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cut verb (USE KNIFE)
cut something on something I cut myself on that glass.
cut something with something She cut her hand with a knife and had to have stitches.
This knife doesn't cut very well.
have your hair cut Where did you have your hair cut?
cut something into something He cut the cake into six (pieces) and gave each child a slice.
cut something in something When the ham is baked, cut it in slices.
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- cutOuch, I've cut my finger!
- chopHe was chopping vegetables to make a stew.
- sliceSlice the mushrooms and fry them in butter.
- snipShe snipped the corner off the soup packet.
- slitHe slit open the envelope with a knife.
- carveHe carved her name on a tree.
cut verb (REMOVE)
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cut verb (MISS)
cut verb (STOP)
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cut verb (GROW TEETH)
cut verb (TAKE SHORT WAY)
cut through to cut through a passage
cut a corner UK (also US cut the corner)
cut verb (CHANGE DIRECTION)
cut verb (CARDS)
Who's going to cut the cards?
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cut verb (RECORD)
Idioms
Phrasal verbs
cut noun (INJURY)
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- injuryHe was treated for minor injuries.
- woundMost of the casualties had gunshot wounds.
- cutHe walked away from the car crash with only cuts and bruises.
- gashHe was bleeding profusely from a deep gash in his leg.
- scratchShe had little scratches all over her arms.
- lacerationA doctor's report said the laceration had cut the jugular vein.
cut noun (MEAT)
cut noun (STYLE)
the cut of I don't like the cut of these jeans.
cut noun (SHARE)
When am I going to get my cut?
cut noun (REDUCTION)
cut noun (PART REMOVED)
cut noun (PASSAGE)
cut noun (IN CRICKET)
cut noun (IN SPORT)
She took a good cut at it with a five wood.
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Idioms
(Definition of cut from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
cut | American Dictionary
cut verb (DIVIDE)
cut verb (REDUCE)
cut verb (MISS)
cut verb (STOP)
cut verb (GROW TEETH)
cut verb (CROSS)
cut verb (CARDS)
cut verb (RECORD)
When did Elvis cut his first record?
Idioms
Phrasal verbs
cut noun [C] (REDUCTION)
cut noun [C] (SOMETHING DIVIDED)
something made by cutting:
She went to the butcher’s to get a good cut of meat.
infml A cut is also a share:
cut adjective [not gradable] (DIVIDED)
(Definition of cut from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
cut | Business English
cut it/things fine informal
to leave very little, or not enough, time to do something:
It's two o'clock now, so you're cutting it fine if you need to be at the airport by three.
Phrasal verbs
(Definition of cut from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of cut
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In observational research in the general population, however, a continuum approach may be more useful than use of a qualitative _cut_-off point.
The operations are set up to cut timber from 1,000 hectares of rainforest in an ecologically sustainable manner.
However, there are quite a few pairs of systems for which the families of minimal cut sets cannot be ordered.
The latter is a sequent calculus that needs none of the standard structural rules of weakening, contraction or cut.
However, the succession is cut by a number of small faults so that the section is not continuous.
Those programs have been targeted for funding cuts ever since.
Reducing radiation levels by 70% with a hessian cloth only cut transpiration by individual trees by about 10% compared with unshaded plants.
After 7 days the basal stems were resterilized and freshly cut, and the raceme explants were transferred to fresh medium.
Therefore, a concave body may be virtually cut into several convex subbodies at the stage of creating the geometry model of the body.
Our study did not provide evidence that either type of cutting surface was safer, although the cleaning method could affect disease risk.
To that extent it cuts down what otherwise would be the rights of property.
The left introduction rules plus weakening and cut are used to compute the logical consequences of a given formula.
More obviously, upper-limb impairment may result in problems preparing and cutting food and delivering it to the mouth.
The cane-cutters preferred the twelve-month cane; the 24-month cane was reported to be harder to cut, had lodged and was infested with weeds.
I don't really know whether cutting would be the answer.
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Collocations with cut
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The highest possible level of public pensions will be cut gradually, to 64% of last net earnings, and an additional cut of the derived widow's pension was made.
Furthermore, local government restructuring and budgetary cuts from the 1970s introduced restrictions in cemetery maintenance expenditure: staffing levels, not easy to maintain, were cut further.
Less commonly, he throws a curveball in the low 70s and a cut fastball.
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