cut across
verb (used with object)
1.
to penetrate with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument or object: He cut his finger.
2.
to divide with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever; carve: to cut a rope.
3.
to detach with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; separate from the main body; lop off: to cut a slice from a loaf of bread.
4.
to hew or saw down; fell: to cut timber.
5.
to trim by clipping, shearing, paring, or pruning: to cut hair.
6.
to mow; reap; harvest: to cut grain.
7.
to abridge or shorten; edit by omitting a part or parts: to cut a speech.
8.
to lower, reduce, diminish, or curtail (sometimes followed by down ): to cut prices.
9.
to dilute; make less thick: to cut wine.
10.
to dissolve: That detergent cuts grease effectively.
11.
to intersect; cross: One line cuts another at right angles.
12.
Informal. to cease; discontinue (often followed by out ): Cut the kidding. Let's cut out the pretense.
13.
to stop; halt the running of, as a liquid or an engine (often followed by off ): The pilot cut the engines and glided in for a landing. Cut off the hot water.
14.
to dilute or adulterate (a drug) by mixing it with other substances.
15.
to grow (a tooth or teeth) through the gum: The baby is cutting his teeth.
16.
to type, write, or draw on (a stencil) for mimeographing.
17.
to make or fashion by cutting, as a statue, jewel, or garment.
18.
Glassmaking. to produce a pattern (in glass) by grinding and polishing.
19.
to refuse to recognize socially; shun ostentatiously: Her friends began to cut her as the season progressed.
20.
to strike sharply, as with a whip.
21.
to absent oneself from: allowed to cut three classes per semester.
22.
Movies, Television.
a.
to stop (a scene or shot being filmed).
b.
to edit (a film).
23.
24.
to wound the feelings of severely.
25.
Cards.
a.
to divide (a pack of cards) at random into two or more parts, by removing cards from the top.
b.
to take (a card) from a deck.
26.
to record a selection on (a phonograph record or tape); make a recording of.
27.
to castrate or geld.
28.
Sports. to hit (a ball) with either the hand or some instrument so as to change its course and often to cause it to spin.
29.
to hollow out; excavate; dig: to cut a trench.
30.
Cricket. to strike and send off (a ball) in front of the batsman, and parallel to the wicket.
31.
Slang. to be a nonplaying dealer, manager, or supervisor of (a card game, crap game, or other gambling game) in return for a percentage of the money bet or sometimes for a fee.
verb (used without object)
32.
to penetrate or divide something, as with a sharp-edged instrument; make an incision: The scissors cut well.
33.
to admit of being cut: Butter cuts easily.
34.
to pass, go, or come, especially in the most direct way (usually followed by across, through, in, etc.): to cut across an empty lot.
35.
Movies, Television.
a.
to shift suddenly from one shot to another: Cut to the barroom interior.
b.
to stop the action of a scene: used as a command by a director.
36.
to make a sudden or sharp turn in direction; change direction suddenly; swerve: We cut to the left to avoid hitting the child.
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is always a great word to know.
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| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
adjective
44.
45.
fashioned by cutting; having the surface shaped or ornamented by grinding, polishing, or the like: cut diamonds.
46.
reduced by or as if by cutting: cut whiskey; cut prices.
47.
Botany. incised; cleft.
48.
castrated; gelded.
49.
Slang. drunk.
noun
Verb phrases 50.
the act of cutting; a stroke or a blow, as with a knife, whip, etc.
51.
the result of cutting, as an incision, wound, passage, or channel.
52.
a piece cut off: a cut of a pie.
53.
Informal. a share, especially of earnings or profits: His agent's cut is 20 percent.
54.
a haircut, often with a styling.
55.
a reduction in price, salary, etc.
56.
the manner or fashion in which anything is cut: the cut of a dress.
57.
style; manner; kind: We need a man of his cut in this firm.
58.
a passage or course straight across or through: a cut through the woods.
59.
an excision or omission of a part.
60.
a part or quantity of text deleted or omitted.
61.
a quantity cut, especially of lumber.
62.
a refusal to recognize an acquaintance.
63.
an act, speech, etc., that wounds the feelings.
64.
an engraved plate or block of wood used for printing.
65.
a printed picture or illustration.
66.
an absence, as from a school class, at which attendance is required.
67.
Butchering. part of an animal usually cut as one piece.
68.
Cards. a cutting of the cards.
69.
70.
Fencing. a blow with the edge of the blade instead of the tip.
71.
one of several pieces of straw, paper, etc., used in drawing lots.
72.
73.
an individual song, musical piece, or other similar material on a record or tape.
74.
any product of the fractional distillation of petroleum.
75.
cut across, to precede or go beyond considerations of; transcend: The new tax program cuts across party lines.
76.
cut down,
a.
Also, cut down on. to lessen; decrease: to cut down on between-meal snacks.
b.
to strike and cause to fall: The first force to attempt an advance was swiftly cut down.
c.
to destroy, kill, or disable: The hurricane cut down everything in its path.
d.
to remodel, remake, or reduce in size, as a garment: She had her old coat cut down to fit her daughter.
77.
cut in,
a.
to move or thrust oneself, a vehicle, etc., abruptly between others: A speeding car cut in and nearly caused an accident.
b.
to interpose; interrupt: to cut in with a remark.
c.
Informal. to interrupt a dancing couple in order to dance with one of them.
d.
to blend (shortening) into flour by means of a knife.
78.
cut off,
a.
to intercept.
b.
to interrupt.
c.
to stop suddenly; discontinue.
d.
to halt the operation of; turn off.
e.
to shut off or shut out.
f.
to disinherit.
g.
to sever; separate.
79.
cut out,
a.
to omit; delete; excise.
b.
to oust and replace a rival; supplant.
c.
to part an animal from a herd.
d.
to plan; arrange: He has his work cut out for him.
e.
to move out of one's lane of traffic.
f.
Also, cut on out. Slang. to leave suddenly.
g.
Informal. to refrain from; stop: to cut out smoking.
h.
(of an engine, machine, etc.) to stop running.
80.
cut up,
a.
to cut into pieces or sections.
b.
to lacerate; wound.
c.
to distress mentally; injure.
d.
Informal. to play pranks; misbehave: They got scolded for cutting up in church.
81.
a cut above, somewhat superior to another (thing, person, etc.) in some respect: Her work is a cut above anyone else's.
82.
cut a caper/figure, to perform a spirited, brief, outlandish dance step, especially as a result of euphoria.
83.
cut a figure,
a.
b.
to give a certain impression of oneself: He cut a distinguished figure in his tuxedo.
84.
cut and run,
a.
Nautical. to cut the anchor cable and set sail, as in an emergency.
b.
to leave as hurriedly as possible; flee.
85.
cut back,
a.
to shorten by cutting off the end.
b.
to curtail or discontinue: Steel production has been cut back in recent months.
c.
to return to an earlier episode or event, as in the plot of a novel.
d.
Football. to reverse direction suddenly by moving in the diagonally opposite course.
86.
cut both ways, to have, produce, or result in advantages as well as disadvantages: This decision will inevitably cut both ways.
87.
cut/chop down to size, to reduce the stature or importance of: The novelist had a big ego until the critics cut him down to size.
88.
cut it, Informal.
a.
to achieve or maintain a desired level of performance: The aging football player decided he couldn't cut it any longer and retired.
b.
to be effective or successful; satisfy a need.
89.
cut it out, Informal. to stop doing something: That hurts! Cut it out!
90.
91.
cut out for, fitted for; capable of: He wasn't cut out for military service.
Origin:
1175–1225; Middle English cutten, kytten, kitten, Old English *cyttan; akin to Old Swedish kotta to cut, Old Norse kuti little knife
1175–1225; Middle English cutten, kytten, kitten, Old English *cyttan; akin to Old Swedish kotta to cut, Old Norse kuti little knife
Related forms
half-cut, adjective
mis·cut, verb, mis·cut, mis·cut·ting.
out·cut, verb (used with object), out·cut, out·cut·ting.
re·cut, verb, re·cut, re·cut·ting.
well-cut, adjective
Synonyms
1. gash, slash, slit, lance. 2. cleave, sunder, bisect. Cut, chop, hack, hew refer to giving a sharp blow or stroke. Cut is a general word for this: to cut the grass. To chop is to cut by giving repeated blows with something sharp, as an ax. To chop and to hew are practically interchangeable, but hew suggests keeping to a definite purpose: to chop or hew down a tree; to hew out a clearing. To hack is to cut or chop roughly and unevenly: to hack off a limb. 7. abbreviate, curtail.
1. gash, slash, slit, lance. 2. cleave, sunder, bisect. Cut, chop, hack, hew refer to giving a sharp blow or stroke. Cut is a general word for this: to cut the grass. To chop is to cut by giving repeated blows with something sharp, as an ax. To chop and to hew are practically interchangeable, but hew suggests keeping to a definite purpose: to chop or hew down a tree; to hew out a clearing. To hack is to cut or chop roughly and unevenly: to hack off a limb. 7. abbreviate, curtail.
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| —vb (sometimes foll by out) (often foll by down) (when intr, | |
| 1. | to open up or incise (a person or thing) with a sharp edge or instrument; gash |
| 2. | (of a sharp instrument) to penetrate or incise (a person or thing) |
| 3. | to divide or be divided with or as if with a sharp instrument: cut a slice of bread |
| 4. | (intr) to use a sharp-edged instrument or an instrument that cuts |
| 5. | (tr) to trim or prune by or as if by clipping: to cut hair |
| 6. | (tr) to reap or mow (a crop, grass, etc) |
| 7. | (tr) to geld or castrate |
| 8. | to make, form, or shape by cutting: to cut a suit |
| 9. | (tr) to hollow or dig out; excavate: to cut a tunnel through the mountain |
| 10. | to strike (an object) sharply |
| 11. | (tr) sport to hit (a ball) with a downward slicing stroke so as to impart spin or cause it to fall short |
| 12. | cricket to hit (the ball) to the off side, usually between cover and third man, with a roughly horizontal bat |
| 13. | to hurt or wound the feelings of (a person), esp by malicious speech or action |
| 14. | informal (tr) to refuse to recognize; snub |
| 15. | informal (tr) to absent oneself from (an activity, location, etc), esp without permission or in haste: to cut class |
| 16. | (tr) to abridge, shorten, or edit by excising a part or parts |
| 17. | to lower, reduce, or curtail: to cut losses |
| 18. | (tr) to dilute or weaken: heroin that was cut with nontoxic elements |
| 19. | (tr) to dissolve or break up: to cut fat |
| 20. | to cross or traverse: the footpath cuts through the field |
| 21. | (intr) to make a sharp or sudden change in direction; veer |
| 22. | to grow (teeth) through the gums or (of teeth) to appear through the gums |
| 23. | (intr) films |
| a. to call a halt to a shooting sequence | |
| b. ( | |
| 24. | films to edit (film) |
| 25. | (tr) to switch off (a light, car engine, etc) |
| 26. | (tr) (of a performer, recording company, etc) to make (a record or tape of a song, concert, performance, etc) |
| 27. | cards |
| a. to divide (the pack) at random into two parts after shuffling | |
| b. (intr) to pick cards from a spread pack to decide dealer, partners, etc | |
| 28. | (tr) to remove (material) from an object by means of a chisel, lathe, etc |
| 29. | (tr) (of a tool) to bite into (an object) |
| 30. | (intr) (of a horse) to injure the leg just above the hoof by a blow from the opposite foot |
| 31. | cut a caper, cut capers |
| a. to skip or jump playfully | |
| b. to act or behave playfully; frolic | |
| 32. | cut both ways |
| a. to have both good and bad effects | |
| b. to affect both sides of something, as two parties in an argument, etc | |
| 33. | cut a dash to behave or dress showily or strikingly; make a stylish impression |
| 34. | informal cut a person dead to ignore a person completely |
| 35. | cut a good figure to appear or behave well |
| 36. | cut a poor figure to appear or behave badly |
| 37. | informal cut and run to make a rapid escape |
| 38. | slang cut it be successful in doing something |
| 39. | informal cut it fine to allow little margin of time, space, etc |
| 40. | cut corners to do something in the easiest or shortest way, esp at the expense of high standards: we could finish this project early only if we cut corners |
| 41. | cut loose to free or become freed from restraint, custody, anchorage, etc |
| 42. | informal cut no ice to fail to make an impression |
| 43. | cut one's losses to give up spending time, money, or energy on an unprofitable or unsuccessful activity |
| 44. | informal cut one's teeth on |
| a. to use at an early age or stage | |
| b. to practise on | |
| —adj | |
| 45. | detached, divided, or separated by cutting |
| 46. | botany incised or divided: cut leaves |
| 47. | made, shaped, or fashioned by cutting |
| 48. | reduced or diminished by or as if by cutting: cut prices |
| 49. | gelded or castrated |
| 50. | weakened or diluted |
| 51. | (Brit) a slang word for drunk |
| 52. | hurt; resentful |
| 53. | informal cut and dried settled or arranged in advance |
| 54. | (Austral), (NZ) cut lunch a sandwich lunch carried from home to work, school, etc |
| —n | |
| 55. | the act of cutting |
| 56. | a stroke or incision made by cutting; gash |
| 57. | a piece or part cut off, esp a section of food cut from the whole: a cut of meat |
| 58. | the edge of anything cut or sliced |
| 59. | a passage, channel, path, etc, cut or hollowed out |
| 60. | an omission or deletion, esp in a text, film, or play |
| 61. | a reduction in price, salary, etc |
| 62. | a decrease in government finance in a particular department or area, usually leading to a reduction of services, staff numbers, etc |
| 63. | short for power cut |
| 64. | chiefly (US), (Canadian) a quantity of timber cut during a specific time or operation |
| 65. | informal a portion or share |
| 66. | informal a straw, slip of paper, etc, used in drawing lots |
| 67. | the manner or style in which a thing, esp a garment, is cut; fashion |
| 68. | a. informal (Irish) a person's general appearance: I didn't like the cut of him |
| b. derogatory (Irish) a dirty or untidy condition: look at the cut of your shoes | |
| 69. | a direct route; short cut |
| 70. | the US name for block |
| 71. | sport the spin of a cut ball |
| 72. | cricket a stroke made with the bat in a roughly horizontal position |
| 73. | films an immediate transition from one shot to the next, brought about by splicing the two shots together |
| 74. | informal an individual piece of music on a record; track |
| 75. | words or an action that hurt another person's feelings |
| 76. | a refusal to recognize an acquaintance; snub |
| 77. | informal chiefly (US) an unauthorized absence, esp from a school class |
| 78. | chem a fraction obtained in distillation, as in oil refining |
| 79. | the metal removed in a single pass of a machine tool |
| 80. | a. the shape of the teeth of a file |
| b. their coarseness or fineness | |
| 81. | (Brit) a stretch of water, esp a canal |
| 82. | informal a cut above superior (to); better (than) |
| 83. | golf make the cut to better or equal the required score after two rounds in a strokeplay tournament, thus avoiding elimination from the final two rounds |
| 84. | golf miss the cut to achieve a greater score after the first two rounds of a strokeplay tournament than that required to play in the remaining two rounds |
| [C13: probably of Scandinavian origin; compare Norwegian kutte to cut, Icelandic kuti small knife] | |
| cut across | |
| —vb | |
| 1. | (intr) to be contrary to ordinary procedure or limitations: opinion on European integration still cuts clean across party lines |
| 2. | to cross or traverse, making a shorter route: she cut across the field quickly |
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Word Origin & History
cut
late 13c., possibly Scandinavian, from N.Gmc. *kut-, or from O.Fr. couteau "knife." Replaced O.E. ceorfan "carve," sniþan, and scieran "shear." Meaning "to be absent without excuse" is British university slang from 1794. The noun meaning "gash, incision" is attested from 1520s; meaning "piece cut
off" is from 1590s; sense of "a wounding sarcasm" is from 1560s. To cut a pack of cards is from 1590s.
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cut (kŭt)
v. cut, cut·ting, cuts
To penetrate with a sharp edge; strike a narrow opening in.
To separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever.
To make an incision or a separation.
To have a new tooth grow through the gums.
To form or shape by severing or incising.
To separate from a body; detach.
To lessen the strength of; dilute.
The act of cutting.
The result of cutting, especially an opening or wound made by a sharp edge.
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cut across
Go beyond, transcend, as in The new regulations cut across class lines. This figurative use of cut across, which literally means "run through" or "intersect," dates from the 1920s.
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