Word: cut Part of Speech: verb Etymology: From Middle English cutten, 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”)). Sometimes instead compared to French couteau, itself from Latin culter (“knife”). Compare Scots kut, kit (“to cut”)); also 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. Pronunciation: /kʌt/, /kʊt/ 1. To incise, to cut into the surface of something. Labels: transitive Example: You must cut this flesh from off his breast. Example: MARA: We are forty against four hundred. // KLINGON: Four thousand throats may be cut in one night by a running man. 2. To incise, to cut into the surface of something. Labels: transitive Example: Would you please cut the cake? Example: Before the whistling winds the vessels fly, / With rapid swiftness cut the liquid way. 3. To incise, to cut into the surface of something. Labels: transitive Example: I have three diamonds to cut today. Example: Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, / Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster 4. To incise, to cut into the surface of something. Labels: slang, transitive Example: We don't want your money no more. We just going to cut you. 5. To incise, to cut into the surface of something. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: The patient said she had been cutting since the age of thirteen. 6. To incise, to cut into the surface of something. Labels: ambitransitive, transitive Example: “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.” 7. To incise, to cut into the surface of something. Labels: transitive Example: Sarcasm cuts to the quick. Example: she feared she should laugh to hear an European preach in Tamul , but on the contrary , was cut to the heart by what she heard 8. To incise, to cut into the surface of something. Labels: transitive Example: to cut a horse 9. To incise, to cut into the surface of something. Labels: transitive 10. To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument. Labels: intransitive Example: The panels of white-wood that cuts like cheese, / But lasts like iron for things like these; 11. To separate, remove, reject or reduce. Labels: transitive Example: Travis was cut from the team. 12. To separate, remove, reject or reduce. Labels: transitive 13. To separate, remove, reject or reduce. Labels: transitive Example: They're going to cut salaries by fifteen percent. Example: In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax. 14. To separate, remove, reject or reduce. Labels: transitive Example: I cut fifth period to hang out with Angela. Example: An English tradesman is always solicitous to cut the shop whenever he can do so with impunity. 15. To separate, remove, reject or reduce. Labels: intransitive, slang, transitive Example: I gotta cut but I'll see you tomorrow, okay? Example: my friends and i had gone for lunch but i had to cut early and couldn't get dessert (which if you know me it's my top priority) so they got it packed and dropped off at my place without a word "open the lift and take it" ?????????? how is this real i will literally cry 16. To ignore as a social rebuff or snub. Labels: transitive Example: After the incident at the dinner party, people started to cut him on the street. Example: At first it had been very painful to him to meet any of his old friends, [...] but this soon passed; either they cut him, or he cut them; it was not nice being cut for the first time or two, but after that, it became rather pleasant than not [...] The ordeal is a painful one, but if a man's moral and intellectual constitution are naturally sound, there is nothing which will give him so much strength of character as having been well cut. 17. To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another. Labels: intransitive Example: The camera then cut to the woman on the front row who was clearly overcome and crying tears of joy. 18. To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage. Labels: transitive 19. To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time. Labels: transitive Example: Select the text, cut it, and then paste it in the other application. 20. To enter a queue in the wrong place. Labels: intransitive Example: One student kept trying to cut in front of the line. Example: Excuse me, do you mind if I cut?! 21. To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so. Labels: intransitive Example: This road cuts right through downtown. Example: Neither Joleon Lescott nor Vieira appeared to make any contact with Dyer as he cut between them. 22. To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it. Labels: transitive 23. To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat. Labels: transitive 24. To change direction suddenly. Labels: intransitive Example: The football player cut to his left to evade a tackle. 25. To divide a pack of playing cards into two parts, often followed by placing the two parts back together in the opposite order. Labels: intransitive, transitive Example: If you cut then I'll deal. 26. To make, negotiate; to finalise, conclude; to issue. Labels: slang, transitive Example: I'll cut a check for you. Example: I didn't deserve it, but he cut me a deal. 27. To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug. Labels: slang, transitive Example: The best malt whiskies are improved if they are cut with a dash of water. Example: The bartender cuts his beer to save money and now it's all watery. 28. To exhibit (a figure having some trait). Labels: transitive Example: The Bender family cut a very distinct profile. Example: Arsenal were starting to work up a head of steam and Tractor Boys boss Paul Jewell cut an increasingly frustrated figure on the touchline. 29. To stop, disengage, or cease. Labels: transitive Example: The schoolchildren were told to cut the noise. Example: Cut the engines when the plane comes to a halt! 30. To renounce or give up. Labels: transitive 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.). Example: to cut a caper Example: 'Choke, chicken, there's more a-hatching,' said Miss Mag, in a sort of aside, and cutting a flic-flac with a merry devilish laugh, and a wink to Puddock. 34. To run or hurry. Labels: colloquial, intransitive Example: ‘Look here, you're nearest his size. Cut up to your rooms and give Ipps your dinner things and a clean shirt for him.’ Example: Now one of us had better cut down to Courtfield on a bike […]