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Definition of Cut

Cut of Cut To separate the parts of with, or as with, a sharp instrument; to make an incision in; to gash; to sever; to divide. To sever and cause to fall for the purpose of gathering; to hew; to mow or reap. To sever and remove by cutting; to cut off; to dock; as, to cut the hair; to cut the nails. To castrate or geld; as, to cut a horse. To form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.; to carve; to hew out. To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce; to lacerate; as, sarcasm cuts to the quick. To intersect; to cross; as, one line cuts another at right angles. To refuse to recognize; to ignore; as, to cut a person in the street; to cut one's acquaintance. To absent one's self from; as, to cut an appointment, a recitation. etc. To do the work of an edged tool; to serve in dividing or gashing; as, a knife cuts well. To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument. To perform the operation of dividing, severing, incising, intersecting, etc.; to use a cutting instrument. To make a stroke with a whip. To interfere, as a horse. To move or make off quickly. To divide a pack of cards into two portion to decide the deal or trump, or to change the order of the cards to be dealt. An opening made with an edged instrument; a cleft; a gash; a slash; a wound made by cutting; as, a sword cut. A stroke or blow or cutting motion with an edged instrument; a stroke or blow with a whip. That which wounds the feelings, as a harsh remark or criticism, or a sarcasm; personal discourtesy, as neglecting to recognize an acquaintance when meeting him; a slight. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove; as, a cut for a railroad. The surface left by a cut; as, a smooth or clear cut. A portion severed or cut off; a division; as, a cut of beef; a cut of timber. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving; as, a book illustrated with fine cuts. The act of dividing a pack cards. The right to divide; as, whose cut is it? Manner in which a thing is cut or formed; shape; style; fashion; as, the cut of a garment. A common work horse; a gelding. The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise. A skein of yarn. Gashed or divided, as by a cutting instrument. Formed or shaped as by cutting; carved. Overcome by liquor; tipsy. To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat. To drive (an object ball) to either side by hitting it fine on the other side with the cue ball or another object ball. To strike (a ball) with the racket inclined or struck across the ball so as to put a certain spin on the ball. To drive (a ball) to one side by hitting with another ball. A slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin so given to the ball. A stroke on the off side between point and the wicket; also, one who plays this stroke. Related Definitions: Absent, Acquaintance, Across, Act, Admit, Also, An, And, Angles, Another, Any, Appointed, Appointment, As, At, Ball, Bat, Be, Beef, Between, Block, Blow, Book, Bound, Bowled, By, Carve, Carved, Castrate, Cause, Causing, Certain, Change, Channel, Chopping, Clear, Cleft, College, Common, Criticism, Cross, Cue, Cut, Cutting, Deal, Dealt, Decide, Deeply, Deflect, Digging, Discourtesy, Divide, Divided, Dividing, Division, Do, Dock, Drive, Edged, Either, Engraved, Engraving, Exercise, Failure, Fall, Fashion, Fine, For, Form, Formed, From, Furrow, Garment, Gash, Gashed, Gashing, Gathering, Geld, Gelding, Given, Groove, Hair, Harsh, Hew, Hewing, Him, Hitting, Horse, Hurt, Ignore, Illustrated, Impression, In, Incising, Incision, Inclined, Instrument, Interfere, Intersect, Intersecting, Into, Irregularly, Is, It, Knife, Lacerate, Left, Line, Liquor, Made, Make, Manner, Meeting, Motion, Move, Movement, Mow, Neglecting, Notch, Object, Of, Off, Officer, On, One, Opening, Operation, Or, Order, Other, Out, Overcome, Pack, Passage, Perform, Person, Personal, Pierce, Plate, Point, Portion, Present, Purpose, Put, Quick, Quickly, Racket, Railroad, Reap, Recitation, Recognize, Refuse, Remark, Remove, Right, Sarcasm, Self, Sensibilities, Separate, Serve, Sever, Severance, Severed, Severing, Shape, Shaped, Sharp, Side, Skein, Slanting, Slash, Slight, Smooth, So, Spin, Street, Strike, Stroke, Struck, Student, Style, Such, Surface, Sword, That, The, Thing, This, Timber, Tipsy, To, Tool, Trump, Two, Use, Well, When, Which, Whip, Who, Whose, Wicket, With, Work, Wound, Yarn, Yield

Cut Quotations When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier. Rudyard Kipling I was not cut out to be a rebel. Gene Tierney You know, if it doesn't work, we can always cut it. Michael Shanks Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. Hillary Clinton There's no way that I could do a 9 to 5 job. There's no way. I was not cut out for that. You come in and you work for three months on the one job. They say, 'Great,' you know, and you're on to the next one - and you never even got fired. It's wonderful. Dennis Quaid

Cut Translations cut in Afrikaans is afskakel, sny cut in Dutch is maaien cut in Finnish is leikata, hakata cut in German is schneiden, schneiden, abgeschnitten cut in Italian is tagliato, taglio, intaccatura, tagliare cut in Portuguese is corte cut in Spanish is cortar, inciso, ranura

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