Cutting Off

Definition: Cutting Off

Cutting Off

Noun

1. The act of cutting something off.

2. The act of shortening something by cutting off the ends; "the barber gave him a good cut".

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Electrical Engineering

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Synonyms: Cutting Off

Crosswords: Cutting Off

Coming Out of Scraping Machines and Cutting Off Heads (1901)

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Books

• Cutting Off the Serpent's Head: Tightening Control in Tibet, 1994-1995 (reference)

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Children at sardine cannery cutting off the heads and tails of herring Cleaning herring for canning From a photograph by T. W. Smillie. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Uncle Sam cutting off U.S. oil supply to Japan] / Willard Combes. Credit: Library of Congress.

Migratory agricultural worker cutting off top on onions in a field near Cedarville, New Jersey. Credit: Library of Congress.

Canadian scenes. Machine at fish cannery for cutting off heads of fish known as iron chink. Credit: Library of Congress.

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So that the end and measure of this power, when in every man's hands in the state of nature, being the preservation of all of his society, that is, all mankind in general, it can have no other end or measure, when in the hands of the magistrate, but to preserve the members of that society in their lives, liberties, and possessions; and so cannot be an absolute, arbitrary power over their lives and fortunes, which are as much as possible to be preserved; but a power to make laws, and annex such penalties to them, as may tend to the preservation of the whole, by cutting off those parts, and those only, which are so corrupt, that they threaten the sound and healthy, without which no severity is lawful. (Second Treatise of Government)

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Legitimacy had just asserted itself by cutting off the fist and then the head of Pleignier, Carbonneau, and Tolleron.

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Health

This thickening, called atherosclerosis, narrows the space through which blood can flow, decreasing and sometimes completely cutting off the supply of oxygen and nutrients to the heart. (references)

Many people over the age of 50 have such a hernia, and it does not need treatment unless heartburn or GERD is present and causes significant discomfort, or unless the hernia is in danger of becoming twisted and cutting off the stomach's blood supply. (references)

Civil Liberties

Belarus

Although the authorities have full control, they appear to be cutting off access only selectively. (references)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Media outlets also were harassed through the misuse of government agencies, by performing tax audits or cutting off power and telephone lines. (references)

Tanzania

Several rallies were prevented through such indirect means as cutting off electricity for loudspeakers, citing ad hoc limits, and scheduling the same rally times for more than one group. (references)

Economic History

Chad

By mid-1997 the government signed peace deals with FARF and the MDD leadership and succeeded in cutting off the groups from their rear bases in the Central African Republic and Cameroon. (references)

Human Rights

Senegal

The rebels allegedly struck Mballo repeatedly with their rifle butts before cutting off his left ear. (references)

Tunisia

Lawyers and activists stated in 2000 that the Government increased its practice of cutting off telephone service to activists. (references)

Political Economy

MALAYSIA

To qualify for the lower ad valorem MFN tariff rate of 30 percent levied on non-rectangular float glass, exporters often must resort to time-consuming, wasteful procedures such as cutting off one or more corners or cutting one edge in a slanted fashion. (references)

Georgia

Externally, Georgia's western orientation and efforts to avoid entanglement in the Chechen War are under severe Russian pressure, including cutting off gas supplies, stalling negotiations on Abkhazia, delaying negotiations for base withdrawals, complicating external debt rescheduling, and imposing a discriminatory visa regime. (references)

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Arabic 

‏نخفيض, ‏قطع (amputate, amputation, ax, axe, break, cease, cessation, chop off, chopping off, cross, crossing, cut, cut across, cut away, cut down, cut off, cut out, cutoff, 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). (various references)

Danish

afbrydelse (interruption). (various references)

Dutch

uitschakeling (deactivation, open, transient). (various references)

French

coupure (cut, cutoff, cutout), réduction (curtailment, cut). (various references)

German

Unterbrechung (adjournment, break, cut, disconnection, discontinuity, disruption, gap, interception, intermission, intermittence, interrupt, interruption, pause, punctuation, recess, rest, severance, stopover, stoppage, time out, timeout, time-out), Kurzunterbrechung (open, transient), abschneiden (amputate, block off, chopp, clip, clipping, cut, cut 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), Abschaltung (abandonment of service, cutoff, cutout, deactivation, passivation, shutoff). (various references)

Greek 

διακοπή (abortion, adjournment, break, breather, disconnection, discontinuance, interception, intermission, interrupt, interruption, pause, recess, respite, severance, vacation). (various references)

Hebrew 

כסיח�" (mowing), �"תז�" (spatter, splash, splutter, sprinkling, sputter), בתוק (piercing, splitting), � תוק (breaking off, detachment, disconnection, disruption, dissociation, insularity, separation, severance, snap). (various references)

Italian

spegnimento (blanking, open, quenching, shutdown, slaking, transient, turn-off), esclusione (exclusion). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

截断 , 剪除 (cutout), 切取り (burglar, burglary, cutting, robber, robbery with assault, tearing off), 切り取り (burglar, burglary, cutting, robber, robbery with assault, tearing off). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きりとり (burglar, burglary, cutting, robber, robbery with assault, tearing off), せつ� �" (amputation, cutting, disconnection, section, severance), せ�"じょ (cutout, elf, fairy, nymph). (various references)

Pig Latin

uttingcay offay

Portuguese

corte (address, build, chop, cohort, court, courtship, cut, cutting, cutting edge, gash, hack, hackery, incision, intersection, kerf, make, nick, pen, scission, score, section, slash, swinery, tailoring). (various references)

Spanish

corte transitorio de circuito (open, transient), circuito tránsito (open, transient), circuito abierto (open circuit). (various references)

caesum, caesus. (various references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: coffing, cuffing, cutting, touting, tufting.

-4 letters: coffin, confit, coting, cutoff, fungic, goniff, offcut, offing, outfit, outing, toting.

-5 letters: coign, count, cuing, cutin, fount, fugio, fungi, fungo, futon, gonif, incog, ingot, ontic, tigon, tinct, tonic, tunic, unfit, ungot.