verb cuts, cutting, cut 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. (intransitive) to use a sharp-edged instrument or an instrument that cuts
5. (transitive) to trim or prune by or as if by clipping: to cut hair
6. (transitive) to reap or mow (a crop, grass, etc)
7. (transitive) to geld or castrate
8. (transitive) sometimes foll by out. to make, form, or shape by cutting: to cut a suit
9. (transitive) to hollow or dig out; excavate: to cut a tunnel through the mountain
10. to strike (an object) sharply
11. (transitive) (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. (transitive) (informal) to refuse to recognize; snub
15. (transitive) (informal) to absent oneself from (an activity, location, etc), esp without permission or in haste: to cut class
16. (transitive) to abridge, shorten, or edit by excising a part or parts
17. (transitive) often foll by down. to lower, reduce, or curtail: to cut losses
18. (transitive) to dilute or weaken: heroin that was cut with nontoxic elements
19. (transitive) to dissolve or break up: to cut fat
20. when intr, foll by across or through. to cross or traverse: the footpath cuts through the field
21. (intransitive) 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. (
intransitive) (
films)
- to call a halt to a shooting sequence
- (foll by to) to move quickly to another scene
24. (films) to edit (film)
25. (transitive) to switch off (a light, car engine, etc)
26. (transitive) (of a performer, recording company, etc) to make (a record or tape of a song, concert, performance, etc)
27. (
cards)
- to divide (the pack) at random into two parts after shuffling
- (intransitive) to pick cards from a spread pack to decide dealer, partners, etc
28. (transitive) to remove (material) from an object by means of a chisel, lathe, etc
29. (transitive) (of a tool) to bite into (an object)
30. (intransitive) (of a horse) to injure the leg just above the hoof by a blow from the opposite foot
31. cut a caper, cut capers - to skip or jump playfully
- to act or behave playfully; frolic
32. cut both ways - to have both good and bad effects
- 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 - to use at an early age or stage
- to practise on
adjective 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
51. (
Brit)
a slang word for drunk 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
noun 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
64. (mainly 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. - (Irish, informal) a person's general appearance: I didn't like the cut of him
- (Irish, derogatory) a dirty or untidy condition: look at the cut of your shoes
69. a direct route; short cut
70. the US name for block (sense 15)
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, mainly 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. - the shape of the teeth of a file
- 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