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cut-in
[ kuht-in ]
noun
- Movies. a still, as of a scene or an object, inserted in a film and interrupting the action or continuity:
We will insert a cut-in of the letter as she reads it.
- Radio and Television. a commercial or other announcement inserted by a local station into a network broadcast.
- the act of cutting in, as on a dancing couple.
cut in
verb
- Alsocut into introften foll byon to break in or interrupt
- intr to interrupt a dancing couple to dance with one of them
- intr (of a driver, motor vehicle, etc) to draw in front of another vehicle leaving too little space
- informal.tr to allow to have a share
- intr to take the place of a person in a card game
noun
- Also calledinsert films a separate shot or scene inserted at a relevant point
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cut-in1
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Example Sentences
This is only a sort of 'cut-in' effect, anyhow—a preliminary to the grand performance that is to come later.
With this wiring layout, any number of batteries from one to ten may be cut-in by means of the switches.
A cut-in head is set in a panel, with or without rule, after the second or third line of the first paragraph.
But instead of commencing at once to cut-in, Captain Count gave orders to pile on all sail and keep her away up the Straits.
Just after we started to cut-in a boat appeared alongside with six Maories and half-breeds on board.
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