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cut(3) (iou)



cut noun2. LME.
[from the verb.]
I. A result of cutting.
A piece (esp. of meat or cloth) cut off; spec. each of the joints of meat into which a butcher divides a carcass; Scot. & north. a certain quantity of yarn; N. Amer. a quantity of timber etc. harvested; N. Amer. (a light snack of) a slice of meat (obsolete exc. in cold cuts: see COLD adjective). LME.
M. Edgeworth Mary spun nine cuts a day. E. David Recipes for the cheaper cuts of meat.
b. A part of a field cut or for cutting at one time. US. M18.
c. A number of sheep or cattle taken out of a flock or herd. US, Austral., & NZ. L19.
d. fig. A share of profits or takings; commission. slang. E20.
A long narrow opening in a surface, esp. the skin, made by something sharp; an incision; a gash. M16.
SPEEDY cut.
J. Steinbeck A long deep cut in his chin.., a deep bleeding slash. J. Hooker Stones with red marks like cuts of a rusty axe.
An incision made in the edge of a garment etc. for ornament. M16.
a. A passage cut or dug out; a new channel made for a river; a railway cutting. M16.
b. A natural narrow opening or passage by water; a channel, a strait; a creek, an inlet. obsolete exc. dial. L16.
A design engraved on a block of wood (formerly also copper or steel) for printing; an electrotype; an illustration made with such a block etc. M17.
WOODCUT.
A gramophone record or recording; a version of a film after editing. M20.
lateral cut: see LATERAL adjective. rough cut: see ROUGH adjective.
II. An act of cutting.
An act or utterance that wounds the feelings; a blow, a shock. M16.
R. Bolton A most cruel cut to a troubled conscience.
A stroke or blow given with a sharp-edged instrument, as a knife, sword, etc.; Fencing a stroke given with the edge of the weapon as distinguished from the point; an act of cutting a person's hair, a haircut, (cf. sense 18 below). L16.
cut and thrust the use of both the edge and the point of one's sword while fighting; fig. lively interchange of argument etc. second cut: see SECOND adjective.
T. H. White Waving his blade and trying to get a cut at him.
b. A sharp stroke with a whip, cane, etc. See also upper-cut (a) s.v. UPPER adjective. E18.
the cuts Austral. & NZ slang the cane, as a child's punishment.
A. Brink He tried to protest against Jonathan's sentence of six cuts...By that time the flogging had..been administered.
The act of cutting a pack of cards; the card obtained by cutting. L16.
The excision or omission of part of a play, film, book, etc. E17.
make the cut Golf equal or better a required score, thus avoiding elimination from the last two rounds of a four-round tournament.
A step in which a dancer cuts (CUT verb 29). L17.
A deliberate refusal to recognize or acknowledge another person. colloq. L18.
An act of absenting oneself from a class etc. Chiefly US. M19.
A stroke made by cutting in cricket, tennis, etc. M19.
late cut: see LATE adjective. square cut: see SQUARE adjective.
A reduction in price, rate of pay, service offered, etc. Also, a temporary cessation of the availability of electricity, gas, water, or telephone communication. L19.
power cut etc.
Cinematography. An immediate transition from one scene to another. M20.
III. A thing that cuts.
A passage, course, or way straight across, esp. as contrasted with a longer way round. Now chiefly US exc. in short cut below. L16.
near cut (now Scot.), short cut a shorter route to a place than the usual or expected (lit. & fig.).
A. Fonblanque The cut across the fields is shut up. E. Bowen Crossing..Oxford Street, they took a cut through Mayfair.
IV. A style of cutting.
The way something is cut; fashion, style, (of clothes, hair, etc.); spec. (freq. with specifying word) a hairstyle created by cutting, a haircut. L16.
crew cut, urchin cut, etc. fig.: J. Carlyle These Londoners are all of the cut of this woman. a cut above noticeably superior to. the cut of a person's jib: see JIB noun1.
S. Bellow The German cut of his overcoat.
Comb.: cut-line (a) Rackets the line above which a served ball must strike the wall; (b) a caption to an illustration.