cut

verb

1. (transitive)To incise, to cut into the surface of something.

   “You must cut this flesh from off his breast.”

   “MARA: We are forty against four hundred. // KLINGON: Four thousand throats may be cut in one night by a running man.”

2. (transitive)To incise, to cut into the surface of something.

   “Would you please cut the cake?”

   “Before the whistling winds the vessels fly, / With rapid swiftness cut the liquid way.”

   “First, marinate the tofu. In a bowl, whisk the kecap manis, chilli sauce, and sesame oil together. Cut the tofu into strips about 1cm thick, mix gently (so it doesn't break) with the marinade and leave in the fridge for half an hour.”

3. (transitive)To incise, to cut into the surface of something.

   “I have three diamonds to cut today.”

   “Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, / Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster”

   “loopholes cut through thickest shade”

4. (slang, transitive)To incise, to cut into the surface of something.

   “We don't want your money no more. We just going to cut you.”

5. (intransitive, transitive)To incise, to cut into the surface of something.

   “The patient said she had been cutting since the age of thirteen.”

6. (ambitransitive, transitive)To incise, to cut into the surface of something.

   ““My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.””

7. (transitive)To incise, to cut into the surface of something.

   “Sarcasm cuts to the quick.”

   “she feared she should laugh to hear an European preach in Tamul , but on the contrary , was cut to the heart by what she heard”

8. (transitive)To incise, to cut into the surface of something.

   “to cut a horse”

9. (transitive)To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
10. (intransitive)To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.

    “The panels of white-wood that cuts like cheese, / But lasts like iron for things like these;”

11. (transitive)To separate, remove, reject or reduce.

    “Travis was cut from the team.”

12. (transitive)To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
13. (transitive)To separate, remove, reject or reduce.

    “They're going to cut salaries by fifteen percent.”

    “In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax.”

    “The principle of prioritising longer-distance trains by cutting services to wayside stations (often leading directly to their closure) is not new.”

14. (transitive)To separate, remove, reject or reduce.

    “I cut fifth period to hang out with Angela.”

    “An English tradesman is always solicitous to cut the shop whenever he can do so with impunity.”

15. (intransitive, slang, transitive)To separate, remove, reject or reduce.

    “I gotta cut but I'll see you tomorrow, okay?”

    “my friends and i had gone for lunch but i had to cut early and couldn't get dessert (which if you know me it's my top priority) so they got it packed and dropped off at my place without a word "open the lift and take it" ?????????? how is this real i will literally cry”

16. (transitive)To ignore as a social rebuff or snub.

    “After the incident at the dinner party, people started to cut him on the street.”

    “At first it had been very painful to him to meet any of his old friends, … but this soon passed; either they cut him, or he cut them; it was not nice being cut for the first time or two, but after that, it became rather pleasant than not … The ordeal is a painful one, but if a man's moral and intellectual constitution are naturally sound, there is nothing which will give him so much strength of character as having been well cut.”

    “The ordinary people greet him (Aaron Burr) warmly while the respectable folk tend to cut him dead.”

17. (intransitive)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.”

18. (transitive)To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
19. (transitive)To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time.

    “Select the text, cut it, and then paste it in the other application.”

20. (intransitive)To enter a queue in the wrong place.

    “One student kept trying to cut in front of the line.”

    “Excuse me, do you mind if I cut?!”

21. (intransitive)To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.

    “This road cuts right through downtown.”

    “Neither Joleon Lescott nor Vieira appeared to make any contact with Dyer as he cut between them.”

    “Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.”

22. (transitive)To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it.
23. (transitive)To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
24. (intransitive)To change direction suddenly.

    “The football player cut to his left to evade a tackle.”

25. (intransitive, transitive)To divide a pack of playing cards into two parts, often followed by placing the two parts back together in the opposite order.

    “If you cut then I'll deal.”

26. (slang, transitive)To make, negotiate; to finalise, conclude; to issue.

    “I'll cut a check for you.”

    “I didn't deserve it, but he cut me a deal.”

    “to cut a deal, to cut deals”

    “to cut a fantastic deal, to cut a raw deal”

27. (slang, transitive)To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug.

    “The best malt whiskies are improved if they are cut with a dash of water.”

    “The bartender cuts his beer to save money and now it's all watery.”

    “Drug dealers sometimes cut cocaine with lidocaine.”

28. (transitive)To exhibit (a figure having some trait).

    “The Bender family cut a very distinct profile.”

    “Arsenal were starting to work up a head of steam and Tractor Boys boss Paul Jewell cut an increasingly frustrated figure on the touchline.”

29. (transitive)To stop, disengage, or cease.

    “The schoolchildren were told to cut the noise.”

    “Cut the engines when the plane comes to a halt!”

30. (transitive)To renounce or give up.
31. 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.
32. To lose body mass, aiming to keep muscle but lose body fat.
33. To perform (an elaborate dancing movement etc.).

    “to cut a caper”

    “'Choke, chicken, there's more a-hatching,' said Miss Mag, in a sort of aside, and cutting a flic-flac with a merry devilish laugh, and a wink to Puddock.”

34. (colloquial, intransitive)To run or hurry.

    “‘Look here, you're nearest his size. Cut up to your rooms and give Ipps your dinner things and a clean shirt for him.’”

    “Now one of us had better cut down to Courtfield on a bike […]”

adj

1. (adjective, error-misspelling, participle)Having been cut.

   “The real purpose of building this railway on the part of the Japanese imperialists at that time was to spy on the Mongolian People's Republic and to transport the timber produced in the A-erh-t'ai forest zone.[…]The principal cargo consists of cut timber from the A-erh-t'ai-shan, and the cereal products of Wu-lan-hao-t'e.”

2. Reduced.

   “The pitcher threw a cut fastball that was slower than his usual pitch.”

   “Cut brandy is a liquor made of brandy and hard grain liquor.”

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.

   “Or how 'bout Shane DiMora? Could he possibly get rip-roaring cut this time around?”

   “That's the premise of the overload principle, and it must be applied, even to ab training, if you're going to develop a cut, ripped midsection.”

6. (informal)Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
7. (Australia, New-Zealand, slang)Upset, angry; emotionally hurt.

   “‘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.’”

8. (New-Zealand, slang)Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.

   “I was dev’lish cut—uncommon—been dining with some chaps at Greenwich.”

noun

1. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)The act of cutting.

   “He made a fine cut with his sword.”

2. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)The act of cutting.
3. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)The act of cutting.
4. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)The result of cutting.

   “a smooth or clear cut”

5. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)The result of cutting.
6. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)The result of cutting.

   “Look at this cut on my finger!”

7. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)The result of cutting.
8. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)The result of cutting.

   “a cut through the hillside for a railroad”

   “which great cut or ditch Sesostris […] purposed to have made a great deale wider and deeper.”

9. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)The result of cutting.
10. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)The result of cutting.

    “The taxman always gets his cut, and that's fine as long as it's a haircut and not an amputation.”

    “The bank robbers disbanded after everyone got their cut of the money.”

    “Starting today, UE5 is free to download and use, with Epic taking a 5% cut on products created with it only after they earn over $1 million in gross revenue.”

11. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)The result of cutting.

    “The boss took a 5% pay cut.”

    “The editors went a little crazy making so many cuts.”

12. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)The result of cutting.

    “I like the cut of that suit.”

    “I like the cut of that jib.”

    “with eyes severe and beard of formal cut”

13. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)The result of cutting.

    “That’s our largest cut of meat.”

    “Cope pushed away his coffee-cup and asked the young Greek for a cut of pie.”

14. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)The result of cutting.

    “The Vegas Strip is a supposedly new cut of beef.”

15. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)The result of cutting.
16. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)The result of cutting.
17. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)The result of cutting.
18. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)The result of cutting.
19. (countable, especially, figuratively, uncountable)The result of cutting.

    “The director asked the cast to note down the following cuts.”

20. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)The result of cutting.

    “the director's cut”

21. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)The result of cutting.

    “The player next to the dealer makes a cut by placing the bottom half on top.”

22. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)The result of cutting.
23. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)The result of cutting.

    “Rip called him by name, but the cur snarled, showed his teeth, and passed on. This was an unkind cut indeed.”

    “After several experiences like this, I began to entertain a sort of respect for Kooloo, as quite a man of the world. In good sooth, he turned out to be one; in one week's time giving me the cut direct, and lounging by without even nodding. He must have taken me for part of the landscape.”

24. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)The result of cutting.
25. (countable, figuratively, slang, uncountable)The result of cutting.

    “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?"”

26. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)The result of cutting.

    “The drummer on the last cut of their CD is not identified.”

    “Best cuts: "The Evil Dude," "Kung Fu, Too!" "Mama Love," "New Orleans" (with a punchy vocal by Teresa Brewer).”

27. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)The result of cutting.
28. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)The result of cutting.
29. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)The result of cutting.
30. (Internet, countable, figuratively, uncountable)The result of cutting.

    “That's the TL;DR, anyway. You can find a more detailed version under the cut.”

31. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)The result of cutting.

    “The shunter has a lightweight portable radio transmitter by which, as he uncouples an incoming train into cuts for marshalling, he informs the Traffic Office of the number of wagons in each cut and its siding; [...].”

32. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)The result of cutting.

    “a book illustrated with fine cuts”

33. (countable, figuratively, obsolete, uncountable)The result of cutting.

    “He's buy me a whit Cut, forth for to ride”

34. (countable, dated, figuratively, slang, uncountable)The result of cutting.
35. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)The result of cutting.

    “Two women for stealing 30 cuttes of linen yarn.”

36. (figuratively, slang, uncountable)The result of cutting.

    “Don't buy his coke: it's full of cut.”

37. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)The result of cutting.
38. (countable, figuratively, slang, uncountable)The result of cutting.

    “I'm laying in a cut 'bout to shoot me a mutt”

    “I see Xzibit in the cut, hey, nigga, roll that weed up.”

    “You don't mind me askin', why you want to sell? I mean, even from inside here, you can take a slice for just layin' in the cut.”

    “In the cut, in the cut, rolling doobies up”

    “Bitch I'm out, catch me chillin' in the cut. Me and my homies swag it out in the cut. It's a party going down in the cut.”

39. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)The result of cutting.
40. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)The result of cutting.

intj

1. An instruction to cease recording.

   “Near-synonym: scene!”