cut

Meanings

Verb

• To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
• To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
• To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
• To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.
• To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
• To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time.
• To enter a queue in the wrong place.
• To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
• To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it.
• To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
• To change direction suddenly.
• To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
• To write.
• To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug.
• To exhibit (a quality).
• To stop, disengage, or cease.
• 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.
• To lose body mass, aiming to keep muscle but lose body fat.
• To perform (a dancing movement etc.).

Adjective

• Having been cut.
• Reduced.
• Carved into a shape; not raw.
• Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
• Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
• Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
• Emotionally hurt.
• Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.

Noun

• The act of cutting.
• The result of cutting.
• An opening resulting from cutting; an incision or wound.
• A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
• A share or portion.
• A decrease.
• A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
• Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.
• In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball.
• In a strokeplay competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained a preannounced score, so that the rest of the competition is less pressed for time and more entertaining for spectators.
• A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play.
• A particular version or edit of a film.
• The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
• The card obtained by dividing the pack.
• The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
• A slab, especially of meat.
• An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
• A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
• An unkind act; a cruelty.
• A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc.
• A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits were removed for the creation of some feature such as a ditch or pit.
• A haircut.
• The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
• A string of railway cars coupled together, shorter than a train.
• An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
• A common workhorse; a gelding.
• The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
• A skein of yarn.
• That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
• A notch shaved into an eyebrow.
• A time period when one tries to lose fat while retaining muscle mass.
• A hidden or secure place.
• The range of temperatures used to distill a particular mixture of hydrocarbons from crude oil.

Interjection

• An instruction to cease recording.

Origin

• From Middle English cutten, kitten, kytten, ketten (compare Scots kut, kit), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse kytja, kutta, from Proto-Germanic *kutjaną, *kuttaną, of uncertain origin, perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *kwetwą (compare Old Norse kvett). Akin to Middle Swedish kotta (compare dialectal Swedish kåta, kuta, Swedish kuta, kytti), Norwegian kutte, Icelandic kuta, Old Norse kuti, Norwegian kyttel, kytel, kjutul.
• Displaced native Middle English snithen (from Old English snīþan; compare German schneiden), which still survives in some dialects as snithe.
• 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.