Cut

Definition: Cut

Cut

Adjective

1. Separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument; "the cut surface was mottled"; "cut tobacco"; "blood from his cut forehead"; "bandages on her cut wrists".

2. Fashioned or shaped by cutting; "a well-cut suit"; "cut diamonds"; "cut velvet".

3. With parts removed; "the drastically cut film".

4. Made neat and tidy by trimming; "his neatly trimmed hair".

5. (used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine; "the smell of new-mown hay".

6. (of pages of a book) having the folds of the leaves trimmed or slit; "the cut pages of the book".

7. (of a male animal) having the testicles removed; "a cut horse".

8. Having a long rip or tear; "a split lip".

9. Wounded by cutting deeply; "got a gashed arm in a knife fight"; "had a slashed cheek from the broken glass".

10. : cut down; "the tree is down".

11. : (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply; "the slashed prices attracted buyers".

12. : mixed with water; "sold cut whiskey"; "a cup of thinned soup".

Noun

1. The act of reducing the amount or number; "the mayor proposed extensive cuts in the city budget".

2. A wound made by cutting; "he put a bandage over the cut".

3. A piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass.

4. A distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc; "he played the first cut on the cd"; "the title track of the album".

5. The act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge; "his cut in the lining revealed the hidden jewels".

6. A share of the profits; "everyone got a cut of the earnings".

7. A step on some scale; "he is a cut above the the rest".

8. A trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation.

9. (film) an immediate transition from one shot to the next; "the cut from the accident scene to the hospital seemed too abrupt".

10. : the act of cutting something into parts; "his cuts were skillful"; "his cutting of the cake made a terrible mess".

11. : the part that is omitted when an editorial change shortens a written passage; "an editor's deletions frequently upset young authors".

12. : the style in which a garment is cut; "a dress of traditional cut".

13. : the act of shortening something by cutting off the ends; "the barber gave him a good cut".

14. : in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball; "he took a vicious cut at the ball".

15. : a remark capable of wounding mentally; "the unkindest cut of all".

16. : a canal made by erosion or excavation.

17. : a refusal to recognize someone you know; "the snub was clearly intentional".

18. : a stroke (in tennis or badminton or squash) that puts reverse spin on the ball; "cuts do not bother a good tennis player".

19. : the division of a deck of cards before dealing; "his cutting the cards before every deal soon became a ritual".

20. : an unexcused absence from class; "he was punished for taking too many cuts in his math class".

Verb

1. Separate with or as if with an instrument; "Cut the rope".

2. Cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits".

3. Turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right".

4. Make an incision or separation; "cut along the dotted line".

5. Discharge from a group; "The coach cut two players from the team".

6. Form by probing, penetrating, or digging; "cut a hole"; "cut trenches"; "The sweat cut little rivulets into her face".

7. Style and tailor in a certain fashion; "cut a dress"; "style a wedding dress".

8. Hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction; "cut a pingpong ball".

9. Make out and issue; "write out a check"; "cut a ticket"; "Please make the check out to me".

10. : edit; "cut film"; "cut recording tape".

11. : intentionally fail to attend: "cut class".

12. : informal: be able to manage or manage successfully; "I can't hack it anymore"; "she could not cut the long days in the office".

13. : give the appearance or impression of; "cut a nice figure".

14. : move, as of a fist in boxing; "his opponent cut upward toward his chin".

15. : pass directly and often in haste; "We cut through the neighbor's yard to get home sooner".

16. : pass through or across; "The boat cut the water".

17. : make an abrupt change of image or sound; "cut from one scene to another".

18. : stop filming; "cut a movie scene".

19. : make a recording of: "cut the songs".

20. : record a performance on; "cut a record".

21. : create by recording electronically; "cut a disk"; "cut a CD".

22. : form or shape by cutting or incising; "cut out paper dolls".

23. : perform or carry out; "cut a caper".

24. : function as a cutting instrument; "This knife cuts well".

25. : allow incision or separation; "This bread cuts easily".

26. : divide a deck of cards into two parts to make selection difficult; "Wayne cut".

27. : divide at random; "cut a deck of cards".

28. : cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch; "Turn off the stereo, please"; "cut the engine"; "turn out the lights".

29. : reap or harvest; "cut grain".

30. : fell by sawing; hew; "The Vietnamese cut a lot of timber while they occupied Cambodia".

31. : penetrate injuriously; "The glass from the shattered windshield cut into her forehead".

32. : refuse to acknowledge; "She cut him dead at the meeting".

33. : shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of; "cut my hair".

34. : weed out unwanted or unnecessary things; "We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet".

35. : dissolve by breaking down the fat of; "soap cuts grease".

36. : reduce in amount; "This cuts into my earnings".

37. : cease, stop: "cut the noise"; "We had to cut short the conversation".

38. : reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened".

39. : lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon".

40. : have grow through the gums; "The baby cut a tooth".

41. : grow through the gums; "The new tooth is cutting".

Date "cut" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Note: Cut \Cut\ (k[u^]t), transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Cut; Cutting.]. (references)

Domain	Definition
Computing	CUT Coordinated Universal Time. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Dream Interpretation	To dream of a cut, denotes sickness or the treachery of a friend will frustrate your cheerfulness. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Industry	A length of cloth in the grey or loom state, or the length of warp required to produce it. A cut of cloth was usually of the order of 50-100 yards, probably because it was a convenient length to cut from the cloth roller during the weaving operation. Source: European Union. (references)
	Curved scratch caused during plishing by a grain of abrasive, probably left on the surface after grinding. Source: European Union. (references)
Literature	Cut To renounce acquaintance. There are four sorts of cut - (1) The cut direct is to stare an acquaintance in the face and pretend not to know him. (2) The cut indirect, to look another way, and pretend not to see him. (3) The cut sublime, to admire the top of some tall edifice or the clouds of heaven till the person cut has passed by. (4) The cut infernal, to stoop and adjust your boots till the party has gone past. There is a very remarkable Scripture illustration of the word cut, meaning to renounce: "Jehovah took a staff and cut it asunder, in token that He would break His covenant with His people; and He cut another staff asunder, in token that He would break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel" (Zech. xi, 7-14). Cut Cut and come again. Take a cut from the joint, and come for another if you like. To cut the ground from under one (or from under his feet). To leave an adversary no ground to stand on, by disproving all his arguments. He has cut his eye-teeth. He is wide awake, he is a knowing one. The eye-teeth are the canine teeth, just under the eyes, and the phrase means he can bite as well as bark. Of course, the play is on the word "eye," and those who have cut their eye-teeth are wide awake. Cut your wisdom teeth. Wisdom teeth are those at the extreme end of the jaws, which do not make their appearance till persons have come to years of discretion. When persons say or do silly things, the remark is made to them that "they have not yet cut their wisdom teeth," or reached the years of discretion. Cut the knot. Break through an obstacle. The reference is to the Gordian knot (q.v.) shown to Alexander, with the assurance that whoever loosed it would be made ruler of all Asia, whereupon the Macedonian cut it in two with his sword, and claimed to have fulfilled the prophecy. I must cut my stick - i.e. leave. The Irish usually cut a shillelah before they start on an expedition. Punch gives the following witty derivation: - "Pilgrims on leaving the Holy Land used to cut a palm-stick, to prove that they had really been to the Holy Sepulchre. So brother Francis would say to brother Paul, `Where is brother Benedict?' `Oh (says Paul), he has cut his stick!' - i.e. he is on his way home." I'll cut your comb for you. Take your conceit down. The allusion is to the practice of cutting the combs of capons. He'll cut up well. He is rich, and his property will cut into good slices. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Math	A nonempty, proper subset of vertices of a graph. (references)
Mechanical Engineering	Width of the cut produced by sawing. Source: European Union. (references)
Metallurgy	To work a workpiece by means of a cutting tool, i. e. by stock removal or by shearing. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	The group of holes fired first in a round to provide additional free faces for the succeeding shots. Source: European Union. (references)
	A. An arrangement of holes used in underground mining and tunnel blasting to provide a free face to which the remainder of the round can break. Also, the opening created by the cut hole. b. To intersect a vein or working. c. To shear one side of an entry or crosscut by digging out the coal from floor to roof with a pick. See also:undercut d. Eng. In Somerset, a staple or drop pit. e. Eng. The depth to which a drill hole is put in for blasting. f. A term applied where the cutting machine has cut under the coal. g. The drill-hole pattern for firing a round of shots in a tunnel or sinking shaft, e.g., the burn cut h. A machine cut in a coal seam; e.g., floor cut i. See:stint; sump. j. An excavation, generally applied to surface mining; to make an incision in a block of coal; in underground mining, that part of the face of coal that has been undercut. (references)
Slang in 1811	CUT. Drunk. A little cut over the head; slightly intoxicated. To cut; to leave a person or company. To cut up well; to die rich. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
Cut	English	Chartered Union of Taxpayers	Finance
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Cut

Synonyms: down (adj), emasculated (adj), gashed (adj), gelded (adj), mown (adj), shortened (adj), slashed (adj), split (adj), thinned (adj), trimmed (adj), weakened (adj), baseball swing (n), cold shoulder (n), cut of meat (n), cutting (n), cutting off (n), deletion (n), gash (n), slash (n), slice (n), snub (n), stinger (n), swing (n), track (n), abbreviate (v), abridge (v), bring down (v), burn (v), contract (v), curve (v), cut back (v), cut down (v), cut off (v), cut out (v), dilute (v), disregard (v), edit (v), edit out (v), foreshorten (v), hack (v), ignore (v), issue (v), make out (v), prune (v), rationalise (v), rationalize (v), reduce (v), sheer (v), shorten (v), skip (v), slew (v), slue (v), style (v), swerve (v), switch off (v), tailor (v), thin (v), thin out (v), trend (v), trim (v), trim back (v), trim down (v), turn off (v), turn out (v), veer (v), write out (v). (additional references)

Synonyms by domain: cut-in (public administration).

Antonyms: uncut (adj), unmown (adj), untrimmed (adj), switch on (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Drunkenness	Adjective: drunk, tipsy; intoxicated; inebrious, inebriate, inebriated; in one's cups; in a state of intoxication;Noun: temulent, temulentive; bombed, smashed; fuddled, mellow, cut, boozy, fou, fresh, merry, elevated; flustered, disguised, groggy, beery; top-heavy; potvaliant, glorious; potulent; squiffy; overcome, overtaken; whittled, screwed, tight, primed, corned, raddled, sewed up, lushy, nappy, muddled, muzzy, obfuscated, maudlin; crapulous, dead drunk.
Ejection	Eject, reject; expel, discard; cut, send to coventry, boycott; chasser; banish; (punish); bounce ; fire, fire out; throw; throw out, throw up, throw off, throw away, throw aside; push; throw out, throw off, throw away, throw aside; shovel out, shovel away, sweep out, sweep away; brush off, brush away, whisk off, whisk away, turn off, turn away, send off, send away; discharge; send adrift, turn adrift, cast adrift; turn out, bundle out; throw overboard; give the sack to; send packing, send about one's business, send to the right about; strike off the roll; (abrogate); turn out neck and heels, turn out head and shoulders, turn out neck and crop; pack off; send away with a flea in the ear; send to Jericho; bow out, show the door to.
Engraving	Impression, print, engraving, plate; steelplate, copperplate; etching; mezzotint, aquatint, lithotint; cut, woodcut; stereotype, graphotype, autotype, heliotype.
Form	Verb: form, shape, figure, fashion, efform, carve, cut, chisel, hew, cast; rough hew, rough cast; sketch; block out, hammer out; trim; lick into shape, put into shape; model, knead, work up into, set, mold, sculpture; cast, stamp; build; (construct).
	Form, figure, shape; conformation, configuration; make, formation, frame, construction, cut, set, build, trim, cut of one's jib; stamp, type, cast, mold; fashion; contour; (outline); structure; plasmature.
Impulse	Blow, dint, stroke, knock, tap, rap, slap, smack, pat, dab; fillip; slam, bang; hit, whack, thwack; cuff; squash, dowse, swap, whap, punch, thump, pelt, kick, punce, calcitration; ruade; arietation; cut, thrust, lunge, yerk; carom, carrom, clip, jab, plug, sidewinder, sidewipe, sideswipe.
Interval	Noun: interval, interspace; separation; break, gap, opening; hole; chasm, hiatus, caesura; interruption, interregnum; interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure, rift, flaw, breach, rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha.
Layer	Plate; lamina, lamella; sheet, foil; wafer; scale, flake, peel; coat, pellicle; membrane, film; leaf; slice, shive, cut, rasher, shaving, integument; (covering); eschar.
Mid-course	Straight; (direct) straight course, straight path; short cut, cross cut; great circle sailing.
Notch	Verb: notch, nick, cut, dent, indent, jag, scarify, scotch, crimp, scallop, scollop, crenulate, vandyke.
Part	Piece, lump, bit cut, cutting; chip, chunk, collop, slice, scale; lamina; small part; morsel, particle; (smallness); installment, dividend; share; (allotment).
Refrigeration	Verb: cool, fan, refrigerate, refresh, ice; congeal, freeze, glaciate; benumb, starve, pinch, chill, petrify, chill to the marrow, regelate, nip, cut, pierce, bite, make one's teeth chatter,
Sculpture	Verb: sculpture, carve, cut, chisel, model, mold; cast.
Seclusion Exclusion	Exclusion, excommunication, banishment, exile, ostracism, proscription; cut, cut direct; dead cut.
Shortness	Retrench, cut short, obtruncate; scrimp, cut, chop up, hack, hew; cut down, pare down; clip, dock, lop, prune, shear, shave, mow, reap, crop; snub; truncate, pollard, stunt, nip, check the growth of; foreshorten.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Ah, let's just cut to it, what are you selling (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball) And if I cut my hair again (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) I am glad you are late. This chicken took longer than I expected Hope it isn't done too much Of course, it caught on fire once I think it is better that I cut it out here, unless you want half of one for yourself (Notorious; writing credit: Ben Hecht) We shop at home, we surf the net and we feel emptier and lonelier and more cut off from each other than at any other time in human history (Contact; writing credit: Carl Sagan;) He was cut off - permanently (The Spy Who Loved Me; writing credit: Christopher Wood)
Lyrics	So, cut the crying, Cut the coughing, Cut the weazing, Girl (We Need A Resolution; performing artist: Aaliyah) And IF you're trying to cut me down (Walking On Broken Glass; performing artist: Annie Lennox) If I don't cut tonight (Ugly; performing artist: Bubba Sparxxx) Jesse, I won't cut fresh flowers for you (JESSE; performing artist: Carly Simon) Cut up, Maria (Mr. Jones; performing artist: Counting Crows)
Clever	Tragedy is if I cut my finger, comedy is if I walk into an open sewer and die. (references; author: Mel Brooks) Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the ''blessing'' of idleness and won for us the ''curse'' of labor. (references; author: Mark Twain) Wisconsin: Come Cut The Cheese (references; author: unknown) Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half (references; author: unknown) I wanted to be a barber, but I just couldn't cut it. (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	Short Cut (1973) Jump Cut (1972) Running Around Like a Chicken with Its Head Cut Off (1960) Short Cut to Hell (1957) Broadway Brevity: Cut Out for Love (1937)
Song Titles	Tell Me I'm Not Dreaming (lp cut) (performing artist: Jermaine Jackson)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
References	The 2000 Import and Export Market for Cut Flowers and Foliage in Bolivia (reference) Cold Cut Processing Equipment in Mexico: A Strategic Entry Report, 2000 (reference) The 2000 Import and Export Market for Cut Flowers and Foliage in Oceana (reference) The World Market for Cut Flowers and Foliage: A 2003 Global Trade Perspective (reference) The 2001 Report on Houseplants and Cut Flowers Sales: World Market Segmentation by City (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	The Good Morning America Cut the Calories Cookbook: 120 Delicious Low-Fat, Low-Cal Recipes from Our Viewers (reference) Sugar Busters! Cut Sugar to Trim Fat (reference) Lalligator Blanc Une Aventure De Jim Cut (reference) Flowers for Sale: Growing and Marketing Cut Flowers: Backyard to Small Acreage (A Bootstrap Guide) (reference) Guaranteed Income for Life: How Variable Annuities can Cut Your Taxes, Pay You Every Year of Your Life, and Bring You Financial Peace of Mind (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Cut & Paste (reference) Cut Magazine (reference) Florida Cut Flower And Fern Report (reference) Fresh Cut (reference) Peclers: Cut And Sewn (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Amadeus (Director's Cut) (reference) Woodstock - 3 Days of Peace & Music (The Director's Cut) (reference) Blade Runner - The Director's Cut (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Sharp Cut (reference) The Final Cut [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech	Grand Theft Auto: Director Cut (reference) Resident Evil Directors Cut (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods	Bosch 1640VSPKG Fine Cut Power Handsaw Package (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	A typed manuscript lies open on a purple tablecloth. Various types of grain, either loose or in a bowl and a ladle, are on top. There is also a basket with a round loaf of brown bread cut in half. See also AV-3906. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.		(2) color slides show a single, square cut brownie. (1) plain chocolate, (1) with nuts. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer).
	Left ventricle has been cut open to display characteristic severe thickening of mitral valve, thickened chordae tendineae, and hypertrophied left ventricular myocardium. Autopsy. Credit: CDC.		Gross autopsy specimen of liver from child who died of Reye's syndrome. Cut surface shows slight pallor due to fat accumulation in liver cells. Credit: CDC.
	Once a vast carpet of healthy vegetation, the Amazon rain forest is changing rapidly. This image of Bolivia shows dramatic deforestation in the Amazon Basin. Loggers have cut long paths into the forest, while ranchers have cleared large blocks for their herds. Fanning out from these clear-cut areas are settlements built in radial arrangements of fields and farms. Healthy vegetation appears bright red in this image. Credit: NASA.		A series of caves and natural bridges cut through soft rock. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.
	C. D. Meaney at Marquesas, Florida Reef topography Working offshore in the water to cut in mangrove swamp line. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		Cut through Mississippi River levee to allow fresh water to flow into adjacent cypress swamp. Credit: America's Coastlines.
	The NOAA Ship RONALD H. BROWN traversing the cut into Lake Union from Puget Sound. Credit: America's Coastlines.		Celebrating a successful whaling season on the beach at Point Barrow. The whales were cut up and divided among the villagers. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Play	Caption	Play	Caption
	Chainsaw; saw; sawing; cutting; cut; .		Tear; rip; shred; cut; slit.
	Clippers; hair; clip; clipping; cutting; cut; Army; Navy; Marines; barber; shave; trim; sideburns.		Cut; shear; trim; .
	Tear; rip; shred; cut; slit.		Cut; chop; axe; cleave; clip; cube; dice; divide; fell; fragment; hack; hackle; hash; hew; lop; mangle; mince; sever; shear; slash; truncate; whack.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Alice Hubbard	Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to make a better article.
Author Unknown	I've decided to discontinue my long talks. It's because of my throat...Someone threatened to cut it.
Colin Powell	First, we're going to cut it off, then we're going to kill it.
E. M. Cioran	Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
Horace	What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.
Samuel Johnson	Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.
Thomas Carlyle	The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
	If the cut of the costume indicates intellect and talent, then the color indicates temper and heart.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	And then let our author, or any body else, join a knock on the head, or a cut on the face, with as much reverence and respect as he thinks fit. (Second Treatise of Government)
Communist Manifesto	1848	For the rest, so little do they conceal the reactionary character of their criticism that their chief accusation against the bourgeoisie amounts to this, that under the bourgeois regime a class is being developed, which is destined to cut up root and branch the old order of society. (reference)
Miranda v. Arizona	1966	In each of these cases, the defendant, while in police custody, was questioned by police officers, detectives, or a prosecuting attorney in a room in which he was cut off from the outside world. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	He came back, had had his hair cut, and laughed at himself with a very good grace, but without seeming really at all ashamed of what he had done
Sylvie and Bruno	Carroll, Lewis	Peering about in this way, I happened to notice a plant with rounded leaves, and with queer little holes cut in the middle of several of them
So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish	Douglas Adams	Since the Electricity Board cut him off without fail every time he paid his bill, it seemed only reasonable that they should leave him connected when he didn't
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	She beheld the minister advancing along the path, entirely alone, and leaning on a staff which he had cut by the wayside
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The cut of the sunken road was filled with horses and riders inextricably heaped together
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	On the desk before him he read the word Foetus cut several times in the dark stained wood
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	The tractor cut a straight line on, and the air and the ground vibrated with its thunder
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	My remedy was to cut them in pieces with my knife as they flew in the air, wherein my dexterity was much admired
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	Before I had done I was more the friend than the foe of the pine tree, though I had cut down some of them, having become better acquainted with it.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Have your hair cut short. (references)
		Cut foods into small pieces. (references)
		Cut your food into small, bite-sized pieces. (references)
Business		They cannot cut all tooth parts, nor can they cut through fillings. (references)
		Domestically cut and processed items lack the specialized finish of high technology processing. (references)
		An electoral change in the party make up of the governing coalition may re-focus efforts to cut expenditures. (references)
Children	Burma	The junta has cut government expenditures on public health care even more sharply than it cut spending for education. (references)
	Turkmenistan	In 1999 the Government cut the number of years of basic education from 10 to 9 years; however, children in their eighth, ninth, or tenth year of education at the time were not affected. (references)
	Nicaragua	In the spring of 2000, the Ministry of the Family announced that it would cut a considerable amount of financial support for the Blue Bird Protection Association that shelters about 100 persons with disabilities, aged from 10 months to 40 years old, who are considered unable to care for themselves. (references)
Civil Liberties	Morocco	The authorities also blocked two of the JCO's Web sites at the same time, with domestic access to them cut off. (references)
	Afghanistan	A man who had shaved or cut his beard was subject to imprisonment for 10 days and required to undergo Islamic instruction. (references)
	Guatemala	The FRG supporters allegedly surrounded and beat the activists, destroyed their banners, and cut the cables of their sound system. (references)
Economic History	Vietnam	Subsidies have been cut to some inefficient state enterprises. (references)
	Ghana	Import austerity was imposed and external payments arrears cut. (references)
	Colombia	The cut flower industry has been the most prominent beneficiary. (references)
Human Rights	Russia	Two of the corpses had ears cut off. (references)
	Afghanistan	It was also reported that the Taliban cut the throat of one man in front of his relatives. (references)
	Iraq	In May the press reported that the authorities released 3,000 prisoners who paid bribes to prison officials to have their prison terms cut. (references)
Indigenous People	Suriname	Organizations representing Maroon and Amerindian communities complain that small-scale mining operations, mainly by illegal Brazilian gold miners, dig trenches that cut residents off from their agricultural land and threaten to drive them away from their traditional settlements. (references)
Political Economy	Colombia	Crude oil, coal, coffee, and cut flowers are the principal legal exports. (references)
	AUSTRIA	In past years, the government has cut red tape to make Austria more attractive for investors. (references)
Political Rights	Zimbabwe	Political rights groups declared that the amended act was designed to cut off funding for the opposition, although ZANU-PF routinely ignored the PPFA's prohibitions without consequences. (references)
Trade	Bahamas	Permits are also required to import plants and fruits - particularly bananas, vegetables, and cut flowers. (references)
	China	Finally, in preparation for WTO accession, the Chinese Government cut tariffs on many goods on January 1, 2001. (references)
Women	Malaysia	According to a well known women's NGO activist, some girls in provincial areas are subject to varying forms of FGM. Some Malay girls receive a tiny ritual cut to the clitoris or participate in a ceremony where a blade is brought close to the clitoris. (references)
Worker Rights	Colombia	Children as young as 11 work full-time in almost every aspect of the cut flower industry. (references)
	Dominican Republic	On sugar plantations, cane cutters usually are paid by the weight of cane cut rather than the hours worked. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	EMANCIPATION, n. A bondman's change from the tyranny of another to the despotism of himself. He was a slave: at word he went and came; His iron collar cut him to the bone. Then Liberty erased his owner's name, Tightened the rivets and inscribed his own. G.J.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Dennis Miller	I've spoken to God, and he doesn't want you to cut off your balls.
Jack Lemmon	It's true. And there's nothing worse than waiting and timing and you wait and it looks like a bad cut on the film because the laugh has stopped and you're waiting. You can't do it.
John Breaux	Well, I think there's a lot of blame that can go around all over the place. I think that the tax cut we passed was not a mistake. I supported it. I helped craft it, along with Senator Max Baucus, the chairman of the Finance Committee.
Julianne Moore	I love actors and I love talking with them before the take and when they say cut, I keep talking.
Karen Shanor	If we miss that REM sleep, and alcohol and a lot of medications cut down the proportion in REM sleep, you actually have memory problems.
Martha Stewart	You have to grow the rice. You have to make the rice wine vinegar to put in the rice. You have to catch the fish. You have to learn how to cut it up. It's a lot more complicated than it looks.
Robert Novak	Mr. Majority Leader, in the same debate on Wednesday that the Democrats attacked Republicans on Social Security, they also attacked you for returning to deficit spending because of the tax cut.
Rush Limbaugh	What's amazing is that JFK did not have trillions in projected federal surpluses when he implemented his tax cut.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Andrew Jackson	1829-1837	We can not embarrass or cut off the trade of France without at the same time in some degree embarrassing or cutting off our own trade.
John F. Kennedy	1961-1963	If, on the other hand, we hang back in deference to local economic pressures, we will find ourselves cut off from our major allies.
Lyndon B. Johnson	1963-1969	More money will be left in the hands of the consumer by a substantial cut in excise taxes.
Gerald Ford	1974-1977	Under this tax cut plan, they would pay nothing.
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	Only with the long overdue reforms will the full tax cut be advisable.
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	Raise present taxes to cut future deficits, they tell us.
George Bush	1989-1993	A cut in the capital gains tax increases jobs and helps just about everyone in our country.
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	Now we can cut taxes in a more comprehensive way.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Cut" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 28.38% of the time. "Cut" is used about 14,776 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 Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (past participle)	28.38%	4,194	2,347
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	27.18%	4,017	2,449
Lexical Verb (past tense)	19.94%	2,946	3,167
Noun (singular)	16.57%	2,448	3,667
Lexical Verb (base form)	7.42%	1,097	6,886
Adjective (general or positive)	0.49%	73	39,105
Total	100.00%	14,776	N/A

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "cut".
Name	Gender	Language	Meaning
Cesar	N/A	Biblical	A name applied to those who are cut out of the womb
Cherethims	N/A	Biblical	Who cut or tear away
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "cut": A cut in rates ♦ A short cut ♦ allowable cut ♦ an unkind cut ♦ bad cut ♦ bar cut ♦ be cut ♦ be cut off ♦ be cut out for ♦ be cut up ♦ being cut ♦ belly cut ♦ brilliant cut ♦ brush cut ♦ budget cut ♦ burn cut ♦ cabochon cut ♦ cause to cut ♦ climb cut ♦ close cut ♦ conventional cut ♦ crew cut ♦ cross cut ♦ cullet cut ♦ curb cut ♦ cut a ball ♦ cut a brilliant figure ♦ cut a dash ♦ cut a deal ♦ cut a disk ♦ cut a figure ♦ cut a figure in society ♦ cut a figure with ♦ cut a joke ♦ cut a keyway in ♦ cut a poor figure ♦ cut a rebate in ♦ cut a record ♦ cut a tape ♦ cut a tooth ♦ cut a visit short ♦ cut above the rest ♦ cut across ♦ cut across country ♦ cut adrift ♦ cut along ♦ cut and come again ♦ cut and contrive ♦ cut and dried ♦ cut and fill ♦ Cut and longtail ♦ cut and paste ♦ cut and run ♦ cut And Shoot ♦ cut askew ♦ cut asunder ♦ cut at ♦ cut away ♦ cut back ♦ cut badly ♦ cut Bank ♦ cut blocks with a razor ♦ cut both ways ♦ cut branches ♦ Cut cavendish ♦ cut chiplessly ♦ cut cloth ♦ cut corners ♦ cut costs ♦ cut diamond ♦ cut direct ♦ cut down ♦ cut down on ♦ cut down on smth. ♦ cut down prices ♦ cut down with an axe ♦ cut en cabochon ♦ Cut film ♦ cut flowers ♦ cut gashed slashed split ♦ cut glass ♦ cut grass ♦ cut growth ♦ cut hair ♦ cut ice ♦ cut in ♦ cut in half ♦ cut in halves ♦ cut in on ♦ cut in pieces ♦ cut in the wages ♦ cut in two ♦ cut in very small pieces ♦ cut into ♦ cut into a conversation ♦ cut into cubes ♦ cut into pieces ♦ cut into slices ♦ cut into two ♦ cut it ♦ cut it fine. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "cut": cut-and-assemble, cut-and-burnt, cut-and-cover, cut-and-dried, cut-and-dry, cut-and-fill, cut-and-paste, cut-and-pasted, cut-and-run, cut-and-splice, cut-and-suck, cut-and-thrust, cut-away, cut-back, cut-backs, cut-corned, cut-crystal, cut-down, cut-flower, cut-glass, cut-glassware, cut-grass, cut-in, cut-ins, cut-keys, cut-leaved, cut-mid, cut-off, cut-off, cut-off bias, cut-off frequency, cut-off line, cut-off velocity, cut-off-his-nose-to-spite-his-face, cut-offs, cut-on, cut-out, cut-out, cut-out doll, cut-out-and-keep, cut-outs, cut-over, cut-pile, cut-points, cut-price, cut-price shop, cut-purses, cut-rate, cut-rate sale, cut-rate store, cut-sheet, cut-string, cut-throat, cut-throat competition, cut-throat razor, cut-throats, cut-through, cut-throughs, cut-tile, cut-to-length, cut-to-shape, cut-up, cut-ups, cut-water, cut-water, cut-waters, cut-your-loss.
	Ending with "cut": close-cut, crew-cut, fine-cut, hair-cut, high-cut, jump-cut, newly-cut, power-cut, pre-cut, ready-cut, re-cut, rock-cut, roughly-cut, well-cut.
	Containing "cut": clean-cut features, Cross-cut file, cross-cut saw, full-cut-off, low-cut neck, rose-cut diamond, scissor-cut-sun-dried, Second-cut file, Single-cut file, tax-cut-financed, wide-cut fuel.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "cut"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		sny (clip, shear, slice), afskakel (cut a connection, shut, shut off, stop, switch, switch off, turn off). (various references)

Albanian		holloj (dilute, doctor, emaciate, point, slenderize, thin), çaj (break, char, cleave, dissect, fissure, forge, impale, open, pink, puncture, push through, slash, slit, split, tea, tear, worm), kanal (aqueduct, canal, chamfer, channel, conduit, ditch, drain, duct, excavation, flute, Fosse, gully, gut, gutter, Lade, program, programme, rabbet, runway, sewer, trench, tube, watercourse), kaloj (alternate, beguile, come by, come round, cross, devolve, elapse, exceed, float, get by, glide, go, go by, go off, go past, negotiate, outbalance, overstep, pass, passage, ram, run, run in, rush by, skip, slip by, slip past, span, spend, strain, take across, track, transcend, transgress, turn, undergo, witness), kalim (crossing, devolution, escape, going, jump, lapse, negotiation, orifice, pass, passage, passageway, passing, release, switch over, transfer, transference, transit, transition), i ulur (depressed, reduced, seated, sedentary, sitting), i prerë (amputated, categorical, crisp, curdy, curt, felled, firm, flat, flat-footed, hewn, indented, Nick, outright, peremptory, positive, pronounced, shorn, short, straight out, toreutic, truncated), lë (allow, break off, chuck, drop, dump, give up, grant, jilt, jump, leave, let, let by, Miss, omit, overjump, overleap, Park, pass up, permit, put, quit, release, relinquish, resign, tek pupa, vacate, yield), i jap fund (abate, break up, close, discontinue, disestablish, dissolve, end, finish, kill, overthrow, quench, stop), lënie (cession), gjuajtje me të prerë, e prerë (chamfer, indentation, Nick, notch, notching, snip, split, twist), e çarë (aperture, breach, chap, chink, cranny, crevice, rent, rift, shake, slit, slot), bie me të prerë, bie (abate, attach, attack, bang out, bite, blow over, break down, bring, burn down, chime, come a cropper, come down, crash, crash down, crumple, decline, descend, devolve, drop, fall, fall off, fall on, finger, flake off, flop, give, go, go down, hoot, pitch, play, plunge, plunk, recede, sink, strike, subside, throw down, tumble), çarje (break, breaking, cleavage, cleft, dissection, fissure, fracture, gap, gulf, incision, opening, orifice, rent, rift, slash, split, splitting, wedge), i mbaj qëndrim, pres (amputate, anticipate, await, be asking for, be expecting, be on the watch, be waiting, bide, buck, chop, clip, coin, cut away, cut open, detruncate, disforest, dissect, entertain, expect, exscind, fell, hew, host, knife, look for, look forward to, mince, mint, Nick, notch, obtruncate, poll, prune, screw, section, sever, shut off, sit on the fence, slash, slot, snip, take, Tarry, undercut, wait, ween, whack), tret (assimilate, dissipate, dissolve, lose, macerate, melt, thaw), ther (bite, butcher, knife, slaughter, smart, sting, take to one's heels, tingle), thelë (chunk, clove, hunk, lobule, segment, share, slice), stil (class, fashion, genre, hand, make, manner, panache, pattern, style), shkurtoj (abbreviate, abridge, ax, axe, buck, clip, compress, condense, curtail, cut back, cut down, detruncate, dock, epitomize, pare, poll, prune, razee, retrench, shorten, truncate, undercut, whittle down), shkurtim (abbreviation, abridgement, abridgment, clipping, contraction, crop, curtailment, cutback, reduction, retrenchment, shortening, shrink, shrinkage, the ax, the axe), klishe (block, cliché, halftone, phototype, print, stencil, stereotype), pritem (Curdle), ulje (commutation, cutback, decrease, degradation, depression, derogation, descent, diminution, disparagement, down, drop, falling, immersion, inclination, knee bend, landing, modulation, rebate, reduction, relaxation, sinking), prerje (cutting, excision, felling, gash, incision, jump, kerf, mintage, scission, shearing, slash, slit, snip, striking, tapping), pjesë e prerë, pakësim (abatement, attenuation, decrease, decrement, deflation, degression, detraction, diminution, fall, leanness, lessening, letup, modification, reduction, retrenchment, shortening, taper, wane), ndal (arrest, becalm, check, close up, discontinue, end, fight off, fold, halt, heave to, hold, interrupt, pull in, pull up, rein up, shut down, stay, stem, stop), ndaj (allot, apportion, at, bar, by, come between, detach, disarticulate, disembody, disjoin, disjoint, dismember, dispart, dissever, dissociate, distinguish, distribute, disunite, divide, divorce, divvy, fissure, fractionate, grade, hand out, joint, on, part, partition, reconcile, rope off, section, segregate, separate, sever, share, sort out, space, split, sunder, toward, towards, unjoint, unlink, unscramble, unto, winnow), mënyrë (device, fashion, form, manner, mean, means, method, modality, mode, path, rate, sort, touch, way, wise), qeth (clip, edge, fleece, shave, shear, whittle down). (various references)

Arabic		‏جلد (belabour, belt, birch, curry, drub, drubbing, endurance, flagellation, flog, flogging, fortitude, gladiatorial, hide, integument, lacing, lambaste, lash, lashing, leather, licking, pasting, patience, scourge, self control, skin, slash, slashing, stamina, sting, sufferance, switch, tan, thrash, thump, toleration, trounce, whip, whipping), ‏طعنة (hurt, prick, stab, stick, thrust, twinge), ‏طبع على, ‏ضربة كرة سريعة, ‏ضرب بالكرة, ‏صب (cast, casting, decant, discharge, flow, imbue, infusion, lave, molding, moulding, paint, pigment, pour, rain, shaping, teem), ‏خفض (ax, axe, bear, bring down, debase, deplete, depreciation, depress, dropping, lessen, lower, lowering, mark down, minimize, pull down, put down, rebate, recline, retrench, scale down, shorten, sink, slake, slam, slash, step down, stitch down, subdue, turn down, whittle down), ‏شذب (cut back, lop, manicure, pare, prune, refine, tip, trim, truncate), ‏جلدة (lash), ‏تجاهل (disregard, eliminate, ignore, ignoring, inattention, neglect, overlooking, override, passing over, slight, slighting, wink at), ‏جرح (break, flesh wound, gash, hurt, incision, injure, injury, lacerate, laceration, lesion, maim, make mischief, maul, pierce, shoot, slash, stab, sting, wing, wound, wounding), ‏إنتقاد (criticism, quibble), ‏إقتطع (deduct, withhold), ‏إختصار (abridgement, curtailment, limitation, pithiness), ‏أنهى (call a halt, close, complete, compose, conclude, determine, dissolve, do, end, finish, fulfil, fulfill, last, last out, round off, terminate, top, wind up, wrap up), ‏أوقف (arrest, arrested, break, can, cease, challenge, check, choke, cut out, discontinue, estop, garage, halt, hinder, intercept, kill, nick, nobble, obstruct, pull in, shut off, stand, stay, stem, stop, turn off), ‏شق (chap, check, chink, cleavage, cleave, cleft, crack, cranny, crash, crevasse, crevice, excavate, fissure, flaw, fracture, hew, hole, incise, incision, jag, loophole, lump, nick, open, overture, part, rift, rip, rive, slash, slit, slot, snag, snip, spiracle, splinter, split, spring, tear, twist), ‏خليط (admixture, blend, compost, conglomeration, farrago, hash, hodgepodge, hotchpotch, medley, melange, mishmash, mix, mixture, mixture concoction, patchy), ‏غلة (crop, fruit, harvest, increase, produce, product), ‏كلام جارح للشعور, ‏مقطوع (divided, sectioned, separated, severed), ‏نقص (allow, cut down, decrease, deficiency, depress, deprivation, detract, diminish, diminution, disadvantage, drawback, failing, famish, flaw, gap, imperfection, incompetence, insufficiency, knock off, lack, lessen, limit, lower, paucity, rareness, reduce, reduction, retrench, revocation, scantiness, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, thin), ‏قناة (aqueduct, canal, channel, chase, conduit, ditch, duct, gutter, passage, path, pipe, rut, sluiceway, spile, trough, trunk, tube, water course, waterway), ‏قلم (clip, cut back, liner, manicure, pare, pen, prune, streak, stria, stripe, trim), ‏قلص (constrict, constringe, contract, decrease, diminish, minimize, reduce, scale down), ‏قطعة (bit, chunk, division, fraction, fragment, part, piece, portion, section, segment, share, slice), ‏سجل (book, calender, enroll, enter, history, list, log, mark, mark down, note, put down, rap, record, register, registry, score, send in, set down, sign on, take notes, tally, transcribe, write down), ‏قص (clip, clipping, narrate, recount, relate, report, scissor, shear, shearing, shorn, snip, styling, tell), ‏سلك طريقا, ‏حز (girdle, invest, nick, notch, snick, tap), ‏حصة (allocation, allotment, class, class period, dividend, lesson, lot, part, percentage, period, portion, proportion, quantum, ration, share, slice, whack), ‏حصد (crop, harvest, head, mow, reap), ‏تفصيلة, ‏تغيب عن الدرس, ‏تجاهل شخص, ‏فصل (adjudge, adjudicate, arrive at a resolution, break, break up, cashier, cut off, decide, decision, demarcation, detach, detail, determine, discharge, disconnect, disconnection, disentangle, disjoin, disjunction, dismiss, displace, displacement, dissociate, dissociate oneself from, dissociation, disunite, divide, division, elaborate, expel, fire, have a final word, isolate, isolation, itemize, judge, lay off, make a decision, part, particularize, parting, partition, remove, render a judgement, resolve, sack, seclude, seclusion, segregate, segregation, separate, separation, set apart, settle, sever, severance, sunder, wean), ‏قطع (amputate, amputation, ax, axe, break, cease, cessation, chop off, chopping off, cross, crossing, cut across, cut away, cut down, cut off, cut out, cutoff, cutting off, disconnect, discontinuance, discontinue, divide, dividing, end, exchange, fell, felling, forbid, halt, hew, hinder from, interrupt, intersect, lop, prevent from, scission, section, segment, segmentation, separate, sever, severance, slit, split, stop, sunder, suspend, suspension, tear, terminate, traverse). (various references)

Aymara		cuchuña (to cut). (various references)

Basque		puskatu (cut to, shatter to), ebaki (cut to, shatter to). (various references)

Bulgarian		правя се че не виждам (turn a blind eye to), деля (divide, laminate, part, partition, portion, segment, separate, share), наранявам (hurt, injure, traumatize, wound), жъна (bag, harvest, mow, reap), бърза смяна на кадър, бягане (run, running, scamper, scurry, scuttle), бягам (course, flee, lick, pelt, run, run away, scurry, shirk), прокарвам (carry, drive, get through, lace, open, pursue, push through, put through, run, sweep), пресичане (catch, coagulation, congealment, crossing, interception, intersection), пресичам се (break off, clabber, cloth, coagulate, join), обида (affront, dishonor, dishonour, hurt, indignity, injury, insult, offence, offense, outrage, resentment, slight, slur, umbrage, wound, wrong), преминавам бързо към друг кадър, обидно поведение, порязване, порязвам, пониква ми, понижение (degradation, depression, descent, falling, lowering, reduction, relegation), подкоп (kerf, sap, undermining), парче (bar, bit, cake, catch, cob, cutting, dollop, fragment, lump, patch, piece, portion, scrap, section, slice, slip, slipping, snatch, splint, splinter), имам значение (count, import, matter, mean, signify, tell, weigh), изрезка (clip, cutting, scrap), дърворезба (fretwork, wood carving), прекъсвам (break in, break off, catch up, cease, discontinue, halt, intercept, interpose, interrupt, open, pretermit, quit, release, stop, switch off, throw out), шлифовам (lap, planish, polish, smooth, varnish), удар (bang, bat, blow, buff, buffet, butt, chop, clash, clump, counter, dint, go off, hit, impact, impingement, jab, jar, keystroke, knock, pass, pelt, percussion, push, rap, shake, shock, shy, smack, smash, strike, stroke, thrust, touch, turn, whack, whiplash, wipe), сечене (cutting, felling, hack, intersection), сечение (section), сека (chop, fell, haggle, hew, incuse, slash, slice, stamp, strike), справям се с (account for, cope with, dispose of, hack, handle, meet, reckon with, touch), спирам (arrest, bit, block, brake, bring to, bring to rest, bring up, call a halt, cease, check, come to a halt, come to rest, cut off, cut short, die, discontinue, draw up, drive up, dwell, end, fix, go phut, halt, hang up, heave to, hold back, hold in, immobilize, impede, inhibit, intervene, keep off, kill, leave off, lock, occlude, preclude, prevent, pull in, pull up, put in, quash, quit, run down, snub, stint, stop, suppress, suspend, trammel, trig, withhold), рязане (cutting, scission), реколта (crop, harvest, vintage, yield), режа (hack, lop, pare, scissor, slash, slice, snip, stab), настриг (clip, shear), разрез (elevation, section, slash, slit, slot), срязвам (detruncate, rebuff, repulse, scissor, scotch, set down, shear, snub, squelch), шибам (beat, drive, flog, lash, scourge, slash, swinge, switch, whale), кроя (cut out, meditate, shape), кройка (cutting, fashion, pattern, style), кося (mow, scythe), кастрирам (castrate, emasculate, evirate, fix, geld, gelt, unman), канал (aqueduct, canal, channel, ditch, duct, gutter, mortise, passage, port, rabbet, race, scour, sewer, trench, vas, vessel), клише (clichй, parrot cry, rubber stamp, stock phrase, tag), гравирам (chase, enchase, engrave, etch, incise, rout out, sink), офейквам (abscond, bunk, cut away, cut one's lucky, decamp, give leg-bail, hop off, leg it, make off, nip off, run off, scamper, scarper, scoot, scuttle off, skedaddle, skip, sling one's hook, slope, take to one's heel, vamoose), рана (hurt, incision, raw, slash, wound). (various references)

Catalan		tallar (clip, shear). (various references)

Chinese		鍥 (to carve), 裁减, 裁 (cut out, decision, diminish, judgment, reduce, trim), 劌 (injure), 劖 (bore, polish), 採伐 (fell), 栔 (carve), 創 (a wound, begin, create, inaugurate, initiate, injury, start, trauma), 傷口 (wound), 刀口 (incision). (various references)

Czech		kácet (fell, saw down), protínat se (intersect), plátek (flake, lamina, sheet, slice, strip), přetnout, přetínat, omezení (abatement, check, circumscription, constriction, curb, cutback, limit, limitation, limitations, restraint, restriction, termination, trammels), nastříhat (cut out), krájet (carve, slice, Whittle), šlehnutí (flick, lash, smack, whiplash), křížit (crossbreed, hybridize), seškrtání, brousit (grind, sharpen, whet), broušený, řezná rána (gash, laceration), řezat (bite, chop, guillotine, saw), řezaný, říznutí, štípat (bite, chop, cleave, pinch, punch, scratch, smart, split), kousek (bit, inchmeal, jot, mammock, nibble, parcel, part, patch, piece, scrap, shred, wedge, whit), snížení (abatement, decrease, depreciatingly, fall, mark down, reduction), vynechat (cut out, drop a line, leave out, Miss, miss out, omit, overpass, pass, sit out, skip, stay off), výkop (goal kick, kickoff), tesat (carve, hew, sculpture), střih (edition, haircut, pattern, shear), stříhat (clip, shear, snip), stříhání (shear, shearing), snímat, rýt (cavil, dig, nuzzle), snížený (depreciatory, reduced), rozkrájet (carve, carve up, joint), sestříhat, seknutí (chop, hack, slash, stroke, sweep), seknout (chuck, hew), sekat (chop, hack, hew, mow, scythe), sek (stroke), sejmutí (removal), sejmout (remove, take down, take off, unswathe), zkrátit (abbreviate, abridge, Bob, condense, curtail, cut back, cut down, cut short, dock, reduce, shorten), snížit (abate, bring down, cut back, cut down, debase, decrease, deplete, diminish, drop, knock, lessen, lop off, pull down, put down, reduce, whittle away). (various references)

Danish		skære (slice), klippe (boulder, clip, rock, shear). (various references)

Dutch		maaien (mow). (various references)

Esperanto		tranĉvundo, tranĉi (slice), tondi (clip, shear), tajli (polish), malkonekti (cut a connection), kliŝo (clich@, half-tone, negative, stereotype), haki (chop, hack), fasoni, falĉi (mow). (various references)

Faeroese		sláa (beat, hit, mow, strike), skera (mow, shave, slice), rangmynd (cliché, half-tone, negative, stereotype), prentmynd (cliché, half-tone, negative, stereotype), prentmót (cliché, half-tone, negative, stereotype), klippa (clip, shear), høgga (chop, hack), evna til (polish). (various references)

Farsi		گسستن (Disconnect, Rupture, Tear), بریدگی (Gash, Hyphen, Jag, Notch, Rift), بریدن (Amputate, Carve, Chop, Cutback, Cutoff, Dock, Gash, Hack, Haggle, Hew, Intercept, Mangle, Rase, Rift, Sect, Sever, Shear, Slice, Sliver, Stag, Stump, Sunder, Whittle), شکاف (Break, Chap, Chasm, Chink, Clef, Crack, Craze, Crevice, Fraction, Fracture, Hiatus, Incision, Interstice, Nick, Notch, Overture, Rake, Rip, Scar, Seam, Slash, Slit, Slither, Split, Suture), الماس وغیره , جوی (Atmospheric, Gutter, Rush, Stream), عبورکردن (Go, Pass, Range, Transit, Traverse), زدن (Abaction, Amputate, Attain, Beat, Bop, Bruise, Clout, Haze, Imprint, Inject, Koran, Lam, Light, Lodge, Mallet, Nail, Play, Poke, Pop, Shoot, Slap, Slat, Smite, Snip, Strike, Stroke, Whack), برش (Broach, Clip, Cutting, Dissection, Excision, Hack, Incision, Recision, Section, Sectorial, Slash, Slice, Snip), گذاشتن (Attach, Deposit, Have, Infiltrate, Leave, Let, Lodge, Place, Shunt, Stead), پاره کردن (Lacerate, Mangle, Rend, Rip, Shred, Tear), گسیختن (Fracture, Rupture, Snap, Tear), قطع کردن (Burst, Cross, Disconnect, Discontinue, Excise, Hew, Intercept, Leaveoff, Out, Retrench, Rupture, Stump, Traverse), کانال (Conduit, Groove, Gullet), کم کردن (Alleviate, Bate, Deduce, Deduct, Detract, Drawoff, Extenuate, Rebate, Reduce, Relax, Retrench, Shade, Soften, Subtract, Thin, Weaken), چاک (Hack, Incision, Interstice, Rift, Rip, Scotch, Slit, Slot, Split, Suture, Tear), چیدن (Arrange, Clip, Crop, Lop, Mow, Pare, Pick, Pickup, Pluck, Pull, Set, Snip, Trim), معبر (Approach, Conduit, Crossover, Pad, Pathway, Road, Thoroughfare, Traverse), تراش دادن تخفیف . (various references)

Finnish		leikata (carve, clip, crop, cut out, intersect, lance, operate, pare, prunce, shear, slice, trim), hakata (chop, hack, hew). (various references)

French		trancher, tailler (cut glass, cut off), hacher, faucher, entaille, coupure (cutoff, cutout), couper (cut away, cut back, cut down, cut off), coupe (cup, cutting), balafre. (various references)

Frisian		fykje (slice). (various references)

German		schneiden (bite, carve, chop, clip, cross, crosscutting, cut down, cutting, cutting edges, edit, finesse, harvest, incise, intersect, lance, meet, mow, Nick, pare, reap, scissor, shave, shear, slice, snick, snub, to bite, to clip, to cut, to cutting edges, to scissor, to slice, trim), abschneiden (amputate, block off, chopp, clip, clipping, cut off, cutting off, intercept, isolate, severance, shear, slice off, snip, strip, to chop, to cut off, to shear, to strip, to truncate, trim away, trim off, truncate), schnittwunde (gash, laceration), schnitt (average, crop, cutting, edge, editing, incision, intersection, line, modeling, Nick, notch, pattern, scissored, section, serration, shape, slash, sliced, snip), schliff (cutting, finish, grinded, polish, refinement), mähen (Baa, bleat, cutting, mow, mowing, mown, reap, reaping, scythe), kürzung (abatement, abridgement, abridgment, ax, axe, cancellation, curtailment, cutback, reduction, retrenchment, shortage, shortening), hauen (bash, beat, belt, carve, chop, chuck, clap, clobber, clout, conk, cutting, fling, hack, hew, hewed, hit, hoes, knock, lash out, make a thrust, quarry, sculpture, shove, slap, slash, sock, strike, thump, to bash). (various references)

Greek		κόψιμο (slash), κόβω (carve, chop, clip, cut down, cut out, fell, nip, pluck, sever, shear, slacken). (various references)

Hebrew		חתך (cutting, incision, intersection, section, slash, slit, wound). (various references)

Hungarian		vág (chip, chop, hack, have a hang-dog look, hew, saw, sawed, sawn, section, slice, to cant a beam, to carve, to cut, to hew, to laugh on the wrong side of the mouth, to saw, to slice off), vágott (cutaway), vágás (bust, chop, cutting, editing, gash, ripping, scarring, score, scotch, section, shear, slash, slit, stroke), leszállítás (abatement, cutting, deliverance, extenuation), lenyír (mow, to clip, to crop, to cut, to dub, to trim, trim), csökkentés (abatement, attenuation, curtailment, cutback, cutting, cutting down, derogation, diminution, extenuation, mitigation, reducing, reduction, retrenchment, understatement). (various references)

Icelandic		sníða (slice). (various references)

Indonesian		celoreng (gash), pengurangan (attenuation, cutback, declension, decrease, decrement, deduction, diminution), menggorok (slit), menebang (hew), gorok. (various references)

Italian		taglio (blade, clip, clipping, cutoff, cutting, denomination, edge, gash, hack, kerf, length, section, slash, sliced, slot, style, styling), tagliare (blend, carve, chop, clip, cross, cut across, cut down, cut off, fell, get cut, hack, hew, knife, mow, reap, short cut, slice, snip, trim), tagliato (blended). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		削減 (curtailment, reduction), 傷 (bruise, gash, hurt, injury, scratch, wound). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		きれ (chop, cloth, counter for such, piece, scrap, slice, strip), わけまえ (portion, quota, share), かり (acting, assumed, borrowing, clip, debt, fleeting, hunting, informal, interim, loan, lower official, potash, potassium, provisional, prune, reap, shear, temporary, trim, unauthorized, wild goose), かつ (and, break, crack, dilute, divide, halve, rip, separate, smash, split, thirst, to gain victory, to win, yet), さい (ability, again, alas!, aptitude, circumstances, companion, debt, difference, disparity, genius, gift, hold, how!, judge, loan, my son, on the occasion of, planting, re-, repeated, rhinoceros, son, talent, the extreme, the most, what!, -years-old), さくげん (curtailment, go back to the beginning, reduction, retrace, return to the origin), カット (cutting), しょう (actor, artisan, award, bruise, buy, call, carpenter, catch, chapter, commander, destroy, drink, eat, gash, general, government, hurt, idea, illness, important point, injury, label, leader, make up for, means, mechanic, medal, phenomenon, prize, put on, quotient, ride in, scar, scratch, section, send for, take, to be burdened with, to carry on back or shoulder, upper part, weak point, wear, workman, wound), たちかた (cutting, dancing), きれめ (break, end, gap, incision, interruption, notch, pause, rift, section), きれこみ (incision, notch), きりみ (slice), きりきず (gash, incision), きず (blemish, bruise, defect, flaw, gash, hurt, injury, scar, scratch, weak point, wound), たち (cutting, long sword, mansion, nature, plural suffix, quality, small castle, stand), ひきさげ (reduction). (various references)

Korean		커트. (various references)

Manx		slissey (dice, slice), slish-woalley, oght (check, ridge cut at one sweep, swath), injillaghey (change down, cheap, cheap morally, condescend, cut down, debase, defer, degradation, degrade, demote, demotion, depreciate, depreciation, depress, depression, die down, humiliate, humiliation, level down, reduce, reduction, relegate, sink, step down, subdue, subject, submit, subordinate, subordination, turn down, vulgarization, vulgarize), giarrey (abbreviate, abridge, abridging, axe, beat out, bob the tail; severance, bob; severance, carve, castrate, cleave, clip, clip as words; slicing, clip; slicing, condensation, condense, condensing, crop, crop as tail, curtail, curtailment, cut away, cut back, cut short, cut up, disconnect, disconnection, dissect, erupt, eruption, flux, gash, hack, hew, incise, incision, infliction, intersect, intersection, lance, levy, lop, mark out, nicking, prune, pruning, puncture, reaping, scission, section, sever, shear, sink, slash, slit, snip, truncate), giarreen, buinn (cut down, harvest, lift, mow, mowing, reap, reaping, shear, shearing), beamey, beam (gash, handful of corn, nick, sickleful), baarey (bare, clip, dress, paring knife, poll, prune, shave). (various references)

Maori		haehae-a (to cut). (various references)

Maya		weh (to cut). (various references)

Norwegian		skjære (carve, slice), klippe (cliff, clip, fleece, shear). (various references)

Occitan		copar (break, shatter). (various references)

Papiamen		corta (clip, shear, slice), kap (chop, hack). (various references)

Pig Latin		utcay.(various references)

Polish		ciąć (slice), strzyc (clip, shear). (various references)

Portuguese		corte (address, build, chop, cohort, court, courtship, cutting, cutting edge, gash, hack, hackery, incision, intersection, kerf, make, nick, pen, scission, score, section, slash, swinery, tailoring), golpe (bat, biff, blast, blow, bop, coup, dint, drive, floorer, hit, jab, knock, mouthful, putsch, scotch, smasher, sockdolager, stroke, swat). (various references)

Romanian		croi (cleave, construct, devise, whip), croialã, cosi (destroy, mow, mow down, reap), coborî (abate, alight, bring low, climb down, come down, couch, debase, decline, depreciate, descend, detrain, dip, dismount, down, drop, duck, fall, get off, go down, lower, move down, reduce, suppress), clişeu (cliché, stereotype), castra (alter, castrate, emasculate, geld), cupon (check, counterfoil, coupon, length, remnant), jigni (aggrieve, grate, Harrow, hit, hurt, injure, insult, mortify, offend, pique, touch, vex, wrong), jignire (abuse, affront, humiliation, hurt, injury, insult, offence, rub, wound, wrong), distruge (abolish, annihilate, blast, blight, confound, crash, crock, cut to pieces, cut up, dash, decay, defeat, demolish, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, disrupt, eat into, eat through, eliminate, exterminate, extirpate, finish, kill, lay waste, make havoc of, Mar, obliterate, overturn, overwhelm, perish, play the deuce with, play the devil with, quash, ravage, raze, reduce, ruin, scathe, scatter, scotch, shatter, shipwreck, sink, spoil, squelch, strafe, subvert, tear, undo, unmake, wreck), înceta (break, cease, die, discontinue, lift, pass away, stop, suspend), fason (conventionality, etiquette, fashion, fuss, sort), intersecta (cross, intersect), ignorare (ignorance, ignoring, passing by), hãcui (chop, cut up, hack, quarter), gravurã (engraving, etching, inset, print, stamp, woodcut), grava (carve, chase, emboss, engrave, etch, grave, incise, inscribe), formã (appearance, block, cast, condition, configuration, conformation, conventionality, external, fashion, fig, figuration, figure, form, format, guise, likeness, make, Mold, mould, pattypan, semblance, shape, size, structure), felie (pig, rasher, round, slice, steak, toast), face praf (cook, knock out, reduce to powder, squander), face (achieve, act, anoint, appoint, be, be up to smth., bear, build, carry out, commit, compose, conclude, cook, cost, create, dispense, do, does, draw, drive, effect, form, give, give forth, grow, happen, have, hold, induce, it does, keep, lead, leave, let, make, move, perform, perpetrate, persuade, prepare, produce, prompt, render, say, scoop in, strike, work, write, yield), lovi (assail, attack, batter, beat, befall, buffet, bump, catch, clap, crack, cuff, dab, drive, drub, fib, flap, hammer, harm, hit, hurt, impact, infect, injure, jar, knock, lash, lay hands on, lunge at, Pat, put, reach, seize, shock, slam, slap, smite, spank, strike, swat, swinge, switch, tap, thrust, thump, touch, whack, whip, wipe, wound, wrong), exclude (bar, disbar, exclude, excommunicate, expel, oust, preclude, rule out, suspend), lua locul, desprinde prin tãiere (chop), deschide (break away, broach, commence, crack, indict, lead, lead off, let in, open, open up, start, uncork, unfasten, unfold, unlock, unseal, unstop), debleu (excavation), bucatã (article, bar, brick, clod, dollop, fragment, hunk, junk, length, morsel, nub, part, Pat, patch, piece, ribbon, shred, slice, snack, steak, tablet), întretãia (overlap), întrerupe (adjourn, break, break in, break off an engagement, call off, catch, check, discontinue, drop, intermit, interrupt, shut off, stop, suspend, switch off), executa (accomplish, carry out, do, effect, execute, fill, fulfil, interpret, perform, prepare, submit, work), restrânge (bound, confine, constrain, diminish, drop, limit, localise, localize, narrow, narrow down, restrict, restriction, retrench), tuns (hair-cutting, shear, shearing, shorn, short, short-haired, trimmed), tunde (clip, crop, edge, lop, pare, shear, trim), tranşee (approaches, chase, cutting, entrenchment, Fosse, gully, sap, sconce, trench), termina cu (break, dispose, polish off), tåia (slice), tãieturã (cleft, cutting, furrow, gash, hack, kerf, louver, make, Nick, notch, scar, scission, scotch, section, set, slash, slit, snick, style), tãiat, tãia (amputate, ax, axe, butcher, cancel, carve, carve out, castrate, chop, clap, cleave, clip, crop, cross, Curdle, cut on the bias, Dent, dissect, engrave, excise, exscind, fell, flench, foul, grave, hew, incise, intercept, kill, measure off, notch, notch off, pare, plough, prune, quarter, resect, rip, Rive, separate, sever, shear, shorten, shut the works down, slaughter, slay, slice, snick, split, Square, stop, strike out, switch off), strânge (accrete, accumulate, acerbate, acquire, agglomerate, amass, assemble, bind, call, chuck, clamp, clasp, clear, clench, close, collect, compress, concentrate, congregate, constrain, constrict, contract, converge, convolve, cramp, crop, crouch, crowd, crush, cull, diminish, double, fasten, fold, force, garner, gather, glean, harvest, haul, hoard, house, hug, jam, lay aside, lay by, lay in, lay up, levy, lock, lump, make up, mass, muster, nip, pack, pick, pick up, pile, pile on, pinch, press, put away, put by, rake together, rake up, rally, reap, screw, shrink, shut, squeeze, stifle, stock, store, straighten, strain, straiten, suffocate, take up, tighten, troop, warehouse), sparge (annihilate, batter, break, burst, chip away, chop, crack, crush, dash, destroy, flaw, pick, rip, smash, snap, splinter, split), secţiune (kerf, section), se tãia (shear), sãpa (burrow, cave, delve, dig, drive, engraft, engrave, excavate, grave, hoe, hole, hollow, inscribe, lift, mine, pick, sink, spud, trench, undermine), lipsi de la, rãni (bring down, gash, hurt, injure, offend, scathe, scotch, stab, sting, wound, wrong), micşoare (abatement, attenuation), micşora (abate, abridge, attenuate, Bate, belittle, contract, deaden, decrease, detract, dilute, dock, drop, dwarf, ease, knock down, lessen, lighten, lower, mellow, mitigate, narrow, palliate, pare, pare down, put down, rebate, reduce, remit, restrain, retrench, shorten, stop, subdue, subjugate, weaken, whittle away), modela (adapt, fashion, form, model, Mold, mould, shape), nimici (annihilate, bear, blight, crush, dash, destroy, do smb. in, exterminate, extinguish, kill, overwhelm, raze, scathe, smash, undo, unmake, wipe out, wither). (various references)

Romany		cshinàv (to cut). (various references)

Russian		разрезание (cutting, cutup, scission, section), пересекать (cross, intersect, overpass, pass, passage, take across, traverse), подстригать (trim away, trim off), подстричь (trim), покрой одежды, порез (maim), путь (canal, channel, pass, path, pathway, race, route, tract, way, way [#]), жать (harvest, mow, pinch, press, reap, strangle), нарезать (rifle, tapped), обделать (arrange, manage, polish, set), вырез (gain, indenture, neckline, notch), высекать (carve, hew), косить (decimate, mow, mown, scythe, slant, squint), перерубать, разрез (cutaway, cutting, gash, incision, layer, placket, rent, rip, section, slash, snip), срезать (chamfer, cut away, detruncate, flunk, pare away, slash), разрезать (bisect, cut up, incise, rip, sever, skive), рассечь (cleave, split), резаная рана (hack, sword cut), резать (carve, shear, slaughters, snip, snipped, snipping, snips), рубить (chisel, chop, cut down, fall, fell, hack, hackle, hew, mangle, mince), рубить лес, сечение (cutset, section, size), снижать (abase, abate, cut down, fall back, lower, mark down, reduce, slowed), снижать цены (cut prices, deflate), сокращать (abbreviate, abridge, blue pencil, blue-pencil, condense, constrict, contract, curtail, cut back, divide out, dock, epitomize, pare, pare away, razee, reduce, shorten, shortens), удар (a smack in the eye /in the face/, apoplexy, bash, blow, box, buffet, bump, cant, chop, clap, cob, dash, fit of apoplexy, hit, impact, impingement, jab, kick, knock, loft, lunge, percussion, pick, push, putt, shock, stabbings, stroke, swat, thrust, wallop, well-judged blow, welt), урезывать (ax, axe, curtail, pare, pare away, skimp), стричь (pare, shear), кроить. (various references)

Scottish		treann, teasg (cut off), geàrr (a hare, brief, short, slice), beum (a stroke, blow, reproach; ring by striking, stroke, taunt). (various references)

Sepedi		sega (to cut). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		rana (injury, sore, trauma, wound), deo (parcel, part, period, piece part, portion, share), iseći (carve, resect), kroj, ošišati (crop, fleece, trim), porezati, poseći (hew down), poseći se, posekotina (slash, sword cut), šišati (crop, trim), prosek (average, normal), zaseći (incise, indent, notch, scarify, score, scotch, snick), rez (incision), rezati (carve, whittle), seći (chip, chop, clip, hew, pare), smanjenje (abatement, curtailment, cutting down, decrease, extenuation, lowering, mark down, markdown, mitigation, reduction, shrinkage, waning), tesati (hack, spall), urez (indent, nick, nock, notch, rabbet), usek (score), zarez (comma, nick, nock, notch, score), zarezati (nick, notch, score, sharpen), prekinuti (abort, adjourn, break off, cease, cut off, cut short, disconnect, disrupt, intercept, interrupt, leave off, part, put an end, rupture, sever). (various references)

Slovene		razkosana (cut up). (various references)

Spanish		cortar (ax, axe, bar, behead, block off, Bob, break, break in, chop, clip, comminute, crop, cut across, cut away, cut down, cut in, cut off, cut out, cut up, decapitate, detruncate, disbranch, excise, exscind, fell, hack, incise, intersect, joint, lop, lop away, lop off, lumber, mow, Nick, nip, open, pare, pick, pluck, prune, sever, shear, shear off, shear through, shut off, slice, slit, snick, strike off, tear off, trim away, trim off, turn off, turn out, Whittle), recortado (clipping). (various references)

Swazi		kú-síka (to cut). (various references)

Swedish		skära (carve, Crescent, Curdle, hook, intersect, nick, reap, reaping hook, sickle, slit, traverse, undercut), snitt (incision), skärsår (gash), meja (mow, reap, scythe), klippa (cliff, clip, edit, mow, outcrop, outcropp, pare, rock, rock (of stone), scaur, scissor, shear, trim), hugga (carve, chop, grab, hack, hew, nab, seize, strike, swish), hugg (blow, chop, dig, grab, hack, slash, snatch, stab, twinge). (various references)

Tagalog		putúlin (slice), hiwáin (slice). (various references)

Tahitian		t‘pupu (to cut). (various references)

Turkish		kesmek (abandon, amputate, Bate, blunt, break, butcher, carve, cease, chaff, chop, chop off, clip, close, close down, crop, cut back, cut off, cut out, deaden, disconnect, discontinue, dock, drop, dry up, excise, fair, fell, gash, give over, hack, hew, interrupt, intersect, kill, knife, lay off, lop, lop off, Nick, nick oneself, nip, nip off, occlude, pare, poll, prune, saw off, sever, shave, shear, shut down on, shut down upon, shut off, slash, slaughter, slice, slit, snick, stanch, staunch, stem, stop, truncate, wrap it up, wrap up). (various references)

Turkmen		яartmaз (angle, section), kesmek (cut in, interrupt), kertik (incision), dilik (slice), dil (language, pointer, toungue), biзmek (tailor), biзim (fashion). (various references)

Ukrainian		кювет, поріз (wound), порізаний (bluffy, dissected, indented), порізати (slash), порізатися, преретинати, знижений (deferred, degraded), вирізувати (carve, chisel, cut out, excise, incise), відрізувати, покроєний, кроїти, стригти (beard, clip, shear), шліфований, фасон (fashion), розтин (anatomy), розріз (incision, kerf, open-cast, section, slash), розрізаний (dissected), різати (chaff, shred), скорочувати (abate, abbreviate, abridge, ax, axe, blue pencil, boil down, cancel, castrate, curtail, lop away, lop off, prune, retrench, shorten, shrink), стрижка (clip, clipping, haircut), кастрований (emasculate, gelded, neuter). (various references)

Vietnamese		vết xẻ, vết mổ sự giảm, vết đứt, sự thái (cutting), sự hạ, sự chặt, sự cúp bóng nhánh đường xe lửa, sự cắt bớt vật cắt ra, sự cắt (clipping, cut-off, cut-out, cutting, disconnection, disconnexion, excision, mutilation, section), sự đốn (fell), nhát thái, nhát chém, miêng. (various references)

Welsh		torri (break, dig, slice, trace, write). (various references)

Yucatec		k'osik (clip, shear). (various references)

Zulu		-sika (slice). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Sumerian	3100 BCE-2500 BCE	1. zil. (various references)
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	accidat, acciderant, acciderat, accidere, accideret, acciderit, acciderunt, accidissent, accidisset, accidit, caesa, caesis, circumcidamini, circumcidatur, circumcide, circumcidebant, circumcidenti, circumcidere, circumciderunt, circumcidet, circumcidetis, circumcidetur, circumcidi, circumcidimini, circumcidit, circumcidite, circumciditis, circumciduntur, circumcisa, circumcisi, circumcisis, circumcisum, circumcisus, concidam, concidat, concidens, concident, concidentur, conciderant, concidere, conciderent, conciderunt, concides, concidet, concidi, concidisset, concidisti, concidit, concidite, concisam, concisas, concise, concisus, convulneravit, decalvabit, decalvare, decalvari, decalvatum, decalvavi, decalvavit, decidam, decidant, decidat, decidens, decidentes, decidentia, decidet, decidi, decidissemus, decidisset, decidit, lacerabis, lacerabunt, lacerabuntur, lacerandum, lacerans, lacerantes, lacerare, lacerata, laceratum, laceratus, laceraverunt, laceret, lacero, occidam, occidamus, occidas, occidat, occidatis, occidatur, occide, occidebant, occidebat, occidebatis, occidendi, occidendum, occidendus, occident, occidente, occidentem, occidentis, occidentium, occidentur, occiderant, occiderat, occidere, occiderem, occiderent, occiderentur, occideres, occideret, occideretis, occideretur, occiderimus, occideris, occiderit, occideritis, occidero, occiderunt, occides, occidet, occidetis, occidetur, occidi, occidimus, occidis, occidisse, occidissem, occidissent, occidisses, occidisset, occidisti, occidistis, occidit, occidite, occiditis, occiditque, occidunt, occisa, occisi, occisis, occisorum, occisos, occisum, occisus, plaga, plagae, plagam, plagarum, plagas, plagatus, plagis, proscindet, scalpere, secare, tonde, tondeatur, tondebatur, tondebis, tondendas, tondente, tondentes, tondentur, tondere, tonderent, tonderentur, tonderet, tonderetur, tonderi, tonsarum, tonso, totonderat, totonderunt. (various references)
Avestan	200-600	thwarshtahe. (various references)
Old English	450-1100	screadian. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	couteau. (various references)
Old North French	1200-1500	garser. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Proverbs Chapter 19, Verse 9
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	MartuV yeudhV ouk atimwrhtoV estai oV d' an ekkaush kakian apoleitai up' authV
Latin	405	Vulgate	Testis falsus non erit inpunitus et qui loquitur mendacia peribit
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	The false witnesse shal not ben vnpunshid; and that speketh lesing, shal pershen.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	A false witness will not go without punishment, and the breather out of deceit will be cut off.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Proverbs Chapter 19, Verse 9
Cebuano	¶ Ang usa ka bakakon nga saksi dili makagawas sa silot; Ug kadtong mamulong sa kabakakan mahanaw.
Croatian	Lažljiv svjedok ne ostaje bez kazne, i tko širi laži, propada.
Danish	Det falske Vidne undgår ej Straf, og den, der farer med Løgn, går under.
Dutch	Een vals getuige zal niet onschuldig zijn; en die leugenen blaast, zal vergaan.
Finnish	Väärä todistaja ei jää rankaisematta, ja joka valheita puhuu, se hukkuu.
French	Le faux témoin ne restera pas impuni, Et celui qui dit des mensonges périra.
German	Ein falscher Zeuge bleibt nicht ungestraft; und wer frech Lügen redet, wird umkommen.
Haitian Creole	¶ Lè yon moun ap sèvi temwen nan tribinal, si li fè manti, yo gen pou yo pini l'. Moun k'ap bay manti gen pou mouri.
Hungarian	A hamis bizonyság nem marad büntetlen, és a ki hazugságokat beszél, elvész.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Orang yang berdusta di pengadilan pasti akan dihukum dan dibinasakan.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Seorang saksi dusta tiada akan terlepas dari pada hukum dan seorang yang bernafas bohong itu akan binasa kelak.
Italian	Il falso testimone non resterà impunito, chi diffonde menzogne perirà.
Maori	¶ E kore te kaiwhakapae teka e whakaharakoretia; ka huna hoki te tangata korero teka.
Norwegian	Et falskt vidne skal ikke bli ustraffet, og den som taler løgn, skal omkomme.
Portuguese	A testemunha falsa não ficará impune, e o que profere mentiras perecerá.
Rumanian	Martorul mincinos nu rqmkne nepedepsit, wi celce spune minciuni va pieri, -
Russian	мЦЕУЧЙДЕФЕМШ ОЕ ПУФБОЕФУС ОЕОБЛБЪБООЩН, Й ЛФП ЗПЧПТЙФ МПЦШ, РПЗЙВОЕФ.
Spanish	El testigo falso no quedará impune, y el que respira mentiras perecerá.
Swedish	Ett falskt vittne bliver icke ostraffat, och den som främjar lögn, han skall förgås.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "cut": cutabilities, cutability, cutaneous, cutaneously, cutaway, cutaways, cutback, cutbacks, cutbank, cutbanks, cutch, cutcheries, cutchery, cutches, cutdown, cutdowns, cute, cutely, cuteness, cutenesses, cuter, cutes, cutesie, cutesier, cutesiest, cutest, cutesy, cutey, cuteys, cutgrass, cutgrasses, cuticle, cuticles, cuticula, cuticulae, cuticular, cutie, cuties, cutin, cutinise, cutinised, cutinises, cutinising, cutinize, cutinized, cutinizes, cutinizing, cutins, cutis, cutises, cutlas. (additional references)
	Words ending with "cut": crewcut, crosscut, haircut, intercut, linecut, linocut, miscut, offcut, overcut, precut, recut, scut, shortcut, uncut, undercut, uppercut, woodcut. (additional references)
	Words containing "cut": acutance, acutances, acute, acutely, acuteness, acutenesses, acuter, acutes, acutest, allocution, allocutions, charcuterie, charcuteries, circumlocution, circumlocutions, circumlocutory, coexecutor, coexecutors, consecution, consecutions, consecutive, consecutively, consecutiveness, consecutivenesses, crewcuts, crosscuts, crosscutting, crosscuttings, electrocute, electrocuted, electrocutes, electrocuting, electrocution, electrocutions, elocution, elocutionary, elocutionist, elocutionists, elocutions, epicuticle, epicuticles, epicuticular, escutcheon, escutcheons, executable, executables, executant, executants, execute, executed, executer. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Cut" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: catt, catv, caut, cauti, cauty, cbt, cbto, Cctu, ccu, ccuf, ccunt, cdt, cet, ceti, cett, Ceuto, cft, cfu, chut, citt, ciut, clut, cmt, cmu, cnt, cnut, coth, coti, Cotw, cout, cpt, Cpti, csu, Csutcb, ctd, Ctu, Ctup, cua, cubt, cuc, cuf, cuft, cug, cuh, cuit, Cuitt, cuj, cujt, cuo, cuq, cush, cust, cuta, Cuth, cuti, cutn, cutr, Cutt, cutta, cutv, cuty, Cuu, cuv, cuw, cux, cuy, cuz, cyt, Cytn, fcu, Gcu, icot, Icut, iut, jcu, kot, kut, Mcnutt, Octu, qut, uc, ucat, Ucatt, Ucet, uch, ucl, Ucst, uct, Ucw, ucx, Zctu. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "cut" (pronounced ku"t)
3	k u" t	uncut.
2	-u" t	abut, but, butt, glut, gut, hut, jut, mutt, nut, phut, putt, rebut, rut, shut, smut, somewhat, strut, tut, what.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-t-u"
	-1 letter: ut.
	Words containing the letters "c-t-u"
	+1 letter: cult, curt, cute, cuts, duct, scut, tuck.
	+2 letters: acute, butch, caput, centu, chute, clout, count, court, couth, cruet, crust, cubit, culet, culti, cults, curet, curst, cutch, cuter, cutes, cutey, cutie, cutin, cutis, cutty, cutup, ducat, ducts, dutch, educt, eruct, hutch, ictus, mulct, mutch, recut, scout, scuta, scute, scuts, stuck, teuch, touch, truce, truck, tucks, tunic, uncut.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
hair cut	13,524	new hair cut	284
tax cut	5,634	bushs cut tax	276
short hair cut	4,607	long hair cut	270
cut flower	2,275	womens hair cut	256
hair cut style	1,897	kid hair cut	256
hair cut picture	1,435	shag hair cut	253
bush tax cut	1,217	medium hair cut	243
tax cut 2003	895	hair cut site	241
man hair cut	823	cut of beef	238
picture of short hair cut	819	ideal cut diamond	236
celebrity cut hair	756	layered hair cut	235
final cut pro	543	hydroxy cut	231
cut	496	low cut jean	220
cut new tax	395	hair cut idea	215
bob cut hair	381	cut hair summer	205
woman hair cut	343	federal tax cut	204
short hair cut style	336	die cut	192
cut hair teen	312	child hair cut	187
short hair cut woman	296	my first hair cut	182
travel cut	293	super cut	176
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.


"Jimmie's Cut Rate" by Greg Schmigel Commentary: "Jimmie's Cut Rate...can't find a better deal on a bottle whiskey. See more of my works at <a href=" http://www.27cm.com\" class=red target="_blank"> www.27cm.com</a>."	"Opened book" by Bartlomiej Moczulski Commentary: "Just an opened book (it's Lewis Caroll complete works if anybody asks ;-). Background easy to be cut off (hopefully)."
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

Cut

Definition: Cut

Cut

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Specialty Definition: Cut

Specialty Definition: Cut (playing cards)

Cut and paste

Max flow min cut theorem

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Cut

Cut

Synonyms: Cut

Synonyms within Context: Cut

Drunkenness

Ejection

Engraving

Form

Impulse

Interval

Layer

Mid-course

Notch

Part

Refrigeration

Sculpture

Seclusion Exclusion

Shortness

Crosswords: Cut

Modern Usage: Cut

Screenplays

Lyrics

Clever

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Song Titles

Commercial Usage: Cut

References

Books

Periodicals

Theater & Movies

Music

High Tech

Consumer Goods

Image Slideshow: Cut

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Photo Album: Cut

Digital Photo Gallery: Cut

Sounds Captioned with "Cut".

Familiar Quotations: Cut

Alice Hubbard

Author Unknown

Colin Powell

E. M. Cioran

Horace

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Samuel Johnson

Thomas Carlyle

Historic Usage: Cut

John Locke

Communist Manifesto

Miranda v. Arizona

Use in Literature: Cut

Emma

Austen, Jane

Sylvie and Bruno

Carroll, Lewis

So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish

Douglas Adams

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

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