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Definition: Cut In |
Cut InVerb1. Allow someone to have a share or profit. 2. Drive in front of another vehicle leaving too little space for that vehicle to maneuver comfortably. 3. Break into a conversation; "her husband always chimes in, even when he is not involved in the conversation". 4. Interrupt a dancing couple in order to take one of them as one's own partner; "Jim always cuts in!". 5. Mix in with cutting motions. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Cut InSynonyms: barge in (v), break in (v), butt in (v), chime in (v), chisel in (v), put in (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
bisection | Verb: bisect, halve, divide, split, cut in two, cleave dimidiate, dichotomize. |
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Screenplays | Ordering! 3 pork combos, extra bacon on the side, 2 chili cheese samplers, a basket of liver and onion rings, a catch of the day, and a steak cut in the shape of a trout (The Emperor's New Groove; writing credit: Chris Williams; Mark Dindal) It was the way you looked when Major Laferty cut in on us, like a little lost puppy dog. (North and South; writing credit: Paul F. Edwards; Patricia Green) I'm going to transfer you to the undergrowth department bracken, small shrubs with a nineteen percent cut in salary, backdated to the beginning of time (Time Bandits; writing credit: Terry Gilliam; Michael Palin) | |
Lyrics | Or get your hair cut in heaven (God Shuffled His Feet; performing artist: Crash Test Dummies) Yeah he were cut in in bout a hundred places (You Don't Mess Around With Jim; performing artist: Jim Croce) The opposition's tongue is cut in two (UNDERCOVER OF THE NIGHT; performing artist: Rolling Stones) Just to cut in the jams and look at your feet ("Rapper's Delight"; performing artist: Sugarhill Gang) | |
Clever | Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half (references; author: unknown) | |
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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. | ![]() | 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. | |
![]() | Turtle excluder device (TED) manufactured by Saunders Marine Machine Shop. The oval metal ring and bars deflect the turtles. The cut in the netting is where the trap door will be placed. The bars force a turtle to the trap door which will open allowing the turtle to go free. Credit: Fisheries. | ![]() | John Catena, of NOAA, supervises the crew as the ladder is being installed and fitted into the cut in the dam. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
![]() | A rest during the work, water is flowing through the cut in the dam. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. | ![]() | Caption: Cobalt Search at Darby Mine, Open Cut in Vein No. 1, Looking East; G.H. Harris, Foreman, in Background; Canada; February, 1906; {06.050/3} (jpg). |
![]() | Now if you boys could order a 100% cut in that brew ... Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Road cut in Wisconsin showing trees planted in bench terraces which are held by wood or metal strips secured by stakes. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Pump, oilcan cut in half used as trough, Nashville, Brown County, Indiana. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Making accuracy certain. Rifling grooves to speed shells on their way with accuracy are cut in a medium-caliber gun in a large eastern arsenal. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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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 |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | And four pears peeled and cut in half, cooked and canned, still cost fifteen cents |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The risk of injury is greatest if the doctor uses forceps to help deliver the baby or does an episiotomy, which is a cut in the vaginal area to prevent it from tearing during birth. (references) | |
Building on this finding, researchers at Harvard Medical School showed that changing the structure of presenilin 1 at its active site dramatically altered a cell’s ability to make the gamma secretase cut in APP (Kimberly et al., 2000). This correlation was also shown to be true for presenilin 2, the protein product of a gene very similar to presenilin 1 that, when mutated, can cause familial early-onset AD. These results strongly suggested, but did not prove, that gamma secretase and the presenilins were one and the same. Further evidence supporting this possibility came from a pharmaceutical company-supported team, closely followed by the Harvard Medical School group. (references) | ||
Business | Economic growth rebounded to 10.7% after falling to a negative 5.8% in 1998. Inflation was under control at about one percent and unemployment levels were cut in half from its peak during the economic crisis. (references) | |
Overall, total domestic energy prices fell in real terms for the fourth year running in 1998. Average real prices in 1998 were 6.5% lower than in 1997, as further price controls, the initial impact of competition, another cut in the Fossil Fuel Levy to 0.9%, and full impact of the reduction in VAT on energy took effect. (references) | ||
Economic History | Greece | The improved fiscal situation allowed a cut in indirect taxes on fuel to reduce inflationary pressures. (references) |
Guinea | Since the beginning of the reform programs, both the number of public enterprises and the civil service payroll have been cut in half. (references) | |
India | Morgan Stanley Capital International announced a 40 percent cut in India's weight in the Emerging Market Free Index from 7.5 percent to 4.49 percent. (references) | |
Political Economy | Slovak Republic | According to the law, in July 2000, social benefits of those unemployed over 2 years were cut in half. (references) |
PERU | Tax collection has improved from 4 percent of GDP in 1990 to almost 15 percent by 2000. Customs collections have more than tripled since the early 1990s, despite the sharp cut in tariff rates. (references) | |
Trade | Bolivia | Samples and advertising materials are usually subject to regular duty rates, except those articles specifically prepared as samples -- for example, shoes cut in half, small patches of fabric and pharmaceutical products and liquors contained in small bottles clearly marked "free sample" ("muestra gratuita"). (references) |
Worker Rights | China | ACFTU unions have been relatively powerless to protect the tens of millions of members who have lost their jobs in recent years or, for those still employed, had their wages or benefits delayed or cut in the massive restructuring of state-owned enterprises. (references) |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | The elimination last autumn of overtime work for nearly all Federal employees meant a sharp cut in their incomes. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | More money will be left in the hands of the consumer by a substantial cut in excise taxes. |
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 | They've already brought so much hope to communities like Detroit, where the unemployment rate has been cut in half in four years. |
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Expressions using "cut in": A cut in rates ♦ cut in half ♦ cut in halves ♦ cut in on ♦ cut in pieces ♦ cut in the wages ♦ cut in two ♦ cut in very small pieces ♦ to cut in. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cut in meg ryan | 7 |
cut in pressure pump water | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "cut in"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | ndërhyj (barge into, butt in, crab, intercede, interfere, intermeddle, interpose, interrupt, intervene, intrude, meddle, mediate, monkey, push in), hyj papritmas, hyj në mes (come between). (various references) | |
Arabic | تدخل (butt, butt in, chip, have a finger in the pie, have hand in smth., horn in, interfere, interference, intermediate, interpose, intervene, intervention, intrusion, involvement, mediation, obtrusion, push in, tamper, thrust). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разрязвам (cut up, disarticulate, dissect, scissor, slit), врязвам се (burn into, engrave), включвам в сделка, вземам дамата, намесвам се (break in, burst in, butt, chime in, interfere, interpose, interrupt, intervene, meddle, put in, step in). (various references) | |
Czech | skoèit do řeèi (nip in). (various references) | |
Danish | ved binderhoest hoestes kornet paa gulmodenhedsstadiet (if the crop is harvested with the binder, the grain is cut in yellow-ripe stage). (various references) | |
Dutch | bij de oogst met de graanmaaier-zelfbinder wordt het graan afgemaaid bij geelrijpheid (if the crop is harvested with the binder, the grain is cut in yellow-ripe stage). (various references) | |
Finnish | tunkeutua väliin, kiilata (wedge). (various references) | |
French | se mêler dans, incrustation. (various references) | |
German | einschneiden (carve, cut into, gash, incise, nick, notch), einschalten (bring in, bring into, call in, enable, energize, include, inset, intercalate, interpolate, plug, power up, put on, switch on, to enable, to energize, to interpolate, to switch on, tune in to, turn on), eingeschnitten (gashed, incised). (various references) | |
Greek | μπαίνω στη μέση, διακόπτω (abort, adjourn, break in, break off, cease, chip in, cut off, disconnect, discontinue, intercept, intermit, interrupt, pause, sever, snub, suspend). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ל"פריע (disturb, get in the way, hamper, hinder, interfere, interrupt, supervene). (various references) | |
Hungarian | bevág (gash, incise, Nick, notch, paste in, scotch, slam, to bang, to cut in, to excise, to gash, to hack, to incise, to indent, to let in, to re-enter, to tuck sg away). (various references) | |
Indonesian | menyayati (cut in multiple slashes). (various references) | |
Italian | intromettersi (interfere, intermeddle, interpose, intervene, intrude, obtrude, poke). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 組み込む (to cut in, to include, to insert), 値下' (cut in price), 割込む (to cut in, to disturb, to interrupt, to muscle in on, to thrust oneself into, to wedge oneself in), 割り込む (to cut in, to disturb, to interrupt, to muscle in on, to thrust oneself into, to wedge oneself in), 両分 (bisect, cut in two), 切り紙 (cut paper, paper cut in half, paper scrap, the art of cutting paper), 切り"す (to cut in two, to cut loose, to cut off, to detach, to dismember, to let loose), 切り"つ (to cut in two, to cut loose, to cut off, to detach, to dismember, to let loose), 切り割る (to cut in two). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ねさ' (cut in price), きりがみ (bobbed hair, cut paper, paper cut in half, paper scrap, the art of cutting paper), きりかみ (cut paper, paper cut in half, paper scrap, the art of cutting paper), きりわる (to cut in two), きりはなす (to cut in two, to cut loose, to cut off, to decapitate, to detach, to dismember, to let loose), きりはなつ (to cut in two, to cut loose, to cut off, to detach, to dismember, to let loose), くみ"む (to cut in, to fill with water, to include, to insert), りょうぶ" (bisect, cut in two, domain, dominion, possession, sphere of action, territory), わり"む (to cut in, to disturb, to interrupt, to muscle in on, to thrust oneself into, to wedge oneself in). (various references) | |
Manx | soie stiagh, giarrey yn raad jeh, giarrey roish. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | utcay inay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | suceder (arrive, befall, betide, chance, come about, ensue, eventuate, get along, happen, intervene, occur, pass off, succeed, transpire), sobrevir (intervene, occur, supervene), intrometer-se (butt in, horn in, interfere, intermeddle, intervene, meddle, mess with, monkey, nose, obtrude, obtrude oneself, poke, tamper, tamper with, thwart), intervir (go between, intercede, interfere, intermeddle, interpose, intervene, meddle, part, put in, step in), interferir (clog, interfere, intermeddle, interpose, intervene, meddle, poke, put in, step in, tamper), acontecer (become, become of, befall, betide, chance, come, come about, ensue, eventuate, fare, get, grow, happen, intervene, occur, take place, transpire). (various references) | |
Romanian | lua locul unui jucãtor care se retrage, interveni în discuţie (chime in, chop in). (various references) | |
Russian | вмешиваться (butt in, come between, horn in, intermeddle, interpose, interrupt, intervene, meddle, monkey, tamper). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | usečen. (various references) | |
Spanish | cortar (ax, axe, bar, behead, block off, Bob, break, break in, chop, clip, comminute, crop, cut, cut across, cut away, cut down, 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), quebrar (become bankrupt, break, bust, crack, fail, go bust, leak, smash, tear, throw over), permitir (accord, admit, admit of, afford, allow, allow in, allow of, allow out, emend, empower, enable, give, have, let, live, permit, suffer, treat, wear), pasar peligrosamente, meterse delante, interrumpir (break, break in, cut off, discontinue, dislocate, disorganize, disrupt, disturb, halt, hold up, interrupt, tie up), interponerse (interpose, intervene). (various references) | |
Swedish | tränga sig i bilkön, skära in (cut into, incise), blanda sig i (butt in, cut into, intermeddle, join in, meddle in). (various references) | |
Turkish | yerini almak (oust, relay, replace, sit in for, subrogate, substitute, supersede, supplant, take one's place), sollayıp yolunu almak, sözünü kesmek (break in, chip in, cut smb. short, interrupt, punctuate, put in a word, take smb. up short, take up), ortak yapmak, karışmak (amalgamate, be confused, be mixed up, blend, butt in, combine, commingle, commix, concern, concern oneself, cut into, get mixed, have one's hand in, interfere, interfuse, interlace, intermeddle, intervene, jumble, jumble together, jumble up, meddle, meld, merge, mingle, mix, mix in, pick at, pick over, poke one's nose into, put one's nose into, put one's oar in, slip in, step in, strike in, take up, tamper, thicken, thrust one's nose in, thrust one's nose into, thrust oneself in, welter, whirl), iki sahneyi bağlamakta kullanılan çekim, hisse vermek, devreye sokmak (connect), dansta eşini almak. (various references) | |
Turkmen | kesmek (cut, interrupt). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | втручатися (break in, butt in, come between, edge in, encroach, interfere, interject, intermediate, intermit, interpose, intervene, meddle, pry), включати (add in, comprehend, comprise, embody, introduce, put, take in), вмикати (key on, turn on). (various references) | |
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| Language | Date | Source | Luke Chapter 23, Verse 53 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai kaqelwn auto enetulixen auto sindoni kai eqhken auto en mnhmati laxeutw ou ouk hn oudepw oudeiV keimenoV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et depositum involvit sindone et posuit eum in monumento exciso in quo nondum quisquam positus fuerat |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | þa wif þe him fyligdon þe comon mid him of galilea hig gesawon þa byrgene. and hu his lichama aled wæs |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And took it doun, and wlappide it in a cleene lynen cloth, and leide hym in a graue hewun, in which not yit ony man hadde be leid. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And toke it doune and wrapped it in a lynnen clooth and layed it in an hewen toumbe wherin was never man before layed. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulcher that was hewn in stone, in which man was never before laid. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And he took it down, and folding it in a linen cloth, he put it in a place cut in the rock for a dead body; and no one had ever been put in it. |
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| Language | Luke Chapter 23, Verse 53 |
| Cebuano | Ug kini iyang gihugos, ug gilimisan niyag panapton nga lino, ug gipahimutang sa usa ka lubnganan nga kinubkob diha sa kilid sa pangpang, nga wala pa gayud kalubngi. |
| Croatian | Zatim ga skinu, povi u platno i položi u grob isklesan u koji još ne bijaše nitko položen. |
| Danish | Og han tog det ned og svøbte det i et fint Linklæde, og han lagde ham i en Grav, som var hugget i en Klippe, hvor endnu ingen nogen Sinde var lagt. |
| Dutch | En als hij hetzelve afgenomen had, wond hij dat in een fijn lijnwaad, en legde het in een graf, in een rots gehouwen, waarin nog nooit iemand gelegd was. |
| Finnish | Ja otettuaan sen alas hän kääri sen liinavaatteeseen. Ja hän pani hänet hautaan, joka oli hakattu kallioon ja johon ei oltu vielä ketään pantu. |
| German | und nahm ihn ab, wickelte ihn in Leinwand und legte ihn in ein gehauenes Grab, darin niemand je gelegen hatte. |
| Hungarian | És levévén azt, begöngyölé azt gyolcsba, és helyhezteté azt egy sziklába vágott sírboltba, melyben még senki sem feküdt. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kemudian ia menurunkan jenazah Yesus dari kayu salib, lalu membungkusnya dengan kain kafan dari linen. Sesudah itu ia meletakkannya di dalam kuburan yang dibuat di dalam bukit batu--kuburan itu belum pernah dipakai. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Lalu diturunkannya mayat itu, serta dikapaninya dengan kain halus, kemudian ditaruhnya mayat itu ke dalam kubur batu yang berpahat, tempat belum pernah ditaruhkan barang seorang pun. |
| Maori | Na, ka tangohia iho e ia taua tinana, a takaia ana ki te rinena, ka waiho ki te rua i haua ki roto ki te kohatu, kahore hoki i takoto noa tetahi tangata ki reira. |
| Norwegian | og han tok det ned og svøpte det i fint linklæde, og la det i en grav som var hugget i klippen, og som aldri nogen hadde ligget i. |
| Portuguese | e tirando-o da cruz, envolveu-o num pano de linho, e pô-lo num sepulcro escavado em rocha, onde ninguém ainda havia sido posto. |
| Rumanian | L -a dat jos de pe cruce, L -a knfqwurat kntr`o pknzq de in, wi L -a pus kntr`un mormknt nou, sqpat kn piatrq, kn care nu mai fusese pus nimeni. |
| Shuar | Piratu "ayu" takui, Jesusa ayashin Krúsnumia jusa tarachjai penuar kaya Táurmanum iwiarsamiayi. Nu Táurmanum Chíkich iwiarsachmauyayi. |
| Swahili | Kisha, akaushusha mwili huo kutoka msalabani, akauzungushia sanda ya kitani, akauweka katika kaburi lililokuwa limechongwa kwenye mwamba, ambalo halikuwa limetumika. |
| Swedish | Och han tog ned den och svepte den i en linneduk. Sedan lade han den i en grav som var uthuggen i klippan, och där ännu ingen hade varit lagd. |
| Uma | Napopana'u-mi woto Yesus ngkai kaju parika' -na, naputu' hante kain to bula, pai' napopoturu hi rala daeo' to ralonga' hi panapa bulu'. Daeo' toe bo'u-pidi, ko'ia hangkania rapotanai. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cutin, tunic. | |
| Words within the letters "c-i-n-t-u" | |
-1 letter: unci, unit. | |
-2 letters: cut, nit, nut, tic, tin, tui, tun. | |
-3 letters: in, it, nu, ti, un, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-i-n-t-u" | |
+1 letter: cutins, incult, induct, tunica, tunics. | |
+2 letters: auction, caution, chuting, conduit, curtain, cutline, cutting, ducting, dunitic, incrust, inducts, linecut, linocut, lunatic, noctuid, nutpick, quantic, quintic, ruction, suction, trucing, tucking, tunicae, tunicle, unction, unhitch, unstick. | |
+3 letters: aconitum, acquaint, actinium, anticult, anuretic, auctions, cautions, ceinture, cincture, clouting, conduits, continua, continue, continuo, cothurni, countian, counties, counting, courting, crusting, cultigen, cuneatic, curating, curtains, cutinise, cutinize, cutlines, cuttings, cuttling, discount, disjunct, ductings, eduction, enuretic, eructing, function, hutching, incrusts, incubate, incudate, inducted, inductee, inductor, instruct, intercut, junction, linecuts, linocuts, locution, lunatics, miscount, mulcting, mutchkin, nautical, neumatic, neuritic, neurotic, noctuids, noctuoid, nutpicks, plutonic, punditic, quantics, quintics, reinduct, ructions, ruthenic, scouting, scrutiny, sinciput, subtonic, subtunic, succinct, suctions, sultanic, taciturn, tincture, touching, trucking, tsunamic, tungstic, tunicate, tunicles, uncinate, unctions, unerotic, unexotic, unpoetic, unsticks, unstitch, uranitic, urticant, viscount. | |
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