Word Finder - cut

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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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(participial adjective) Having been cut.

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Reduced.

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Cut brandy is a liquor made of brandy and hard grain liquor.

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Omitted from a literary, musical or other work.

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My favourite song had been cut from the show.

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(of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.

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(of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.

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Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.

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Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation

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Emotionally hurt.

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Eliminated from consideration during a recruitment drive.

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Removed from a team roster.

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Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.

I've cut enough here for supper.

A knife is an instrument to cut with.

Placing it in a little plate, he cut it up in small pieces.

Now cut me a piece of that pie.

But didn't you cut it almost too short?

The first rope was cut.

She was relieved when an older gentleman cut in.

She cut her explanation off short as Cade pulled into the drive.

He cut off the conversation with a hearty laugh.

Mr. Thomas Morley was admitted with a gunshot wound to his leg, sustained, according to him, when he was mugged in an alley while taking a short cut to his car.

It doesn't mean he cut the rope.

Dad had taken a short cut then.

He's been in northern Florida since we cut him loose.

Our fugitives returned, the battalions re-formed, and the French who had nearly cut our left flank in half were for the moment repulsed.

I cut him off.

One soldier, in his fear, uttered the senseless cry, "Cut off!" that is so terrible in battle, and that word infected the whole crowd with a feeling of panic.

The rope was cut.

The man cut him off.

The way I see it, someone from Bird Song cut his rope.

Why don't you cut down on the troops here?

Someone cut that rope, but it wasn't me.

Do you think Donnie cut the rope?

So, you think Jerome Shipton cut the line so it looked like someone was trying to kill him and then used the remaining portion to loop through an anchor so he could then rappel down?

He sure didn't fall all the way down from where the line was cut and I doubt anyone cut the rope when he was half way down the cliff.

Now, can we cut out all this shit and....

The whole cut impressed me as if it were a cave with its stalactites laid open to the light.

Cut it out, Howie!

Someone cut the son of a bitch's line and I'm the one who's stuck trying to find out who did it.

Her body had been cut free and moved to the downstairs to await a hearse from Montrose.

I don't care if she cut her husband's rope or not.

Deep down, you still don't think Edith was the one who cut the line!

I don't much give a flying you-know-what who cut her husband's rope as long as no one is blaming me, or any of us.

Does that mean that Donnie did cut the rope?

Cynthia obliging cut a piece—a second piece for Dean after he frowned—a third as she joined them.

The suicide note cut off any reason for investigation.

He made a precision cut through the meat.

The sub-region is probably sharply cut off from the Intermediate.

She cut both ropes!

She cut him off with effort.

The real children, if any, were usually consenting parties to an arrangement which cut off their expectations.

If the forest is cut off, the sprouts and bushes which spring up afford them concealment, and they become more numerous than ever.

It will be cut off, said he.

If Kutuzov decided to remain at Krems, Napoleon's army of one hundred and fifty thousand men would cut him off completely and surround his exhausted army of forty thousand, and he would find himself in the position of Mack at Ulm.

They were cut off from the line of retreat on the left by the French.

However inconvenient the position, it was now necessary to attack in order to cut a way through for themselves.

Curving her arms, Natasha held out her skirts as dancers do, ran back a few steps, turned, cut a caper, brought her little feet sharply together, and made some steps on the very tips of her toes.

Dolokhov cut him short, as if to remind him that it was not for him to jest.

He cut Bolkonski short.

I dutifully trekked back through the ranks, lying that I'd been cut off.

I felt a sharp sting as the blade cut.