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/kət əkrˈɔs/ Listen

verb

Cut v. i. (past & past part. cut; pres. part. cutting)

1.

To do the work of an edged tool; to serve in dividing or gashing; as, a knife cuts well.

2.

To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument. "Panels of white wood that cuts like cheese."

3.

To perform the operation of dividing, severing, incising, intersecting, etc.; to use a cutting instrument. "He saved the lives of thousands by his manner of cutting for the stone."

4.

To make a stroke with a whip.

5.

To interfere, as a horse.

6.

To move or make off quickly. (Colloq.)

7.

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.

To cut across, to pass over or through in the most direct way; as, to cut across a field.

To cut and run, to make off suddenly and quickly; from the cutting of a ship's cable, when there is not time to raise the anchor. (Colloq.)

To cut in or To cut into, to interrupt; to join in anything suddenly.

To cut up.

(a)

To play pranks. (Colloq.)

(b)

To divide into portions well or ill; to have the property left at one's death turn out well or poorly when divided among heirs, legatees, etc. (Slang.) "When I die, may I cut up as well as Morgan Pendennis."

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"Cut across" Quotes from Famous Books

... more beautiful to Helen as she walked across the fields to the mill. She had learned a nearer way, one which lay across hill and field. The path ran through farms, chiefly The Gaffs, and cut across the hills and meadow land. Through little dells, amid fragrant groves of sweet gum and maples, their beautiful many-colored leaves now scattered in rich profusion around. Then down little hollows where the brooks sputtered and frothed and foamed ...

— The Bishop of Cottontown - A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills • John Trotwood Moore

... 'We might cut across through Soho,' he pursued, 'and get among the restaurants. Take my arm again. Only a bit of cross-fighting, and we shall be in the crowd going the other way. Did you do physics at school? Remember ...

— In the Year of Jubilee • George Gissing

... bein' just fastened to pine-trees, trimmed off, and if it had cost much, them boys couldn't have built it, for I reckon the mica people didn't help 'em a great deal, after all) if I would let them cut across my grounds with their wire, and I hadn't no objection, anyway, for the line didn't do no harm up there in the air, and so I said certainly they might, and they did, ...

— What Might Have Been Expected • Frank R. Stockton

... not too muddled to be assignable fall into one of three classes, of which the third we shall distinguish is the largest and most various and divergent. It will be convenient to say a little of each of these classes before proceeding to a more particular account of the third. Our analysis will cut across many accepted classifications, but there will be ample justification for this rearrangement. All of them may be dealt with quite justly as accepting the general account of the historical process ...

— An Englishman Looks at the World • H. G. Wells

... the others," Julia stammered, scarlet cheeked but half laughing. At the same instant his inclination to cut across her path brought her to a full stop. She backed against a heavily tasselled and upholstered old armchair that chanced to be standing in the wings, and sitting down on one of its high arms, looked ...

— The Story Of Julia Page - Works of Kathleen Norris, Volume V. • Kathleen Norris

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