected of cutting the rope.

He hadn't mentioned anything earlier about cutting the evening short so I figured it was an excuse.

He signalized his accession by putting to death his brothers and nephews; and gave early proof of resolution by boldly cutting down before their troops two officers who showed signs of insubordination.

A portion of the body may die in consequence of the disturbance of its nutrition by inflammation, or of a cutting off of the bloodsupply, as by pressure upon, or injury to, the blood-vessels.

As soon as their strategic purpose of cutting him off from Vienna became apparent, the emperor moved his troops into position, and in the afternoon issued his famous proclamation to his troops, pointing out the enemy's mistakes and his plan for defeating them.

French centre near Amotz, where, after hard fighting, it swept away the 18,000 of the second line there opposed to it, cutting Soult's army in two.

Beresford was Feb.27, directed to turn his right, if possible cutting him off 1814.

The Shilka and the Argun, which form it, flow first towards the north-east along the windings of the lower terrace of the great plateau; from this the Amur descends, cutting through the Great Khingan and flowing down the terraces of the eastern versant towards the Pacific. A noteworthy feature of the principal Siberian rivers is that each is formed by the confluence of a pair of rivers.

As to the third complaint, that the compilers of the Digest altered the extracts they collected, cutting out and inserting words and sentences at their own pleasure, this was a process absolutely necessary according to the instructions given them, which were to prepare a compilation representing the existing law, and to be used for the actual administration of justice in the tribunals.

The second group represents, first, the birth of Mithras; then the god nude, cutting fruit and leaves from a fig-tree in which is the bust of a deity, and before which one of the winds is blowing upon Mithras; the god discharging an arrow against a rock from which springs a fountain whose water a figure is kneeling to receive in his palms; the bull in a small boat, near which again occurs the figure of the animal under a roof about to be set on fire by two figures; the bull in flight, with Mithras in pursuit; Mithras bearing the bull on his shoulders; Helios kneeling before Mithras; Helios and Mithras clasping hands over an altar; Mithras with drawn bow on a running horse; Mithras and Helios banqueting; Mithras and Helios mounting the chariot of the latter and rising in full course over the ocean.

Among these are flour mills, factories for the cutting of wire nails and making hollow ware from sheet iron, and factories for the manufacture of umbrellas, boots and shoes, &c.

The depth of the cutting is indicated by marks on the vertical wall at intervals of 10 Roman ft.

It was probably in consequence of the cutting just mentioned that some of the more important buildings of the imperial period were erected in the low ground by the shore, and near the small harbour.

Voltaire revenged himself on the duke of Sully for his conduct towards his guest by cutting Maximilien de Bethune's name out of the Henriade.

As in 1770, carving or cutting is the chief method by which ornament is produced, the vessels being blown very solid.

The common variety of bed-sore is the result of continuous pressure on and irritation of the skin, the vitality and resisting power of which are lowered by a lesion of the cord cutting off the trophic supply to the skin affected.

The west boundary of Achradina is marked farther south by a perpendicular cutting in the rock, on the top of which a wall must have run (see above).

In religion he protested stoutly, and no doubt sincerely, that his own attitude was not purely negative; but here also he seems to have failed altogether to distinguish between pruning and cutting down.

Siphons are sometimes used to carry the water over an undulating grade and thereby save the expense of a deep rock cutting.

The Chindwin, called in its upper reaches the Tanai, rises in the hills south-west of Thama, and flows due north till it enters the southeast corner of the Hukawng valley, where it turns north-west and continues in that direction cutting the valley into two almost equal parts until it reaches its north-west range, when it turns almost due south and takes the name of the Chindwin.

Further, all the subsequent processes of cutting, moulding and annealing become increasingly difficult, owing to the greatly increased risk of breakage arising from either external injury or internal strain, as the dimensions of the individual piece of glass increase.

Cutting and engraving are mechanical processes for producing decorative effects by abrading the surface of the glass when cold.

The spindles of cutting wheels are driven by steam or electric power.

Cutting brings out the brilliancy of glass, which is one of its intrinsic qualities.

In many specimens there were three or more layers of differently coloured glass, and curious effects of blended colour were obtained by cutting through, or partly through, the different layers.

This only requires to be annealed and is then ready for cutting up, but the lump of glass by which the original globe was attached to the pipe remains as the bullion in the centre of the disk of glass.

From the annealing kiln the slabs of glass are transported to the cutting room, where they are cut square, defective slabs being rejected or cut down to smaller sizes.

The deceptive effect is in some cases heightened by cutting over and polishing by hand the pressed surface.

All kinds of vessels were blown, both with and without moulds, and both moulding and cutting were used as methods of decoration.

The invention of colourless Bohemian glass brought in its train the practice of cutting glass, a method of ornamentation for which Venetian glass, from its thinness, was ill adapted.

It was at Prague that Caspar Lehmann and Zachary Belzer learnt the craft of cutting glass.

George Schwanhart, a pupil of Caspar Lehmann, started glass-cutting at Ratisbon, and about 1690 Stephen Schmidt and Hermann Schwinger introduced the crafts of cutting and engraving glass in Nuremberg.

Engraved flowers, views and devices are often combined with decorative cutting.

Every solid substance is found to be plastic more or less, as exemplified by punching, shearing and cutting; but the plastic solid is distinguished from the viscous fluid in that a plastic solid requires a certain magnitude of stress to be exceeded to make it flow, whereas the viscous liquid will yield to the slightest stress, but requires a certain length of time for the effect to be appreciable.

Haynes has systematically and patiently uncovered the remains of the great temple of El-lil, removing layer after layer of debris and cutting sections in the ruins down to the virgin soil.

The slabs are sent by a conveyor to a drying stove, whence they issue to pass through a cutting machine, provided with knives so arranged that the cutting takes place both downwards and upwards, and here the slabs are cut into cubes.

The cubes fall from the cutting machine on to a riddling machine, which separates those which are defective in size from the rest.

In Shuffling, Cutting and Dealing, 26th of May, he rejoiced at the quarrels which he saw arising, for "if you all complain I hope I shall win at last."

It seems very probable that the fourscore thousand hewers employed by Solomon for cutting timber did not confine their operations simply to what would now be termed cedars and fir-trees.

This is an excellent group for cutting purposes, but it will take a few more years to make the varieties common.

It commonly results from injury, as the tearing or cutting of a blood-vessel, but certain forms result from disease, as in scurvy and purpura.

The cutting of this canal led to the construction of an aqueduct for drinking water, which, besides supplying the city, furnishes an ice factory with enough water to make 200 quintals of ice per day.

Other sources of employment are the cutting of hair for making hats, the production of fancy goods, type, machinery, soap and perfumery, ready-made clothing, chemicals, electro-technical apparatus, jewelry and metal wares.

But with the advent of the new regimen in Meiji days there arose a desire for social plays depicting the life of the modern generation, and as these croppy dramas (zampatsumono)so called in allusion to the European method of cutting the hair closewere not included in the repertoire of the orthodox theatre, amateur troupes (known as sOshi-yakusha) were organized to fill the void.

These, both for design and for skill of cutting, hold their own with the best work of European wood-cutting of any period.

Microscopic accuracy has to be attained in cutting out the space for the insertion of the design, and while the latter must be soldered firmly in its place, not the slightest trace of solder or the least sign of junction must be discernible between the metal of the inserted picture and that of the field in which it is inserted.

It is, in fact, velvet that has passed through all the usual stages of manufacture except the cutting of the thread along each wire and the withdrawal of the wires.

The cutting artist lays the piece of unfinished velvet on his bench, and proceeds to carve into the pattern with his chisel, just as though he were shading the lines of the design with a steel pencil.