cut

Meaning

Verb

1. (transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
2. (transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
3. (transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
4. (slang, transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
5. (intransitive, transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
6. (ambitransitive, transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
7. (transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
8. (transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
9. (transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
10. (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
11. (transitive) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
12. (transitive) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
13. (transitive) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
14. (transitive) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
15. (intransitive, slang, transitive) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
16. (transitive) To ignore as a social rebuff or snub.
17. (intransitive) To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.
18. (transitive) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
19. (transitive) To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time.
20. (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
21. (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
22. (transitive) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it.
23. (transitive) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
24. (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
25. (intransitive, transitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two parts, often followed by placing the two parts back together in the opposite order.
26. (slang, transitive) To make, negotiate; to finalise, conclude; to issue.
27. (slang, transitive) To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug.
28. (transitive) To exhibit (a figure having some trait).
29. (transitive) To stop, disengage, or cease.
30. (transitive) To renounce or give up.
31. To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball, or (in tennis) striking it with the racket inclined.
32. To lose body mass, aiming to keep muscle but lose body fat.
33. To perform (an elaborate dancing movement etc.).
34. (intransitive, slang) To run or hurry.

Adj

1. (adjective, error-misspelling, participle) Having been cut.
2. Reduced.
3. Carved into a shape; not raw.
4. Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
5. Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
6. (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
7. (Australia, New-Zealand, slang) Upset, angry; emotionally hurt.
8. (New-Zealand, slang) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.

Noun

1. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) The act of cutting.
2. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) The act of cutting.
3. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) The act of cutting.
4. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) The result of cutting.
5. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) The result of cutting.
6. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) The result of cutting.
7. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) The result of cutting.
8. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) The result of cutting.
9. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) The result of cutting.
10. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) The result of cutting.
11. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) The result of cutting.
12. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) The result of cutting.
13. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) The result of cutting.
14. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) The result of cutting.
15. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) The result of cutting.
16. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) The result of cutting.
17. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) The result of cutting.
18. (countable, especially, figuratively, uncountable) The result of cutting.
19. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) The result of cutting.
20. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) The result of cutting.
21. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) The result of cutting.
22. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) The result of cutting.
23. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) The result of cutting.
24. (countable, figuratively, slang, uncountable) The result of cutting.
25. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) The result of cutting.
26. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) The result of cutting.
27. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) The result of cutting.
28. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) The result of cutting.
29. (Internet, countable, figuratively, uncountable) The result of cutting.
30. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) The result of cutting.
31. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) The result of cutting.
32. (countable, figuratively, obsolete, uncountable) The result of cutting.
33. (countable, dated, figuratively, slang, uncountable) The result of cutting.
34. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) The result of cutting.
35. (figuratively, slang, uncountable) The result of cutting.
36. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) The result of cutting.
37. (countable, figuratively, slang, uncountable) The result of cutting.
38. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) The result of cutting.
39. (countable, figuratively, uncountable) The result of cutting.

Intj

An instruction to cease recording.

Opposite of

hike#Noun, ;, increase#Noun, action

Synonyms

slice

chop

hack

wound

slash

carve

break

sever

trim

gash

incision

cut off

reduce

split

cutting

clip

divide

mow

hew

scratch

shear

injury

reap

slit

tear

prune

notch

stab

shorten

bruise

fell

lop

reduction

incise

abridge

divided

hurt

cut up

shave

scar

cut out

shape

curtail

snap

harvest

section

cut down

fashion

pare

crop

Translations

couper

cortar

trancher

schneiden

tagliare

cortar

corte

taglio

tailler

kesmek

snijden

κόβω

abschneiden

tallar

Schnitt

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kʌt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: cutten

Cognate with Scots: kut

Cognate with Old Norse: kvett

Cognate with Swedish: kotta

Cognate with Swedish: kåta

Cognate with Swedish: kuta

Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål: kutte

Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk: kutte

Cognate with Icelandic: kuta

Cognate with Old Norse: kuti

Cognate with Norwegian: kyttel

In summary

From Middle English cutten, kitten, kytten, ketten (“to cut”) (compare Scots kut, kit (“to cut”)), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse *kytja, *kutta, from Proto-Germanic *kutjaną, *kuttaną (“to cut”), of uncertain origin, perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *kwetwą (“meat, flesh”) (compare Old Norse kvett (“meat”)). Akin to Middle Swedish kotta (“to cut or carve with a knife”) (compare dialectal Swedish kåta, kuta (“to cut or chip with a knife”), Swedish kuta, kytti (“a knife”)), Norwegian Bokmål kutte (“to cut”), Norwegian Nynorsk kutte (“to cut”), Icelandic kuta (“to cut with a knife”), Old Norse kuti (“small knife”), Norwegian kyttel, kytel, kjutul (“pointed slip of wood used to strip bark”). Displaced native Middle English snithen (from Old English snīþan; compare German schneiden), which still survives in some dialects as snithe or snead. See snide. Adjective sense of "drunk" (now rare and now usually used in the originally jocular derivative form of half-cut) dates from the 17th century, from cut in the leg, to have cut your leg, euphemism for being very drunk.

Sentences

You fight it cut .

The camera cut to the band on stage , ready to perform .

Sometimes in life you need to cut people out of your life even if you know you'll miss them .

The tape is removed after one week and cut into day-length sections .

According to Plutarch , Herennius first slew him , then cut off his head .