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cut /kut/ transitive verb (cuttˈing; cut)- To penetrate with a sharp edge, make an incision in
- To cleave or pass through
- To divide
- To carve, hew, trim or make or fashion by cutting
- To sever
- To reap
- To excise
- To intersect, cross
- To divide (a pack of cards) by lifting the upper portion at random
- To expose (a card or suit) in this way
- (in tennis, etc) to strike obliquely, imparting spin to
- (in golf) to hit (the ball) in such a way that it intentionally moves from left to right in the air (for a right-handed player)
- To reduce, lessen or abridge
- To wound, hurt or affect deeply
- To shorten
- To interrupt or break
- To switch off (an engine, lights, etc)
- To break off acquaintance with
- To pass intentionally without greeting
- To renounce, give up
- To stay away from
- To castrate
- To perform or execute (eg a caper)
- To make (a sound recording, eg a disc)
- To grow (teeth) through the gums (see also cut one's teeth (on) below)
- To mix another substance with (an illegal drug) to increase weight and volume (slang)
- To dilute or adulterate
intransitive verb- To make an incision
- To intersect
- To strike obliquely
- To be cut
- To dash, go quickly
- To run away, to be off (slang)
- (in film-making) to cease photographing
- (of a film) to change rapidly to another scene
noun- A cleaving or dividing
- An excavation for a road, railway, etc
- A canal
- A cross-passage
- A stroke or blow
- (in tennis, etc) a downward stroke, implying spin
- (in golf) a shot in which the ball intentionally moves from left to right in the air (for a right-handed player)
- (in cricket) an attacking stroke to the offside played with a horizontal bat
- The spin imparted to the ball
- A reduction or diminution
- A stoppage, as in power cut
- An act of unkindness
- The result of fashioning by cutting, carving, etc (eg clothes, hair, gemstones)
- The act, or outcome, of cutting a pack of cards
- An incision or wound
- An excision
- A piece cut off
- Total quantity cut
- A varying unit of length for cloth and yarn
- An engraved block or the picture from it
- Manner of cutting, or fashion
- The reduction of the field in a golf tournament after a set number of rounds, only those players with the better scores qualifying to play in the final round(s)
- An individual product obtained during the distillation of petroleum
- A working horse (archaic)
- A rake-off or share (slang)
- A record, extract of a sound recording, etc (slang)
- (in films) the action of cutting or its result
adjective (slang)(of a drug) adulterated or diluted ORIGIN: Origin unknown cuttˈer noun - A person or thing that cuts
- A cut-throat (obsolete)
- A tailor who measures and cuts out the cloth
- A small vessel with one mast, a mainsail, a forestay-sail, and a jib set to bowsprit-end
- Any sloop of narrow beam and deep draught
- A powerful motor-launch (as used by coastguard and navy) which may be armed
- (in quarrying) a joint parallel to the dip of the rocks
- A small whisky bottle holding half a mutchkin, shaped for carrying in the hip pocket (Scot)
- A medium-sized pig carcase, from which joints and fillets are taken
cuttˈing noun - A dividing or lopping off
- An incision
- A piece cut from a newspaper
- A piece of a plant cut off for propagation
- An open excavation for a road, railway, etc
- Editing of a film or recording
adjective- (of a remark, etc) intended to be cruel or hurtful
- (of wind) cold and penetrating
cuttˈingly adverb cut-and-thrust see cut and thrust below. cutˈaway noun - A coat with the skirt cut away in a curve in front
- An angled edge on a door
- A model or picture showing the interior workings of something, with the overlying parts removed
- (in films or television) a shot of action that is related to, or happening simultaneously to, the central events
adjective Having parts cut away cutˈback noun - A going back in a plot to earlier happenings
- A reduction or decrease, esp in expenditure, workforce, production, etc
cutˈ-down adjective (used attrib) reduced cut flowers plural noun Flowers cut from their plants for display in vases, etc cut glass noun Flint glass shaped by cutting or grinding cutˈglass adjective - Made of cut glass
- (of an accent) upper-class, refined
cutˈ-in noun - The act of cutting in
- (in films) a shot edited into another shot
cutˈ-leaved adjective (botany) Having leaves deeply cut cutˈline noun (US) A caption cutˈ-off noun - That which cuts off or shortens, eg a straighter road, a shorter channel cut across a bend of a river
- A bend thus cut off
- A device for shutting off steam, water, light, electricity, supply of cartridges in a magazine rifle, etc
- The point at which something ceases to operate or apply (also adjective)
- (in pl) shorts made by cutting off the legs of jeans just above the knee (informal)
cutˈ-out noun - The act of cutting out
- Something which has been cut out
- A safety device, eg for breaking an electric circuit
cutˈ-over adjective (US) (of land) having had its timber removed cut-priceˈ adjective At a reduced rate cutˈpurse noun (historical) - A person who stole by slitting purses worn at the belt
- A pickpocket
cut-rateˈ adjective (esp N American) Cut-price cutˈ-throat noun - An assassin
- A ruffian
- A modification of bridge, etc for three players, each playing alone
- An open razor
adjective - Murderous
- (of competition) extremely tough, relentless
- (of card games) for three players
cutting edge noun A part or area (of an organization, branch of study, etc) that breaks new ground, effects change and development, etc (cutting-edgeˈ adjective) cutting grass noun A cane rat cutting list noun (building) A list giving dimensions of timber required for any given work cutting room noun (cinematography) A place where film is cut and edited cutˈ-up noun (orig US) - A person who makes jokes or plays tricks
- A literary collage, composed of cut-up and rearranged passages of prose or verse (also adjective)
cutˈwater noun - The forepart of a ship's prow
- The angular edge of a bridge pier
cutˈwork noun Openwork embroidery or appliqué (also adjective) cutˈworm noun A caterpillar, esp of the moth genus Agrotis, that feeds on the stems of young plants near ground level a cut above Something distinctly better (than) cut across - To go or extend beyond the limits of
- To take a shorter route across
cut a dash or figure To have a striking appearance cut a deal (chiefly N American) To make a deal cut along (informal) To leave, go away quickly cut and come again Abundant supply, from the notion of cutting a slice, and returning at will for another cut and cover A method of constructing a tunnel by making an open cutting, arching it over, and covering in cut and dry or cut and dried - Ready made
- Fixed beforehand, decided in advance
cut and paste - (in the design of page layouts for newspapers, magazines, etc) a method of arranging areas of text, illustrations, etc by cutting and sticking down with paste
- (in word processing, DTP, etc) a technique for moving blocks of text, etc
cut and run To be off or escape quickly cut and thrust - (in fencing) the use of the edges and the point of the weapon
- Swift, shrewd and cleverly-calculated action or reaction, argument, etc (cut-and-thrustˈ adjective)
cut back - To prune close to the stem
- To revert to a previous scene
- To reduce (expenditure, etc)
cut both ways (of a decision, action, situation, etc) to have or result in both advantages and disadvantages cut corners - To turn corners by the quickest way, not keeping close to the edge of the road
- To do something (eg a piece of work) with the minimum of effort and expenditure and therefore often imperfectly
cut dead To refuse to recognize or acknowledge (another person) cut down - To bring down by cutting
- To reduce, curtail
- To maim or kill
cut down to size To cause (a person) to feel less important or to be less conceited cut from the same cloth Very similar in nature cut in - To interpose
- (of an electrical device) to begin working automatically
- To deprive someone of a dancing partner
- To intercept on the telephone
- To manoeuvre into a line of traffic in front of an overtaken vehicle, etc, esp without adequate warning or indication
- To come into a game by cutting a card
- To give a share
cut it (slang) To succeed or manage cut it fine To take risks by leaving insufficient margin for error cut it out (informal) To make an end of it, leave off cut it too fat To overdo a thing cut loose To break free from constraints cut no ice see under ice cut off - To sever
- To isolate
- To put to an end prematurely
- To intercept
- To stop
- (of an electrical device) to stop working, usu automatically, esp as a safety measure
- To disinherit
cut off with a shilling - To bequeath only a shilling
- To disinherit
cut one's coat according to one's cloth To adapt oneself to (esp financial) circumstances cut one's losses To have done with an unprofitable venture cut one's stick To take one's departure cut one's teeth (on) (informal) - To gain experience (by means of)
- To practise (on)
cut out - To shape
- To contrive
- To debar
- To block (light, etc)
- To supplant
- To separate from a herd
- To pass out of a game on cutting a card
- To pass out of a line of traffic in order to overtake
- To capture and carry off (a ship) as from a harbour, etc, by getting between her and the shore
- (of an engine) suddenly to stop functioning
cut out for Naturally fitted for cut short - To abridge
- To make short by cutting
- To silence by interruption
cut teeth To have teeth grow through the gums, as an infant cut to the chase To get to the point cut up - To cut into pieces
- To criticize severely
- To turn out (well or ill) when divided into parts
- (in passive) to be deeply distressed
- To make jokes, play tricks or behave in a boisterous manner (N American)
- To drive recklessly in front of (another vehicle) causing danger to it (slang)
cut up rough To take something amiss, become difficult or angry draw cuts (archaic) To cast lots make the cut (golf) To qualify for the final round(s) of a tournament miss the cut (golf) To fail to qualify for the final round(s) of a tournament short cut see under short ice /īs/ noun- Frozen water
- Any substance resembling this, esp any liquid or gaseous substance reduced to a solid state by freezing
- A portion of ice-cream or water ice
- Reserve, formality
- Coldness of manner
- Diamond(s) or other precious stone(s) (slang)
- An illicit drug, a highly synthesized form of methamphetamine (drug sl)
adjective Of ice transitive verb (icˈing; iced)- To cool with ice
- To cover with icing
- To kill (US criminal sl)
intransitive verb- To freeze
- To become covered with ice (with up, over, etc)
ORIGIN: OE īs; ON īss; Ger Eis, Dan is iced /īst/ adjective - Covered with or cooled with ice
- Coated or topped with icing
iˈcer noun A person who makes or applies icing icˈily adverb icˈiness noun icˈing noun - (a coating of) concreted sugar
- The formation of ice, eg on roads, aircraft, ships, etc
icˈy adjective - Composed of, covered with, or like ice
- Frosty
- Cold
- Chilling
- (of manner) without warmth, distant, hostile
adverb In an icy manner iceˈ-action noun The action of glaciers and land ice on the earth's surface ice age noun (geology) Any time when a great part of the earth's surface has been covered with ice, esp (often with caps) that in the Pleistocene epoch ice anchor noun An anchor with a single arm for mooring to an ice floe, etc ice apron noun A structure on the upstream side of a bridge pier to break or ward off floating ice ice axe noun An axe used by mountain-climbers to cut footholds in ice or compacted snow ice bag noun A waterproof bag filled with or for carrying ice iceˈball noun A game, similar to basketball, played by two teams of players on ice ice beer noun Beer brewed using a process that freezes the beer and then removes some of the ice, so increasing the alcoholic content iceˈberg noun - (from Scand or Du) a huge mass of ice, floating in the sea, which has broken away from a glacier, ice barrier, etc
- A cold and unemotional person (esp US informal)
- A type of crisp lettuce with tightly-packed light-green leaves (also iceberg lettuce)
iceˈblink noun A glare in the sky caused by light reflected from distant masses of ice ice block noun (Aust and NZ) An ice lolly iceˈ-blue noun and adjective (a) very pale blue iceˈboat noun - A boat for forcing a way through ice, an icebreaker
- A craft mounted on runners for moving over ice (also ice yacht)
iceˈbound adjective (of a ship, etc) covered, surrounded or immobilized by ice iceˈbox noun - The freezing compartment of a refrigerator
- A refrigerator (old US)
- An insulated box packed with ice, used for storing and carrying cold food and drink
iceˈbreaker noun - A ship for breaking channels through ice
- Anything for breaking ice
- Something or someone that breaks down reserve between a group or gathering of people
iceˈbreaking adjective ice bucket noun - An insulated container for holding ice cubes to be used in drinks
- A receptacle partially filled with ice, used for cooling bottles of wine
iceˈ-calk same as frost-nail (see under frost). iceˈcap noun A permanent covering of ice over the polar regions of a planet, a mountain-top, etc iceˈ-cold adjective Cold as, or like, ice ice colours plural noun (chem) Dyestuffs produced on cotton fibre by a solution of diazo-salt cooled with ice interacting with a second component ice contact slope noun (geology) The steep slope of material deposited at the ice front of a glacier and in contact with it ice craft noun Skill in travelling over or through ice ice cream noun A sweet frozen food containing cream, or one of various substitutes, and flavouring (iceˈ-cream soda carbonated water with ice cream added) ice cube noun A small cube of ice used for cooling drinks, etc ice dance or ice dancing noun A form of ice-skating based on the movements of ballroom dancing ice dancer noun ice diving noun Scuba diving below the surface of frozen water iced tea or ice tea noun Chilled sweetened tea flavoured eg with lemon iced water noun Drinking water chilled with ice ice fall noun - A fall of ice
- A steep broken place in a glacier
ice fern noun A fern-like encrustation on a window in frost iceˈfield noun A large flat area of land covered with ice or an area of sea covered with floating ice ice fish noun - The capelin
- Any percoid Antarctic fish of the family Channichthyidiae
ice floe noun A large sheet of ice floating in the sea iceˈ-foot noun A belt of ice forming round the coast in Arctic regions (also iceˈ-belt or iceˈ-ledge) iceˈ-free adjective Without ice ice front noun The front face of a glacier ice hill noun A slope of ice for tobogganing ice hilling noun ice hockey noun A game played by two teams on an ice rink, in which players equipped with skates and long sticks try to drive a flat puck into their opponent's goal ice house noun (esp formerly) a building for storing ice in ice lolly noun A lollipop consisting of water ice on a stick ice machine noun A machine for making ice in large quantities ice man noun (esp US) - A man who sells or delivers ice
- A jewel thief (slang)
- A professional killer, a hitman (criminal sl)
iceˈpack noun - Drifting ice packed together, pack ice
- An ice-filled bag for applying to a part of the body to reduce swelling (medicine)
- A gel-filled pack that remains frozen for long periods, for use in a cool box, etc
ice pan noun A slab of floating ice ice pick noun A tool with a pointed end used for splitting ice ice plant noun A flowering plant (Mesembrianthemum or Dorotheanthus) whose succulent leaves are covered with fine hairs which give them a glistening, sugary appearance ice point noun The temperature (0ºCelsius or 32ºFahrenheit) at which ice is at equilibrium with water in liquid form at a pressure of one atmosphere ice rink noun A skating rink of ice ice run noun A tobogganing slide ice sheet noun A thick sheet of ice covering a large area of land, esp an entire region, as in ice ages ice shelf noun A floating sheet of ice permanently attached to a land mass and projecting into the sea ice show noun An entertainment or exhibition provided by skaters on ice ice skate noun A skate for moving on ice (see skate1) iceˈ-skate intransitive verb iceˈ-skater noun iceˈ-skating noun ice spar noun A clear glassy orthoclase iceˈstone see cryolite under cryo- ice storm noun A storm of freezing rain ice tea see iced tea above. ice track noun A frozen track used in speedskating ice water noun Water formed from melted ice ice worm noun A species of oligochaete found on glaciers in Alaska, etc ice yacht see iceboat above. icing sugar noun Sugar in the form of a very fine powder, for icing cakes, etc icˈy-pearled adjective (Milton) Studded with pearls or spangles of ice break the ice - To break through the barrier of reserve or inhibition on first meeting
- To move to restore friendly relations after a period of hostility
cut no ice - To count for nothing
- To have no effect
dry ice Solid carbon dioxide, which changes directly into vapour at −78.5ºCelsius, and is chiefly used for refrigeration, but is also exploited in the theatre, the dense, swirling, floor-level white cloud it produces on evaporation creating a spectacular stage-effect ice out (figurative) To exclude (someone) from one's company by ignoring him or her icing on the cake Anything that is a desirable addition to something already satisfactory on ice (figurative) - Kept, or waiting in readiness
- Postponed
- In prison, esp in solitary confinement (US prison sl)
put on ice To put into abeyance, to suspend (skate) on thin ice (to be) in a delicate, difficult or potentially embarrassing situation tip of the iceberg - The top of an iceberg, visible above the water, most of it being invisible below the surface
- Hence, the small obvious part of a much larger problem, etc (figurative)
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