meaning of cut
1. of Cut
2. To separate the parts of with, or as with, a sharp instrument; to make an incision in; to gash; to sever; to divide.
3. To sever and cause to fall for the purpose of gathering; to hew; to mow or reap.
4. To sever and remove by cutting; to cut off; to dock; as, to cut the hair; to cut the nails.
5. To castrate or geld; as, to cut a horse.
6. To form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc. ; to carve; to hew out.
7. To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce; to lacerate; as, sarcasm cuts to the quick.
8. To intersect; to cross; as, one line cuts another at right angles.
9. To refuse to recognize; to ignore; as, to cut a person in the street; to cut ones acquaintance.
10. To absent ones self from; as, to cut an appointment, a recitation. etc.
11. To do the work of an edged tool; to serve in dividing or gashing; as, a knife cuts well.
12. To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
13. To perform the operation of dividing, severing, incising, intersecting, etc. ; to use a cutting instrument.
14. To make a stroke with a whip.
15. To interfere, as a horse.
16. To move or make off quickly.
17. To divide a pack of cards into two portion to decide the deal or trump, or to change the order of the cards to be dealt.
18. An opening made with an edged instrument; a cleft; a gash; a slash; a wound made by cutting; as, a sword cut.
19. A stroke or blow or cutting motion with an edged instrument; a stroke or blow with a whip.
20. That which wounds the feelings, as a harsh remark or criticism, or a sarcasm; personal discourtesy, as neglecting to recognize an acquaintance when meeting him; a slight.
21. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove; as, a cut for a railroad.
22. The surface left by a cut; as, a smooth or clear cut.
23. A portion severed or cut off; a division; as, a cut of beef; a cut of timber.
24. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving; as, a book illustrated with fine cuts.
25. The act of dividing a pack cards.
26. The right to divide; as, whose cut is it?
27. Manner in which a thing is cut or formed; shape; style; fashion; as, the cut of a garment.
28. A common work horse; a gelding.
29. The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
30. A skein of yarn.
31. Gashed or divided, as by a cutting instrument.
32. Formed or shaped as by cutting; carved.
33. Overcome by liquor; tipsy.
34. CUT Coordinated Universal Time cut and paste copy and paste cut a tape To write a software or document distribution on magnetic tape for shipment. Has nothing to do with physically cutting the medium! "Cutting a disk" has also been reported as live usage. Related slang usages are mainstream businesss "cut a check", the recording industrys "cut a record", and the militarys "cut an order". All of these usages reflect physical processes in obsolete recording and duplication technologies. The first stage in manufacturing an old-style vinyl record involved cutting grooves in a stamping die with a precision lathe. More mundanely, the dominant technology for mass duplication of paper documents in pre-photocopying days involved "cutting a stencil", punching away portions of the wax overlay on a silk screen. More directly, paper tape with holes punched in it was an important early storage medium. [Jargon File] cutover
35. an unexcused absence from class; "he was punished for taking too many cuts in his math
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