CUT-OUT

Definition: CUT-OUT

CUT-OUT

Noun

1. A device for breaking or separating a portion of circuit.

2. A species of switch for changing the current from one circuit to another, or for shortening a circuit.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "CUT-OUT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1812. (references)

Electrical Engineering

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

Crosswords: CUT-OUT

Books

• Cat-Snips: Paper Doll and Cut-Out Book (reference)

• Apple Tree Farm Cut-Out Model (Cut-Out Models Series) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Consumer Goods

• DeWalt DW660SK Heavy Duty Cut-Out Tool with Side Handle and Circle Cutter (reference)

• Dremel 9000-04 Advantage Cut-Out Tool Plus (reference)

• Factory-Reconditioned DeWalt DW660SKR Heavy Duty Cut-Out Tool with Side Handle and Circle Cutter (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.

Business

State says that by doing this they can cut-out the high margins of local parts dealers, guarantee the quality of the parts and reduce the cost of claims and allow saving to be passed to customers via lower premiums. (references)

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

Beginning with "CUT-OUT": cut-out-and-keep.

Danish

smeltesikring (distributing fuse, fuse, safety cut-out), sikring (brake, distributing fuse, fuse, guard, safety cut-out, safety lock, screen). (various references)

Dutch

zekering (fuse, safety cut-out), veiligheid (safety, security), uitsparing (economy, saving), smeltveiligheid (fuse, safety cut-out), benviliging (fuse). (various references)

Finnish

varoke (fuse, safety cut-out). (various references)

French

coupe-fruit, coupe-circuit fusible (safety cut-out), coupe-circuit à fusibles (safety cut-out), coupe-circuit à fusible (safety cut-out), coupe-circuit (cutout), fusible (safety cut-out), f. (curing, cushion), disjoncteur (cutout), découpe (cut out, cutout, cutting), échancrure. (various references)

German

Sicherung (backlup, backup, bak, belaying, fuse, fuze, protection, safe, safeguard, safeguarding, safety catch, securing), Selbstunterbrecher (circuit breaker, cutout), Schmelzsicherung (fuse, safety cut-out), Schaltautomat (circuit breaker, cutout), Aussparung (recess, ward), Ausschnitt (clip, clipping, cutting, detail, excerpt, extract, neck, neck line, neckline, notch, sector), Abschalter (circuit breaker, cutout). (various references)

Greek 

ασφάλεια τήξης (fuse, safety cut-out), ασφάλεια (assurance, insurance, safeness, safety, safety catch, safety lock, secureness, security, surety). (various references)

Italian

valvola di sicurezza (safety valve), valvola a fusibile (fuse, safety cut-out), interruttore di sicurezza (fuse, guarded switch), fusibile (fuse, fuseelettricita, fusible). (various references)

Pig Latin

ut-outcay.(various references)

Portuguese

corta-circuito (fuse), fusível (fuse, fusible, fuze). (various references)

Russian 

рубильник;предохранитель. (various references)

Spanish

cortacircuitos fusible (fuse, safety cut-out), cortacircuitos (circuit breaker), fusible (fuse, fusible, fuze, safeguard). (various references)

Swedish

säkring (cutout, fuse, lock, plug fuse, safety catch). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự cắt (clipping, cut, cut-off, cutting, disconnection, disconnexion, excision, mutilation, section). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cutout.

-2 letters: tout, tutu.

-3 letters: cot, cut, out, tot, tut.

-4 letters: to, ut.

+1 letter: cutouts.

+2 letters: outcount.

+3 letters: outcaught, outcounts.

+4 letters: outcounted, punctuator.

+5 letters: countersuit, fluctuation, multicounty, outcounting, punctuation, punctuators.