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Definition of cross-cut in English: cross-cutverbˈkrɒskʌt [with object]1Cut (wood or stone) across its main grain or axis. they cross-cut the timber before its removal Example sentencesExamples - Her left knee buckled like a tree being cross-cut at its base.
- Then all you need to do is cross-cut the lengths.
- The resulting mixture is cut into strips, then crosscut into cubes.
- I then crosscut the shelf to the width of the shadowbox and attached the bat to the shelf using galvanized wire.
- Use a jigsaw to crosscut the board adjacent to a joist.
2Alternate (one sequence) with another when editing a film. the opening sequence cross-cuts the reluctant confessions of a young wife with the hippy's arrival no object they were cross-cutting from one story to another Example sentencesExamples - Some sequences are crosscut with a variety of short scenes, while others bring the camera in for close-up views.
- The director crosscuts between them.
- The new film crosscuts between locations repeatedly.
- Here, the visual focus crosscuts between two sites.
- He then cross-cuts to aerial shots of the vehicles.
- It's stunning, as the material is crosscut - one story feeding into and around the other - and hearing 180 degree opposite accounts of what happened that day.
- At precisely this moment the film crosscuts back to the sickroom.
- The filmmaker cross-cuts his desperate, but primal, art making with their desperate, but primal, lovemaking.
- He constantly cross-cuts from pursuers to pursued to keep the pace up.
- This scene, set in the Hong Kong girl's hotel room, is crosscut with two other scenes in what, for this film, is a burst of quickly edited action.
- The opening sequence features a blade being sharpened on stone, quickly cross-cutting to a chaotic chase in which a gang of desperadoes attempt to capture a rogue chicken.
- The work cross-cuts between artificially smooth tracking and frozen-frame shots.
- He crosscuts their obsessive stories with hilarious footage from circuses and old sci-fi films.
- Slow motion, rapidly crosscut with regular speed footage, gives a sense of the breakneck pace of battle.
- He cross-cuts their story with the tale of ‘boarded-out’ orphans sent to the Western Isles.
- All the show does is cross-cut frantically.
- All of these conflicts come to a head in a colorful finale that crosscuts between a final football match and his traditional wedding.
- The novel is a love story and he begins to crosscut scenes of the developing relationship between Alex and Emma with those of Adam and Emma.
- She chose to cross-cut the president's remarks with news commentary and parliamentary footage.
nounˈkrɒskʌt 1A diagonal cut, especially one across the main grain or axis of wood or stone. Example sentencesExamples - A professional-quality miter box or, preferably, a 10-inch power miter saw are required for the precision miters and crosscuts.
- For crosscuts up to 22 1/2 in., flip the square around and place its long blade against the saw shoe.
2An instance of alternating between two or more sequences when editing a film. movies today are all cross-cuts and violent effects Example sentencesExamples - This line is followed by a quick cross-cut to Bruno's hands.
- Incessant and intrusive editing, numerous jump- and cross-cuts and confounding time shifts, work to disorient the viewer.
- His words work like cross-cuts in a movie.
- A series of crosscuts to simultaneous scenes bodes ill.
- Intercut with images of a world of ice-covered trees along with numerous other rapid cross-cuts, the result is bizarre and disorienting in the extreme.
- The frantic zooms, the crazed crosscuts, the up-the-nostrils close-ups, the rollercoaster spin shots; it never stops, for two agonising hours.
adjectiveˈkrɒskʌt (of a file) having two sets of grooves crossing each other diagonally.
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