Cut Out

Definition: Cut Out

Cut Out

Adjective

1. Having been cut out; "the cut-out pieces of the dress".

Verb

1. Delete or remove; "Cut out the extra text"; "cut out the newspaper article".

2. Form by cutting out; "Picasso cut out a piece of paper in the shape of a guitar".

3. Cut off and stop; "The bicyclist was cut out by the van".

4. Form or shape by cutting or incising; "cut out paper dolls".

5. Strike or cancel by or as if by rubbing or crossing out; "scratch out my name on that list".

6. Cut out material such as wood, etc., so as to make as certain shape.

7. Intercept (a player), in baseball.

8. Cease operating; as of machinery: "The pump suddenly cut out".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Food & Agriculture

Literature

Mechanical Engineering

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Synonyms: Cut Out

Direction

Verb: direct, manage, govern, conduct; order, prescribe, cut out work for; bead, lead; lead the way, show the way; take the lead, lead on; regulate, guide, steer, pilot; tackle

Nonaddition Subtraction

Garble, mutilate, amputate, detruncate; cut off, cut away, cut out; abscind, excise; pare, thin, prune, decimate; abrade, scrape, file; geld, castrate; eliminate.

Plan

Verb: plan,scheme, design, frame, contrive, project, forecast, sketch; devise, invent; (imagine); set one's wits to work; spring a project; fall upon, hit upon; strike out, chalk out, cut out, lay out, map out; lay down a plan; shape out a course, mark out a course; predetermine; concert, preconcert, preestablish; prepare; hatch, hatch a plot concoct; take steps, take measures.

Preparation

Roughhew; cut out work; block out, hammer out; lick into shape; (form).

Remedy

Operate, excise, cut out; incise.

Skill

Neat-handed, fine-fingered, nimble-fingered, ambidextrous, sure-footed; cut out for, fitted for.

Substitution

Verb: substitute, put in the place of, change for; make way for, give place to; supply the place of, take the place of; supplant, supersede, replace, cut out, serve as a substitute; step into stand in the shoes of; jury rig, make a shift with, put up with; borrow from Peter to pay Paul, take money out of one pocket and put it in another, cannibalize; commute, redeem, compound for.

Superiority

Verb: be superior; Adjective: exceed, excel, transcend; outdo, outbalance, outweigh, outrank, outrival, out-Herod; pass, surpass, get ahead of; over-top, override, overpass, overbalance, overweigh, overmatch; top, o'ertop, cap, beat, cut out; beat hollow; outstrip; eclipse, throw into the shade, take the shine out of, outshine, put one's nose out of joint; have the upper hand, have the whip hand of, have the advantage; turn the scale, kick the beam; play first fiddle; (importance); preponderate, predominate, prevail; precede, take precedence, come first; come to a head, culminate; beat; all others, bear the palm; break the record; take the cake.

Crosswords: Cut Out

Did you ever see that Twilight Zone where the guy signed a contract and they cut out his tongue and put it in a jar and it wouldn't die, it just grew and pulsated and gave birth to baby tongues? (Wayne's World; writing credit: Mike Myers, Bonnie Turner and Terry Turner. Based on the sketch from Saturday Night Live.)

Every night I cut out my heart. (The English Patient; writing credit: Anthony Minghella)

If that's what they cut out, what they leave in must be pure gold! (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Why would anyone want to cut out a man's tongue? (The Wind and the Lion; writing credit: John Milius)

Let's cut out their kidneys and sell them to the black market and leave them in a seedy motel bathtub full of ice. (Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back; writing credit: Kevin Smith)

That he cut out my heart like a paper doll (JESSE; performing artist: Carly Simon)

But I will test that butt when you cut out of line, tru dat (Just the Two of Us; performing artist: Will Smith)

Broadway Brevity: Cut Out for Love (1937)

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Books

• A Christmas Angel Collection: 12 Angels to Cut Out and Color (reference)

• Automata Too: Four Working Models to Cut Out and Glue Together (reference)

• Castles to Cut Out and Put Together (reference)

• Kirsten's Paper Dolls: Kirsten and Her Old-Fashioned Outfits for You to Cut Out (American Girls Pastimes) (reference)

• Make This Viking Settlement (Usborne Cut Out Models) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Consumer Goods

• Senco DS200-14V DuraSpin Remodeler's Screw Gun, Includes a Free SS14V Cut Out Saw (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Here, doggie, doggie, doggie : Say sister, cut out th' pet names ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Cut-over long leaf yellow pine forest. The tract extends for thirty-seven miles. A lumber industry owner did no replanting and cut out on 1931 after eighteen years of operations. They employed approximately 3000 men. Near Kiln, Mississippi. Credit: Library of Congress.

Home of family left stranded when the mill "cut out." Near Kiln, Mississippi. Credit: Library of Congress.

Western Washington, Thurston County, Tenino. Entering main street from the north. Office "cut out" lumber company. General caption number 37. Credit: Library of Congress.

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But when we consider, that the practice of the strong and powerful, how universal soever it may be, is seldom the rule of right, however it be one part of the subjection of the conquered, not to argue against the conditions cut out to them by the conquering sword. (Second Treatise of Government)

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Says I was cut out for that.

And there are the men of chemistry who spray the trees against pests, who sulphur the grapes, who cut out disease and rots, mildews and sicknesses.

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Business

In order to compensate for the loss of lucrative private architectural design work, Japanese firms have begun to cut out design fees, and this tendency is now spreading to public design work. Under these circumstances, however, the MOC has recently taken the initiative to increase the number of design procurements in response to the U.S. DOC's request made at recent Action Plan Review meetings. (references)

Economic History

Uae

Danish, French and Brazilian chicken have ruled the roost in the UAE poultry market, but US. suppliers of whole birds and especially parts like leg quarters can cut out a bigger share for themselves. (references)

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A name applied to those who are cut out of the womb

Expressions using "cut out": be cut out for ♦ cut out a passage from a book ♦ cut out again ♦ cut out for ♦ cut out smoking ♦ cut out work for ♦ erection cut out ♦ To cut out. Additional references.

Albanian

qëroj (blanch, clean, clear, decorticate, dress, finger, Hull, mulct, pare, Peel, pick, pick off, pinch, poach, rind, scale, shell, waste, whip, zap), përzë (despatch, dispatch, Hunt, oust), heq (abate, abolish, avert, bereave, blow, call off, cast, clear away, clear out, cross, cut off, 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 

‏قطع (amputate, amputation, ax, axe, break, cease, cessation, chop off, chopping off, cross, crossing, cut, cut across, cut away, cut down, cut off, 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), ‏قص جرائد, ‏توقف فجأة (balk, clap, layover, pull up, short, stall), ‏أوقف (arrest, arrested, break, can, cease, challenge, check, choke, cut, discontinue, estop, garage, halt, hinder, intercept, kill, nick, nobble, obstruct, pull in, shut off, stand, stay, stem, stop, turn off). (various references)

Bulgarian 

кроя (cut, meditate, shape), зарязвам (abandon, drop off, overboard, pack in, put away, put on the shelf, quit, run out, stand up, throw over, throw up, walk out on), премахвам (delete, do away, do away with, eliminate, eradicate, kill, level, make away with, obviate, put down, remove, rid, rip out, smooth, undo), изрязвам (excise, incise, nip off, scissor, sink). (various references)

Chinese 

裁剪 , 裁 (cut, decision, diminish, judgment, reduce, trim). (various references)

Czech

vystřihnout si, vystřihnout, vynechat (cut, drop a line, leave out, Miss, miss out, omit, overpass, pass, sit out, skip, stay off), vyříznout (excise), nastříhat (cut). (various references)

Danish

udskære, skære ud (sheer, take a yaw). (various references)

Dutch

uitknippen, uitgesneden, afsluiting van de warmtetoevoer. (various references)

Finnish

päätepiste (end point). (various references)

French

coupe (cup, cut, cutting), caler, séparer, priver, echancrer, detourer, découper (cut, cut up), découpe (cutout, cut-out, cutting), arrêter (cut, cut off). (various references)

German

ausschneiden (cut away, prune, scrape out). (various references)

Greek 

κόβω (carve, chop, clip, cut, cut down, fell, nip, pluck, sever, shear, slacken), παύση (breather, cessation, dismissal, ebb, halt, pause, rest, stop, stoppage, surcease, suspension), παραλείπω (elide, fail, leave out, miss out, omission, omit, pass over, pretermit, skip), απόκομμα (ablactation, chip, clipping, coupon), διακοπή (abortion, adjournment, break, breather, disconnection, discontinuance, interception, intermission, interrupt, interruption, pause, recess, respite, severance, vacation). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�'זור (clip, cut, decree, fell, ordain, shear), קטע עתו� ות (cutting, press cutting), � תק (contact breaker, disruption, switch). (various references)

Hungarian

kivágott (cutaway, cutout, felled, scalloped), kivág (excise, fell, hew down, hewed, hewn, resect, saw out, slot, to censor, to chop down, to cut out, to deep-six, to excise, to fling open, to hew, to hew down, to hew out, to scoop, to slot), eliszkol (bolt, to cut and run, to hare off). (various references)

Indonesian

mengukir (carve, chisel, engrave). (various references)

Italian

ritagliare. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

出来上がり (be finished, made for, ready), 切除 (ablation, cut off). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

できあがり (be finished, made for, ready), せつじょ (ablation, cut off). (various references)

Manx

scarreyder (parter, seceder, separator; contact breaker), giarrey magh (excise office, excision, exclude, punch out). (various references)

Pig Latin

utcay outay

Portuguese

recortar (chop, clip, hand back, indent, jag, profile), desligar (break, detach, disconnect, hang up, out, separate, shut off, switch off, turn off, unbind, unlink, unplug, untie). (various references)

Romanian

separa (chop off, cleave, detach, disconnect, disjoint, dismember, dispart, dissociate, disunite, divide, isolate, partition, seclude, segregate, separate, sever, sunder), profil (kerf, profile, section, shape, side face, silhouette, structure, type), pregãti dinainte, elimina (cashier, eliminate, erase, expel, liberate, ooze, oust, pass, put out, remove), decupa (cut up), îndepãrta (avert, carry off, cast, chase away, clean, clear, discard, dismiss, drive away, eliminate, estrange, fence off, lay, move away, remove, retire, ward off, withdraw). (various references)

Russian 

вырезать (carve, chip out, exscind, incise, intaglio), выкраивать, выпиливать (saw out). (various references)

Scottish

sg� lla (a large wooden dish cut out of a tree). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prestati (cease, desist, discontinue, end, intermit, knock off, leave, quit, surcease), krojiti (tailor), izrezati (carve, excise), izbaciti (belch, delete, dispose, dispose of, eject, jerk, scavenge, throw, throw out, turf out, warp). (various references)

Spanish

recortar (clip, cut, cut back, cut off, dock, snip off, trim, trim down, truncate). (various references)

Swedish

uttagning (selection), urringa, tränga undan (displace, force out of smb.'s place), tillskära, stryka (cross, cut, delete, excise, iron, kill, paint, scratch, spread, stroke), skära ut (carve out), lägga av med (kick, knock off), kopplas ur, klippa till (clip, slosh), bräda (board, plank, supplant). (various references)

Turkish

yenmek (annihilate, bear down, bear the bell, beat, beat all hollow, best, break, carry away the bell, checkmate, circumvent, clobber, confound, conquer, defeat, discomfit, down, floor, get the better of, give a beating, knock out, land, lick, master, outbox, outclass, outdo, outgo, overpower, pip, prevail, skunk, slam, smash, subjugate, surmount, swamp, thrash, trim, triumph, trounce, vanquish, wallop, wear down, whelm, whip, whop, win over, wipe the floor with smb., worst), uzatmamak (cut short, draw it fine), sollamak amacıyla şerit değiştirmek, sürüden uzaklaştırmak, oyundan çıkmak, kesmek (abandon, amputate, Bate, blunt, break, butcher, carve, cease, chaff, chop, chop off, clip, close, close down, crop, cut, cut back, cut off, 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 çıkarmak (nick out), gölgede bırakmak (dwarf, eclipse, Excel, outshine, overshade, overshadow, put into the shades, supplant, trump, upstage), biçmek (crop, cut, cut up, estimate, harvest, mow, reap, scythe, scythe down, slice), ayırmak (abstract, allocate, allot, allow, appropriate, assort, book, choose, classify, comb, comb out, contradistinguish, cut off, 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 

sepikdirmek. (various references)

Ukrainian

рубильник, вирізувати (carve, chisel, cut, excise, incise), витісняти (crowd out, dislodge, displace, edge out, extrude, force out, oust, supersede, supplant), викроювати, модель (archetype, former, pattern, replica, sampler, type), малюнок (depiction), запобіжник (pawl, protector, safeguard), аплікація (application, applique). (various references)

caedam, caedant, caedat, caede, caedebant, caedebat, caedemus, caedendos, caedens, caedent, caedente, caedentem, caedentes, caedentibus, caedere, caederent, caederentur, caedes, caedet, caedetur, caedi, caedimur, caedis, caedite, caeditur, caesa, caesi, caesis, caesorum, caesos, caesum, caesuri, caesus, ceciderant, ceciderat, ceciderint, ceciderit, cecideritque, ceciderunt, cecideruntque, cecidi, cecidimus, cecidisse, cecidissent, cecidisset, cecidisti, cecidit, ceciditque, circumcidamini, circumcidatur, circumcide, circumcidebant, circumcidenti, circumcidere, circumciderunt, circumcidet, circumcidetis, circumcidetur, circumcidi, circumcidimini, circumcidit, circumcidite, circumciditis, circumciduntur, circumcisa, circumcisi, circumcisis, circumcisum, circumcisus, excidant, excidatis, excidebantur, exciderat, excideris, exciderit, exciderunt, excidisti, excidit, exciditur, excisi, exciso, excisum, excisus, rescindentes, supercecidit. (various references)

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

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

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.