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Abbreviation of English Cuicatec, Teutila.

cut

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Teutila Cuicatec.

From Middle English cutten, of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse *kytja, *kutta, from Proto-Germanic *kutjaną, *kuttaną (“to cut”), of uncertain origin, perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *kwetwą (“meat, flesh”) (compare Old Norse kvett (“meat”)). Sometimes instead compared to French couteau, itself from Latin culter (“knife”).[1]

Compare Scots kut, kit (“to cut”)); also akin to Middle Swedish kotta (“to cut or carve with a knife”) (compare dialectal Swedish kåta, kuta (“to cut or chip with a knife”), Swedish kuta, kytti (“a knife”)), Norwegian Bokmål kutte (“to cut”), Norwegian Nynorsk kutte (“to cut”), Icelandic kuta (“to cut with a knife”), Old Norse kuti (“small knife”), Norwegian kyttel, kytel, kjutul (“pointed slip of wood used to strip bark”). Displaced native Middle English snithen (from Old English snīþan; compare German schneiden), which still survives in some dialects as snithe or snead. See snide. Adjective sense of "drunk" (now rare and now usually used in the originally jocular derivative form of half-cut) dates from the 17th century, from cut in the leg, to have cut your leg, euphemism for being very drunk.

cut (third-person singular simple present cuts, present participle cutting, simple past **cut or (nonstandard) cutted, past participle **cut or (nonstandard) cutted or (archaic) cutten)

  1. (chiefly transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
    1. To perform an incision on, for example with a knife.
    2. To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument.
      Would you please cut the cake?
      • 2012 May 8, Yotam Ottolenghi, Sami Tamimi, Ottolenghi: The Cookbook‎[1], Random House, →ISBN, page 79:
        First, marinate the tofu. In a bowl, whisk the kecap manis, chilli sauce, and sesame oil together. Cut the tofu into strips about 1cm thick, mix gently (so it doesn't break) with the marinade and leave in the fridge for half an hour.
    3. To form or shape by cutting.
      I have three diamonds to cut today.
    4. (slang) To wound with a knife.
      • 1990, Stephen Dobyns, The house on Alexandrine:
        We don't want your money no more. We just going to cut you.
    5. (intransitive) To engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin.
      The patient said she had been cutting since the age of thirteen.
    6. (ambitransitive) To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to.
      • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
        “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
    7. To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce.
      Sarcasm cuts to the quick.
      • 1829, Elijah Hoole, Personal Narrative of a Mission to the South of India, from 1820 to 1828:
        she feared she should laugh to hear an European preach in Tamul , but on the contrary , was cut to the heart by what she heard
    8. To castrate or geld.
      to cut a horse
    9. To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
  2. (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
  3. (transitive, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
    1. To separate or omit, in a situation where one was previously associated.
      Travis was cut from the team.
    2. To abridge or shorten a work; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.
    3. To reduce, especially intentionally.
      They're going to cut salaries by fifteen percent.
      • 2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3:
        The principle of prioritising longer-distance trains by cutting services to wayside stations (often leading directly to their closure) is not new.
    4. To absent oneself from (a class, an appointment, etc.).
      I cut fifth period to hang out with Angela.
      • 1833, Thomas Hamilton, Men and Manners in America:
        An English tradesman is always solicitous to cut the shop whenever he can do so with impunity.
    5. (intransitive, slang) To leave abruptly.
      Synonym: (slang) dip
      I gotta cut but I'll see you tomorrow, okay?
      • 2023 September 3, @tamashbean, Twitter‎[2], archived from the original on 25 April 2024:
        my friends and i had gone for lunch but i had to cut early and couldn't get dessert (which if you know me it's my top priority) so they got it packed and dropped off at my place without a word "open the lift and take it" ?????????? how is this real i will literally cry
  4. (transitive, social) To ignore as a social rebuff or snub.
    Synonym: spear
    After the incident at the dinner party, people started to cut him on the street.
    • 1903, Samuel Barber, The Way of All Flesh chapter 73:
      At first it had been very painful to him to meet any of his old friends, [...] but this soon passed; either they cut him, or he cut them; it was not nice being cut for the first time or two, but after that, it became rather pleasant than not [...] The ordeal is a painful one, but if a man's moral and intellectual constitution are naturally sound, there is nothing which will give him so much strength of character as having been well cut.
    • 1973, Gore Vidal, Burr:
      The ordinary people greet him (Aaron Burr) warmly while the respectable folk tend to cut him dead.
    • 27 September 2013, Kane, Kathryn, The Regency Redingote Blog The Cut: The Ultimate & Final Social Weapon:
      The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register for 1798 included an explanation by a reader of how the cut was carried out in his college days in a lengthy letter to the editor, signed by the pseudonym "Ansonius." In his rambling letter, Ansonius noted that when he was at college, " … if a man passed an old acquaintance wittingly, without recognizing him, he was said— ‘To cut him.’" Ansonius then went on to explain the performance of the cut and noted that for a time the term "to spear" was used instead of to cut. However, that term did not remain long in use, and this act was generally known as "the cut" ever after.
  5. (intransitive, film) To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.
    The camera then cut to the woman on the front row who was clearly overcome and crying tears of joy.
  6. (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
  7. (transitive, computing) To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time.
    Select the text, cut it, and then paste it in the other application.
  8. (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
    One student kept trying to cut in front of the line.
    • 2010 June 8, guy & rOdd, “Brevity”, in gocomics.com‎[3]:
      Excuse me, do you mind if I cut?!
  9. (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
    This road cuts right through downtown.
    • 2011 January 18, Daniel Taylor, “Manchester City 4 Leicester City 2”, in Guardian Online:
      Neither Joleon Lescott nor Vieira appeared to make any contact with Dyer as he cut between them.
    • 2013 August 16, John Vidal, “Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 10, page 8:
      Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.
  10. (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  11. (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
  12. (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
    The football player cut to his left to evade a tackle.
  13. (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two parts, often followed by placing the two parts back together in the opposite order.
    If you cut then I'll deal.
  14. (transitive, slang) To make, negotiate; to finalise, conclude; to issue.
    I'll cut a check for you.
    I didn't deserve it, but he cut me a deal.
    to cut a deal, to cut deals
    to cut a fantastic deal, to cut a raw deal
  15. (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug.
    The best malt whiskies are improved if they are cut with a dash of water.
    The bartender cuts his beer to save money and now it's all watery.
    Drug dealers sometimes cut cocaine with lidocaine.
  16. (transitive) To exhibit (a figure having some trait).
    The Bender family cut a very distinct profile.
  1. (transitive) To stop, disengage, or cease.
    Synonym: cut out
    The schoolchildren were told to cut the noise.
    Cut the engines when the plane comes to a halt!
  2. (transitive) To renounce or give up.
    Synonym: cut out
  3. (sports) To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball, or (in tennis) striking it with the racket inclined.
  4. (bodybuilding) To lose body mass, aiming to keep muscle but lose body fat.
    Coordinate term: bulk
  5. To perform (an elaborate dancing movement etc.).
    to cut a caper
  1. (colloquial, intransitive) To run or hurry.

to perform an incision

to divide with a sharp instrument

to separate from prior association

computing: to remove and place in memory

to enter a queue in a wrong place

to cease recording

to reduce

to form or shape by cutting

to intersect dividing into half

in cricket, to make the ball spin sideways

colloquial, not to attend a class

to divide a pack of playing cards

to engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin

Translations to be checked

cut (comparative more cut, superlative most cut)

  1. (participial adjective) Having been cut.
    • 1958 November 7 [1956], Excerpts from "Economic Geography of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region"‎[4], United States Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, page 58:
      The real purpose of building this railway on the part of the Japanese imperialists at that time was to spy on the Mongolian People's Republic and to transport the timber produced in the A-erh-t'ai forest zone. […] The principal cargo consists of cut timber from the A-erh-t'ai-shan, and the cereal products of Wu-lan-hao-t'e.
  2. Reduced.
    Cut brandy is a liquor made of brandy and hard grain liquor.
  3. (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
  4. (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
  5. (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
    • 1988, Steve Holman, “Christian Conquers Columbus”, in Ironman, 47 (6): 28-34:
      Or how 'bout Shane DiMora? Could he possibly get rip-roaring cut this time around?
    • 2010, Bill Geiger, “6-pack Abs in 9 Weeks”, in Reps!, 17:106:
      That's the premise of the overload principle, and it must be applied, even to ab training, if you're going to develop a cut, ripped midsection.
  6. (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
  7. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Upset, angry; emotionally hurt. [from 20th c.]
    • 1999, Julia Leigh, The Hunter, Faber & Faber 2012, p. 41:
      ‘Here y'are,’ says the happy butcher, dragging out a bucket. ‘Good riddance. But me dogs'll be cut tonight, I tell ya. That's their grub.’
  8. (slang, New Zealand, formerly UK) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.[2]
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:drunk

having been cut

reduced

of a gem, carved into a shape

cricket: played with a horizontal bat

bodybuilding: having individual groups of muscle fibers stand out

intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol

cut (countable and uncountable, plural cuts)

A cut (graph theory sense) in a graph with five vertices, which partitioned it into two subgroups (one with white vertices and another with black vertices).

  1. (literal, figurative) The act of cutting.
    He made a fine cut with his sword.
    1. (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
    2. (bodybuilding) A time period when one attempts to lose fat while retaining muscle mass.
  2. (literal, figurative) The result of cutting.
    a smooth or clear cut
    1. An opening of a living body resulting from cutting; an incision or wound.
      1. Such a wound through human skin.
        Look at this cut on my finger!
    2. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
      1. Such a passage dug for a roadway for a paved road or railroad, a canal, a runway, etc.
        a cut through the hillside for a railroad
        * 1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
        which great cut or ditch Sesostris […] purposed to have made a great deale wider and deeper.
    3. An artificial channel for marine navigation, as distinguished from a navigable river.
      Hyponym: canal
    4. A decrease or deletion.
      Antonyms: hike (used in same contexts); increase
      The boss took a 5% pay cut.
      The editors went a little crazy making so many cuts.
    5. The manner or style in which a garment, other article of clothing, or sail is fashioned.
      I like the cut of that suit.
      I like the cut of that jib.
    6. A slab or slice, especially of meat.
      That’s our largest cut of meat.
    7. A standard type of meat portion in butchery.
      The Vegas Strip is a supposedly new cut of beef.
    8. (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
    9. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.
    10. (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball.
    11. (golf) In a stroke play competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained a preannounced score, so that the rest of the competition is less pressed for time and more entertaining for spectators.
    12. (especially theater, film) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play, movie script, speech, etc.
      The director asked the cast to note down the following cuts.
    13. (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
      the director's cut
    14. (card games) The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
      The player next to the dealer makes a cut by placing the bottom half on top.
    15. (card games) The card obtained by dividing the pack.
    16. A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
      • 1819, Washington Irving, (Rip Van Winkle)::
        Rip called him by name, but the cur snarled, showed his teeth, and passed on. This was an unkind cut indeed.
    17. An unkind act; a cruelty.
    18. (slang) An insult.
      • 1966-1969, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
        We got out & there was a group of boppers, bout 25 of 'm in a group. They started yellin cuts, "queer" seemed to be the favorite they all began chanting it. "Hey, yer not gonna serve those queers, are ya Howie?"
    19. A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc.
      Synonym: track
      The drummer on the last cut of their CD is not identified.
      • 1975, Billboard, volume 87, number 24, page 50:
        Best cuts: "The Evil Dude," "Kung Fu, Too!" "Mama Love," "New Orleans" (with a punchy vocal by Teresa Brewer).
    20. (archaeology) A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits were removed for the creation of some feature such as a ditch or pit.
    21. A haircut.
    22. (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
    23. (Internet) A dividing line in a Tumblr post, the content below which is hidden until the reader reveals it.
      That's the TL;DR, anyway. You can find a more detailed version under the cut.
    24. (rail transport) A string of railway cars coupled together, shorter than a train.
      • 1960 June, “Talking of Trains: The new Margam yard”, in Trains Illustrated, page 323:
        The shunter has a lightweight portable radio transmitter by which, as he uncouples an incoming train into cuts for marshalling, he informs the Traffic Office of the number of wagons in each cut and its siding; [...].
    25. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
      a book illustrated with fine cuts
    26. (obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding.
    27. (slang, dated) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
    28. A skein of yarn.
      • 1632, North Riding Record:
        Two women for stealing 30 cuttes of linen yarn.
    29. (slang, uncountable) That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
      Synonym: mix
      Don't buy his coke: it's full of cut.
    30. (fashion) A notch shaved into an eyebrow.
    31. (slang) A hidden, secluded, or secure place.
      • 2003 January 7, “In da Club” (track 5), in Get Rich or Die Tryin'‎[7], performed by 50 Cent:
        I see Xzibit in the cut, hey, nigga, roll that weed up.
      • 2008 March 9, David Simon, “-30-”, in The Wire, season 5, episode 10 (television production), spoken by Slim Charles (Anwan Glover), via HBO:
        You don't mind me askin', why you want to sell? I mean, even from inside here, you can take a slice for just layin' in the cut.
      • 2010 April 14, Wiz Khalifa, “In the Cut”, in Kush & Orange Juice‎[8]:
        In the cut, in the cut, rolling doobies up
      • 2012, Honey Cocaine, In The Cut:
        Bitch I'm out, catch me chillin' in the cut. Me and my homies swag it out in the cut. It's a party going down in the cut.
      • 2016, Drake, “Summer Sixteen"”:
        Famous as fuck, but I’m still in the cut when they round up the troops.
      • 2021, Redferrin, "Stuck":
        She got me stuck. Like a truck, deep mud, deep ruts, way out in the cut. She got me stuck. Even four-wheel drive won't work this time, yeah.
      • 2023 January 9th, Santana Hannah, in JOLLY, "Brits try REAL Southern Fried Chicken for the first time!", YouTube, 11:27:
        We're off the beaten path from River Street downtown. So, it's, we're back here in the cut.
    32. (petrochemistry) The range of temperatures used to distill a particular mixture of hydrocarbons from crude oil.
    33. A sleeveless vest worn by members of a motorcycle club.

act of cutting

result of cutting

opening resulting from cutting

notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging

artificial navigation as distinguished from a navigable river

in cricket, batsman's shot played with a swinging motion

in cricket, sideways movement of the ball through the air

golf: early elimination of worse performers

theatre: passage omitted or to be omitted from a play

cinema: particular version or edit of a film

manner or style a garment is fashioned in

slab of meat

fencing: attack made with a chopping motion of the blade

definable part of a music recording

string of railway cars coupled together

engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving

failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise

skein of yarn — see skein

slang: that which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug

fashion: notch shaved into an eyebrow

bodybuilding: time period when one tries to lose fat while retaining muscle mass

cut!

  1. (film and television) An instruction to cease recording.
    Antonym: action!
    Near-synonym: scene!

Translations

  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “cut”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
  2. ^ “Cut” in [John Camden Hotten], The Slang Dictionary […], 5th edition, London: Chatto and Windus, 1874, page 137.

Related to cyt and nxit, zis, with the i:u:y alteration.[1]

cut (aorist cuta, participle cutur)

  1. (Gheg) to explore, to experiment, to test
    Synonyms: zhbiroj, eksperimentoj, provoj, testoj

Standard Albanian conjugation of cut (active voice)

| | participle | cutur | | | | | | | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | gerund | duke cutur | | | | | | | | infinitive | për të cutur | | | | | | | | singular | plural | | | | | | | | 1st pers. | 2nd pers. | 3rd pers. | 1st pers. | 2nd pers. | 3rd pers. | | | | indicative | present | cut | cut | cut | cutim | cutni | cutin | | imperfect | cutja | cutje | cutte | cutnim | cutnit | cutnin | | | aorist | cuta | cute | cuti | cutëm | cutët | cutën | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | perfect | kam cutur | ke cutur | ka cutur | kemi cutur | keni cutur | kanë cutur | | | past perfect | kisha cutur | kishe cutur | kishte cutur | kishim cutur | kishit cutur | kishin cutur | | | aorist II | pata cutur | pate cutur | pati cutur | patëm cutur | patët cutur | patën cutur | | | future1 | do të cut | do të cutësh | do të cutë | do të cutim | do të cutni | do të cutin | | | future perfect2 | do të kem cutur | do të kesh cutur | do të ketë cutur | do të kemi cutur | do të keni cutur | do të kenë cutur | | | subjunctive | present | të cut | të cutësh | të cutë | të cutim | të cutni | të cutin | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | imperfect | të cutja | të cutje | të cutte | të cutnim | të cutnit | të cutnin | | | perfect | të kem cutur | të kesh cutur | të ketë cutur | të kemi cutur | të keni cutur | të kenë cutur | | | past perfect | të kisha cutur | të kishe cutur | të kishte cutur | të kishim cutur | të kishit cutur | të kishin cutur | | | conditional1, 2 | imperfect | do të cutja | do të cutje | do të cutte | do të cutnim | do të cutnit | do të cutnin | | past perfect | do të kisha cutur | do të kishe cutur | do të kishte cutur | do të kishim cutur | do të kishit cutur | do të kishin cutur | | | optative | present | cutsha | cutsh | cuttë | cutshim | cutshi | cutshin | | | | | | | | | | | perfect | paça cutur | paç cutur | pastë cutur | paçim cutur | paçit cutur | paçin cutur | | | admirative | present | cutkam | cutke | cutka | cutkemi | cutkeni | cutkan | | imperfect | cutkësha | cutkëshe | cutkësh | cutkëshim | cutkëshit | cutkëshin | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | perfect | paskam cutur | paske cutur | paska cutur | paskemi cutur | paskeni cutur | paskan cutur | | | past perfect | paskësha cutur | paskëshe cutur | paskësh cutur | paskëshim cutur | paskëshit cutur | paskëshin cutur | | | imperative | present | — | cut | — | — | cutni | — | | 1) indicative future identical with conditional present 2) indicative future perfect identical with conditional perfect | | | | | | | |

  1. ^ Çabej, E. (1987), “cys”, in Studime etimologjike në fushë të shqipes (in Albanian), volumes III: C–D, Tirana, page 71

From English cut.

cut (Hong Kong Cantonese)

  1. to cut; to incise; to divide
    Synonym: 切
    cut開嚿牛扒／cut开嚿牛扒 [Hong Kong Cantonese] ― kat1 hoi1 gau6 ngau4 paa4-2 [Jyutping] ― to cut a steak into pieces
  2. to cut; to reduce
    Synonym: 削減 / 削减 (xuējiǎn)
    cut budget [Hong Kong Cantonese] ― kat1 bat1 zik4 [Jyutping] ― to reduce allocated budget
  3. to enter a queue at the wrong place; to switch directions suddenly
    cut線／cut线 [Hong Kong Cantonese] ― kat1 sin3 [Jyutping] ― to change lanes when driving
  4. to terminate; to end; to sever
    cut線／cut线 [Hong Kong Cantonese] ― kat1 sin3 [Jyutping] ― to end a call
    cut單／cut单 [Hong Kong Cantonese] ― kat1 daan1 [Jyutping] ― to terminate an order
    cut咗張卡佢／cut咗张卡佢 [Hong Kong Cantonese] ― kat1 zo2 zoeng1 kaat1 keoi5 [Jyutping] ― to cancel a credit card

cut (Hong Kong Cantonese)

  1. (film and television) An instruction to cease recording

cut m (genitive singular cuit, nominative plural cuit)

  1. Cois Fharraige form of cat (“cat”)

Mutated forms of cut

radical lenition eclipsis
cut chut gcut

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

From Proto-North Sarawak *likud, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *likud.

cut

  1. back (the rear of body)

cut

  1. supine of cuś

Borrowed from Middle English cot, from Old Northern French cot, cote (“hut, cottage”).

cut m (plural cutiau)

  1. hut, shed
    Synonyms: cwt, sièd
  2. cottage, hovel
    Synonyms: bwthyn, caban
  3. pen, coop
    Synonyms: lloc, ffald, twlc
  4. cage
    Synonym: cawell

From English kite.

cut m (plural cutiaid)

  1. alternative form of cud (“kite”)
    Synonym: barcud