cut

verb cuts · cutting · cut · cutted

1. transitive To perform an incision on, for example with a knife. You must cut this flesh from off his breast.
2. transitive To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument. Would you please cut the cake?
3. transitive To form or shape by cutting. I have three diamonds to cut today.
4. slang, transitive To wound with a knife. We don't want your money no more. We just going to cut you.
5. intransitive, transitive To engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin. The patient said she had been cutting since the age of thirteen.
6. ambitransitive, transitive To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to. “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
7. transitive To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce. Sarcasm cuts to the quick.
8. transitive To castrate or geld. to cut a horse
9. transitive To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
10. intransitive To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument. The panels of white-wood that cuts like cheese, / But lasts like iron for things like these;
11. transitive To separate or omit, in a situation where one was previously associated. Travis was cut from the team.
12. transitive To abridge or shorten a work; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.
13. transitive To reduce, especially intentionally. They're going to cut salaries by fifteen percent.
14. transitive To absent oneself from (a class, an appointment, etc.). I cut fifth period to hang out with Angela.
15. intransitive, slang, transitive To leave abruptly. I gotta cut but I'll see you tomorrow, okay?
16. transitive To ignore as a social rebuff or snub. After the incident at the dinner party, people started to cut him on the street.
17. intransitive To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another. The camera then cut to the woman on the front row who was clearly overcome and crying tears of joy.
18. transitive To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
19. transitive To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time. Select the text, cut it, and then paste it in the other application.
20. intransitive To enter a queue in the wrong place. One student kept trying to cut in front of the line.
21. intransitive To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so. This road cuts right through downtown.
22. transitive To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it.
23. transitive To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
24. intransitive To change direction suddenly. The football player cut to his left to evade a tackle.
25. intransitive, transitive To divide a pack of playing cards into two parts, often followed by placing the two parts back together in the opposite order. If you cut then I'll deal.
26. slang, transitive To make, negotiate; to finalise, conclude; to issue. I'll cut a check for you.
27. slang, transitive To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug. The best malt whiskies are improved if they are cut with a dash of water.
28. transitive To exhibit (a figure having some trait). The Bender family cut a very distinct profile.
29. transitive To stop, disengage, or cease. The schoolchildren were told to cut the noise.
30. transitive To renounce or give up.
31. 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.
32. To lose body mass, aiming to keep muscle but lose body fat.
33. To perform (an elaborate dancing movement etc.). to cut a caper
34. colloquial, intransitive To run or hurry. ‘Look here, you're nearest his size. Cut up to your rooms and give Ipps your dinner things and a clean shirt for him.’

Similar: carve, chive, cut, gash, incide, incise, lacerate, race, share, snead, snick, slash

adjective more cut · most cut · cvt

1. adjective, error misspelling, participle Having been cut. The real purpose of building this railway on the part of the Japanese imperialists at that time was to spy on the Mongolian People's Republic and to transport the timber produced in the A-erh-t'ai forest zone.[…]The principal cargo consists of cut timber from the A-erh-t'ai-shan, and the cereal prod
2. Reduced. The pitcher threw a cut fastball that was slower than his usual pitch.
3. Carved into a shape; not raw.
4. Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
5. Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles. Or how 'bout Shane DiMora? Could he possibly get rip-roaring cut this time around?
6. informal Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
7. Australia, New Zealand, slang Upset, angry; emotionally hurt. ‘Here y'are,’ says the happy butcher, dragging out a bucket. ‘Good riddance. But me dogs'll be cut tonight, I tell ya. That's their grub.’
8. New Zealand, slang Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol. I was dev’lish cut—uncommon—been dining with some chaps at Greenwich.

noun cuts · cvt

1. countable, figuratively, uncountable The act of cutting. He made a fine cut with his sword.
2. countable, figuratively, uncountable An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
3. countable, figuratively, uncountable A time period when one attempts to lose fat while retaining muscle mass.
4. countable, figuratively, uncountable The result of cutting. a smooth or clear cut
5. countable, figuratively, uncountable An opening of a living body resulting from cutting; an incision or wound.
6. countable, figuratively, uncountable Such a wound through human skin. Look at this cut on my finger!
7. countable, figuratively, uncountable A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
8. countable, figuratively, uncountable Such a passage dug for a roadway for a paved road or railroad, a canal, a runway, etc. a cut through the hillside for a railroad
9. countable, figuratively, uncountable An artificial channel for marine navigation, as distinguished from a navigable river.
10. countable, figuratively, uncountable A share or portion of profits. The taxman always gets his cut, and that's fine as long as it's a haircut and not an amputation.
11. countable, figuratively, uncountable A decrease or deletion. The boss took a 5% pay cut.
12. countable, figuratively, uncountable The manner or style in which a garment, other article of clothing, or sail is fashioned. I like the cut of that suit.
13. countable, figuratively, uncountable A slab or slice, especially of meat. That’s our largest cut of meat.
14. countable, figuratively, uncountable A standard type of meat portion in butchery. The Vegas Strip is a supposedly new cut of beef.
15. countable, figuratively, uncountable A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
16. countable, figuratively, uncountable Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.
17. countable, figuratively, uncountable In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball.
18. countable, figuratively, uncountable 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.
19. countable, especially, figuratively, uncountable A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play, movie script, speech, etc. The director asked the cast to note down the following cuts.
20. countable, figuratively, uncountable A particular version or edit of a film. the director's cut
21. countable, figuratively, uncountable The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards. The player next to the dealer makes a cut by placing the bottom half on top.
22. countable, figuratively, uncountable The card obtained by dividing the pack.
23. countable, figuratively, uncountable A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance. Rip called him by name, but the cur snarled, showed his teeth, and passed on. This was an unkind cut indeed.
24. countable, figuratively, uncountable An unkind act; a cruelty.
25. countable, figuratively, slang, uncountable An insult. 1966-1969, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure We got out & there was a group of boppers, bout 25 of 'm in a group. They started yellin cuts, "queer" seemed to be the favorite they all began chanting it. "Hey, yer not gonna ser
26. countable, figuratively, uncountable A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc. The drummer on the last cut of their CD is not identified.
27. countable, figuratively, uncountable 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.
28. countable, figuratively, uncountable A haircut.
29. countable, figuratively, uncountable The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
30. Internet, countable, figuratively, uncountable A dividing line in a Tumblr post, the content below which is hidden until the reader reveals it. That's the TL;DR, anyway. You can find a more detailed version under the cut.
31. countable, figuratively, uncountable A string of railway cars coupled together, shorter than a train. The shunter has a lightweight portable radio transmitter by which, as he uncouples an incoming train into cuts for marshalling, he informs the Traffic Office of the number of wagons in each cut and its siding; [...].
32. countable, figuratively, uncountable An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving. a book illustrated with fine cuts
33. countable, figuratively, obsolete, uncountable A common workhorse; a gelding. He's buy me a whit Cut, forth for to ride
34. countable, dated, figuratively, slang, uncountable The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
35. countable, figuratively, uncountable A skein of yarn. Two women for stealing 30 cuttes of linen yarn.
36. figuratively, slang, uncountable That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug. Don't buy his coke: it's full of cut.
37. countable, figuratively, uncountable A notch shaved into an eyebrow.
38. countable, figuratively, slang, uncountable A hidden, secluded, or secure place. I'm laying in a cut 'bout to shoot me a mutt
39. countable, figuratively, uncountable The range of temperatures used to distill a particular mixture of hydrocarbons from crude oil.
40. countable, figuratively, uncountable A sleeveless vest worn by members of a motorcycle club.

interjection cvt

1. An instruction to cease recording. Near-synonym: scene