OFFCUT

Definitions: OFFCUT

OFFCUT

Noun

1. A portion ofthe printed sheet, in certain sizes of books, that is cut off before folding.

2. That which is cut off.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Domain	Definitions
Environment	A small piece of waste or an unwanted article. Source: European Union. (references)
Industry	That part of a sheet removed during processing, the size of which is smaller than the size ordered but is large enough to permit its use for purposes other than repulsing. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"OFFCUT" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "OFFCUT" is used about 6 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
Noun (singular)	100%	6	143,867

Language		Translations for "OFFCUT"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		rest (remainder, rest), materialetab (discard, scrap, waste), afskæring (cut-off, dressing, edging off, shearing, trimming, truncation), affald (arisings, detritus, discard, effluent, filter cake, garbage, going about, refuse, residue, salvage, scrap, trash, waste). (various references)

Dutch		uitval (broke, catastrophic failure, discard, failure, false drop, hard error, hardware error, noise unit, reject, scrap, waste, waster), uitschot (garbage, leavings, refuse, rubbish, waste), snij-afval (discard, scrap, waste), schrot (discard, fagot iron, metal scrap, scrap, steel scrap, waste), nevenbaan (CD road, collector-distributor road), bijbaan, afvalmateriaal (discard, scrap, waste), afval (apostasy, clippings, cuttings, debris, defection, garbage, leavings, parings, refuse, remainder, rest, rubbish, rubble, waste, windfall). (various references)

Finnish		oheisarkki, viereisarkki. (various references)

French		chute, à côté de coupe, à côté. (various references)

German		Brennschneidverlust (discard, scrap, waste), Ausschuss (board, caucus, committee, exit point, exit wound, reject, rejects, trash), Abschnitt (article, chapter, counterfoil, episode, lap, length, paragraph, period, phase, portion, section, sector, segment, stage, step, stretch, ticket, zone). (various references)

Greek		σκραπ (discard, fagot iron, metal scrap, processing loss, scrap, steel scrap, waste), υπόλειμμα (relic, relics, relique, remnant, residue, residuum, residwe, scrap, trace, vestige), άχρηστα (trash), απώλεια υλικού κατά την κοπή με φλόγα (discard, scrap, waste), απόκομμα (ablactation, chip, clipping, coupon, cut out). (various references)

Hungarian		kilövés kivágással (imposition with offcut). (various references)

Italian		sottoformato, scarto (board, difference, discard, margin, reject, rejection, run out, scrap, wastage, waste), rottame (junk, rattletrap, scrap, scrap metal), materiale di scarto (cull, cullwood, discard, reject, scrap, waste), cascame (discard, refuse parts, rejects, scrap, sixths, thrum, waste). (various references)

Pig Latin		offcutay

Portuguese		trimm, tira (brace, ray, ribbon, screed, shred, slat, strip, stripe), sobra (balance, end, hang up, leftover, offal, over, overpoise, remainder, remnant, rest, waste), caractera (discard, scrap, waste), bordo (broadside, edge, lip, maple, side, sycamore), apara larga. (various references)

Spanish		viruta (shave, shaving), trozo (cluster, extract, fragment, gob, lieu, passage, piece, portion, scrap, section, segment, slice), recortes (trimmings), fuera de formato, fuera de corte, fuera de ancho, chatarra (catarrh, junk, scrap, scrap iron, scrap metal), cabo (cable, Cape, Corporal, end, ply, point, rope, sergeant, serjeant, stub, stump, tag, tag end, tail, termination, tip). (various references)

Ukranian		відрізок (cut off), обрізки паперу, обрізок (shred, snippet). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "OFFCUT": offcuts. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: cutoff.
	Words within the letters "c-f-f-o-t-u"
	-2 letters: coff, coft, cuff, toff, tofu, tuff.
	-3 letters: cot, cut, fou, off, oft, out.
	-4 letters: of, to, ut.
	Words containing the letters "c-f-f-o-t-u"
	+1 letter: cutoffs, offcuts.
	+3 letters: suffocate.
	+4 letters: suffocated, suffocates, tuffaceous.
	+5 letters: conflictful, suffocating, suffocation, suffocative.
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.