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单词 cut-off
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cut-offn.

Brit. /ˈkʌtɒf/, U.S. /ˈkədˌɔf/, /ˈkədˌɑf/
Etymology: to cut off at cut v. Phrasal verbs.
1. An act of cutting off or portion cut off.
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society > communication > printing > paper > [noun] > amount cut from webs for copy of edition
cut-off1954
1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 151 This, tho', was a great Cut-off; a whole Week out of ten Days.
1954 J. Southward Mod. Printing (ed. 7) II. xv. 212 Cut off is the amount [sc. of paper] severed from the webs to form individual copies of an edition.
2.
a. A new and shorter passage cut by a river through a bend; sometimes also applied to the crescent-shaped lake formed by the remains of the old channel when cut off from the new by silting. Also, a lateral channel dug across a bend in a river (also attributive). Originally U.S.
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the world > the earth > water > lake > [noun] > other types
pene-lake1668
salina1697
slough1714
salt lake1763
bayou1766
lagoon1769
cut-off1773
prairie1820
maar1826
boating lake1834
serpentine1837
soda lake1839
bitter lake1843
stream-lake1867
shott1878
crater-lake1879
playa1885
oxbow lake1887
kettle-hole lake1902
mortlake1902
oxbow1902
seepage lake1934
paternoster lake1942
soda pan1976
the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > system > [noun] > bend > new passage across
cut-off1874
1773 in Acts Gen. Assembly Georgia (1881) 300 To make any such cut off as shall be thought necessary from River to River.
1773 in Acts Gen. Assembly Georgia (1881) 300 In such Cuts off and Clearing.
1817 S. R. Brown Western Gazetteer 222 It is about four miles across the several branches of the Pascagola..intersected by bayous and cut-offs.
1821 T. Nuttall Trav. Arkansa vi. 98 The latter proceeds from the bayou,..the bayou or cut-off continuing to the southwest.
1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 186 At one spot called the ‘grand cut off’, vessels now pass from one point to another in half a mile, to a distance which it formerly required twenty miles to reach.
1874 in N. H. Bishop Voy. Paper Canoe (1878) 223 If you take to the cut-offs, you may get into..interior bayous, from which you will never emerge.
1913 B. F. Thomas & D. A. Watt Improvem. Rivers (ed. 2) i. 27 When a bend has become almost a complete curve, the river breaks through the intervening neck of land and forms a cut-off.
1913 B. F. Thomas & D. A. Watt Improvem. Rivers (ed. 2) ii. 337 The entire river was dammed at or near the upper part of a sharp bend, and a cut-off or lateral canal was dug across the bend from the pool thus formed.
1913 B. F. Thomas & D. A. Watt Improvem. Rivers (ed. 2) ii. 367 Cut-off walls resting on the river-bed.
1937 S. W. Wooldridge & R. S. Morgan Physical Basis Geogr. xii. 173 The abandoned loops form ‘cut-offs’, ‘ox-bows’ or ‘mortlakes’ which, in time, become silted up.
b. A piece of road or railway which cuts off or saves a bend; a short cut, cross-cut.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > [noun] > straight or direct > short cut
the (occasionally your, etc.) next wayc1330
cut1577
near cut1612
short cut1619
overcut1636
cross-cut1800
cut-off1806
quick cut1890
1806 Z. M. Pike Jrnl. 28 Jan. in Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi (1810) i. 64 Observed Mr. Grant's trackes going through it; found his mark of a cut off, (agreed on between us) took it, and proceeded very well.
1818 Boston Weekly Messenger 23 July They pointed [it] out to him as being a nigh cut~off to the high road.
1857 W. Chandless Visit Salt Lake i. 107 Two more days, over a ‘cut off’, little travelled, brought us within a few miles of the mountains.
1881 Chicago Times 14 May The Company is..building a cut-off six miles in length near Omaha.
1908 Westm. Gaz. 31 Dec. 3/1 The Great Western's Ashendon to Aynho ‘cut-off’, which will provide that company with a new route to Birmingham, nineteen miles shorter than its existing one.
1924 W. M. Raine Troubled Waters iii. 29 Evidently she was taking the cut-off back to the ranch, unaware that the bridge had been washed out by the freshet.
1947 J. Steinbeck Wayward Bus i. 6 Those who came over the cut-off from San Juan de la Cruz.
3.
a. An interruption or stopping of a continuance or flow. Also attributive.
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the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > [noun] > and dividing
interruptiona1676
discontinuance1726
cut-off1881
1881 T. Stevenson in Nature 14 Apr. 560/1 Difficulty..of effecting a sharp cut-off on a particular bearing.
1956 Kenyon Rev. 18 417 Abrupt voice cutoff.
1966 M. A. K. Halliday in C. E. Bazell In Memory of J. R. Firth 152 Lexis seems to require the recognition merely of linear co-occurrence together with some measure of significant proximity, either a scale or at least a cut-off point.
1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 25 Sept. B10/2 The cutoff day for commitments in the current quarter is Wednesday.
1971 Times 23 Jan. 18/1 It is used here as a cut-off point between the poor and the rest of the community.
b. spec. Steam-engine. An arrangement by which the admission of steam to the cylinder is cut off when the piston has travelled part of the stroke, so that the steam during the remainder of the stroke works expansively; a contrivance for effecting this purpose. Also attributive.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > [noun] > parts of
helm1663
spring-beam?1794
steam-jacket1838
cut-off1849
steam-jacketing1870
starting block1881
timing chain1889
timing mark1901
decelerator1907
air drain1908
plenum chamber1908
reservoir1920
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > steam engine > [adjective] > specific parts
cut-off1849
side lever1882
nozzle1895
Lentz1925
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > steam engine > [noun] > parts of > other parts
fire door1765
hand gear1805
throat pipe1824
cataract1832
cut-off1849
coil1852
pot-lid1856
main centre1858
trunk1859
piston sleeve1872
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > engine > steam engine > [noun] > steam > cut off of steam
cut-off1891
1849 Fairbairn in Mec. Mag. 51 258 The space between the cut-off valve and the working cylinder.
1850 Pract. Mech. Jrnl. 3 29 All the requirements of an accurate self-regulating cut-off.
1891 Engineer 18 Sept. LXII. 229 This valve gear has an unusually large range of cut-off.
c. Applied to various mechanical contrivances for stopping the flow of a liquid, cutting off or closing a connection, and the like.
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the world > movement > absence of movement > [noun] > deprivation of movement > by hindering or obstructing passage > that which
tangling1575
moil1611
turnagain1630
rub1663
cut-off1874
1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Cut-off..2. a valve or gate in a spout, to stop discharge..3. a device in a rain-water spout to send the falling water in either of two directions.
1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 26 Mar. 12/1 Cut-off for hydraulic and other engines.
d. figurative.
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1860 J. G. Saxe Money-king & Other Poems 53 Who first invented..That artificial cut-off—Early Rising!
e. In a magazine rifle, a device which prevents the feeding of cartridges from the magazine into the chamber, and enables the rifle to be used as a single-loader.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > parts and fittings of firearms > [noun] > bore > chamber > charger > cut-off
cut-off1890
1890 Times 6 Dec. 15/4 The cut-off is a strong and simple arrangement for bringing the magazine into action or for cutting it off.
1898 Daily News 9 May 3/1 Magazine Cut-off.
1904 Westm. Gaz. 9 Dec. 7/2 As the Navy considered that a cut-off was necessary this..is fitted to all naval rifles.
1919 ‘B. Cable’ Old Contemptibles ix. 141 In a twinkling every man..had his rifle muzzle over the parapet, and his fingers busy with magazine and cut~off.
f. An automatic safety device for shutting off light, esp. the light of a cinema-projector.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > projection > [noun] > apparatus for projecting films > parts of
sprocket1879
projection lens1894
cut-off1906
gate1909
claw1911
take-up1915
douser1917
sound gate1931
sound head1931
pull-down1933
1906 Daily Chron. 28 June 2/7 Automatic cut-off devices.
1917 C. N. Bennett Guide to Kinematogr. ix. 146 Before the condenser..is a safety device called the hand light cut-off.
1923 F. A. Talbot Moving Pictures ix. 119 The ‘cut-off’, an automatic safety shutter, mounted between the lamp and the film, which falls to intercept the light when the machine is at rest.
1923 C. N. Bennett Kinematography 47 There is a second cut-off fitted to all professional projectors... It is the automatic light cut-off.
g. A marked increase in the attenuation (or decrease in the amplification) of an oscillation when its frequency reaches some value, esp. of an alternating electric current or voltage by a filter, waveguide, etc.; usually attributive, as cut-off frequency, cut-off point.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > voltage > [noun] > increase in attenuation
cut-off frequency1926
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic phenomena > [adjective] > of specific frequency > relating to cut-off
cut-off1926
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electric current > alternating current > [noun] > amplitude > decrease in
attenuation1887
cut-off frequency1926
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic phenomena > [noun] > frequency > specific frequencies > reaching specific value
cut-off point1926
1926 B. Franklin & F. E. Terman Transmission Line Theory v. 141 This frequency is called the cut-off frequency of the high-pass filter, for it marks the transition from pass to attenuated frequencies.
1930 Bell Syst. Techn. Jrnl. 9 iii. 483 The cutoff points are taken as those at which the attenuation reaches a value 10 db greater than that at 1,000 cycles.
1930 Discovery Dec. 398/2 The directional filter offers very little attenuation to frequencies on one side of a certain frequency (cut-off frequency).
1959 Chambers's Encycl. XII. 735/1 The capacitative reactance of the air chamber in front of the diaphragm tends to raise the frequency at which this occurs, but results in a much sharper cut off at still higher frequencies.
1970 D. F. Shaw Introd. Electronics (ed. 2) xii. 272 The current gain of a transistor falls off at high frequencies... This frequency dependence is expressed accurately by the expression αf = α0/(1 + jf/fα) where..fα is called the alpha cut-off frequency.

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Originally U.S. In plural: unhemmed shorts made by cutting off the bottom portion of the legs of a pair of trousers (usually jeans); shorts designed in imitation of this style. Cf. cut-off adj. Additions.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and lower body > [noun] > trousers > types of > short trousers or shorts > types of
panties1845
lederhosen1937
Bermuda shorts1938
walk shorts1944
Bermudas1954
knickers1954
skort1957
Jamaica shorts1959
baggies1962
cut-off1964
Jamaica1964
sleep-shorts1964
hot pants1970
batty riders1992
1964 Lima (Ohio) News 20 Mar. 3/1 (advt.) We have the ‘original’ Wrangler cut-offs at this special sale price!
1978 J. Updike Coup (1979) vi. 236 Wearing..tattered denim cut-offs.
1984 New Yorker 9 July 42/3 We probably looked ridiculous—five girls in cutoffs, football T-shirts, and moccasins.
2004 Outside Mar. 62/2 With his bare chest, camo cutoffs, and Lawrence of Arabia headgear, he looked like a parody of Lady Liberty.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

cut-offadj.

Brit. /ˈkʌtɒf/, U.S. /ˈkədˌɔf/, /ˈkədˌɑf/
Etymology: See to cut off at cut v. Phrasal verbs.
1. = cutaway adj.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [adjective] > coat > other
full-dressed1752
broad-skirted1809
swallow-tailed1824
shad-bellied1832
square-tailed1837
cut-off1840
cutaway1841
sack1847
raglan1858
swing-back1862
Prince Albert1873
box back1892
highwayman1892
sack-back1892
sport utility1925
teddy bear1925
Redfern1932
sports utility1940
Crombie1951
1840 Ann. Reg. 1839 8 Dressed in a cut-off green coat with brass buttons.
2. Shut out, excluded, remote (see to cut off 8 at cut v. Phrasal verbs).
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [adjective]
solec1407
separate1600
sequestereda1616
unconjunctive1643
recluse1656
separated1730
removed1766
insulated1781
stray1796
insulate1803
isolated1811
Robinson Crusoe1823
incommunicado1844
shut-out1853
isolate1854
marooned1883
cut-off1894
shut-away1911
shut-off1913
splitsville1964
1894 M. Dyan All in Man's Keeping I. xii. 203 Would he never lose this cut-off feeling, this awful ache for comradeship?
1939 J. Cary Mister Johnson 92 The poorer, more cut-off people do not want roads.

Derivatives

cut-offness n. the state or condition of being cut off.
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > separation or isolation > [noun] > detachment or non-participation > condition of
cut-offness1927
unattachedness1936
1927 D. H. Lawrence Let. 3 Aug. (1962) II. 993 Our being cut off..is our ailment... I wish I saw a little clearer how you get over the cut-offness.
1960 Encounter 15 73 The cut-off-ness of the modern ‘intellectual man’ from the world.

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Originally U.S. Designating trousers (usually jeans) made into unhemmed shorts by cutting off the bottom portion of the legs; designating shorts designed in imitation of this style.
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1954 R. Jarrell Pictures from Institution ii. 69 Three devoted music students in cut-off jeans and men's pink Oxford shirts.
1968 H. S. Thompson Let. in Fear & Loathing in Amer. (2000) 7 Boom around the midnight streets wearing a sweatshirt and cut-off levis and Wellington boots.
2003 Canberra Times (Nexis) 15 June a2 Their white look, which will include plain stretch cut-off shorts with..side splits, extended waistbands and big loops.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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