CUTTINGS

  

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CUTTINGS

"CUTTINGS" is a plural of: cutting.

Date "CUTTINGS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)


Specialty Definition: CUTTINGS

DomainDefinition

Environment

Spoils left by conventional drilling with hollow stem auger or rotary drilling equipment. (references)

Metallurgy

A small piece of any material separated from a workpiece by the edge of a cutting tool. The term "swarf" denotes metal chips only. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

A. The particles of rock produced in a borehole by the abrasive or percussive action of a drill bit; excess material caused by the rubbing of core against core or core against steel; erosive effect of the circulating liquid; or cavings from the borehole. Also called drill cuttings; drillings; sludge. CF:borings b. The fragmental rock samples broken or torn from the rock penetrated during the course of drilling c. Eng. See:holingsd. See:bug dust. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: CUTTINGS

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Choice

Selection, excerption, gleaning, eclecticism; excerpta, gleanings, cuttings, scissors and paste; pick; (best).

Compendium

Album; scrap book, note book, memorandum book, commonplace book; extracts, excerpta, cuttings; fugitive pieces, fugitive writing; spicilegium, flowers, anthology, collectanea, analecta; compilation.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: CUTTINGS

English words defined with "CUTTINGS": drilling fluid, drilling mudNotchingquicksetscrap iron, Scrow, steam shovelTo cut lots. (references)
Specialty definitions using "CUTTINGS": clean cuttings, contouring with plant cuttingshorizontally planted cuttingspropagation by cuttingswell cuttings. (references)

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Modern Usage: CUTTINGS

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Paper Cuttings (1912)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: CUTTINGS

DomainTitle

References

  • The 2000 Import and Export Market for Tanned and Dressed Furskins Including Pieces and Cuttings in Africa (reference)

  • The 2002 World Forecasts of Tanned and Dressed Furskins including Pieces and Cuttings Export Supplies (reference)

  • The 2003 World Forecasts of Tanned and Dressed Furskins including Pieces and Cuttings Export Supplies (reference)

  • The 2002 World Market Forecasts for Imported Tanned and Dressed Furskins including Pieces and Cuttings (reference)

  • The 2003 World Market Forecasts for Imported Tanned and Dressed Furskins including Pieces and Cuttings (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

  • Plant Propagation in Pictures: How to Increase the Number of Plants in Your Home and Garden by Division, Grafting, Layering, Cuttings, Bulbs and Tube (reference)

  • Short Scenes from Shakespeare: Nineteen Cuttings for the Classroom (reference)

  • Grow your own plants: from seeds, cuttings, division, layering, and grafting (reference)

  • Plants-A-Plenty: How to Multiply Outdoor and Indoor Plants Through Cuttings, Crown and Root Divisions, Grafting, Layering, and Seeds (reference)

  • Simple Propagation: A Book of Instructions for Propagation by Seed, Division, Layering, Cuttings, Budding, and Grafting (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: CUTTINGS

Photos:
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Photo Album: CUTTINGS

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An employee of the Joseph Fields Farm, shows Dwayne Mangum, NRCS District Conservationist, cuttings of a few of the crops such as cantaloupe, collards, tomatoes, and watermelon grown on the farm. Half of the farm’s crops are propagated in the greenhouse. Credit: Bob Nichols.

Field worker irrigating alfalfa and barley fields. The field produces eleven cuttings of alfalfa a year, yields nine to ten tons to the acre; sold for twenty-two dollars per ton in 1936. Near Indio, Coachella Valley, California. Credit: Library of Congress.

Sherman County, Texas. Geologist examining cuttings on location of a wildcat well which is drilling a core. Credit: Library of Congress.

Geologist examining cuttings from wildcat well, Amarillo, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Non-Fiction Usage: CUTTINGS

SubjectTopicQuote

Political Economy

Sudan

Police took a camera, a file of newspaper cuttings, five boxes of slides, a corrector tape, three floppy disks, and a bottle of whiskey. (references)

Trade

Argentina

Many food-related and agricultural imports, such as livestock, plants, bulbs, cuttings, rhizomes, roots, grains, and plant products, require a sanitary certificate issued by a competent authority in the exporting country. (references)

Kenya

Importation of any form of plant material (seeds, cuttings, budwood plantlets, fresh fruit, flowers and timber) into Kenya is subject to strict specified conditions as outlined in the import permit issued by the Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: CUTTINGS

"CUTTINGS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 99.41% of the time. "CUTTINGS" is used about 504 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)99.41%50112,028
Noun (proper)0.59%3202,518
                    Total100.00%504N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: CUTTINGS

Expressions using "CUTTINGS": bruising the base of cuttings RF office international de la vigne et du vin contouring with plant cuttings horizontally planted cuttings propagation by cuttings. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "CUTTINGS": cuttings-book.

Ending with "CUTTINGS": news-cuttings, press-cuttings, stem-cuttings.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: CUTTINGS

Language Translations for "CUTTINGS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

afval (apostasy, apostatize, clippings, debris, defection, desert, drop, drop out, fall, fall away, lose, lose flesh, lose in weight, parings, refuse, remainder, rest, rubbish, rubble, secede, waste, windfall). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

стружки (raspings, shavings, turnings), изрезки (clippings, trimmings, waste). (various references)

   

Czech

  

výstřižky (clippings). (various references)

   

Danish

  

spån (chip, millings, planings, sliver, splinter, swarf, turnings). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

vuil (clippings, debris, dirt, dirty, filth, filthy, foul, nasty, parings, refuse, rubbish, rubble, soiled, unclean, waste, windfall), spaander (chip, chips, millings, particles, planings, swarf, turnings), rommel (chaos, clippings, confusion, debris, disorder, garbage, leavings, parings, refuse, remainder, rest, rubbish, rubble, tangle, waste, windfall), afval (apostasy, clippings, debris, defection, garbage, leavings, parings, refuse, remainder, rest, rubbish, rubble, waste, windfall). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

defalaĵo (clippings, parings, refuse, rubbish, waste, windfall). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

lastu (chip, shaving). (various references)

   

French

  

copeau (cutting). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

ôffal (apostasy, apostate, clippings, defection, parings, refuse, remainder, rest, rubbish, waste, windfall), ôfeart (clippings, parings, refuse, remainder, rest, rubbish, waste, windfall). (various references)

   

German

  

Span (boring, chip, filing, flake, piece of kindling, shaving, spill), Schnitte (cuts, open sandwich, sandwich, serrations, slice). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

απόβλητο κοπής (chip, millings, planings, swarf, turnings). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kivágások, hulladék (cabbage, clippings, cut-offs, debris, dross, end, garbage, junk, lop, oddments, offal, paring, pickings, refuse, scrapings, spilt, spoilage, sweepings, trash, wastage, waste). (various references)

   

Italian

  

truciolo (chip, shaving). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

裁ち屑  (scraps), 裁ち屑 (scraps). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

たちくず (scraps). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

uttingscay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

apara (clipping, shaving). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

обрезки (paring), брак (clippings, marriage, match, matrimony, parings, refuse, rubbish, spoilage, waste, waster, wastrel, wedlock, windfall). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

isečci. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

viruta (shave, shaving), detrito (clippings, debris, detritus, parings, refuse, remainder, rest, rubbish, rubble, waste, windfall), desechos (clippings, debris, parings, refuse, rejectamenta, remainder, rest, rubbish, rubble, waste, windfall). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

avfall (apostasy, backsliding, chips, cutting, defection, dross, falling away, garbage, leavings, litter, odd-come-short, offal, recrement, refuse, rejectamenta, waste). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Bible Trace: CUTTINGS

LanguageDateSourceLeviticus Chapter 19, Verse 28
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintKai entomidaV epi yuch ou poihsete en tw swmati umwn kai grammata stikta ou poihsete en umin egw eimi kurioV o qeoV umwn
Latin405VulgateEt super mortuo non incidetis carnem vestram neque figuras aliquas et stigmata facietis vobis ego Dominus
Middle English1395WyclifAnd vpon the deed ye shulen not kitte youre flesh, ne eny figuris, or pryckyngis, ye shulen make to yow; Y a Lord.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleYe shall not rent youre flesh for any soules sake, nor printe any markes apon you: I am the Lorde.
Jacobean English1611King JamesYe shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
Victorian English1833WebsterYe shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.
Basic English1964OgdenYou may not make cuts in your flesh in respect for the dead, or have marks printed on your bodies: I am the Lord.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: CUTTINGS

LanguageLeviticus Chapter 19, Verse 28
CebuanoUg dili ninyo pagsamaran ang inyong unod tungod sa usa ka minatay, ni magpatik kamo kaninyo ug bisan unsa nga mga timaan. Ako mao si Jehova.
CroatianNe urezujte zareza na svome tijelu za pokojnika; niti na sebi usijecajte kakvih biljega. Ja sam Jahve!
DanishI må ikke gøre Indsnit i eders Legeme for de dødes Skyld eller indridse Tegn på eder. Jeg er HERREN!
DutchGij zult om een dood lichaam geen snijding in uw vlees maken, noch schrift van een ingedrukt teken in u maken; Ik ben de HEERE!
FinnishÄlkää viileskelkö ihoanne vainajan tähden älkääkä koristelko itseänne ihopiirroksilla. Minä olen Herra.
FrenchVous ne ferez point d`incisions dans votre chair pour un mort, et vous n`imprimerez point de figures sur vous. Je suis l`Éternel.
GermanIhr sollt kein Mal um eines Toten willen an eurem Leibe reißen noch Buchstaben an euch ätzen; denn ich bin der HERR.
HungarianTesteteket a holt emberért meg ne hasogassátok, se égetéssel magatokat meg ne bélyegezzétek. Én vagyok az Úr.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariJangan mencacah kulitmu untuk membuat tanda-tanda atau melukai badanmu sebagai tanda berkabung atas orang mati. Akulah TUHAN.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaJangan kamu menoreh tubuhmu karena sebab seorang yang mati, dan jangan kamu menyelarkan tubuhmu dengan barang sesuatu tulisan: Bahwa Akulah Tuhan.
ItalianNon vi farete incisioni sul corpo per un defunto, né vi farete segni di tatuaggio. Io sono il Signore.
MaoriKaua e haea o koutou kikokiko mo te tapapaku, kaua ano hoki e taia he tohu ki a koutou: ko Ihowa ahau.
NorwegianI skal ikke skjære i eders kjøtt av sorg over en avdød, og ikke brenne inn skrifttegn på eder; jeg er Herren.
PortugueseNão fareis lacerações na vossa carne pelos mortos; nem no vosso corpo imprimireis qualquer marca. Eu sou o Senhor.   
RumanianSq nu vq faceyi tqieturi kn carne pentru un mort, wi sq nu vq faceyi slove sqpate pe voi. Eu sknt Domnul.
RussianтБ"Й ХНЕТЫЕЗП ОЕ "ЕМБКФЕ ОБТЕЪПЧ ОБ ФЕМЕ ЧБЫЕН Й ОЕ ОБЛБМЩЧБКФЕ ОБ УЕ'Е ЙУШНЕО. с зПУ П"Ш.
SpanishNo haréis incisiones en vuestros cuerpos a causa de algún difunto, ni grabaréis tatuajes sobre vosotros. Yo, Jehovah.
SwedishI skolen icke göra något märke på eder kropp för någon död, ej heller bränna in skrifttecken på eder. Jag är HERREN.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Derivations & Misspellings: CUTTINGS

Derivations

Words ending with "CUTTINGS": crosscuttings, haircuttings, stonecuttings, woodcuttings. (additional references)


Misspellings

"CUTTINGS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: buttings, cotinga, cottin, Cuttinge, cuttting. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "CUTTINGS"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "CUTTINGS" (pronounced ku"tingz)
4-t i ng zbeatings, castings, coatings, everlastings, fightings, fittings, frostings, greetings, hustings, listings, marketings, meetings, outings, paintings, plantings, postings, printings, ratings, seatings, settings, shootings, sightings, whitings, writings.
3-i ng zbearings, beginnings, beheadings, beings, belongings, Billings, blessings, boardings, bombings, bookings, borrowings, briefings, buildings, burnings, bushings, carjackings, carvings, casings, ceilings, clippings, closings, comings, couplings, coverings, cowlings, cravings, crossings, darlings, dealings, doings, drawings, dressings, droppings, drownings, ducklings, dumplings, dwellings, earnings, earrings, earthlings, endings, engravings, etchings, evenings, facings, failings, fastenings, feedings, feelings, filings, fillings, financings, findings, firings, fixings, flavorings, followings, forgings, furnishings, gatherings, goings, groupings, hangings, happenings, headings, hearings, helpings, herrings, hijackings, holdings, housings, innings, killings, landholdings, landings, lashings, leanings, leavings, leggings, lemmings, lightnings, linings, livings, loadings, lodgings, longings, lynchings, mailings, makings, markings, meanings, misgivings, misunderstandings, moldings, moorings, mornings, mouldings, muggings, musings, nestlings, nothings, offerings, openings, pickings, pilings, pleadings, poisonings, posturings, proceedings, publishings, puddings, railings, rankings, readings, recordings, rehearings, ridings, riggings, Rollings, rulings, rumblings, runnings, samplings, saplings, savings, sayings, schillings, scrapings, screenings, seasonings, seedlings, servings, shadings, shavings, shillings, shipbuildings, shortcomings, showings, siblings, skillings, slayings, soundings, spellings, stabbings, standings, stockings, sufferings, surroundings, tailings, takings, teachings, tidings, toppings, trappings, trimmings, underlings, underpinnings, understandings, undertakings, uprisings, vikings, wanderings, warnings, weddings, winnings, workings, wrongdoings, yearlings, yearnings.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: CUTTINGS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: tungstic.

Words within the letters "c-g-i-n-s-t-t-u"

-1 letter: cutting.

-2 letters: cutins, tincts, tunics.

-3 letters: cuing, cutin, cutis, ictus, incus, sting, stint, stung, stunt, suing, suint, tinct, tings, tints, tungs, tunic, units, using.

-4 letters: cigs, cist, cuts, gins, gist, gits, gnus, guns, gust, guts, nits, nuts, scut, sign, sing, snit, snug, stun, suit, sung, tics, ting, tins, tint, tugs, tuis, tung, tuns, tuts.

 Words containing the letters "c-g-i-n-s-t-t-u"
 

+1 letter: scuttling.

 

+2 letters: miscutting, scuttering.

 

+3 letters: destructing, fungistatic, gesticulant, instructing, obstructing, rusticating, structuring, subtracting, unstitching.

 

+4 letters: auscultating, constituting, constructing, contiguities, crosscutting, haircuttings, shortcutting, stonecutting, woodcuttings.

 

+5 letters: conglutinates, crosscuttings, gesticulating, gesticulation, outdistancing, outstretching, restructuring, resuscitating, stonecuttings.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Images: Photo Album
7. Quotations: Non-fiction
8. Usage Frequency
9. Expressions
10. Translations: Modern
11. Bible Trace
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Bibliography


  

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