Definition of Cut

Cut

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To separate the parts of with, or as with, a sharp instrument; to make an incision in; to gash; to sever; to divide.

To sever and cause to fall for the purpose of gathering; to hew; to mow or reap.

To sever and remove by cutting; to cut off; to dock; as, to cut the hair; to cut the nails.

To castrate or geld; as, to cut a horse.

To form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.; to carve; to hew out.

To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce; to lacerate; as, sarcasm cuts to the quick.

To intersect; to cross; as, one line cuts another at right angles.

To refuse to recognize; to ignore; as, to cut a person in the street; to cut one's acquaintance.

To absent one's self from; as, to cut an appointment, a recitation. etc.

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

To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.

To perform the operation of dividing, severing, incising, intersecting, etc.; to use a cutting instrument.

To make a stroke with a whip.

To interfere, as a horse.

To move or make off quickly.

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.

An opening made with an edged instrument; a cleft; a gash; a slash; a wound made by cutting; as, a sword cut.

A stroke or blow or cutting motion with an edged instrument; a stroke or blow with a whip.

That which wounds the feelings, as a harsh remark or criticism, or a sarcasm; personal discourtesy, as neglecting to recognize an acquaintance when meeting him; a slight.

A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove; as, a cut for a railroad.

The surface left by a cut; as, a smooth or clear cut.

A portion severed or cut off; a division; as, a cut of beef; a cut of timber.

An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving; as, a book illustrated with fine cuts.

The act of dividing a pack cards.

The right to divide; as, whose cut is it?

Manner in which a thing is cut or formed; shape; style; fashion; as, the cut of a garment.

A common work horse; a gelding.

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

A skein of yarn.

Gashed or divided, as by a cutting instrument.

Formed or shaped as by cutting; carved.

Overcome by liquor; tipsy.

To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.

To drive (an object ball) to either side by hitting it fine on the other side with the cue ball or another object ball.

To strike (a ball) with the racket inclined or struck across the ball so as to put a certain spin on the ball.

To drive (a ball) to one side by hitting with another ball.

A slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin so given to the ball.

A stroke on the off side between point and the wicket; also, one who plays this stroke.

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If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
C. S. Lewis

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
C. S. Lewis

If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.
Warren Buffett

You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.
Yogi Berra

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
Theodore Roosevelt

I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.
Barack Obama

If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship.
Barack Obama

I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators and congressmen 10 percent until they balance the budget. I call that conservative common sense.
Herman Cain

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win - essential to success.
Napoleon Hill