Cutting Edge

Definition: Cutting Edge

Cutting Edge

Noun

1. The position of greatest advancement; the leading position in any movement or field.

2. The sharp cutting side of the blade of a knife.

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Mechanical Engineering

Mining

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Synonyms: Cutting Edge

Sharpness

Wedge; knife edge, cutting edge; blade, edge tool, cutlery, knife, penknife, whittle, razor, razor blade, safety razor, straight razor, electric razor; scalpel; bistoury, lancet; plowshare, coulter, colter; hatchet, ax, pickax, mattock, pick, adze, gill; billhook, cleaver, cutter; scythe, sickle; scissors, shears, pruning shears, cutters, wire cutters, nail clipper, paper cutter; sword; (arms); bodkin; (perforator); belduque, bowie knife, paring knife; bushwhacker; drawing knife, drawing shave; microtome; chisel, screwdriver blade; flint blade; guillotine.

Crosswords: Cutting Edge

The Cutting Edge (1983)

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Books

• Cutting Edge (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• The Cutting Edge (reference)

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Business

U.S. products and services are especially well regarded when they offer cutting edge technology. (references)

Meanwhile, the number of cellular telephone subscribers skyrocketed as has demand for other cutting edge solutions, including wireless services. (references)

Two (of three) Venezuelan cellular telephone operators currently offer WAP in their quest to diversify revenues as well as offer cutting edge technology solutions. (references)

Economic History

Brazil

Internet Banking: Thanks to Brazilian banks, the country is on the cutting edge in the development of secure e-commerce technology. (references)

Argentina

Those on the cutting edge of technology recognize the importance of knowledge management, particularly as market demand for web-based intelligence continues to grow. (references)

Dominican Rep

Dominican firms have proven competitive, largely through adoption of cutting edge technology and modern management practices that increase their productivity and quality. (references)

Travel

Turkey

Cutting edge medical care does not exist in Turkey. (references)

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Expression using "cutting edge": major cutting edge. Additional references.

Ending with "cutting edge": sharp-cutting edge.

Arabic 

‏الحافة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

острота (acridity, acrimony, acuteness, bitterness, edge, fineness, incision, nip, penetration, poignancy, pungency, sharpness, stridency). (various references)

Danish

skaererand, skaer (centaury, glints, miter, mitre, ploughshare, plow share, share, sheen), skærekant (separating edge), skær (knife), hovedæg (major cutting edge), æg (egg). (various references)

Dutch

verspanend deel, snijlip (major cutting edge), snijkant (separating edge), hoofdsnijkant (major cutting edge). (various references)

Finnish

pääsärmä (major cutting edge), leikkuureuna (separating edge). (various references)

French

tranchant (cutting), taillant (cutter), partie tranchante, partie coupante, bord coupant, avant-garde, arête principale du foret (major cutting edge), arête de séparation, arête de coupe, arête. (various references)

German

schneide (blade, edge). (various references)

Greek 

κόψη εργαλείου κοπής, κυρία κόψη τρυπανιού (major cutting edge), κοπτικό μέρος, κοφτερό χείλος, διαχωριστικό άκρο (separating edge), διαχωριστική ακμή (separating edge). (various references)

Hungarian

vágó él, metsző él, forgácsoló él. (various references)

Italian

tagliente (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, biting, clipping, cutting, edgy, keen, lurid, nipping, sharp, slicing, stridently, trenchant), spigolo di taglio, parte tranciante, parte tagliente, lama (blade, Lama, landslide, llama), bordo tagliente. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

切れ味 (sharpness, the feel of a cutting edge), 切味 (sharpness, the feel of a cutting edge). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きれあじ (sharpness, the feel of a cutting edge). (various references)

Pig Latin

uttingcay edgeay

Portuguese

corte (address, build, chop, cohort, court, courtship, cut, cutting, gash, hack, hackery, incision, intersection, kerf, make, nick, pen, scission, score, section, slash, swinery, tailoring), cortante (acerbic, biting, clear-sighted, clipping, incisive, keen, nipping, nippy, parky, sharp, slashing, trenchant), parte cortante, fio de instrumento cortante, bordo de corte, bordo cortante, aresta principal da broca (major cutting edge), aresta de separação (separating edge). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sečivo (blade, hardy), oštrica (blade, oyster). (various references)

Spanish

filo (edge, phylum, sharp edge). (various references)

Swedish

skärande kant (separating edge), renskuren kant, egg (abrasive, acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acute, edge, lurid, sharp). (various references)

Turkish

keskin kenar (edge), bıçak ağzı (blade, knife edge), ağız (accent, beak, beestings, brim, brink, chop, debouchment, dialect, edge, embouchure, gob, jaw, jaws, keen edge, kisser, lip, mouth, muzzle, opening, oral, orifice, outlet, potato trap, stoma, trap, vent, ventage). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: detecting.

-3 letters: duetting, inductee.

-4 letters: cutting, detinue, deucing, dinette, ducting, educing, enticed, eugenic, genetic, getting, gutting, tincted.

-5 letters: ceding, cueing, deceit, decent, dengue, detect, detent, dunite, edenic, edging, endite, entice, geeing, gunite, gutted, induce, induct, netted, nidget, nugget, nutted, teeing, tented, tentie, tenuti, tinged, tinted, tugged, united, untied.