[
US
/ˈkətɪŋ/
]
[ UK /kˈʌtɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /kˈʌtɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
-
the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge
his cut in the lining revealed the hidden jewels - a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting
-
the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends
the barber gave him a good cut -
the act of cutting something into parts
his cuts were skillful
his cutting of the cake made a terrible mess -
the division of a deck of cards before dealing
he insisted that we give him the last cut before every deal
the cutting of the cards soon became a ritual - the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film
-
the act of diluting something
the cutting of whiskey with water
the thinning of paint with turpentine -
an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine
he searched through piles of letters and clippings - a piece cut off from the main part of something
- removing parts from hard material to create a desired pattern or shape
ADJECTIVE
-
(of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character
cutting remarks
edged satire
a stinging comment -
painful as if caused by a sharp instrument
piercing criticism
piercing cold
a cutting wind
lancinating pain
a stabbing pain
piercing knifelike pains
keen winds
knifelike cold -
unpleasantly cold and damp
bleak winds of the North Atlantic
How To Use cutting In A Sentence
- A little pyrotechnics display tacked on just serves to emphasise its lack of cutting edge. Times, Sunday Times
- Over the winter months we've been doing a great deal of clearing up on our part-neglected croft garden, grubbing out and shredding dead shrubs and cutting back those that have either grown too large or are crowding others.
- This is Marshgate Lane, a 100% non-residential slice of East London, one solitary road cutting across the flood plain of the River Lea.
- Cutting into the growth a little while you're there is also a good plan, to encourage new, bushier growth. In the garden this week: Summer pruning and preening
- They put out a plan that adds up, leaves no ox ungored and should shut up anyone who says the deficit can be contained by cutting waste, fraud, abuse and foreign aid. Two Tests of a Gridlock Mentality
- They seemed to be in a serious mood, perhaps brooding on the deteriorating human behaviour that cannot see that he is cutting the same very branch that he is sitting on.
- Many of the ideas presented are on the cutting edge and deal with anything from abstract concepts to fiddlehead ferns, from a number to numeral, from software to the nuts and bolts of a computer.
- Mesell Malkontent of Faux News, the gripping cutting edge metaphorist megamedia propaganda outlet, a non-contributor of the pasty pedantry and PIG’s Pundits in General, spouts ‘demon duck du jour’, and claims, somehow, she knows, somehow, that Hezbollah is just a beauty pagent… Think Progress » Malkin: Outrage About Qana ‘Manufactured,’ ‘If It’s Not Qana, It’s Something Else…It’s Beauty Pageants’
- That is rewriting history, and cutting your anchor rope, and should be resisted.
- Phase I called for dewatering and rehabilitating the No.6 shaft, sinking the shaft to the 45th level, cutting seven level stations, and diamond drilling the conglomerate bed.
