cutting
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: agriculture
broadcasting
business
cinematography
engineering
film
horticulture
human-sciences
lifestyle
machining
mechanical-engineering
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
psychology
sciences
television
Etymology: From cut + -ing.
Base: cut
Affixes: -ing
Inflected forms:
form: cuttings
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The action of the verb to cut.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: How many different cuttings can this movie undergo?
Ye ſhall not make any cuttings in your fleſh for the dead, nor print any markes vpon you: I am the Lord.
The first stage of the demolition work consisted of removing, by oxy-acetylene cutting, the whole of the plate floor, cross-girders, and lattice parapets.
The first industrial use of CO₂ lasers was the cutting of plywood dye boards for the packaging industry. [...] The laser cutting process has a number of advantages over competing technologies which have ensured the growth of this branch of industry: [...]
Female genital cutting is an intentional, nonmedical modification of the female genitalia. It is commonly performed on girls between the ages of 4 and 16, although in some cases it is performed on infants as young as three months old.
gloss: A section removed from a larger whole.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: [O]bſerving [...] abundance of Matter floating in the Urine like Bran, with a great Number of Recrements like Cuttings of Hair, ſome above an Inch long, which Subſtances were found in all the Water that I made in above Twelve Months; for which I could get no Remedy: I was adviſed to drink Water, which in about half a Year did intirely free me from thoſe Symptoms, [...]
I make such gelatine as above mentioned of two different qualities, [...] and I use all such hides and skins, and cuttings of hides and skins as are usually employed in manufacturing glue according to the ordinary method, and which are commonly called glue-pieces, [...]
Yet, while paper cuttings can look very modern, paper cutting as an activity has a long, rich heritage. The Chinese, who first invented paper as we know it, started cutting more than a thousand years before most Europeans had ever seen a piece of paper. The oldest extant paper cutting is a simple symmetrical circle from the sixth century that was found in a far western province of China.
gloss: A section removed from a larger whole.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Extract from "Newspaper Cuttings relating to Sussex," (Sussex Archaeological Collections, 1872, pp. 140, 141.)
The Witness. [After a farther inspection of the newspaper cutting.] No; it is not in that part about Weber, but here [indicating another newspaper cutting] is the agreement that Mr. Wilder was testifying about, and that has Weber's name.
Mrs. Seal wandered about with newspaper cuttings, which seemed to her either "quite splendid" or "really too bad for words." She used to paste these into books, or send them to her friends, having first drawn a broad bar in blue pencil down the margin, a proceeding which signified equally and indistinguishably the depths of her reprobation or the heights of her approval.
H.P. Lovecraft, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
Moved by some vague presentiment amidst the horrors of that period, Willett arranged with an international press-cutting bureau for accounts of notable current crimes and accidents in Prague and in eastern Transylvania; and after six months believed that he had found two very significant things amongst the multifarious items he received and had translated.
gloss: A section removed from a larger whole.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: To propagate by cuttings, is to cut off the branch or ſtem of a Plant, and to ſet it in the Earth without Roots. Strip it of leaves and branches, Plant deeper than theſe with Roots, and in a rich and moiſt ſoil, keeping it watered and ſhaded, Untill Rooted; cut off their Tops ſave Greens, as if your cutting be 12 Inches long, let 9 be under, and 3 above ground.
All the Sorts of Vines are propagated either from Layers or Cuttings, the former of which is greatly practis'd in England, but the latter is what I would recommend, as being much preferable to the other. [...] I had rather plant a good Cutting than a rooted Plant, provided it be well choſen, and there is leſs Danger of its not growing.
The method of propagating the Box is perfectly easy: it may be raised from cuttings, or from seed, or by layering. [...] For planting the cuttings, [Thomas] Hanbury says the month of August is the best time, if any rain falls.
Allison carried it all home, and then spent a long time that evening out on the back porch, wrapping up Ida's collection of rooted cuttings, each snuff tin and plastic cup in its own carefully fashioned sleeve of wet newspaper.
gloss: An abridged selection of written work, often intended for performance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: The actor had to make his cutting shorter to fit the audition time.
gloss: An open passage at a level lower than the surrounding terrain, dug for a canal, railway, or road to go through.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
examples: [T]he railway, however, will require a farther outlay to render it complete, though the locomotive engine has passed over every foot of ground from Liverpool to Salford. The slopes of the cuttings want dressing, and several of them want protecting with foot walls.
We flash across the level. / We thunder thro' the bridges. / We bicker down the cuttings. / We sway along the ridges.
No borrow pit excavation was necessary, and 41,000 cu. yd. were removed from cuttings by excavating machines.
On the descent the line is often in cuttings; some are high, such as at Scarcroft, where a cut through firestone and fireclay was necessary, and near Bardsey, where the line threads a deep tree-lined gorge.
gloss: The editing of film or other recordings.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: The process of bringing metals to a desired shape by chipping away the unwanted material.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Boring, drilling, milling, and turning are all different kinds of metal cutting processes.
Metal-cutting tools often have two cutting edges, both of which are angled to the direction of cutting, and in round-nosed tools the inclination continuously varies [...].
gloss: The act of cutting one's own skin as a symptom of a mental disorder; self-harm.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Cutting has become one of the most popular forms of self-injury, but there are others at well, and each is just as dangerous as cutting. The information here might help you recognize the signs of self-injury in others.
gloss: That is used for cutting.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: I need some sort of cutting utensil to get through this shrink wrap.
The power consumed in metal cutting is largely converted into heat near the cutting edge of the tool, and many of the economic and technical problems of machining are caused directly or indirectly by this heating action.
gloss: Piercing, sharp.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The weather was atrocious, with bitterly cold wind and cutting sleet—rather appropriate, considering Aunt Fonteyn's temperament.
gloss: Of criticism, remarks, etc.: (potentially) hurtful; curt.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: The director gave the auditioning actors cutting criticism.
[H]e concludes with this cutting remark, But Benefactors may give Money, but not grateful Minds to ſuch as receive it.
Poor Betsy had often been the subject of Tommy's jokes; many a cutting remark had been made about her dress, which, though clean and whole, was always poor and old-fashioned; [...]
gloss: Of a beverage: half-sized.
pos: adj
tags: India
not-comparable
examples: a cutting chai
gloss: Cutthroat; ruthlessly competitive.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
slang
examples: […] there are always some "free lances" who are ready to do a "cutting" trade, and thus become formidable competitors.
Derived words: clearcutting
cord-cutting
cost cutting
cost-cutting
cutting torch
darkcutting
die cutting
downcutting
fair-cake cutting
genital cutting
glasscutting
grasscutting
haircutting
heartcutting
melon cutting
papercutting
paper cutting
press cutting
price-cutting
punchcutting
ribbon cutting
rug-cutting
stonecutting
umbilical cord cutting
wirecutting
woodcutting
overcutting
cuttingly
cuttingness
noncutting
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: изрезка
roman: izrezka
lang: Finnish
word: leike
lang: Malayalam
word: മുറി
roman: muṟi
lang: Malayalam
word: കഷണം
roman: kaṣaṇaṁ
lang: Portuguese
word: corte
lang: Russian
word: вы́резка
roman: výrezka
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: odrezak
lang: Swedish
word: avsnitt