cut

Plural: cuts

Noun

• a share of the profits
  • "everyone got a cut of the earnings"
• (film) an immediate transition from one shot to the next
  • "the cut from the accident scene to the hospital seemed too abrupt"
• a trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation
• a step on some scale
  • "he is a cut above the rest"
• a wound made by cutting
  • "he put a bandage over the cut"
• a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass
• a remark capable of wounding mentally
  • "the unkindest cut of all"
• a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc
  • "he played the first cut on the cd"
• the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage
• the style in which a garment is cut
  • "a dress of traditional cut"
• a canal made by erosion or excavation
• a refusal to recognize someone you know
• in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
  • "he took a vicious cut at the ball"
• (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball
  • "cuts do not bother a good tennis player"
• the division of a deck of cards before dealing
  • "he insisted that we give him the last cut before every deal"
  • "the cutting of the cards soon became a ritual"
• the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge
  • "his cut in the lining revealed the hidden jewels"
• the act of cutting something into parts
  • "his cuts were skillful"
  • "his cutting of the cake made a terrible mess"
• the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends
  • "the barber gave him a good cut"
• the act of reducing the amount or number
  • "the mayor proposed extensive cuts in the city budget"
• an unexcused absence from class
  • "he was punished for taking too many cuts in his math class"
• The act of cutting.
• The act of cutting.
• An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
• The act of cutting.
• A time period when one attempts to lose fat while retaining muscle mass.
• The result of cutting.
• The result of cutting.
• An opening of a living body resulting from cutting; an incision or wound.
• The result of cutting.
• An opening of a living body resulting from cutting; an incision or wound.
• Such a wound through human skin.
• The result of cutting.
• A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
• The result of cutting.
• A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
• Such a passage dug for a roadway for a paved road or railroad, a canal, a runway, etc.
• The result of cutting.
• An artificial channel for marine navigation, as distinguished from a navigable river.
• The result of cutting.
• A share or portion of profits.
• The result of cutting.
• A decrease or deletion.
• The result of cutting.
• The manner or style in which a garment, other article of clothing, or sail is fashioned.
• The result of cutting.
• A slab or slice, especially of meat.
• The result of cutting.
• A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
• The result of cutting.
• Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.
• The result of cutting.
• In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball.
• The result of cutting.
• In a stroke play 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.
• The result of cutting.
• A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play, movie script, speech, etc.
• The result of cutting.
• A particular version or edit of a film.
• The result of cutting.
• The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
• The result of cutting.
• The card obtained by dividing the pack.
• The result of cutting.
• A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
• The result of cutting.
• An unkind act; a cruelty.
• The result of cutting.
• An insult.
• The result of cutting.
• A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc.
• The result of cutting.
• 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.
• The result of cutting.
• A haircut.
• The result of cutting.
• The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
• The result of cutting.
• A dividing line in a Tumblr post, the content below which is hidden until the reader reveals it.
• The result of cutting.
• A string of railway cars coupled together, shorter than a train.
• The result of cutting.
• An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
• The result of cutting.
• A common workhorse; a gelding.
• The result of cutting.
• The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
• The result of cutting.
• A skein of yarn.
• The result of cutting.
• That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
• The result of cutting.
• A notch shaved into an eyebrow.
• The result of cutting.
• A hidden, secluded, or secure place.
• The result of cutting.
• The range of temperatures used to distill a particular mixture of hydrocarbons from crude oil.
• The result of cutting.
• A sleeveless vest worn by members of a motorcycle club.

Verb

Verb Forms: cut, cutting, cuts

• To divide or separate something with a sharp instrument.
• separate with or as if with an instrument
  • "Cut the rope"
• cut down on; make a reduction in
  • "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"
• turn sharply; change direction abruptly
  • "The car cut to the left at the intersection"
• make an incision or separation
  • "cut along the dotted line"
• discharge from a group
  • "The coach cut two players from the team"
• form by probing, penetrating, or digging
  • "cut a hole"
  • "cut trenches"
  • "The sweat cut little rivulets into her face"
• style and tailor in a certain fashion
  • "cut a dress"
• hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction
  • "cut a Ping-Pong ball"
• make out and issue
  • "cut a ticket"
• cut and assemble the components of
  • "cut recording tape"
• intentionally fail to attend
  • "cut class"
• be able to manage or manage successfully
  • "she could not cut the long days in the office"
• give the appearance or impression of
  • "cut a nice figure"
• move (one's fist)
  • "his opponent cut upward toward his chin"
• pass directly and often in haste
  • "We cut through the neighbor's yard to get home sooner"
• pass through or across
  • "The boat cut the water"
• make an abrupt change of image or sound
  • "cut from one scene to another"
• stop filming
  • "cut a movie scene"
• make a recording of
  • "cut the songs"
  • "She cut all of her major titles again"
• record a performance on (a medium)
  • "cut a record"
• create by duplicating data
  • "cut a disk"
• form or shape by cutting or incising
  • "cut paper dolls"
• perform or carry out
  • "cut a caper"
• function as a cutting instrument
  • "This knife cuts well"
• allow incision or separation
  • "This bread cuts easily"
• divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult
  • "Wayne cut"
  • "She cut the deck for a long time"
• cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch
  • "cut the engine"
• reap or harvest
  • "cut grain"
• fell by sawing; hew
  • "The Vietnamese cut a lot of timber while they occupied Cambodia"
• penetrate injuriously
  • "The glass from the shattered windshield cut into her forehead"
• refuse to acknowledge
  • "She cut him dead at the meeting"
• shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of
  • "cut my hair"
• weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
  • "We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet"
• dissolve by breaking down the fat of
  • "soap cuts grease"
• have a reducing effect
  • "This cuts into my earnings"
• cease, stop
  • "cut the noise"
  • "We had to cut short the conversation"
• reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
• lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
  • "cut bourbon"
• have grow through the gums
  • "The baby cut a tooth"
• grow through the gums
  • "The new tooth is cutting"
• cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses)
• To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
• To perform an incision on, for example with a knife.
• To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
• To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument.
• To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
• To form or shape by cutting.
• To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
• To wound with a knife.
• To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
• To engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin.
• To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
• To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to.
• To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
• To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce.
• To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
• To castrate or geld.
• To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
• To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
• To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
• To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
• To separate or omit, in a situation where one was previously associated.
• To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
• To abridge or shorten a work; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.
• To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
• To reduce, especially intentionally.
• To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
• To absent oneself from (a class, an appointment, etc.).
• To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
• To leave abruptly.
• To ignore as a social rebuff or snub.
• To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.
• 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.
• To enter a queue in the wrong place.
• To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
• 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.
• To divide a pack of playing cards into two parts, often followed by placing the two parts back together in the opposite order.
• To make, negotiate; to finalise, conclude; to issue.
• To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug.
• To exhibit (a figure having some trait).
• To stop, disengage, or cease.
• To renounce or give up.
• 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 run or hurry.

Adjective

• separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument
  • "the cut surface was mottled"
  • "cut tobacco"
  • "blood from his cut forehead"
  • "bandages on her cut wrists"
• fashioned or shaped by cutting
  • "a well-cut suit"
  • "cut diamonds"
  • "cut velvet"
• made neat and tidy by trimming
• (used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine
• (of pages of a book) having the folds of the leaves trimmed or slit
  • "the cut pages of the book"

Adjective Satellite

• with parts removed
  • "the drastically cut film"
• (of a male animal) having the testicles removed
  • "a cut horse"
• (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply
• mixed with water
  • "sold cut whiskey"

Adj

• Having been cut.
• Reduced.
• 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 larger muscles.
• Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
• Upset, angry; emotionally hurt.
• Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.

Intj

• An instruction to cease recording.

Examples

• a book illustrated with fine cuts
• a cut through the hillside for a railroad
• a smooth or clear cut
• After the incident at the dinner party, people started to cut him on the street.
• Cut brandy is a liquor made of brandy and hard grain liquor.
• Cut the engines when the plane comes to a halt!
• Don't buy his coke: it's full of cut.
• Drug dealers sometimes cut cocaine with lidocaine.
• He had to CUT his losses and make a low-scoring play, sacrificing future opportunities.
• He made a fine cut with his sword.
• I cut fifth period to hang out with Angela.
• I didn't deserve it, but he cut me a deal.
• I gotta cut but I'll see you tomorrow, okay?
• I have three diamonds to cut today.
• I like the cut of that jib.
• I like the cut of that suit.
• I'll cut a check for you.
• If you cut then I'll deal.
• Look at this cut on my finger!
• One student kept trying to cut in front of the line.
• Sarcasm cuts to the quick.
• Select the text, cut it, and then paste it in the other application.
• That's the TL;DR, anyway. You can find a more detailed version under the cut.
• That’s our finest cut of meat.
• The bank robbers disbanded after everyone got their cut of the money.
• The bartender cuts his beer to save money and now it's all watery.
• The best malt whiskies are improved if they are cut with a dash of water.
• The boss took a 5% pay cut.
• The camera then cut to the woman on the front row who was clearly overcome and crying tears of joy.
• The director asked the cast to note down the following cuts.
• the director's cut
• The drummer on the last cut of their CD is not identified.
• The editors went a little crazy making so many cuts.
• The football player cut to his left to evade a tackle.
• The patient said she had been cutting since the age of thirteen.
• The pitcher threw a cut fastball that was slower than his usual pitch.
• The player next to the dealer makes a cut by placing the bottom half on top.
• The schoolchildren were told to cut the noise.
• The taxman always gets his cut, and that's fine as long as it's a haircut and not an amputation.
• They're going to cut salaries by fifteen percent.
• This road cuts right through downtown.
• to cut a deal, to cut deals
• to cut a fantastic deal, to cut a raw deal
• to cut a horse
• Travis was cut from the team.
• Would you please cut the cake?

Synonyms

abbreviate, abridge, baseball swing, bring down, burn, cold shoulder, contract, curve, cut back, cut down, cut of meat, cut off, cutting, cutting off, deletion, dilute, disregard, edit, edit out, emasculated, excision, foreshorten, gash, geld, gelded, hack, ignore, issue, make out, mown, prune, rationalise, rationalize, reduce, sheer, shorten, shortened, skip, slash, slashed, slew, slice, slue, snub, stinger, swerve, swing, switch off, tailor, thin, thin out, thinned, track, trend, trim, trim back, trim down, trimmed, turn off, turn out, undercut, veer, weakened, write out, Adrian Quist, Brahms, Brahms and Liszt, MWI, Mozart and Liszt, Oliver, Oliver Twist, a sheet in the wind, a sheet in the wind's eye, adrip, aled up, all mops and brooms, arseholed, bedrunken, befuddled, beliquored, besotted, besotten, bevvied, bibacious, bibulous, bingoed, binned, bladdered, blasted, blewed, blind, blind drunk, blitzed, blocked, blootered, blottoed, blue, bollocksed, bombed, boozy, bosky, bottled, budgy, bungalowed, bungfu, burlin', canned, carve, chive, clobbered, cocked, cockeyed, corned, crapulous, crocked, cunted, cup-shot, cup-shotten, cut, cut out, dead drunk, destroyed, dip, disguised, drunk, drunk as a piper, drunked up, drunken, ebriated, ebriose, elephant's, elephant's trunk, elevated, faced, fap, feeling no pain, fershnickered, flooey, floored, flush, flushed, flustered, fluted, fluthered, fou, four sheets in the wind, fresh, fried, frosted, fuckered up, fuckfaced, fuddled, full, fuzzy-headed, fuzzy-minded, gassed, gattered, gee-eyed, gesuip, ginned, gished, glorious, groggified, groggy, half cut, half lit, half polluted, half seas over, hammered, have drink taken, have the sun in one's eyes, hazed, high, high as a Georgia pine, high as a kite, hog-whimpering, honkers, hooched up, hooted, hoovered, hosed, how came you so, impaired, in liquor, in one's altitudes, in one's cups, in the bag, in the drink, incide, incise, inebriate, inebriated, inebrious, insober, insobrietous, inter pocula, jaked, jarred, juiced, juiced up, kaylied, kisky, lacerate, lamped, langered, langers, larruped, lash, lashed, lathered, legless, liquored up, liquory, lit, loaded, looped, loopy, loose, lubed, lubed up, lubricated, lushed, mad with it, maggot, maggoted, mashed, maudlin, medicated, messed up, mix, monged, mortal, mortalled, muddled, muggy, mullered, munted, muzzy, nappy, newted, nimptopsical, obfuscated, obliviated, off one's box, off one's head, off one's tits, oiled, oiled up, on the ran tan, ossified, out of it, out of one's box, out of one's face, out of one's head, out of sight, overcome, overrefreshed, overtaken, paralytic, parlatic, pickled, pie-eyed, pixilated, plastered, ploughed, plowed, polluted, potshot, potted, pounded, primed, puggled, quisby, race, raddled, rat-arsed, ratted, razzled, ripe, ripped, rolling, rubbered, sauced, sauced up, scammered, schloshed, schnockered, screwed, scuttered, sewed up, share, shedded, shellacked, shicker, shickered, shitty, skunked, slammed, slarmied, slive, slizzard, sloppy drunk, sloshed, smashed, snead, snick, snithe, snockered, snookered, snozzled, snuffy, soaken, sodden, sotted, sottish, souped-up, soused, sozzled, sozzly, spanceled, spannered, spear, spiffed, splashed, spongy, sprung, squiffed, steamboats, stewed, stinking, stinko, stoated, stoned, stonkered, stotious, strut, swacked, tanked, tanked up, temulent, temulentive, three sheets in the wind, three sheets to the wind, throwed, tight, tight as a tick, tilted, tippled, tipsy, tired and emotional, toasted, top-heavy, top-heavy with drink, toping, track#Noun, trashed, tuned, twatfaced, twisted, wastey, wazzed, wazzocked, well-oiled, wellied, wet, whittled, withered, wobbly, woozy, worse for liquor, worse for wear, wrecked, zoned, zonked, zooted, zorched, zotzed

Antonyms

expand, switch on, uncut, unmown, untrimmed, ;, action, hike#Noun, increase#Noun

Related Words

copy, nut-cut, paste

Anagrams of cut