cut
//kʌt//
Forms
- present (v1)
- cut
- past (v2)
- cut
- past participle (v3)
- cut
- present participle
- cutting
- 3rd person singular
- cuts
- Comparative
- more cut
- Superlative
- most cut
Definitions
1.To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
- I cut the article out of the magazine.
- We cut the pie in two.
- Let me cut the carrots.
2.To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
- I cut fifth period to hang out with Angela.
- I gotta cut but I'll see you tomorrow, okay?
- They're going to cut salaries by fifteen percent.
3.To ignore as a social rebuff or snub.
- After the incident at the dinner party, people started to cut him on the street.
- The ordinary people greet him (Aaron Burr) warmly while the respectable folk tend to cut him dead.
4.To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
- Would you please cut the cake?
- I have three diamonds to cut today.
- You must cut this flesh from off his breast.
1.Reduced.
- Cut brandy is a liquor made of brandy and hard grain liquor.
- The pitcher threw a cut fastball that was slower than his usual pitch.
2.Carved into a shape; not raw.
3.Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
4.Having been cut.
Frequency
Overall
Very common· #467
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Common
- General reading & writing
- Very common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Common
Related words
Synonyms
Etymology
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”).