cut
Adjective
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similar to:
- chopped, shredded, sliced - prepared by cutting
- cut up - cut into pieces
- incised - cut into with a sharp instrument
- perforated - having a number or series of holes
- perforate, perforated, pierced, punctured - having a hole cut through
- cut off, severed - detached by cutting
- split - (especially of wood) cut or ripped longitudinally with the grain
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similar to:
- cut out - having been cut out
- hand-hewn, hewn - cut or shaped with hard blows of a heavy cutting instrument like an ax or chisel
- sheared - (used especially of fur or wool) shaped or finished by cutting or trimming to a uniform length
- slashed - having long and narrow ornamental cuts showing an underlying fabric
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similar to: abridged - (used of texts) shortened by condensing or rewritingsame as: shortened
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similar to: clipped - cut or trimmed by clippingsame as: trimmed
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similar to: new-mown - newly mownsame as: mown
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same as: emasculated, gelded
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same as: slashed
Noun
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is a type of: part, percentage, portion, share - assets belonging to or due to or contributed by an individual person or group
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is a type of: transition - a passage that connects a topic to one that followssubtypes: jump cut - an immediate transition from one scene to another
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is a type of: furrow - a long shallow trench in the ground (especially one made by a plow)same as: gash
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is a type of: meat - the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as foodsubtypes:
- joint, roast - a piece of meat roasted or for roasting and of a size for slicing into more than one portion
- confit - a piece of meat (especially a duck) cooked slowly in its own fat
- chop - a small cut of meat including part of a rib
- chine - cut of meat or fish including at least part of the backbone
- leg - the limb of an animal used for food
- side, side of meat - a lengthwise dressed half of an animal's carcass used for food
- forequarter - the front half of a side of meat
- hindquarter - the back half of a side of meat
- cut of beef - cut of meat from beef cattle
- rib - cut of meat including one or more ribs
- entrecote - cut of meat taken from between the ribs
- shank - a cut of meat (beef or veal or mutton or lamb) from the upper part of the leg
- shin, shin bone - a cut of meat from the lower part of the leg
- brisket - a cut of meat from the breast or lower chest especially of beef
- steak - a slice of meat cut from the fleshy part of an animal or large fish
- loin - a cut of meat taken from the side and back of an animal between the ribs and the rump
- sirloin - the portion of the loin (especially of beef) just in front of the rump
- tenderloin, undercut - the tender meat of the loin muscle on each side of the vertebral column
- neck - a cut of meat from the neck of an animal
- shoulder - a cut of meat including the upper joint of the foreleg
- cut of veal - cut of meat from a calf
- cut of mutton - cut of meat from a mature sheep
- cut of lamb - cut of meat from a lamb
- saddle - cut of meat (especially mutton or lamb) consisting of part of the backbone and both loins
- rack - rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton
- cut of pork - cut of meat from a hog or pig
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is a type of: abuse, contumely, insult, revilement, vilification - a rude expression intended to offend or hurtsame as: stinger
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same as: track
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is a type of: fashion - the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior
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is a type of: canal - long and narrow strip of water made for boats or for irrigation
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is a type of: rebuff, slight - a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)same as: cold shoulder, snub
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is a type of: shot, stroke - (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or handsame as: baseball swing, swing
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referred to in:
- squash, squash rackets, squash racquets - a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets
- badminton - a game played on a court with light long-handled rackets used to volley a shuttlecock over a net
- lawn tennis, tennis - a game played with rackets by two or four players who hit a ball back and forth over a net that divides the court
is a type of: shot, stroke - (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or handsame as: undercut -
is a type of: division - the act or process of dividingsame as: cutting
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is a type of: opening - becoming open or being made opensubtypes:same as: cutting
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is a type of: division - the act or process of dividingsubtypes:same as: cutting
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is a type of: shortening - act of decreasing in lengthsubtypes:same as: cutting, cutting off
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is a type of: decrease, diminution, reduction, step-down - the act of decreasing or reducing somethingsubtypes:
- budget cut - the act of reducing budgeted expenditures
- pay cut, salary cut - the act of reducing a salary
- cost cutting - the act of cutting costs
- price cut, price cutting - cutting the price of merchandise to one lower than the usual or advertised price
- spending cut - the act of reducing spending
- tax cut - the act of reducing taxation
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is a type of: absence - failure to be present
Verb
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subtypes:
- manicure - trim carefully and neatly
- scissor - cut with or as if with scissors
- plane, shave - cut or remove with or as if with a plane
- slice, slice up - cut into slices
- pink - cut in a zigzag pattern with pinking shears, in sewing
- jag - cut teeth into; make a jagged cutting edge
- carve, cut up - cut to pieces
- carve - form by carving
- carve, chip at - engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface
- cube, dice - cut into cubes
- julienne - cut into long thin strips
- chop, hack - cut with a hacking tool
- undercut - cut obliquely into (a tree) below the main cut and on the side toward which the tree will fall
- hack - cut away
- chop, chop up - cut into pieces
- cut down, drop, fell, strike down - cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow
- chip, nick - cut a nick into
- nick, snick - cut slightly, with a razor
- break off, chip, cut off, knap - break a small piece off from
- pare, trim - remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size
- circumcise - cut the skin over the clitoris
- chamfer, chase, furrow - cut a furrow into a columns
- indent - cut or tear along an irregular line so that the parts can later be matched for authentication
- mortice, mortise - cut a hole for a tenon in
- cut down, mow - cut with a blade or mower
- shear - cut or cut through with shears
- gash, slash - cut open
- cut down, slash - cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete
- tap - cut a female screw thread with a tap
- hob - cut with a hob
- bore, drill - make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool
- clip, nip, nip off, snip, snip off - sever or remove by pinching or snipping
- dissect - cut open or cut apart
- bisect - cut in half or cut in two
- transect - cut across or divide transversely
- trisect - cut in three
- pare, whittle - cut small bits or pare shavings from
- chatter - cut unevenly with a chattering tool
- cut away - remove by cutting off or away
- tomahawk - cut with a tomahawk
- saber, sabre - cut or injure with a saber
- rebate - cut a rebate in (timber or stone)
- cradle - cut grain with a cradle scythe
- incise - make an incision into by carving or cutting
- trench - cut or carve deeply into
- bob, dock, tail - remove or shorten the tail of an animal
- slice, slit - make a clean cut through
- saw - cut with a saw
- discerp, lop, sever - cut off from a whole
- chase - cut a groove into
- bevel, chamfer - cut a bevel on; shape to a bevel
- crosscut, cut across - cut using a diagonal line
- rip - cut (wood) along the grain
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subtypes:
- shorten - make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration
- spill - reduce the pressure of wind on (a sail)
- quench - reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance
- retrench - make a reduction, as in one's workforce
- slash - cut drastically
- thin out - make sparse
- thin - make thin or thinner
- detract, take away - take away a part from; diminish
- deflate - reduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a decline in value or prices
- inflate - increase the amount or availability of, creating a rise in value
- downsize - (of a company) reduce in size or number of employees
- subtract - take off or away
- knock off, shave - cut the price of
verb group: cut - have a reducing effect -
is a type of: turn - change orientation or direction, also in the abstract sense
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verb group: cut - allow incision or separation
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subtypes: blast - make with or as if with an explosionverb group: cut - form or shape by cutting or incising
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referred to in: fashion - the latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavioris a type of: design - create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled mannersubtypes: gore - cut into goressame as: tailor
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is a type of: hit - deal a blow to, either with the hand or with an instrument
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is a type of: write - communicate or express by writingsubtypes: check - write out a check on a bank account
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verb group: abbreviate, abridge, contract, cut, foreshorten, reduce, shorten - reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
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is a type of: miss - fail to attend an event or activitysubtypes: bunk off, play hooky - play truant from work or schoolsame as: skip
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is a type of: contend, cope, deal, get by, grapple, make do, make out, manage - succeed in doing, achieving, or producing (something) with the limited or inadequate means availablesame as: hack
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is a type of: move - move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion
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is a type of: pass - go across or throughverb group: cut - pass through or across
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is a type of: move through, pass across, pass over, pass through, transit - make a passage or journey from one place to anotherverb group: cut - pass directly and often in haste
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subtypes: cut away - move quickly to another scene or focus when filmingverb group: cut - stop filming
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is a type of: stop - cause to stopverb group: cut - make an abrupt change of image or sound
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verb group: cut - record a performance on (a medium)
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same as: burnverb group: cut - record a performance on (a medium)
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verb group: cut - form by probing, penetrating, or digging
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is a type of: be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)verb group: cut - make an incision or separation
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subtypes: kill - cause to cease operating
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is a type of: shorten - make short or shorter
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same as: cut off
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subtypes:
- bowdlerise, bowdlerize, castrate, expurgate, shorten - edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate
- concentrate, condense, digest - make more concise
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is a type of: weaken - lessen the strength ofsubtypes: water down - make less strong or intense
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is a type of: acquire, develop, get, grow, produce - come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)verb group: cut - grow through the gums
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is a type of: grow - increase in size by natural processverb group: cut - have grow through the gums
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is a type of: castrate, demasculinise, demasculinize, emasculate - remove the testicles of a male animalsame as: geld
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