cut meaning
UK /kʌt/ US /kʌt/ 1 syllable
cut (verb): separate with or as if with an instrument.
cut has 70 meanings in this dictionary, as verb, noun and adjective.
cut as a verb
- separate with or as if with an instrument
- Cut the rope
Type of: separate
Kinds: manicure, scissor, plane, slice, pink, jag, carve, cube, julienne, chop, undercut, hack
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- reduce your daily fat intake
- The employer wants to cut back health benefits
Synonyms: reduce, cut down, cut back, trim, trim down, trim back, bring down
Type of: decrease
Kinds: shorten, spill, quench, retrench, slash, thin out, thin, take away, deflate, inflate, downsize, subtract
- turn sharply; change direction abruptly
- The car cut to the left at the intersection
- The motorbike veered to the right
Synonyms: swerve, sheer, curve, trend, veer, slue, slew
Type of: turn
- make an incision or separation
- cut along the dotted line
Related forms: cutting
- discharge from a group
- The coach cut two players from the team
Type of: free
- form by probing, penetrating, or digging
- cut a hole
- cut trenches
- The sweat cut little rivulets into her face
Type of: make
Kinds: blast
- style and tailor in a certain fashion
- cut a dress
Synonyms: tailor
Type of: design
Kinds: gore
- hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction
- cut a Ping-Pong ball
Type of: hit
- make out and issue
- write out a check
- cut a ticket
- Please make the check out to me
Synonyms: write out, issue, make out
Type of: write
Kinds: check
- cut and assemble the components of
- edit film
- cut recording tape
Type of: change
Related forms: cutting
- intentionally fail to attend
- cut class
Synonyms: skip
Type of: miss
Kinds: bunk off
- be able to manage or manage successfully
- I can't hack it anymore
- she could not cut the long days in the office
Synonyms: hack
Type of: cope
- give the appearance or impression of
- cut a nice figure
Type of: look
- move (one's fist)
- his opponent cut upward toward his chin
Type of: move
- pass directly and often in haste
- We cut through the neighbor's yard to get home sooner
Type of: pass
- pass through or across
- The boat cut the water
Type of: transit
- make an abrupt change of image or sound
- cut from one scene to another
Type of: switch
Kinds: cut away
Related forms: cutting
- stop filming
- cut a movie scene
Type of: stop
- make a recording of
- cut the songs
- She cut all of her major titles again
Type of: record
- record a performance on (a medium)
- cut a record
Type of: record
- create by duplicating data
- cut a disk
- burn a CD
Synonyms: burn
Type of: produce
- form or shape by cutting or incising
- cut paper dolls
Type of: make
Related forms: cutting
- perform or carry out
- cut a caper
Type of: perform
- function as a cutting instrument
- This knife cuts well
Type of: function
- allow incision or separation
- This bread cuts easily
Type of: be
- divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult
- Wayne cut
- She cut the deck for a long time
Type of: shuffle
Related forms: cutting
- cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch
- Turn off the stereo, please
- cut the engine
- turn out the lights
Synonyms: switch off, turn off, turn out
Type of: throw
Kinds: kill
- reap or harvest
- cut grain
Type of: reap
- fell by sawing; hew
- The Vietnamese cut a lot of timber while they occupied Cambodia
Type of: fell
- penetrate injuriously
- The glass from the shattered windshield cut into her forehead
Type of: penetrate
- refuse to acknowledge
- She cut him dead at the meeting
Synonyms: ignore, disregard, snub
Type of: treat
- shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of
- cut my hair
Type of: shorten
- weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
- We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet
Synonyms: prune, rationalize, rationalise
Type of: extinguish
- dissolve by breaking down the fat of
- soap cuts grease
Type of: dissolve
- have a reducing effect
- This cuts into my earnings
Type of: decrease
- cease, stop
- cut the noise
- We had to cut short the conversation
Synonyms: cut off
Type of: interrupt
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- The manuscript must be shortened
Synonyms: abridge, foreshorten, abbreviate, shorten, contract, reduce
Type of: decrease
Kinds: bowdlerize, digest
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- cut bourbon
Synonyms: dilute, thin, thin out, reduce
Type of: weaken
Kinds: water down
Related forms: cutting
- have grow through the gums
- The baby cut a tooth
Type of: grow
- grow through the gums
- The new tooth is cutting
Type of: grow
- cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses)
- the vet gelded the young horse
Synonyms: geld
Type of: emasculate
cut as a noun
- a share of the profits
- everyone got a cut of the earnings
Type of: share
Kinds: rake-off
- (film) an immediate transition from one shot to the next
- the cut from the accident scene to the hospital seemed too abrupt
Type of: transition
Kinds: jump cut
- a trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation
Synonyms: gash
Type of: furrow
- a step on some scale
- he is a cut above the rest
Type of: gradation
- a wound made by cutting
- he put a bandage over the cut
Type of: wound
- a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass
Synonyms: cut of meat
Type of: meat
Kinds: roast, confit, chop, chine, leg, side, forequarter, hindquarter, cut of beef, rib, entrecote, shank
- a remark capable of wounding mentally
- the unkindest cut of all
Synonyms: stinger
Type of: abuse
- a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc
- he played the first cut on the cd
- the title track of the album
Synonyms: track
Type of: excerpt
- the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage
- an editor's deletions frequently upset young authors
- both parties agreed on the excision of the proposed clause
Type of: editing
- the style in which a garment is cut
- a dress of traditional cut
Type of: fashion
- a canal made by erosion or excavation
Type of: canal
- a refusal to recognize someone you know
- the snub was clearly intentional
Synonyms: snub, cold shoulder
Type of: rebuff
- in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
- he took a vicious cut at the ball
Synonyms: baseball swing, swing
Type of: stroke
- (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball
- cuts do not bother a good tennis player
Synonyms: undercut
Type of: stroke
- the division of a deck of cards before dealing
- he insisted that we give him the last cut before every deal
- the cutting of the cards soon became a ritual
Synonyms: cutting
Type of: division
- the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge
- his cut in the lining revealed the hidden jewels
Synonyms: cutting
Type of: opening
- the act of cutting something into parts
- his cuts were skillful
- his cutting of the cake made a terrible mess
Synonyms: cutting
Type of: division
Kinds: severance, dissection, scission, slicing, undercut
- the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends
- the barber gave him a good cut
Synonyms: cutting, cutting off
Type of: shortening
- the act of reducing the amount or number
- the mayor proposed extensive cuts in the city budget
Type of: decrease
Kinds: budget cut, pay cut, cost cutting, price cutting, spending cut, tax cut
- an unexcused absence from class
- he was punished for taking too many cuts in his math class
Type of: absence
cut as an adjective
- separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument
- the cut surface was mottled
- cut tobacco
- blood from his cut forehead
- bandages on her cut wrists
Opposite: uncut
Similar: chopped, cut up, incised, perforated, pierced, severed, split
- fashioned or shaped by cutting
- a well-cut suit
- cut diamonds
- cut velvet
Opposite: uncut
- with parts removed
- the drastically cut film
Synonyms: shortened
Similar: abridged
- made neat and tidy by trimming
- his neatly trimmed hair
Synonyms: trimmed
Similar: clipped
- (used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine
- the smell of newly mown hay
Synonyms: mown
Similar: new-mown
- (of pages of a book) having the folds of the leaves trimmed or slit
- the cut pages of the book
Opposite: uncut
- (of a male animal) having the testicles removed
- a cut horse
Synonyms: emasculated, gelded
Similar: castrated
- (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply
- the slashed prices attracted buyers
Synonyms: slashed
Similar: decreased
- mixed with water
- sold cut whiskey
- a cup of thinned soup
Similar: diluted
How to pronounce cut
cut is pronounced /kʌt/ in British English and /kʌt/ in American English. It has 1 syllable.
Words that rhyme with cut
Scrabble score: 5 (letter breakdown)
Word lists: words starting with CU · words ending in UT · 3-letter words
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