cutter
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: From Middle English cutter, cuttere, kutter. By surface analysis, cut + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: cutters
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: A person or device that cuts (in various senses).
pos: noun
examples: a stone cutter; a die cutter
In some CNC programs, the diameter of the cutter (such as an end mill) is handled by cutter compensation codes.
The intervening years, however, were spent as a cutter. He was, indeed, one of the best film editors in the business, winning an Academy Award for Body and Soul (1947).
Chico Pacheco kept repeating the phrase between clenched teeth, lamenting the wasted days of his youth; he had been a notorious cutter of classes.
gloss: A single-masted, fore-and-aft rigged, sailing vessel with at least two headsails, and a mast set further aft than that of a sloop.
pos: noun
gloss: A motorized vessel used in law enforcement purpose
pos: noun
examples: a coastguard cutter.
gloss: A foretooth; an incisor.
pos: noun
examples: the Cutters and Eye-teeth have usually but one Root
gloss: A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore.
pos: noun
gloss: A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.
pos: noun
gloss: A cut fastball.
pos: noun
gloss: A ten-pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use as a weapon.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A person who practices self-injury by making cuts in the flesh.
pos: noun
tags: informal
examples: After I got out of the mental institution I was looking at t.v. show I was looking it a teenage girl who was a cutter her arm look just like my arm.
gloss: A surgeon.
pos: noun
tags: colloquial
derogatory
humorous
slang
gloss: An animal yielding inferior meat, with little or no external fat and marbling.
pos: noun
examples: Bulls and cows used for breeding, when finally sent to market, are inferior for dressed-beef production. Bulls are demanded especially for sausage and similar products. Cows are largely used as cutters and canners […]
gloss: An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: Martin Parker, A True Tale of Robin Hood
So being outlaw'd (as 'tis told), / He with a crew went forth / Of lusty cutters, bold and strong, / And robbed in the north.
He's out of cash, and thou know'st by cutter's law, / We are bound to relieve one another.
gloss: A kind of soft yellow brick, easily cut, and used for facework.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
gloss: A light sleigh drawn by one horse.
pos: noun
examples: Throughout much of the winter, the sled or the cutter was the vehicle of choice. Emily and Joseph had a cutter, for traveling in style in snow.
gloss: A flag or similar instrument for blocking light.
pos: noun
examples: Flags and other cutters allow the DP or gaffer to throw large controlled shadows on parts of the scene.
gloss: A knife.
pos: noun
tags: Multicultural-London-English
gloss: An active child.
pos: noun
tags: Maine
examples: Late night, take a flow, tryna find the rats
Twelve inch cutter in and out, then Imma ride them back
Hop out the ride with things and stuff
Back the longest cutter, watch him cut him, [grate their neek trips?] up
[…] swing my cutter
Get man down if he is on my brother
gloss: A supporter of infant circumcision or female genital mutilation; pro-circumcisionist.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
gloss: A three-quarters facelock bulldog move in which the attacker drives the opponent's head into the mat while falling onto their back.
pos: noun
Derived words: biscuit cutter
bolt cutter
boxcutter
box cutter
box-cutter
breadcutter
brushcutter
cane cutter
canecutter
chaff cutter
cheese cutter
cigar cutter
clearcutter
coalcutter
concrete cutter
cookie-cutter
cookie cutter
copy cutter
cord-cutter
corncutter
cutter and paster
cutterhead
cutterman
cutter-off
cutter-offer
daisy-cutter
daisy cutter
dark cutter
diamond cutter
egg cutter
endocutter
fly cutter
forecutter
gem-cutter
gemcutter
gem cutter
glasscutter
glass cutter
grasscutter
haircutter
histocutter
leaf cutter
leaf-cutter
leafcutter
leaf-cutter ant
leaf-cutter bee
leg cutter
milling cutter
nail cutter
negative cutter
off cutter
overcutter
paper cutter
phlegm-cutter
pipe cutter
pisscutter
pizza cutter
plantcutter
punchcutter
revenue cutter
rug-cutter
stonecutter
stump cutter
swear like a cutter
tube cutter
turd cutter
turfcutter
typecutter
verticutter
wadcutter
wheel cutter
wire cutters
woodcutter
Translations:
lang: Armenian
word: կատեր
roman: kater
lang: Belarusian
word: ка́тэр
roman: káter
lang: Belarusian
word: ка́тар
roman: kátar
lang: Bulgarian
word: ка́тер
roman: káter
lang: Estonian
word: kaater
lang: Finnish
word: kutteri
lang: Georgian
word: კატარღა
roman: ḳaṭarɣa
lang: Japanese
word: カッター
roman: kattā
lang: Korean
word: 커터
roman: keoteo
lang: Macedonian
word: ка́тер
roman: káter
lang: Russian
word: ка́тер
roman: káter
lang: Ukrainian
word: ка́тер
roman: káter
lang: Uzbek
word: kater
lang: Danish
word: cutter
lang: Finnish
word: viiltelijä