Cut

Quick meaning: Cut is a verb meaning (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (transitive, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
2. (transitive, social) To ignore as a social rebuff or snub.
3. (intransitive, film) To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.
4. (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
5. (transitive, computing) To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time.
6. (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
7. (chiefly transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.

Example Sentences

One student kept trying to cut in front of the line.

Select the text, cut it, and then paste it in the other application.

After the incident at the dinner party, people started to cut him on the street.

The panels of white-wood that cuts like cheese, / But lasts like iron for things like these;

Word Forms

• cuts
• cutting
• cutted
• cutten

Synonyms for cut

Depending on context, synonyms include carve, chive, incide, incise, lacerate, race.

Antonyms for cut

Common opposites include action, rough, turn on, untrimmed, unmown.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include slit, slitted, incised, perforated, gashed, pierced.

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