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Definition: Cut Off |
Cut OffAdjective1. Detached by cutting; "cut flowers"; "a severed head"; "an old tale of Anne Bolyn walking the castle walls with her poor cut-off head under her arm". Verb1. Make a break in; "We interrupt the program for the following messages". 2. Cease, stop: "cut the noise"; "We had to cut short the conversation". 3. Remove by or as if by cutting; "cut off the ear"; "lop off the dead branch". 4. Cut off and stop; "The bicyclist was cut out by the van". 5. Break a small piece off from; "chip the glass"; "chip a tooth". 6. Remove surgically; of limbs. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Engineering & Technology | The size of particles at which the retention efficiency of an instrument device drops a specified value under defined conditions [VE1]. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mathematics | The artificial truncation of a sampling process at a point when it becomes apparent that enough data have been collected for the purpose in view. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: Cut OffSynonyms: severed (adj), amputate (v), break off (v), break up (v), chip (v), chop off (v), cut (v), cut out (v), disrupt (v), interrupt (v), knap (v), lop off (v). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: off-and-on (engineering & technology), put-off (mechanical engineering, engineering & technology). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Conformity | Phrase: cela va sans dire; ex pede Herculem; noscitur a sociis; ne e quovis ligno Mercurius fiat; "they are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations". "The nail that sticks up will get hammered down"; "Stick your neck out and it may get cut off." |
Disjunction | Disjoin, disconnect, disengage, disunite, dissociate, dispair; divorce, part, dispart, detach, separate, cut off, rescind, segregate; set apart, keep apart; insulate, isolate; throw out of gear; cut adrift; loose; unloose, undo, unbind, unchain, unlock; (fix), unpack, unravel; disentangle; set free; (liberate). |
Hindrance | Obstruct, stop, stay, bar, bolt, lock; block, block up; choke off; belay, barricade; block the way, bar the way, stop the way; forelay; dam up; (close); put on the brake; Noun: scotch the wheel, lock the wheel, put a spoke in the wheel; put a stop to; traverse, contravene; interrupt, intercept; oppose; hedge in, hedge round; cut off; inerclude. |
Killing | Cut off, nip in the bud, launch into eternity, send to one's last account, sign one's death warrant, strike the death knell of. |
Loss | Shorn of, deprived of; denuded, bereaved, bereft, minus, cut off; dispossessed; rid of, quit of; out of pocket. |
Nonaddition Subtraction | Garble, mutilate, amputate, detruncate; cut off, cut away, cut out; abscind, excise; pare, thin, prune, decimate; abrade, scrape, file; geld, castrate; eliminate. |
Seclusion Exclusion | Cut, cut dead; refuse to associate with, refuse to acknowledge; look cool upon, turn one's back upon, shut the door upon; repel, blackball, excommunicate, exclude, exile, expatriate; banish, outlaw, maroon, ostracize, proscribe, cut off from, send to Coventry, keep at arm's length, draw a cordon round. |
Taking | Take from, take away from; disseize; deduct; retrench; (curtail); dispossess, ease one of, snatch from one's grasp; tear from, tear away from, wrench from, wrest from, wring from; extort; deprive of, bereave; disinherit, cut off with a shilling. |
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Screenplays | 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) And tomorrow we come back and we cut off your chonson (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen) I would cut off your head if it were a little higher off the ground (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) A woman could cut off your penis while you're sleeping and toss it out the window of a moving car. (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls) | |
Lyrics | He come up with a knife and cut off a piece of my ear. (A Boy Named Sue; performing artist: Johnny Cash) | |
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![]() | Is towed out of San Diego Bay, California, by USS Kalmia (ATA-184). Assisting are the harbor tugs Muskegon (YTB-763), alongside Vincennes, and Arawak (TYM-702), off Vincennes' stern. Photograph is dated 7 October 1969. The old cruiser was expended as a target off the coast of Southern California on 28 October 1969. Note that her gun barrels have been cut off. Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", January-June 1862 volume, page 132. It depicts USS Pembina (left center) and USS Unadilla (right) engaging Confederate gunboats under Commodore Josiah Tattnall while entering the Savannah River, Georgia, to cut off Fort Pulaski, 22 February 1862. Credit: NAVY. |
![]() | Photograph taken between about 1925 and 1928. Part of the Japanese language caption in upper left is cut off, but the remainder reads: "Battlecruiser ... Vickers Co., U.K. ... completed August 1913 ..." and gives information on the ship's displacement, dimensions and armament. See Photo # NH 90513 for an identical view, with very similar Japanese language caption. Credit: NAVY. | ![]() | Highway City, California, near Fresno. See general caption. Family from Oklahoma; have been in California for six years, have been migratory workers now on Works Progress Administration (WPA) from which they may be cut off at the opening of the 1939 harve. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | After meat is chilled, cuts and roasts are cut off and wrapped, stamped, and put in freezing room. Cold storage lockers. Casselton, North Dakota. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | "Harney's Peak." Just after a storm. Part of Peak cut off by vaper [sic] but the statuary man in plain view. Photo from west side. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | We will cut off all roads to the evil enemy, he will not escape from this noose!] / Kukryniksy. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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E. M. Cioran | Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off. |
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John Locke | 1690 | The first is, If he endeavour to overturn the government, that is, if he have a purpose and design to ruin the kingdom and commonwealth, as it is recorded of Nero, that he resolved to cut off the senate and people of Rome, lay the city waste with fire and sword, and then remove to some other place. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | Society suddenly finds itself put back into a state of momentary barbarism; it appears as if a famine, a universal war of devastation had cut off the supply of every means of subsistence; industry and commerce seem to be destroyed; and why? Because there is too much civilisation, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce. (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) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | You will find it cut off a quarter of an hour from here |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | At last he turned about and faced the dusty side road that cut off at right angles through the fields |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | The malefactor was fixed in a chair upon a scaffold erected for the purpose, and his head cut off at a blow with a sword of about forty foot long |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | It was made of two white pine logs dug out and pinned together, and was cut off square at the ends |
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Health | When the blood supply is cut off completely, the result is a heart attack. (references) | |
Words are often cut off or difficult to start because of the muscle spasms. (references) | ||
In the first stage of the ischemic cascade, blood flow is cut off from a part of the brain (ischemia). (references) | ||
Business | The average user of CDMA mobile phones in China is pleased with the service stating that connections are clear and rarely cut off. Nonetheless, many potential subscribers are hesitant to invest their money in CDMA mobile phone purchases, being deterred by the uncertainty of China’s current policy toward CDMA development. (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) |
Armenia | Vilen Botsinian, the station director, refused and a few minutes later the power was cut off in the city block where the station was located. (references) | |
Ecuador | On January 30, authorities cut off water and telephone service to approximately 4,000 indigenous protesters camped out at the Salesian Polytechnical University in Quito. (references) | |
Economic History | Democratic Republic of Congo | In early 1990, both the World Bank and the IMF suspended most disbursements, and most bilateral aid was cut off. (references) |
Malaysia | The overland route from China was cut by marauding Huns, and at about the same time, the Roman Emperor Vespasian cut off shipments of gold to India. (references) | |
Sierra Leone | Cut off from their homes and traditions by the experience of slavery, they assimilated some aspects of British styles of life and built a flourishing trade on the West African coast. (references) | |
Human Rights | Russia | Two of the corpses had ears cut off. (references) |
Macedonia | The NLA cut off the water supply to the city of Kumanovo in June for approximately 11 days, causing serious health and humanitarian problems for civilians in the city. (references) | |
Angola | UNITA reportedly cut off the ears and hands of civilians in order to extract information and to discourage civilians from providing the Government information on UNITA or from fleeing to government-controlled areas. (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 | Switzerland | To protect the agriculture sector and to maintain a degree of independence in case external supplies get cut off, Switzerland imposes quantitative restrictions on agricultural imports. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | BEARD, n. The hair that is commonly cut off by those who justly execrate the absurd Chinese custom of shaving the head. |
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Dennis Miller | I've spoken to God, and he doesn't want you to cut off your balls. |
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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. |
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1. Cut Off, LA (CDP, FIPS 18930) |
Expressions using "cut off": be cut off ♦ cut off all communications ♦ cut off an arm ♦ cut off from ♦ cut off power ♦ cut off road ♦ cut off sheet piling ♦ cut off wall of sheetpiles ♦ cut off with a shilling ♦ To cut off. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "cut off"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | afsny. (various references) | |
Albanian | zhvoshk (bark, excoriate, excorticate, raw, rind, shell, shuck), ndal befas, ndërpres (abort, break, break up, call, cease, desist, discontinue, heckle, intercept, interjaculate, intermit, interrupt, intersect, leave off, punctuate, stop, strangulate, suspend), heq (abate, abolish, avert, bereave, blow, call off, cast, clear away, clear out, cross, cut out, deduct, delete, derogate, detach, detrude, dislodge, dismiss, dismount, divest, do away with, doff, drag, draw, drop, eject, eliminate, erase, exhaust, expel, exscind, extract, gather in, generate, get off, jump, keep off, kill, lift, lift off, move off, off with, omit, oust, peel back, pick off, pull at, pull off, pull out, put aside, put off, relegate, remove, save, scour, scratch, scratch off, scratch out, shake out, shed, skim, skip, soothe, spay, strike off, strip, subtract, swing, take away, take off, take out, tear away, throw out, turn away, undergo, unhang, unhook, unpin, unstring). (various references) | |
Arabic | فصل (adjudge, adjudicate, arrive at a resolution, break, break up, cashier, cut, 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), متقطع (broken, casual, choppy, disconnected, discontinuous, fitful, fretful, intermission, intermittent, interrupted, irregular, occasional, remittent, spasmodic, sporadic, torn apart, uneven), قطع (amputate, amputation, ax, axe, break, cease, cessation, chop off, chopping off, cross, crossing, cut, cut across, cut away, cut down, 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), توقف (break off, breakdown, come to a halt, demise, discontinue, end, halt, hinge, hitch, lapse, layover, let up, letup, obstruction, pass by, pause, pull up, quit, rest, run down, setback, stall, stand, stay, stop, stop over, stoppage, stopping, touch), عزل (depose, deposition, disengage, displacement, excommunicate, excommunication, gaol, insulate, isolate, isolation, jail, recall, relegate, seclude, segregate, segregation, sequester, taboo). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | 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, 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), орязвам (clip, pare, trim), отсичам (chop, cut down, cut short, decide firmly, hew, intercept, lop, slice off, snap, strike off, stump), отрязвам (amputate, crop, cut away, excise, exscind, intercept, lop, nip off, sever, shear, slice off, snip off, take off), отрязан (poll, truncate), отцепвам (chip off, release, sliver, split up), откъснат (detached, disconnected, solitary, torn), прекъсвам телефонна връзка. (various references) | |
Chinese | "" (hinder), 截 (a section), 割 , 切斷 . (various references) | |
Czech | vypnout (switch off, turn off, uncouple, unwind), ustřihnout (snip), useknout (hack off), uříznout (take off), sklátit (carry off), přerušit (abort, adjourn, black out, break off, cut short, discontinue, disrupt, intermit, interrupt, split up, stop, suspend, terminate, turn off), odstřihnout (cut away), odpojit (detach, disconnect, switch off, uncouple, unplug), odříznout (cut away, exscind). (various references) | |
Danish | cut-off, bortslibe, afskære, afgrænsning (restriction). (various references) | |
Dutch | cut off, wegsnýden (amputate), omhakken (raking), doorslijpen, afzetten (amputate, amputation, depose, deposit, deprive, dismiss, fit out, fleece, garnish, put off, shut off, stop, switch off, take off, trim, turn off), afsteken (bevel, contrast), afsnýden, afknotting (truncation), afknippen (clipping, cut chiplessly, cut without stock removal, shear, shearing), afknijppunt beeldbuis, afkappen (elide), afhouwen, afhakken (cut-off, splitting, to split). (various references) | |
Esperanto | fortranĉi, detranĉi, detondi, dehaki. (various references) | |
Finnish | pysäyttää (arrest, bring to a standstill, check, hold up, pull up, rein in, stop), peräkkäisotannan lopetuskohta, leikata pois, leikata poikki (cut in two), katkaista laikalla, katkaista (break, break off, tear off), hakata poikki (chop off, cut in two, lop). (various references) | |
French | arrêter (cut, cut out). (various references) | |
Frisian | ôfstekke (contrast), ôfsnije, ôfknippe. (various references) | |
German | abstellen (bring to an end, disconnect, gear, intercept, order off, Park, put away from, put down, put off, release, second, shut off, stop, switch off, to cut off, to intercept, to park, to suppress, to switch off, to turn off, turn off, turn out), abschneiden (amputate, block off, chopp, clip, clipping, cut, 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). (various references) | |
Greek | σύντομοσ δρόμοσ, ξεκόβω (amputate, cut out, straggle, wean), αποκόπτω (abscind, amputate, cut away, elide, excise, sever), απομονώνω (insulate, isolate, seclude), αφαιρώ διά της κοπής, διακόπτω (abort, adjourn, break in, break off, cease, chip in, cut in, disconnect, discontinue, intercept, intermit, interrupt, pause, sever, snub, suspend), διακοπή (abortion, adjournment, break, breather, disconnection, discontinuance, interception, intermission, interrupt, interruption, pause, recess, respite, severance, vacation). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מותז (severed, splashed, sprinkled), לקטוע באבו, לקטוע (ablate, snatch), לכסח (cut down), ל"ת תק (break away), ל"פסיק (cease, cut short, discontinue, interrupt, leave off, quit, stop), ל""ום (shut down), ל'"וע (fell, hack, lop), ל'"ום (amputate, cut, sever, stump), ל תק (break, detach, disconnect, disengage, divorce, isolate, sever, sunder, uncouple, uproot), ""ממ" (shutting down, silencing), '"וע (cutting, felled, hewn). (various references) | |
Hungarian | megszakított (intermittent, interrupted, revolving light, snatchy), megszakít (abort, break off, intermit, interrupt, intersect, miscarry, to break off, to cut off, to intermit), levágott (cut, cut-off, hewn, stumpy), levág (amputate, butcher, cut down, exscind, hewed, hewn, immolate, lop, resect, shear, slaughter, to chop off, to crop, to cut away, to cut down, to excise, to hew, to hew away, to hew down, to lop away, to nick sy for sg, to nip, to pare away, to shave, to shave off, to slaughter, to slice off, to sting sy for sg, truncate), leállít (abort, halt, shut off, stop, to clamp down on sg, to come to a halt, to nab, to stall, to stem, to stopper, to throw off), kikapcsol (declutch, incapacitate, shut off, switch off, to cut out, to disengage, to incapacitate, to shut off, to switch off, to trip, to turn off, to unclasp, to uncouple, to unhitch, to unhook, unclasp, ungear), elzár (close, dam, debar, lock up, mew, obstruct, obturate, occlude, seclude, shut in, shut off, shut up, switch off, to block, to bung, to bung up, to caulk, to choke up, to clog, to confine, to debar, to immure, to list, to mew, to obliterate, to obturate, to occlude, to seclude, to shut away, to shut in, to shut off, to shut out, to strangulate, to turn off, turn off). (various references) | |
Indonesian | mendeking (detain, protect), memenggal (cut to pieces), jalan memotong, irisan. (various references) | |
Italian | troncare (break off, prevent, throttle, truncate). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 切除 (ablation, cut out), 刈除 (mowing, removal). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | がいじょ (mowing, removal), せつじょ (ablation, cut out), かいじょ (assistant, calling off, cancellation, helper, mowing, release, removal, rescinding, second). (various references) | |
Manx | immeeaght roish (creep away, proceed, vamoose), giarrey jeh (amputate, amputation, apocope, chop off, deduct, snip off, strike off). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | utcay offay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cortar (bite, chaff, chip, chop, clip, crop, curtail, cut, cut down, delete, detruncate, fell, gash, gouge, hack, hackle, hand back, hew, hew down, incise, indent, interrupt, intersect, let by, log, lop, lumber, mow, poll, pollard, sever, shave, shear, shut off, slice, slit, strike off, strike out, whittle). (various references) | |
Romanian | scurtãturã (cross-cut, knob, short cut), opri (abate, abstain, arrest, balk, bar, baulk, break, bring to, bring to a stop, call off, circumvent, clog, collar, contain, curb, deflate, delay, discontinue, end, estop, forbear, forbid, foreclose, halt, hinder, hold, inhibit, interdict, keep back, phase out, prohibit, pull up, put a stopper on, put out, quench, restrain, retain, shut out, snag, staunch, stay, stem, stop, strangle, subside, taboo, withhold), izola (divide, enisle, insulate, isolate, maroon, seal, seclude, segregate, sequester), drum scurt. (various references) | |
Russian | выключать (key off, key out, open, shut off, switch, throw out, throw out of action, turn off, turn out, ungear), отстригать, отрезать (clip, cut away, snip off), обрезать (circumcise, clip, obtruncate, pare, prune, truncate). (various references) | |
Scottish | teasg (cut). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | preseći (intersect, section, transect), prekinuti (abort, adjourn, break off, cease, cut, cut short, disconnect, disrupt, intercept, interrupt, leave off, part, put an end, rupture, sever), odrezati (obtruncate, snip), lišiti (abridge, deny, deprave, deprive, divest, free, rid, rob, strip). (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 in, 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). (various references) | |
Swedish | avsnöra, avskuren (isolated). (various references) | |
Turkish | yok etmek (charm away, clear off, cut up, dispose of, dissipate, dissolve, do away with, efface, eliminate, end, eradicate, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, liquidate, make away with, shatter, spirit away, spirit off, sponge out, stamp, wipe away, wipe off, wipe out), son vermek (adjourn, call a halt, call off, cease, chuck, close, discontinue, end, end off, fetch up, finish, make an end of, put a stop to, put an end to, raise, shut down on, shut down upon, sign off, stash, stop, terminate, top off, wind up, wipe up, wrap up), mahrum bırakmak, koparmak (break, break off, cozen, deflorate, deflower, dissever, extort, pick, pick off, pluck, pry, pull off, rend, rip, rip off, Rive, rupture, snap, snap off, snatch, snatch away from, snatch from, sunder, take apart, tear, tear away, tear off, tear out, unstick, work, wring), kesmek (abandon, amputate, Bate, blunt, break, butcher, carve, cease, chaff, chop, chop off, clip, close, close down, crop, cut, cut back, 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), kesip koparmak, imha etmek (annihilate, demolish, destroy, dispose of, exterminate, extirpate, throw down), ayırmak (abstract, allocate, allot, allow, appropriate, assort, book, choose, classify, comb, comb out, contradistinguish, cut out, demarcate, detach, devote, disband, discard, disembody, disjoin, disrupt, dissever, dissociate, distinguish, disunite, divert, divide, divorce, divorce from, earmark, except, hive off, insulate, intend for, isolate, keep apart, mark out, part, particularize, partition, partition off, pick out, portion, reduce, reserve, resolve, seclude, segregate, select, separate, sequester, set apart, set aside, sever, shut off, single out, snatch away from, snatch from, sort, sort out, spare, specialize, split, spread, spread out, sunder, sweep off, take apart, tear away, tear off, unpick, unstick, wall, winnow). (various references) | |
Turkmen | soяmak (skin), яolunmak (be broken), яolmak (pluck, strip off). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | відрубувати (cut away, hew away), відрізок (offcut), відрізати (amputate, cut away, disbranch, nip, snap out, snip, snip off), виключення (dismemberment, exclusion), виключати (arrest, bar, count out, cut away, declutch, dismember, eliminate, except, exclude, expel, foreclose, open, oust, rule out, send down, shut out), вимикати (cut away, declutch, key off, turn out), найкоротший шлях (shortcut). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | bur. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | abscidantur, abscide, abscidentur, absciderunt, abscides, abscidet, abscidetur, abscidi, abscidisset, abscidit, abscisa, abscisae, abscisam, abscisi, absciso, abscisum, abscisus, adbreviasti, adbreviata, adbreviatus, adbreviavit, concisus, decidam, decidant, decidat, decidens, decidentes, decidentia, decidet, decidi, decidissemus, decidisset, decidit, deputo, messa, messione, messionis, messis, messorum, messuerint, messueris, messueritis, messuerunt, messuistis, messum, metatur, mete, metebant, metemus, metendum, metens, metent, metentes, metentis, metentium, metere, metes, metet, metetis, metis, metit, metite, metitus, meto, metunt, truncatus, trunco. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | beheawan. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Matthew Chapter 14, Verse 10 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai pemyaV apekefalisen ton iwannhn en th fulakh |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Misitque et decollavit Iohannem in carcere |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And he sente, and bihedide Joon in the prisoun. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And sent and beheeded Ihon in the preson |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And he sent and had John's head cut off in the prison. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Matthew Chapter 14, Verse 10 |
| Cebuano | Ug iyang gipaadtoan ug gipapunggotan si Juan sulod sa bilanggoan, |
| Chinese | 於 是 " 發 人 去 、 在 監 裡 斬 了 約 翰 . |
| Croatian | Posla odrubiti glavu Ivanu u tamnici. |
| Danish | Og han sendte Bud og lod Johannes halshugge i Fængselet. |
| Dutch | En zond heen, en onthoofdde Johannes in den kerker. |
| Finnish | Ja hän lähetti lyömään Johannekselta pään poikki vankilassa. |
| French | et il envoya décapiter Jean dans la prison. |
| German | Und schickte hin und enthauptete Johannes im Gefängnis. |
| Hungarian | És elküldvén, fejét véteté Jánosnak a tömlöczben. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Ia menyuruh orang pergi ke penjara untuk memancung kepala Yohanes. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Lalu disuruhkannya orang pergi memancung kepala Yahya di dalam penjara. |
| Manx Gaelic | As hug eh fys yn kione dy ve giarit jeh Ean ayns y phryssoon. |
| Maori | Na ka tono tangata ia, a poutoa ana te matenga o Hoani i roto i te whare herehere. |
| Norwegian | og han sendte sine folk avsted og lot Johannes halshugge i fengslet. |
| Portuguese | e mandou degolar a João no cárcere; |
| Rumanian | Wi a trimes sq taie capul lui Ioan kn temniyq. |
| Shuar | Ni suntarin sepunmayan Juanka muuken tsupik itiarti tusa akupkamiayi. |
| Swahili | Basi, Herode akatuma mtu gerezani amkate kichwa Yohane. |
| Swedish | och sände åstad och lät halshugga Johannes i fängelset. |
| Uma | Nahubui-mi tantara-na hilou hi rala tarungku' mpopata' wuroko' Yohanes. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"Cut Off" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sut off. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cutoff, offcut. | |
| 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. | |
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