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Definition: Cut |
CutAdjective1. Separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument; "the cut surface was mottled"; "cut tobacco"; "blood from his cut forehead"; "bandages on her cut wrists". 2. Fashioned or shaped by cutting; "a well-cut suit"; "cut diamonds"; "cut velvet". 3. With parts removed; "the drastically cut film". 4. Made neat and tidy by trimming; "his neatly trimmed hair". 5. (used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine; "the smell of new-mown hay". 6. (of pages of a book) having the folds of the leaves trimmed or slit; "the cut pages of the book". 7. (of a male animal) having the testicles removed; "a cut horse". 8. Having a long rip or tear; "a split lip". 9. Wounded by cutting deeply; "got a gashed arm in a knife fight"; "had a slashed cheek from the broken glass". 10. : cut down; "the tree is down". 11. : (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply; "the slashed prices attracted buyers". 12. : mixed with water; "sold cut whiskey"; "a cup of thinned soup". Noun1. The act of reducing the amount or number; "the mayor proposed extensive cuts in the city budget". 2. A wound made by cutting; "he put a bandage over the cut". 3. A piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass. 4. A distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc; "he played the first cut on the cd"; "the title track of the album". 5. The act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge; "his cut in the lining revealed the hidden jewels". 6. A share of the profits; "everyone got a cut of the earnings". 7. A step on some scale; "he is a cut above the the rest". 8. A trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation. 9. (film) an immediate transition from one shot to the next; "the cut from the accident scene to the hospital seemed too abrupt". 10. : the act of cutting something into parts; "his cuts were skillful"; "his cutting of the cake made a terrible mess". 11. : the part that is omitted when an editorial change shortens a written passage; "an editor's deletions frequently upset young authors". 12. : the style in which a garment is cut; "a dress of traditional cut". 13. : the act of shortening something by cutting off the ends; "the barber gave him a good cut". 14. : in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball; "he took a vicious cut at the ball". 15. : a remark capable of wounding mentally; "the unkindest cut of all". 16. : a canal made by erosion or excavation. 17. : a refusal to recognize someone you know; "the snub was clearly intentional". 18. : a stroke (in tennis or badminton or squash) that puts reverse spin on the ball; "cuts do not bother a good tennis player". 19. : the division of a deck of cards before dealing; "his cutting the cards before every deal soon became a ritual". 20. : an unexcused absence from class; "he was punished for taking too many cuts in his math class". Verb1. Separate with or as if with an instrument; "Cut the rope". 2. Cut down on; make a reduction in; "reduce your daily fat intake"; "The employer wants to cut back health benefits". 3. Turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right". 4. Make an incision or separation; "cut along the dotted line". 5. Discharge from a group; "The coach cut two players from the team". 6. Form by probing, penetrating, or digging; "cut a hole"; "cut trenches"; "The sweat cut little rivulets into her face". 7. Style and tailor in a certain fashion; "cut a dress"; "style a wedding dress". 8. Hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction; "cut a pingpong ball". 9. Make out and issue; "write out a check"; "cut a ticket"; "Please make the check out to me". 10. : edit; "cut film"; "cut recording tape". 11. : intentionally fail to attend: "cut class". 12. : informal: be able to manage or manage successfully; "I can't hack it anymore"; "she could not cut the long days in the office". 13. : give the appearance or impression of; "cut a nice figure". 14. : move, as of a fist in boxing; "his opponent cut upward toward his chin". 15. : pass directly and often in haste; "We cut through the neighbor's yard to get home sooner". 16. : pass through or across; "The boat cut the water". 17. : make an abrupt change of image or sound; "cut from one scene to another". 18. : stop filming; "cut a movie scene". 19. : make a recording of: "cut the songs". 20. : record a performance on; "cut a record". 21. : create by recording electronically; "cut a disk"; "cut a CD". 22. : form or shape by cutting or incising; "cut out paper dolls". 23. : perform or carry out; "cut a caper". 24. : function as a cutting instrument; "This knife cuts well". 25. : allow incision or separation; "This bread cuts easily". 26. : divide a deck of cards into two parts to make selection difficult; "Wayne cut". 27. : divide at random; "cut a deck of cards". 28. : cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch; "Turn off the stereo, please"; "cut the engine"; "turn out the lights". 29. : reap or harvest; "cut grain". 30. : fell by sawing; hew; "The Vietnamese cut a lot of timber while they occupied Cambodia". 31. : penetrate injuriously; "The glass from the shattered windshield cut into her forehead". 32. : refuse to acknowledge; "She cut him dead at the meeting". 33. : shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of; "cut my hair". 34. : weed out unwanted or unnecessary things; "We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet". 35. : dissolve by breaking down the fat of; "soap cuts grease". 36. : reduce in amount; "This cuts into my earnings". 37. : cease, stop: "cut the noise"; "We had to cut short the conversation". 38. : reduce in scope while retaining essential elements; "The manuscript must be shortened". 39. : lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture; "cut bourbon". 40. : have grow through the gums; "The baby cut a tooth". 41. : grow through the gums; "The new tooth is cutting". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cut" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Note: Cut \Cut\ (k[u^]t), transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Cut; Cutting.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | CUT Coordinated Universal Time. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of a cut, denotes sickness or the treachery of a friend will frustrate your cheerfulness. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Industry | A length of cloth in the grey or loom state, or the length of warp required to produce it. A cut of cloth was usually of the order of 50-100 yards, probably because it was a convenient length to cut from the cloth roller during the weaving operation. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Curved scratch caused during plishing by a grain of abrasive, probably left on the surface after grinding. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Literature | Cut To renounce acquaintance. There are four sorts of cut - (1) The cut direct is to stare an acquaintance in the face and pretend not to know him. (2) The cut indirect, to look another way, and pretend not to see him. (3) The cut sublime, to admire the top of some tall edifice or the clouds of heaven till the person cut has passed by. (4) The cut infernal, to stoop and adjust your boots till the party has gone past. There is a very remarkable Scripture illustration of the word cut, meaning to renounce: "Jehovah took a staff and cut it asunder, in token that He would break His covenant with His people; and He cut another staff asunder, in token that He would break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel" (Zech. xi, 7-14). Cut Cut and come again. Take a cut from the joint, and come for another if you like. To cut the ground from under one (or from under his feet). To leave an adversary no ground to stand on, by disproving all his arguments. He has cut his eye-teeth. He is wide awake, he is a knowing one. The eye-teeth are the canine teeth, just under the eyes, and the phrase means he can bite as well as bark. Of course, the play is on the word "eye," and those who have cut their eye-teeth are wide awake. Cut your wisdom teeth. Wisdom teeth are those at the extreme end of the jaws, which do not make their appearance till persons have come to years of discretion. When persons say or do silly things, the remark is made to them that "they have not yet cut their wisdom teeth," or reached the years of discretion. Cut the knot. Break through an obstacle. The reference is to the Gordian knot (q.v.) shown to Alexander, with the assurance that whoever loosed it would be made ruler of all Asia, whereupon the Macedonian cut it in two with his sword, and claimed to have fulfilled the prophecy. I must cut my stick - i.e. leave. The Irish usually cut a shillelah before they start on an expedition. Punch gives the following witty derivation: - "Pilgrims on leaving the Holy Land used to cut a palm-stick, to prove that they had really been to the Holy Sepulchre. So brother Francis would say to brother Paul, `Where is brother Benedict?' `Oh (says Paul), he has cut his stick!' - i.e. he is on his way home." I'll cut your comb for you. Take your conceit down. The allusion is to the practice of cutting the combs of capons. He'll cut up well. He is rich, and his property will cut into good slices. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Math | A nonempty, proper subset of vertices of a graph. (references) |
Mechanical Engineering | Width of the cut produced by sawing. Source: European Union. (references) |
Metallurgy | To work a workpiece by means of a cutting tool, i. e. by stock removal or by shearing. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | The group of holes fired first in a round to provide additional free faces for the succeeding shots. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A. An arrangement of holes used in underground mining and tunnel blasting to provide a free face to which the remainder of the round can break. Also, the opening created by the cut hole. b. To intersect a vein or working. c. To shear one side of an entry or crosscut by digging out the coal from floor to roof with a pick. See also:undercut d. Eng. In Somerset, a staple or drop pit. e. Eng. The depth to which a drill hole is put in for blasting. f. A term applied where the cutting machine has cut under the coal. g. The drill-hole pattern for firing a round of shots in a tunnel or sinking shaft, e.g., the burn cut h. A machine cut in a coal seam; e.g., floor cut i. See:stint; sump. j. An excavation, generally applied to surface mining; to make an incision in a block of coal; in underground mining, that part of the face of coal that has been undercut. (references) | |
Slang in 1811 | CUT. Drunk. A little cut over the head; slightly intoxicated. To cut; to leave a person or company. To cut up well; to die rich. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
After a deck of playing cards is shuffled, it is often given to a player other than the one who performed the shuffle for a procedure called a cut. To cut the deck, the player removes as a unit roughly half of the cards from the top of the deck, placing that portion on the table next to the remaining cards, toward the dealer (by convention). Either he or the dealer then picks up the remaining bottom portion of the deck, places it upon the former top portion, then squares the deck.The term is also used for a random selection procedure in which a player perform the first part of a cut (removing a group of cards from the top of a deck), then look at the value of the card on the bottom of that portion, then replaces it. Another player then does the same, and the values of the cards thus exposed are used for such things as selecting who deals the game. This is often used as a pure gamble as well, much like fliping coins.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cut (playing cards)."
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In computing, a popular, simple method of moving text or other data from a source to a destination.Cutting can be performed on most graphical user interface systems using the key combination Ctrl+X, or by using some other method, such as a context menu or a toolbar button. When data is cut, it is first copied into the area of memory referred to as the clipboard, and then deleted from the source application. It can then be pasted into a destination using the key combination Ctrl+V, or another method dependent on the system.
The popularity of this method stems from its simplicity, and the ease with which data can be moved between various applications without resorting to permanent storage.
The programming style with cut and paste is called cut and paste programming.
Compare copy and paste.
See also Control key.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cut and paste."
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The max flow min cut theorem is a statement in optimization theory about optimal flows in networks.Suppose G is a finite directed graph and every edge e has a capacity w(e), a non-negative real number. Further assume two vertices s and t have been distinguished. Think of G as a network of pipes; we want to pump as much stuff as possible from the source s to the sink t, never exceeding any edge's capacity.
A flow f on G from s to t assigns to each edge e a real number f(e) with 0 ≤ f(e) ≤ w(e) such that for every vertex x of G different from s and t, we have
where I(x) is the set of all incoming edges of x and O(x) is the set of all outgoing edges of x ("whatever goes in must come out"). For such a flow, we automatically have
this number is called the amount of the flow. Intuitively, it is the net total amount of stuff we are pumping from s to t. We are interested in flows with maximal amount.
A cut C on G between s and t is a set of edges such that every directed path from s to t passes through at least one edge in C. The capacity of the cut C is the sum of all its edge capacities.
The statement of the theorem is:
Note that there may be several flows which attain the maximum amount, and there may be several cuts which attain the minimal weight.
- The maximal amount of a flow is equal to the capacity of a minimal cut.
There is a partial correspondence between maximal flows and minimal cuts: if C is a minimal capacity cut, then there exists at least one maximal value flow f such that f(e) = w(e) for all e in C. Conversely, if f is a maximal flow, then there is a minimal cut C such that f(e) = w(e) for all e in C.
The theorem was proved by A. Feinstein and C.E. Shannon in 1956, and independently also by L.R. Ford, Jr. and D.R. Fulkerson in the same year. Determining maximum flows is a special kind of linear programming problem, and the max flow min cut theorem can be seen as a special case of the duality theorem for linear programming.
Maximum flows can be computed with the Ford-Fulkerson algorithm.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Max flow min cut theorem."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
Cut | English | Chartered Union of Taxpayers | Finance |
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Synonyms: CutSynonyms: down (adj), emasculated (adj), gashed (adj), gelded (adj), mown (adj), shortened (adj), slashed (adj), split (adj), thinned (adj), trimmed (adj), weakened (adj), baseball swing (n), cold shoulder (n), cut of meat (n), cutting (n), cutting off (n), deletion (n), gash (n), slash (n), slice (n), snub (n), stinger (n), swing (n), track (n), abbreviate (v), abridge (v), bring down (v), burn (v), contract (v), curve (v), cut back (v), cut down (v), cut off (v), cut out (v), dilute (v), disregard (v), edit (v), edit out (v), foreshorten (v), hack (v), ignore (v), issue (v), make out (v), prune (v), rationalise (v), rationalize (v), reduce (v), sheer (v), shorten (v), skip (v), slew (v), slue (v), style (v), swerve (v), switch off (v), tailor (v), thin (v), thin out (v), trend (v), trim (v), trim back (v), trim down (v), turn off (v), turn out (v), veer (v), write out (v). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: cut-in (public administration). |
| Antonyms: uncut (adj), unmown (adj), untrimmed (adj), switch on (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Drunkenness | Adjective: drunk, tipsy; intoxicated; inebrious, inebriate, inebriated; in one's cups; in a state of intoxication;Noun: temulent, temulentive; bombed, smashed; fuddled, mellow, cut, boozy, fou, fresh, merry, elevated; flustered, disguised, groggy, beery; top-heavy; potvaliant, glorious; potulent; squiffy; overcome, overtaken; whittled, screwed, tight, primed, corned, raddled, sewed up, lushy, nappy, muddled, muzzy, obfuscated, maudlin; crapulous, dead drunk. |
Ejection | Eject, reject; expel, discard; cut, send to coventry, boycott; chasser; banish; (punish); bounce ; fire, fire out; throw; throw out, throw up, throw off, throw away, throw aside; push; throw out, throw off, throw away, throw aside; shovel out, shovel away, sweep out, sweep away; brush off, brush away, whisk off, whisk away, turn off, turn away, send off, send away; discharge; send adrift, turn adrift, cast adrift; turn out, bundle out; throw overboard; give the sack to; send packing, send about one's business, send to the right about; strike off the roll; (abrogate); turn out neck and heels, turn out head and shoulders, turn out neck and crop; pack off; send away with a flea in the ear; send to Jericho; bow out, show the door to. |
Engraving | Impression, print, engraving, plate; steelplate, copperplate; etching; mezzotint, aquatint, lithotint; cut, woodcut; stereotype, graphotype, autotype, heliotype. |
Form | Verb: form, shape, figure, fashion, efform, carve, cut, chisel, hew, cast; rough hew, rough cast; sketch; block out, hammer out; trim; lick into shape, put into shape; model, knead, work up into, set, mold, sculpture; cast, stamp; build; (construct). |
Form, figure, shape; conformation, configuration; make, formation, frame, construction, cut, set, build, trim, cut of one's jib; stamp, type, cast, mold; fashion; contour; (outline); structure; plasmature. | |
Impulse | Blow, dint, stroke, knock, tap, rap, slap, smack, pat, dab; fillip; slam, bang; hit, whack, thwack; cuff; squash, dowse, swap, whap, punch, thump, pelt, kick, punce, calcitration; ruade; arietation; cut, thrust, lunge, yerk; carom, carrom, clip, jab, plug, sidewinder, sidewipe, sideswipe. |
Interval | Noun: interval, interspace; separation; break, gap, opening; hole; chasm, hiatus, caesura; interruption, interregnum; interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure, rift, flaw, breach, rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha. |
Layer | Plate; lamina, lamella; sheet, foil; wafer; scale, flake, peel; coat, pellicle; membrane, film; leaf; slice, shive, cut, rasher, shaving, integument; (covering); eschar. |
Mid-course | Straight; (direct) straight course, straight path; short cut, cross cut; great circle sailing. |
Notch | Verb: notch, nick, cut, dent, indent, jag, scarify, scotch, crimp, scallop, scollop, crenulate, vandyke. |
Part | Piece, lump, bit cut, cutting; chip, chunk, collop, slice, scale; lamina; small part; morsel, particle; (smallness); installment, dividend; share; (allotment). |
Refrigeration | Verb: cool, fan, refrigerate, refresh, ice; congeal, freeze, glaciate; benumb, starve, pinch, chill, petrify, chill to the marrow, regelate, nip, cut, pierce, bite, make one's teeth chatter, |
Sculpture | Verb: sculpture, carve, cut, chisel, model, mold; cast. |
Seclusion Exclusion | Exclusion, excommunication, banishment, exile, ostracism, proscription; cut, cut direct; dead cut. |
Shortness | Retrench, cut short, obtruncate; scrimp, cut, chop up, hack, hew; cut down, pare down; clip, dock, lop, prune, shear, shave, mow, reap, crop; snub; truncate, pollard, stunt, nip, check the growth of; foreshorten. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Ah, let's just cut to it, what are you selling (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball) And if I cut my hair again (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) I am glad you are late. This chicken took longer than I expected Hope it isn't done too much Of course, it caught on fire once I think it is better that I cut it out here, unless you want half of one for yourself (Notorious; writing credit: Ben Hecht) 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) | |
Lyrics | So, cut the crying, Cut the coughing, Cut the weazing, Girl (We Need A Resolution; performing artist: Aaliyah) And IF you're trying to cut me down (Walking On Broken Glass; performing artist: Annie Lennox) If I don't cut tonight (Ugly; performing artist: Bubba Sparxxx) Jesse, I won't cut fresh flowers for you (JESSE; performing artist: Carly Simon) Cut up, Maria (Mr. Jones; performing artist: Counting Crows) | |
Clever | Tragedy is if I cut my finger, comedy is if I walk into an open sewer and die. (references; author: Mel Brooks) Let us be grateful to Adam, our benefactor. He cut us out of the ''blessing'' of idleness and won for us the ''curse'' of labor. (references; author: Mark Twain) Wisconsin: Come Cut The Cheese (references; author: unknown) Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half (references; author: unknown) I wanted to be a barber, but I just couldn't cut it. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Short Cut (1973) Jump Cut (1972) Running Around Like a Chicken with Its Head Cut Off (1960) Short Cut to Hell (1957) | |
Song Titles | Tell Me I'm Not Dreaming (lp cut) (performing artist: Jermaine Jackson) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | 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. |  | (2) color slides show a single, square cut brownie. (1) plain chocolate, (1) with nuts. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |
 | Left ventricle has been cut open to display characteristic severe thickening of mitral valve, thickened chordae tendineae, and hypertrophied left ventricular myocardium. Autopsy. Credit: CDC. |  | Gross autopsy specimen of liver from child who died of Reye's syndrome. Cut surface shows slight pallor due to fat accumulation in liver cells. Credit: CDC. |
 | Once a vast carpet of healthy vegetation, the Amazon rain forest is changing rapidly. This image of Bolivia shows dramatic deforestation in the Amazon Basin. Loggers have cut long paths into the forest, while ranchers have cleared large blocks for their herds. Fanning out from these clear-cut areas are settlements built in radial arrangements of fields and farms. Healthy vegetation appears bright red in this image. Credit: NASA. |  | A series of caves and natural bridges cut through soft rock. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | 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. |  | Cut through Mississippi River levee to allow fresh water to flow into adjacent cypress swamp. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | The NOAA Ship RONALD H. BROWN traversing the cut into Lake Union from Puget Sound. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Celebrating a successful whaling season on the beach at Point Barrow. The whales were cut up and divided among the villagers. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
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| "Jimmie's Cut Rate" by Greg Schmigel Commentary: "Jimmie's Cut Rate...can't find a better deal on a bottle whiskey. See more of my works at <a href=" http://www.27cm.com\" class=red target="_blank"> www.27cm.com</a>." | "Opened book" by Bartlomiej Moczulski Commentary: "Just an opened book (it's Lewis Caroll complete works if anybody asks ;-). Background easy to be cut off (hopefully)." |
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 | Chainsaw; saw; sawing; cutting; cut; . | | Tear; rip; shred; cut; slit. |
| Clippers; hair; clip; clipping; cutting; cut; Army; Navy; Marines; barber; shave; trim; sideburns. | | Cut; shear; trim; . |
| Tear; rip; shred; cut; slit. | | Cut; chop; axe; cleave; clip; cube; dice; divide; fell; fragment; hack; hackle; hash; hew; lop; mangle; mince; sever; shear; slash; truncate; whack. |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Alice Hubbard | Anybody can cut prices, but it takes brains to make a better article. |
Author Unknown | I've decided to discontinue my long talks. It's because of my throat...Someone threatened to cut it. |
Colin Powell | First, we're going to cut it off, then we're going to kill it. |
E. M. Cioran | Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off. |
Horace | What do sad complaints avail if the offense is not cut down by punishment. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Words are alive; cut them and they bleed. |
Samuel Johnson | Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything. |
Thomas Carlyle | The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart. |
| If the cut of the costume indicates intellect and talent, then the color indicates temper and heart. | |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | And then let our author, or any body else, join a knock on the head, or a cut on the face, with as much reverence and respect as he thinks fit. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | For the rest, so little do they conceal the reactionary character of their criticism that their chief accusation against the bourgeoisie amounts to this, that under the bourgeois regime a class is being developed, which is destined to cut up root and branch the old order of society. (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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Emma | Austen, Jane | He came back, had had his hair cut, and laughed at himself with a very good grace, but without seeming really at all ashamed of what he had done |
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 |
So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish | Douglas Adams | Since the Electricity Board cut him off without fail every time he paid his bill, it seemed only reasonable that they should leave him connected when he didn't |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | She beheld the minister advancing along the path, entirely alone, and leaning on a staff which he had cut by the wayside |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The cut of the sunken road was filled with horses and riders inextricably heaped together |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | On the desk before him he read the word Foetus cut several times in the dark stained wood |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The tractor cut a straight line on, and the air and the ground vibrated with its thunder |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | My remedy was to cut them in pieces with my knife as they flew in the air, wherein my dexterity was much admired |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | Before I had done I was more the friend than the foe of the pine tree, though I had cut down some of them, having become better acquainted with it. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Have your hair cut short. (references) | |
Cut foods into small pieces. (references) | ||
Cut your food into small, bite-sized pieces. (references) | ||
Business | They cannot cut all tooth parts, nor can they cut through fillings. (references) | |
Domestically cut and processed items lack the specialized finish of high technology processing. (references) | ||
An electoral change in the party make up of the governing coalition may re-focus efforts to cut expenditures. (references) | ||
Children | Burma | The junta has cut government expenditures on public health care even more sharply than it cut spending for education. (references) |
Turkmenistan | In 1999 the Government cut the number of years of basic education from 10 to 9 years; however, children in their eighth, ninth, or tenth year of education at the time were not affected. (references) | |
Nicaragua | In the spring of 2000, the Ministry of the Family announced that it would cut a considerable amount of financial support for the Blue Bird Protection Association that shelters about 100 persons with disabilities, aged from 10 months to 40 years old, who are considered unable to care for themselves. (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) |
Afghanistan | A man who had shaved or cut his beard was subject to imprisonment for 10 days and required to undergo Islamic instruction. (references) | |
Guatemala | The FRG supporters allegedly surrounded and beat the activists, destroyed their banners, and cut the cables of their sound system. (references) | |
Economic History | Vietnam | Subsidies have been cut to some inefficient state enterprises. (references) |
Ghana | Import austerity was imposed and external payments arrears cut. (references) | |
Colombia | The cut flower industry has been the most prominent beneficiary. (references) | |
Human Rights | Russia | Two of the corpses had ears cut off. (references) |
Afghanistan | It was also reported that the Taliban cut the throat of one man in front of his relatives. (references) | |
Iraq | In May the press reported that the authorities released 3,000 prisoners who paid bribes to prison officials to have their prison terms cut. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Suriname | Organizations representing Maroon and Amerindian communities complain that small-scale mining operations, mainly by illegal Brazilian gold miners, dig trenches that cut residents off from their agricultural land and threaten to drive them away from their traditional settlements. (references) |
Political Economy | Colombia | Crude oil, coal, coffee, and cut flowers are the principal legal exports. (references) |
AUSTRIA | In past years, the government has cut red tape to make Austria more attractive for investors. (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 | Bahamas | Permits are also required to import plants and fruits - particularly bananas, vegetables, and cut flowers. (references) |
China | Finally, in preparation for WTO accession, the Chinese Government cut tariffs on many goods on January 1, 2001. (references) | |
Women | Malaysia | According to a well known women's NGO activist, some girls in provincial areas are subject to varying forms of FGM. Some Malay girls receive a tiny ritual cut to the clitoris or participate in a ceremony where a blade is brought close to the clitoris. (references) |
Worker Rights | Colombia | Children as young as 11 work full-time in almost every aspect of the cut flower industry. (references) |
Dominican Republic | On sugar plantations, cane cutters usually are paid by the weight of cane cut rather than the hours worked. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EMANCIPATION, n. A bondman's change from the tyranny of another to the despotism of himself. He was a slave: at word he went and came; His iron collar cut him to the bone. Then Liberty erased his owner's name, Tightened the rivets and inscribed his own. G.J. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | I've spoken to God, and he doesn't want you to cut off your balls. |
Jack Lemmon | It's true. And there's nothing worse than waiting and timing and you wait and it looks like a bad cut on the film because the laugh has stopped and you're waiting. You can't do it. |
John Breaux | Well, I think there's a lot of blame that can go around all over the place. I think that the tax cut we passed was not a mistake. I supported it. I helped craft it, along with Senator Max Baucus, the chairman of the Finance Committee. |
Julianne Moore | I love actors and I love talking with them before the take and when they say cut, I keep talking. |
Karen Shanor | If we miss that REM sleep, and alcohol and a lot of medications cut down the proportion in REM sleep, you actually have memory problems. |
Martha Stewart | You have to grow the rice. You have to make the rice wine vinegar to put in the rice. You have to catch the fish. You have to learn how to cut it up. It's a lot more complicated than it looks. |
Robert Novak | Mr. Majority Leader, in the same debate on Wednesday that the Democrats attacked Republicans on Social Security, they also attacked you for returning to deficit spending because of the tax cut. |
Rush Limbaugh | What's amazing is that JFK did not have trillions in projected federal surpluses when he implemented his tax cut. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
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. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | More money will be left in the hands of the consumer by a substantial cut in excise taxes. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | Under this tax cut plan, they would pay nothing. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Only with the long overdue reforms will the full tax cut be advisable. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Raise present taxes to cut future deficits, they tell us. |
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 | Now we can cut taxes in a more comprehensive way. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Cut" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 28.38% of the time. "Cut" is used about 14,776 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 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 28.38% | 4,194 | 2,347 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 27.18% | 4,017 | 2,449 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 19.94% | 2,946 | 3,167 |
| Noun (singular) | 16.57% | 2,448 | 3,667 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 7.42% | 1,097 | 6,886 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 0.49% | 73 | 39,105 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14,776 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "cut". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Cesar | N/A | Biblical | A name applied to those who are cut out of the womb |
| Cherethims | N/A | Biblical | Who cut or tear away |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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Expressions using "cut": A cut in rates ♦ A short cut ♦ allowable cut ♦ an unkind cut ♦ bad cut ♦ bar cut ♦ be cut ♦ be cut off ♦ be cut out for ♦ be cut up ♦ being cut ♦ belly cut ♦ brilliant cut ♦ brush cut ♦ budget cut ♦ burn cut ♦ cabochon cut ♦ cause to cut ♦ climb cut ♦ close cut ♦ conventional cut ♦ crew cut ♦ cross cut ♦ cullet cut ♦ curb cut ♦ cut a ball ♦ cut a brilliant figure ♦ cut a dash ♦ cut a deal ♦ cut a disk ♦ cut a figure ♦ cut a figure in society ♦ cut a figure with ♦ cut a joke ♦ cut a keyway in ♦ cut a poor figure ♦ cut a rebate in ♦ cut a record ♦ cut a tape ♦ cut a tooth ♦ cut a visit short ♦ cut above the rest ♦ cut across ♦ cut across country ♦ cut adrift ♦ cut along ♦ cut and come again ♦ cut and contrive ♦ cut and dried ♦ cut and fill ♦ Cut and longtail ♦ cut and paste ♦ cut and run ♦ cut And Shoot ♦ cut askew ♦ cut asunder ♦ cut at ♦ cut away ♦ cut back ♦ cut badly ♦ cut Bank ♦ cut blocks with a razor ♦ cut both ways ♦ cut branches ♦ Cut cavendish ♦ cut chiplessly ♦ cut cloth ♦ cut corners ♦ cut costs ♦ cut diamond ♦ cut direct ♦ cut down ♦ cut down on ♦ cut down on smth. ♦ cut down prices ♦ cut down with an axe ♦ cut en cabochon ♦ Cut film ♦ cut flowers ♦ cut gashed slashed split ♦ cut glass ♦ cut grass ♦ cut growth ♦ cut hair ♦ cut ice ♦ cut in ♦ cut in half ♦ cut in halves ♦ cut in on ♦ cut in pieces ♦ cut in the wages ♦ cut in two ♦ cut in very small pieces ♦ cut into ♦ cut into a conversation ♦ cut into cubes ♦ cut into pieces ♦ cut into slices ♦ cut into two ♦ cut it ♦ cut it fine. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "cut": cut-and-assemble, cut-and-burnt, cut-and-cover, cut-and-dried, cut-and-dry, cut-and-fill, cut-and-paste, cut-and-pasted, cut-and-run, cut-and-splice, cut-and-suck, cut-and-thrust, cut-away, cut-back, cut-backs, cut-corned, cut-crystal, cut-down, cut-flower, cut-glass, cut-glassware, cut-grass, cut-in, cut-ins, cut-keys, cut-leaved, cut-mid, cut-off, cut-off, cut-off bias, cut-off frequency, cut-off line, cut-off velocity, cut-off-his-nose-to-spite-his-face, cut-offs, cut-on, cut-out, cut-out, cut-out doll, cut-out-and-keep, cut-outs, cut-over, cut-pile, cut-points, cut-price, cut-price shop, cut-purses, cut-rate, cut-rate sale, cut-rate store, cut-sheet, cut-string, cut-throat, cut-throat competition, cut-throat razor, cut-throats, cut-through, cut-throughs, cut-tile, cut-to-length, cut-to-shape, cut-up, cut-ups, cut-water, cut-water, cut-waters, cut-your-loss. | |
Ending with "cut": close-cut, crew-cut, fine-cut, hair-cut, high-cut, jump-cut, newly-cut, power-cut, pre-cut, ready-cut, re-cut, rock-cut, roughly-cut, we | |