| 单词 | to cut out |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto cut out to cut out 1. transitive. To cut so as to take out; to excise, extract, or extirpate by cutting (something material). Frequently figurative in recent colloquial use: to stop doing or using (something); to leave off, do without, omit, drop: esp. in imperative phrase cut it out. ΘΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > extract [verb (transitive)] > by cutting to cut outc1400 slice?1560 exsect1641 exscind1662 excide1739 snip1801 scissor1832 excise1835 outcut1860 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being exclusive > exclude [verb (transitive)] > omit or leave out letc900 overleapOE forletc1200 beleavec1275 overpassa1382 to cut outc1400 overskipc1400 omisec1425 omit1439 to leave outc1450 obmise1490 neglect1511 skip1531 obmit?1541 enterlesse1548 intermit1570 prevade1641 waive1651 suppress1826 the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease activity [verb (intransitive)] > leave off! or stop it! to do waya1325 stay1601 go and eat coke1669 to leave off1785 whoa1838 drop it!1843 cut1859 turn it up1867 to come off ——1896 to chuck it1901 knock it off!1902 cut it out1903 nix1903 break it down1941 to shove it1941 leave it out!1969 c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xix. 88 With þat knyf he cuttez out a pece of his flesch. 1480 Table Prouffytable Lernynge (Caxton) (1964) 39 He can cutte out the stone. 1662 J. Evelyn Sculptura i. 9 With the Burine one cuts the peice [sic] all at once out of the plate. 1707 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 31 Oct. He found the Leaves..cut out. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 23. ¶4 The Pope..ordered his Tongue to be cut out. 1840 R. Liston Elem. Surg. (ed. 2) i. 215 The affected parts..should be cut out. 1903 G. Ade People you Know 82 Cut it out! 1905 ‘H. McHugh’ You can search Me i. 27 I've been speculating again after faithfully promising her to cut out all the guessing contests. So cut out the yesterday gag. a1910 ‘O. Henry’ Sixes & Sevens (1916) xviii. 209 To be frank with you, Whatsup, I've cut out the dope. 1914 G. Atherton Perch of Devil i. 137 If it were more the primal instinct..so much the worse, the more reason to ‘cut it out’. 1923 R. D. Paine Comrades Rolling Ocean vi. 110 Will you cut out the booze while you are ashore in Jamaica? 1924 W. M. Raine Troubled Waters viii. 85 We'd better cut out threats. They lead to trouble. 1928 F. N. Hart Bellamy Trial iii. 96 I thought she'd make him cut it out. 1933 W. H. Auden Poems (ed. 2) 52 Its no use raising a shout. No, Honey, you can cut that right out. 1937 R. Stout Red Box iv. 54 Llewellyn..was expostulating: ‘Now, Dad, cut it out,—now listen a minute.’ 1939 D. L. Sayers In Teeth of Evidence 202 ‘The great man himself. London's rising dramatist.’.. ‘Cut it out,’ said Scales. 1970 M. Guybon tr. A. Solzhenitsyn First Circle xlix. 366 ‘Cut it out!’ said Pryanchikov, struggling violently. ‘I'm sick of prosecutors and trials.’ 2. To remove, excise, omit (a portion of a literary work, etc.). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > non-fiction > summary or epitome > summarize or abridge [verb (transitive)] > abridge by excision > excise excise1663 to cut out1736 society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > cause to descend by succession [verb (transitive)] > disinherit disheritc1290 disheritc1330 disheriss1489 disinherita1500 exheredate1552 to strike off with a shilling1597 disheir1607 disherison1654 to cut off with a shilling1834 to cut out1891 1736 H. Fielding Pasquin i. 2 I wish you could cut the Ghost out, Sir. 1781 R. B. Sheridan Critic ii. ii Sir, the performers have cut it out. 1886 G. Salmon Hist. Introd. N.T. xviii. 380 The parts which it is proposed to cut out are indissolubly connected with those which are left behind. 1891 F. W. Maude Merciful Divorce 117 Before I cut you out of my will. 3. To surprise and carry off (a ship) from a harbour, etc., by getting between her and the shore. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > operations or manoeuvres > perform operation or manoeuvre [verb (transitive)] > get between a ship and shore to cut out1748 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. iii. 141 How impossible it would prove, either to board or to cut out any vessel protected by a force posted on shore within pistol-shot. 1781 F. Burney Lett. Jan. After..cutting a few ships out of Torbay. 1882 R. L. Stevenson Familiar Stud. Men & Bks. 162 He could not swoop into a parlour and, in the naval phrase, ‘cut out’ a human being from that dreary port. 4. U.S., Australia and New Zealand. To detach or separate (an animal) from the herd. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [verb (transitive)] > cut out ride1790 shed1791 shoot1824 to run off1861 to cut out1862 cut1903 1862 E. R. Chudleigh Diary 13 Feb. (1950) i. 28 On the run all day cutting out bullocks we succeeded in yarding about 60. 1867 J. T. Thomson Rambles with Philosopher xxvi. 149 We scampered away to the pasture grounds of his cattle, in order to cut out one of the mob for slaughter. 1869 Overland Monthly Aug. 126/2 Another rides in, selects a stray brand, and ‘cuts it out’, by chasing it out with his horse. 1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 Mar. 3/2 The two best hands will go in and ‘cut out’ the cattle that bear the brand of their employers. 1887 Scribner's Mag. 2 508 Cut out, to separate an animal from the herd. Π 1726 Bp. J. Butler 15 Serm. iv. 69 They in a Manner cut themselves out from all Advantage of Conversation. 6. To get in front of a rival so as to intervene between him and success, or take the first place from him; to out-do, supplant in preference.A driver or rider who ‘cuts in’, cuts out some one else. ΘΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > outdo or surpass [verb (transitive)] overstyeOE overshinec1175 overgoc1225 passc1225 surmountc1369 forpassc1374 overmatcha1375 overpassa1382 to pass overa1393 overcomec1400 outpass?a1425 exceedc1425 precedec1425 superexcelc1429 transcendc1430 precel?a1439 outcut1447 overgrowc1475 to come over ——a1479 excel1493 overleapa1500 vanquish1533 outweigh1534 prevent1540 better1548 preferc1550 outgo1553 surpassa1555 exsuperate1559 cote1566 overtop1567 outrun1575 outstrip1579 outsail1580 overruna1586 pre-excel1587 outbid1589 outbrave1589 out-cote1589 top1590 outmatch1593 outvie1594 superate1595 surbravec1600 oversile1608 over-height1611 overstride1614 outdoa1616 outlustrea1616 outpeera1616 outstrikea1616 outrival1622 antecede1624 out-top1624 antecell1625 out-pitch1627 over-merit1629 outblazea1634 surmatch1636 overdoa1640 overact1643 outact1644 worst1646 overspana1657 outsoar1674 outdazzle1691 to cut down1713 ding1724 to cut out1738 cap1821 by-pass1848 overtower1850 pretergress1851 outray1876 outreach1879 cut1884 outperform1937 outrate1955 one-up1963 the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > have or gain mastery or superiority over [verb (transitive)] > get ahead of to get of ——1548 to get (also have) the start of1569 to get (also gain) a march (up)on1707 to cut out1738 1738 in T. Birch Hist. Acct. Life Milton in J. Milton Compl. Wks. I. 48 This man [sc. Milton] cuts us all out, and the Antients too. 1845 Ld. Houghton Let. in T. W. Reid Life Ld. Houghton (1890) I. viii. 355 The King of the French has lent all the Crown jewels to the duchess, so she will quite cut our Queen out. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs (1881) 220 He cut out all the other suitors of the duchess. 7. To deprive, do out of. ΘΠ the mind > possession > loss > taking away > take away [verb (transitive)] > deprive (of) benimc890 to do of ——eOE bedealc1000 disturbc1230 bereavec1275 reave?a1300 acquitc1300 benemec1300 deprivec1330 privea1382 subvertc1384 oppressc1395 abridgea1400 to bate of, from1399 lessa1400 nakena1400 dischargea1425 privatec1425 to bring outa1450 abatec1450 sever?1507 spulyie?1507 denude1513 disable1529 distrain1530 destituec1540 destitutec1540 defalk1541 to turn out of ——1545 discomfit1548 wipe1549 nude1551 disannul?a1556 bereft1557 diminish1559 benoom1563 joint1573 uncase1583 rid1585 disarm1590 visitc1592 ease1600 dispatch1604 unfurnisha1616 rig1629 retrench1640 unbecomea1641 disentail1641 cashier1690 twin1722 mulct1748 fordo1764 to do out of ——1796 to cut out1815 bate1823 deprivate1832 devoid1878 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. ii. 20 The apprizer..cut the family out of another monstrous cantle of their remaining property. 1860 A. L. Windsor Ethica iii. 136 Cutting him out of his annual butt of sack. Π 1633 D. Rogers Treat. Two Sacraments Gospell i. 142 By vertue of Christ cut out and divided to thee. 9. To excavate, carve out; to form by excavation or carving. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > sculpt or carve [verb (transitive)] behewc1314 entailc1394 chisel1517 to cut out1548 insculp1578 cut1600 sculpturea1684 sculp1784 sculpt1864 under-carve1904 the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > hollowness > make hollow [verb (transitive)] > form by hollowing out sink?a1425 to cut out1548 void?1578 cut1634 hollow1648 to work out1774 excavate1839 tunnel1856 1548 Petit. of Sandwich in Boys Sandwich (1792) 735 To authorize the said mayor..and inhabitants..to cut out, newe erect and make one newe cutt into their said haven. a1648 Ld. Herbert Life (1976) 47 The wholle Forrest..was cutt out into Long walks euery way. 1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 159 To what end the Lord did cut out all those Harbours, Creeks, Chanels. 1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World iv. 160 [They] saw the word Magee..and Capt. John cut out under it upon a tree. 10. To fashion or shape by cutting (out of a piece). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > tailor or make clothes [verb (transitive)] > cut out shape?c1225 to cut out1551 the world > space > shape > shape or give shape to [verb (transitive)] > by or as by cutting > out of a piece to cut out1551 1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Lj Although one haue..cloth, yet can he not haue the vse of it, excepte the tailer cutte it out. 1696 J. F. Merchant's Ware-house 38 How to cut out a Shift out of two Ells of Holland. 1891 E. Peacock Narcissa Brendon II. 108 She..could cut out men's shirts. 1891 E. Peacock Narcissa Brendon II. 110 She could cut out much better than the ladies themselves. 11. figurative. To form, fashion, shape, to carve out. Π 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. iii. 143 To..Be his owne caruer, and cut out his way, To finde out right wyth wrong. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. iv. 380 By th'patterne of mine owne thoughts, I cut out The puritie of his. View more context for this quotation 1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 233 You..expect every..man to be just cut out upon the pattern of..Henry. 1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xix. 174 I thought it was manners to cut out my behaviour on your pattern. 12. figurative. To plan; to prepare (work to be done). to have (all) one's work cut out: see work n. Phrases 2a. ΘΠ the mind > will > intention > planning > plan [verb (transitive)] forethinkc897 bethinka1225 compass1297 contrivec1330 ordain1340 conjectc1380 imaginec1380 cast1382 ordaina1387 advisec1400 forecast1413 imagec1450 ordainc1450 project1477 foreminda1535 invent1539 aimc1540 practise1550 plat1556 trive1573 meditate1582 patterna1586 plot1589 platform1592 design1594 chew1600 forelay1605 to map out1618 to cut out1619 agitate1629 laya1631 plod1631 cut1645 calculate1654 concert1702 to scheme out1716 plan1718 model1725 to rough out1738 to lay out1741 plan1755 prethink1760 shape1823 programme1834 pre-plan1847 encompass1882 target1948 the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > be occupied or busy (in or at something) [verb (intransitive)] > be fully occupied to have one's hands fulla1470 to have (all) one's work cut out1866 1619 in S. R. Gardiner Lett. Relations Eng. & Germany (1868) 2nd Ser. 68 How they may by..ill affected subjects cutt us out newe worke in Ireland and Scotland. 1754 A. Murphy Gray's Inn Jrnl. No. 98. ⁋5 The excessive Officiousness of the female World in cutting out Matches. 1795 E. Burke Lett. Peace Regic. France iv. (ad fin.), in Wks. (1818) IX. 126 They will cut out work for one another, and France will cut out work for them all. 1866 T. Carlyle Inaug. Addr. Edinb. 174 The most unhappy of all men is the man..who has got no work cut out for him in the world. 13. a. To form or fashion by nature (for a particular purpose). (Usually in past participle) ΘΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > suitable or appropriate [phrase] > suited for to cut out1645 1645 J. Bond Occasus Occidentalis 61 It was a Country by scituation..cut out for safety. 1708 Dr. Smith in T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 23 Dec. You seeme as it were to bee cut out for those studyes. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 287 He was not cut out for a Court. 1874 F. C. Burnand My Time xiv. 115 She was cut out for a clergyman's wife. ΘΠ the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > types of choice > choose in specific way [verb (transitive)] > select from a number or for a purpose markOE to choose out1297 out-trya1325 cullc1330 welec1330 try1340 walea1350 coil1399 drawa1400 to mark outa1450 electa1513 sorta1535 prick1536 exempta1538 select1567 sort1597 to gather out1611 single1629 delibate1660 to cut out1667 outlooka1687 draught1714 draft1724 to tell off1727 1667 S. Pepys Diary 2 Sept. (1974) VIII. 419 They told me both..that they had long cut me out for Secretary to the Duke of York. ΘΠ the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > make ostentatious display or show off [verb (intransitive)] brandishc1340 ruffle1484 braga1556 swash1556 flourish1563 flaunt1566 prank1567 prink1573 to shake, wag the feather1581 peacockize1598 air1605 display1608 to launch it out1608 flasha1616 to cut it out1619 flare1633 vapour1652 peacock1654 spark1676 to gallantrize it1693 bosh1709 glare1712 to cut a bosh1726 to show away1728 to figure away, off1749 parade1749 to cut a dashc1771 dash1786 to cut up1787 to cut a flash1795 to make, or cut, a splash1804 swank1809 to come out strong1825 to cut a spludge1831 to cut it (too) fat1836 pavonize1838 splurge1844 to do the grand1847 to cut a swath1848 to cut a splurge1860 to fan out1860 spread1860 skyre1871 fluster1876 to strut one's stuff1926 showboat1937 floss1938 style1968 1619 J. Dyke Counterpoison 39 They must flaunt, and cut it out in apparell, furniture [etc.]. 1679 G. Rose tr. P. Boaistuau Theatre of World ii. 149 Cutting it out in their Silks, Perfumes, and Embroideries. 15. intransitive. To admit of being cut out into shape. ΘΠ the world > space > shape > have (specific) shape [verb (intransitive)] > admit of being cut to shape to cut out1829 1829 Bone Manure: Rep. Doncaster Comm. Agric. Assoc. 31 The whole [manure]..will cut out like a jelly. 1850 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 11 i. 139 Hay never cuts out so well as when it has been stacked from the field as fast as made. 16. intransitive (originally passive). Cards. To come out of or be excluded from a game (of whist) by cutting an unfavourable card; done in order to allow another player or players to cut in. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > whist > play whist [verb (intransitive)] > actions or tactics finesse1742 to cut in1760 to cut out1771 to save one's pomp1788 to have the call1863 peter1887 cross-ruff1958 1771 Hist. Sir W. Harrington (1797) II. 216 My Lord and I, happening to be cut out at the same time at whist. 1780 F. Burney Let. June in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (2003) IV. 162 Mrs. Grenville, having Cut out at Cards..approached us. 1810 Sporting Mag. 36 122 With the same pleasure that a gentleman who has cut out returns to a rubber. ?1870 F. Hardy & J. R. Ware Mod. Hoyle 5 [article Whist] The fifth and sixth players..have the right to cut into the game when a rubber has been completed by the first four players. This operation is effected by two players cutting out. Cutting out..the players cut and the highest go out, whether two or one. 17. To finish shearing. Also in extended use: transitive, to finish; intransitive, to come to an end. Australian and New Zealand. ΚΠ 1890 Argus (Melbourne) 20 Sept. 13/6 When the stations ‘cut out’, as the term for finishing is. 1896 H. Lawson In Days when World was Wide (1900) 47 The cheque was spent that the shearer earned, and the sheds were all cut out. 1919 W. H. Downing Digger Dial. 18 Cut-out (vb.), cease. 1925 R. Rees Lake of Enchantment vi. 94 If they could ‘cut out’ (or in other words get all their shearing over) by the end of the week. ?a1927 F. S. Anthony Follow Call (1936) xiii. 156 I've never been able to save a cent since I cut out the roll I made with you. 1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 31 May 38/3 Tomorrow they would cut out the last of the sheep and the men would be paid off. 1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 21 To cut out,..to complete any task. 1948 Landfall 2 123 After the flax cut out and the mill moved on. 1959 H. P. Tritton Time means Tucker iv. 29/1 The last sheep was shorn, the bell rang, the whistle blew and Charlton was cut out. 1963 A. Lubbock Austral. Roundabout 157 The great mines in Victoria..began to cut out..but the miners often remained in the district. 18. transitive. To disconnect or switch off (an electric circuit, etc.). Also intransitive, to switch off; to cease operating. ΘΠ the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease activity [verb (intransitive)] > specifically of things, actions, or processes > specifically of a machine or mechanism standc1175 to run down1665 stop1789 seize1878 to go phut1888 to cut out1910 conk1917 cut1938 trip out1940 phut1959 the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease from (an action or operation) [verb (transitive)] > cause to cease or put a stop to > cause (a thing) to cease action > specific electricity or a motor kill1886 to cut out1910 to turn off1921 cut1938 1910 Chambers's Jrnl. May 350/1 By means of a switch near the keyboard the organist can cut the motor in and out as desired. 1912 Chambers's Jrnl. Aug. 556/2 The dynamo is cut out automatically. 1917 Blackwood's Mag. May 804/1 We continued in a westerly direction, with one cylinder still cutting out. 1924 A. W. Judge Mod. Motor Cars III. 75 Which causes the hammer to vibrate and to cut-out the battery circuit. 1926 H. H. U. Cross Electric Lighting (ed. 4) 264 When the gears are fully enmeshed, the electro-magnet is..cut out by a disconnecting switch. 1928 Motor Man. (ed. 27) 110 When the dynamo speed falls below a certain minimum the device cuts out or opens the charging circuit. 1930 Daily Express 16 Aug. 5/5 When aero engines were much more liable to cut out and force one down in isolated places. 1935 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 39 472 There is a danger of the engine cutting out during take-off. < as lemmas |
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