| 释义 |
▪ I. ˈcross-cut, n.
[cross- 4 a, b.]
1. (Usually cross cut.) A cut or cutting across or from side to side; a direct path between two points, transverse or diagonal to the main way.
1800Spirit Pub. Jrnls. IV. 186 If you have occasion to travel frequently to one place, take all the cross cuts. 1837R. Ellison Kirkstead 27 Deep cross-cuts lurk the treacherous shrubs below. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. V. xiv. 492 He knew the by-ways..and the cross-cuts and roads as far as Brunswick.
2. Mining. A cutting across the course of a vein, or across the general direction of the workings.
1789J. Williams Min. Kingdom (1810) I. 312 It is..proper to push forward cross cuts from your first trench every way. 1851Greenwell Coal-trade Terms Northumb. & Durh. 20 Crosscut, an excavation driven at an acute angle to the direction of the cleavage or cleat. 1872Raymond Statist. Mines 326 A cross-cut is being run from the main shaft..95 or 100 feet below the surface.
3. A step in dancing.
1842Dickens Amer. Notes (1850) 62/2 Single shuffle, double shuffle, cut and cross-cut.
4. Short for cross-cut file: see next, 2.
1831J. Holland Manuf. Metal I. 302 For working iron..the single lines are closely cut over diagonally and the file becomes a cross-cut.
5. Short for cross-cut saw.
1848E. Atkinson Otago Jrnl. III. 46 Pit-saws; whit saws; and crosscuts, and files for ditto. 1853‘P. Paxton’ Yankee in Texas 89 Felling trees, handling cross-cuts, rolling blocks. 1942L. Rich We took to Woods (1948) 55 Excellence on a two-man cross-cut has nothing to do with size and strength.
6. Cinemat. (See cross-cut v. 2.)
▪ II. ˈcross-cut, a.
1. Adapted for cross-cutting.
1828Webster, Crosscut-saw, a saw managed by two men, one at each end for sawing large logs or trees across. 1874Knight Dict. Mech., Cross-cut Chisel, a chisel with a narrow edge and considerable depth, used in cutting a groove in iron. 1880Blackw. Mag. Feb. 173 Large trees mostly sawn down by the cross-cut saw.
2. [cross- 8.] Cut across or transversely; having transverse cuts; esp. of a file, having two sets of teeth crossing each other diagonally.
1833J. Holland Manuf. Metal II. 127 The files used by the whitesmith upon cold work are mostly of the cross-cut description. 1883E. Pennell-Elmhirst Cream Leicestersh. 135 A deep cross-cut fallow.
▪ III. ˌcross-ˈcut, v.
[cross- 6.]
1. trans. To cut across or transversely.
1590Spenser F.Q. iii. x. 59 A..humour rancorous..That..Cros-cuts the liver with internall smart. 1655Culpepper Riverius ii. iii. 67 In a Medium [in Optics] that is Convex and thick, the species are..broken, and as it were cross-cut. 1793Smeaton Edystone L. §108 The quarry-men proceed to cross-cut the large flats. 1846J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) I. 377 The plough..drawn across the field, and cross-cutting the uncut ribs of grass.
2. Cinemat. To subject (a film or films) to cross-cutting (see quot. 1933). Also intr. and transf. Hence as adj. and n.
1933A. Brunel Filmcraft 95 You may need part of a rejected take because you are cross-cutting that scene. Ibid. 97 After you have eliminated the scene numbers..you can begin to make the simpler cross-cuts. Ibid. 156 Cross-cut, to alternate in editing two or more scenes—as when one has two close-ups of characters facing each other. 1957Manvell & Huntley Film Music ii. 40 The two scenes of the dancing action were hastily lengthened and cross-cut to give a rhythm. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 5 Dec. 698/1 Haddock's gestures as he tells the story exactly match and are cross-cut with those of the Chevalier de la Hadoque slashing away at the ruffians boarding his ship. 1962Listener 30 Aug. 328/1 A montage sequence..with shots of Eton, night-club frolics..cross-cut against back⁓street slums. 1967Spectator 30 June 772/1 The author has developed an impressive, cinematic technique for telling this story, crosscutting rapidly from episode to episode. |