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Cutting   /kˈətɪŋ/   Listen
Cutting

noun
1.
The activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film.  Synonym: film editing.
2.
A part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting.  Synonym: slip.
3.
The act of cutting something into parts.  Synonym: cut.  "His cutting of the cake made a terrible mess"
4.
A piece cut off from the main part of something.
5.
An excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine.  Synonyms: clipping, newspaper clipping, press clipping, press cutting.
6.
Removing parts from hard material to create a desired pattern or shape.  Synonym: carving.
7.
The division of a deck of cards before dealing.  Synonym: cut.  "The cutting of the cards soon became a ritual"
8.
The act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge.  Synonym: cut.
9.
The act of diluting something.  Synonym: thinning.  "The thinning of paint with turpentine"
10.
The act of shortening something by chopping off the ends.  Synonyms: cut, cutting off.
adjective
1.
(of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character.  Synonyms: edged, stinging.  "Edged satire" , "A stinging comment"
2.
Unpleasantly cold and damp.  Synonyms: bleak, raw.
3.
Painful as if caused by a sharp instrument.  Synonyms: keen, knifelike, lancinate, lancinating, piercing, stabbing.  "Keen winds" , "Knifelike cold" , "Piercing knifelike pains" , "Piercing cold" , "Piercing criticism" , "A stabbing pain" , "Lancinating pain"


Cut

verb
(past & past part. cut; pres. part. cutting)
1.
Separate with or as if with an instrument.
2.
Cut down on; make a reduction in.  Synonyms: bring down, cut back, cut down, reduce, trim, trim back, trim down.  "The employer wants to cut back health benefits"
3.
Turn sharply; change direction abruptly.  Synonyms: curve, sheer, slew, slue, swerve, trend, veer.  "The motorbike veered to the right"
4.
Make an incision or separation.
5.
Discharge from a group.
6.
Form by probing, penetrating, or digging.  "Cut trenches" , "The sweat cut little rivulets into her face"
7.
Style and tailor in a certain fashion.  Synonym: tailor.
8.
Hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction.
9.
Make out and issue.  Synonyms: issue, make out, write out.  "Cut a ticket" , "Please make the check out to me"
10.
Cut and assemble the components of.  Synonyms: edit, edit out.  "Cut recording tape"
11.
Intentionally fail to attend.  Synonym: skip.
12.
Be able to manage or manage successfully.  Synonym: hack.  "She could not cut the long days in the office"
13.
Give the appearance or impression of.
14.
Move (one's fist).
15.
Pass directly and often in haste.
16.
Pass through or across.
17.
Make an abrupt change of image or sound.
18.
Stop filming.
19.
Make a recording of.  "She cut all of her major titles again"
20.
Record a performance on (a medium).
21.
Create by duplicating data.  Synonym: burn.  "Burn a CD"
22.
Form or shape by cutting or incising.
23.
Perform or carry out.
24.
Function as a cutting instrument.
25.
Allow incision or separation.
26.
Divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult.  "She cut the deck for a long time"
27.
Cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch.  Synonyms: switch off, turn off, turn out.  "Cut the engine" , "Turn out the lights"
28.
Reap or harvest.
29.
Fell by sawing; hew.
30.
Penetrate injuriously.
31.
Refuse to acknowledge.  Synonyms: disregard, ignore, snub.
32.
Shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of.
33.
Weed out unwanted or unnecessary things.  Synonyms: prune, rationalise, rationalize.
34.
Dissolve by breaking down the fat of.
35.
Have a reducing effect.
36.
Cease, stop.  Synonym: cut off.  "We had to cut short the conversation"
37.
Reduce in scope while retaining essential elements.  Synonyms: abbreviate, abridge, contract, foreshorten, reduce, shorten.
38.
Lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture.  Synonyms: dilute, reduce, thin, thin out.
39.
Have grow through the gums.
40.
Grow through the gums.
41.
Cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses).  Synonym: geld.



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"Cutting" Quotes from Famous Books



... dashed their heavy-laden boats against the floe-ice, ultimately drove them ashore, and nearly cost the little party their lives. On that last day of the long struggle up the stream, a stiff north-easter was cutting the middle reach of the mighty river, two miles wide here, into a ...
— The Magnetic North • Elizabeth Robins (C. E. Raimond)
... wandered in the terror-stricken streets of burned Chicago. The multitudes—nearly two hundred thousand—were eating in gratitude; the mothers with babes were under shelter. Was the unburned temple of the atheist open? Oh, no! He had none. Who was cutting the meats and breaking the bread? The wives and daughters of the parishes which had been spared from the hot flames. It was a solemn lesson. I said: "I will not, Colonel Ingersoll, throw away the hope I have." By their works shall ye know them! 'Tis as true ...
— The Golden Censer - The duties of to-day, the hopes of the future • John McGovern
... Invernahyle rushed on him, and required him to surrender. "Never to rebels!" was the undaunted reply, accompanied with a lunge, which the Highlander received on his target, but instead of using his sword in cutting down his now defenceless antagonist, he employed it in parrying the blow of a Lochaber axe aimed at the officer by the Miller, one of his own followers, a grim-looking old Highlander, whom I remember to ...
— Chronicles of the Canongate • Sir Walter Scott
... They shouldered our little hull sideways and passed, scalloped, and splayed out, toward the coast, carrying our white wake in loops along their hollow backs. In succession we looked down a lead-grey cutting of water for half a clear mile, were flung up on its ridge, beheld the Channel traffic—full-sailed to that fair breeze—all about us, and swung slantwise, light as a bladder, elastic as a basket, into the next furrow. Then the sun found us, struck the wet gray bows to living, leaping opal, ...
— Traffics and Discoveries • Rudyard Kipling
... Otherwise, if he is skilful in cutting throats, perhaps he is less so in making a diagnosis of ...
— Conscience, Complete • Hector Malot


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