cut

Etymology
From, , , (compare 🇨🇬, ), of  origin, from , , from , , of uncertain origin, perhaps related to  (compare 🇨🇬). Akin to Middle 🇨🇬 (compare dialectal 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬, ), 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, ,. Displaced native (from ; compare ), which still survives in some dialects as  or. See. Adjective sense of "drunk" (now rare and now usually used in the originally jocular derivative form of half-cut) dates from the 17th century, from cut in the leg, to have cut your leg, euphemism for being very drunk.

Verb

 * 1)  To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
 * 2) To perform an incision on, for example with a knife.
 * 3) To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument.
 * 4) To form or shape by cutting.
 * 5)  To wound with a knife.
 * 6)  To engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin.
 * 7)  To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to.
 * 8) To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce.
 * 9) To castrate or geld.
 * 10) To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
 * 11)  To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
 * 12)  To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
 * 13) To separate or omit, in a situation where one was previously associated.
 * 14) To abridge or shorten a work; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.
 * 15) To reduce, especially intentionally.
 * 16) To absent oneself from (a class, an appointment, etc.).
 * 17)  To leave abruptly.
 * 18)  To ignore as a social rebuff or snub.
 * 19)  To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.
 * The camera then cut to the woman on the front row who was clearly overcome and crying tears of joy.
 * 1)  To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
 * 2)  To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time.
 * 3)  To enter a queue in the wrong place.
 * 4)  To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
 * 5)  To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it.
 * 6)  To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
 * 7)  To change direction suddenly.
 * 8)  To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
 * 9)   To make, to negotiate, to conclude.
 * 10)  To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug.
 * 11)  To exhibit (a figure having some trait).
 * 12)  To stop, disengage, or cease.
 * 13)  To renounce or give up.
 * 14)  To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball, or (in tennis) striking it with the racket inclined.
 * 15)   To lose body mass, aiming to keep muscle but lose body fat.
 * 16) To perform (an elaborate dancing movement etc.).
 * to cut a caper
 * 1)  To move.
 * He cut down the street.
 * 1)  To ignore as a social rebuff or snub.
 * 2)  To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.
 * The camera then cut to the woman on the front row who was clearly overcome and crying tears of joy.
 * 1)  To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
 * 2)  To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time.
 * 3)  To enter a queue in the wrong place.
 * 4)  To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
 * 5)  To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it.
 * 6)  To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
 * 7)  To change direction suddenly.
 * 8)  To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
 * 9)   To make, to negotiate, to conclude.
 * 10)  To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug.
 * 11)  To exhibit (a figure having some trait).
 * 12)  To stop, disengage, or cease.
 * 13)  To renounce or give up.
 * 14)  To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball, or (in tennis) striking it with the racket inclined.
 * 15)   To lose body mass, aiming to keep muscle but lose body fat.
 * 16) To perform (an elaborate dancing movement etc.).
 * to cut a caper
 * 1)  To move.
 * He cut down the street.
 * 1)  To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
 * 2)   To make, to negotiate, to conclude.
 * 3)  To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug.
 * 4)  To exhibit (a figure having some trait).
 * 5)  To stop, disengage, or cease.
 * 6)  To renounce or give up.
 * 7)  To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball, or (in tennis) striking it with the racket inclined.
 * 8)   To lose body mass, aiming to keep muscle but lose body fat.
 * 9) To perform (an elaborate dancing movement etc.).
 * to cut a caper
 * 1)  To move.
 * He cut down the street.
 * 1)  To exhibit (a figure having some trait).
 * 2)  To stop, disengage, or cease.
 * 3)  To renounce or give up.
 * 4)  To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball, or (in tennis) striking it with the racket inclined.
 * 5)   To lose body mass, aiming to keep muscle but lose body fat.
 * 6) To perform (an elaborate dancing movement etc.).
 * to cut a caper
 * 1)  To move.
 * He cut down the street.
 * 1)   To lose body mass, aiming to keep muscle but lose body fat.
 * 2) To perform (an elaborate dancing movement etc.).
 * to cut a caper
 * 1)  To move.
 * He cut down the street.
 * 1)  To move.
 * He cut down the street.

Synonyms

 * See Thesaurus:cut

Troponyms

 * chop, hack, slice, trim

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Dyirbal:, , (Guwal), ,  (Jalnguy)
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Indonesian:, , ,
 * Romanian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman:, , , , ,
 * Telugu: (1,2),  (3),  (6),  (8)

Adjective

 * 1)  Having been cut.
 * 2) Reduced.
 * 3)  Carved into a shape; not raw.
 * 4)   Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
 * 5)  Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
 * 6)  Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
 * 7)  Upset, angry; emotionally hurt.
 * 8) * 1999,, The Hunter, Faber & Faber 2012, p. 41:
 * ‘Here y'are,’ says the happy butcher, dragging out a bucket. ‘Good riddance. But me dogs'll be cut tonight, I tell ya. That's their grub.’
 * 1)   Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
 * 1)  Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
 * 2)  Upset, angry; emotionally hurt.
 * 3) * 1999,, The Hunter, Faber & Faber 2012, p. 41:
 * ‘Here y'are,’ says the happy butcher, dragging out a bucket. ‘Good riddance. But me dogs'll be cut tonight, I tell ya. That's their grub.’
 * 1)   Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.

Noun



 * 1) The act of cutting.
 * 2) The result of cutting.
 * 3)  An opening resulting from cutting; an incision or wound.
 * 4) A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
 * 5) An artificial navigation channel as distinguished from a navigable river.
 * 6) A share or portion of profits.
 * 7) A decrease.
 * ; increase
 * 1)  A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
 * 2)  Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.
 * 3)  In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball.
 * 4)  In a stroke play competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained a preannounced score, so that the rest of the competition is less pressed for time and more entertaining for spectators.
 * 5)  A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play, movie script, speech, etc.
 * 6)  A particular version or edit of a film.
 * the director's cut
 * 1)  The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
 * 2)  The card obtained by dividing the pack.
 * 3) The manner or style in which a garment or an article of clothing is fashioned.
 * 4) A slab or slice, especially of meat.
 * 5)  An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
 * 6) A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
 * 7) An unkind act; a cruelty.
 * 8)  An insult
 * 9) * 1966-1969, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
 * We got out & there was a group of boppers, bout 25 of 'm in a group. They started yellin cuts, "queer" seemed to be the favorite they all began chanting it. "Hey, yer not gonna serve those queers, are ya Howie?"
 * 1) A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc.
 * 2)  A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits were removed for the creation of some feature such as a ditch or pit.
 * 3) A haircut.
 * 4)  The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
 * 5)  A dividing line in a Tumblr post, the content below which is hidden until the reader reveals it.
 * 6)  A string of railway cars coupled together, shorter than a train.
 * 7) An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
 * 8)  A common workhorse; a gelding.
 * 9)  The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
 * 10) A skein of yarn.
 * 11)  That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
 * 12)  A notch shaved into an eyebrow.
 * 13)  A time period when one attempts to lose fat while retaining muscle mass.
 * 14)   A hidden, secluded, or secure place.
 * 15) * 2021, Redferrin, "Stuck":
 * She got me stuck. Like a truck, deep mud, deep ruts, way out in the cut. She got me stuck. Even four-wheel drive won't work this time, yeah.
 * 1) * 2023 January 9th, Santana Hannah, in JOLLY, "Brits try REAL Southern Fried Chicken for the first time!", YouTube, 11:27:
 * We're off the beaten path from River Street downtown. So, it's, we're back here in the cut.
 * 1)  The range of temperatures used to distill a particular mixture of hydrocarbons from crude oil.
 * 1)  A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits were removed for the creation of some feature such as a ditch or pit.
 * 2) A haircut.
 * 3)  The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
 * 4)  A dividing line in a Tumblr post, the content below which is hidden until the reader reveals it.
 * 5)  A string of railway cars coupled together, shorter than a train.
 * 6) An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
 * 7)  A common workhorse; a gelding.
 * 8)  The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
 * 9) A skein of yarn.
 * 10)  That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
 * 11)  A notch shaved into an eyebrow.
 * 12)  A time period when one attempts to lose fat while retaining muscle mass.
 * 13)   A hidden, secluded, or secure place.
 * 14) * 2021, Redferrin, "Stuck":
 * She got me stuck. Like a truck, deep mud, deep ruts, way out in the cut. She got me stuck. Even four-wheel drive won't work this time, yeah.
 * 1) * 2023 January 9th, Santana Hannah, in JOLLY, "Brits try REAL Southern Fried Chicken for the first time!", YouTube, 11:27:
 * We're off the beaten path from River Street downtown. So, it's, we're back here in the cut.
 * 1)  The range of temperatures used to distill a particular mixture of hydrocarbons from crude oil.
 * 1)  A time period when one attempts to lose fat while retaining muscle mass.
 * 2)   A hidden, secluded, or secure place.
 * 3) * 2021, Redferrin, "Stuck":
 * She got me stuck. Like a truck, deep mud, deep ruts, way out in the cut. She got me stuck. Even four-wheel drive won't work this time, yeah.
 * 1) * 2023 January 9th, Santana Hannah, in JOLLY, "Brits try REAL Southern Fried Chicken for the first time!", YouTube, 11:27:
 * We're off the beaten path from River Street downtown. So, it's, we're back here in the cut.
 * 1)  The range of temperatures used to distill a particular mixture of hydrocarbons from crude oil.
 * 1) * 2021, Redferrin, "Stuck":
 * She got me stuck. Like a truck, deep mud, deep ruts, way out in the cut. She got me stuck. Even four-wheel drive won't work this time, yeah.
 * 1) * 2023 January 9th, Santana Hannah, in JOLLY, "Brits try REAL Southern Fried Chicken for the first time!", YouTube, 11:27:
 * We're off the beaten path from River Street downtown. So, it's, we're back here in the cut.
 * 1)  The range of temperatures used to distill a particular mixture of hydrocarbons from crude oil.

Translations

 * Romanian:
 * Telugu: ,

Interjection

 * 1)  An instruction to cease recording.

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to cut; to incise; to divide
 * 2) to cut; to reduce
 * 3) to enter a queue at the wrong place; to switch directions suddenly
 * 4) to terminate; to end; to sever
 * 1) to enter a queue at the wrong place; to switch directions suddenly
 * 2) to terminate; to end; to sever
 * 1) to enter a queue at the wrong place; to switch directions suddenly
 * 2) to terminate; to end; to sever
 * 1) to terminate; to end; to sever

Interjection

 * 1)  An instruction to cease recording

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) back

Etymology 1
Borrowed from, from.

Noun

 * 1) hut, shed; cottage, hovel; pen, coop; cage

Etymology 2
From.