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noun
verb
- (transitive) To cut anything in this fashion.
- To reduce in size, weight, time taken etc., usually by a small amount.
- (transitive) To make (the head, skin etc.) bald or (the hair) shorter by using a tool such as a razor or electric clippers to cut the hair close to the skin.
- (MLE, slang, transitive) To injure by employing a knife.
- To skim along or near the surface of; to pass close to, or touch lightly, in passing.
- (intransitive) To remove hair from one's face by this means.
- (transitive) To cut finely, for example slices of meat.
- cut the price of
- cut closely
- remove body hair with a razor
- cut or remove with or as if with a plane
- make shavings of or reduce to shavings
- touch the surface of lightly
noun
verb
noun
- (uncountable, music, Caribbean) A genre of music played with a ripsaw and other instruments, originally associated mainly with Turks and Caicos Islands.
- (woodworking) A saw that is designed to cut wood along its grain, i.e. to rip, to execute a rip cut.
- a handsaw for cutting with the grain of the wood
verb
- To cut up or carve up with a knife.
- (more generally) To trim with a knife.
- (figurative) To sit up or stand up suddenly.
- (figurative) To move in a stabbing or penetrating manner
- (figurative) To slice through; to cut or traverse a path through or between.
- To rise precipitously.
- (figurative) To traverse up the body in a quick stabbing sensation
- (figurative) To penetrate sharply upward.
- To extract a morsel or dab (of something) with a knife.
verb
- To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.
- (informal) To perform a vasectomy.
- (Internet) To remove the irrelevant parts of quotations in the reply message.
- (informal) To circumcise.
- To speak or say in a snippish manner.
- To break off; to snatch away.
- To reduce the price of a product, to create a snip.
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- sever or remove by pinching or snipping
noun
- A piece cut out by snipping.
- The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something.
- (onomatopoeia) An act or sound of snipping, the sound produced by scissors.
- (definite, the snip, euphemistic) A vasectomy.
- A single cut with scissors, clippers, or similar tool.
- (informal) Something acquired for a low price; a bargain.
- (informal) A small or weak person, especially a young one.
- A small amount of something; a pinch.
- A white marking on a horse's muzzle, between the nostrils.
- the act of clipping or snipping
- a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off)
verb
- penetrate or cut, as with a knife
- cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
- to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws
- deliver a sting to
- (intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
- (intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
- (intransitive, figurative) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
- (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
- (transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
- (intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
- (intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.
- (transitive) To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
- (transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
- (intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.
- (intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
- (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
- (intransitive) To attack with the teeth.
- (stative, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
- (intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.
- (intransitive, chiefly in the negative) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.
noun
- a strong odor or taste property
- a small amount of solid food; a mouthful
- (angling) an instance of a fish taking the bait
- a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
- a light informal meal
- a portion removed from the whole
- a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person
- wit having a sharp and caustic quality
- the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws
- The act of biting.
- (printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
- The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
- (television) Ellipsis of sound bite.
- (slang) Something unpleasant.
- (slang) A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.
- (figuratively, uncountable) incisiveness, provocativeness, exactness.
- A small meal or snack.
- (slang) An act of plagiarism.
- (figuratively, uncountable) Aggression.
- (cricket) The turn that a spin bowler imparts to a pitch.
- A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
- The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
- The wound left behind after having been bitten.
verb
noun
- the shedding of blood resulting in murder
- a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails
- coagulated blood from a wound
- Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
- (surveying, chiefly US) A small piece of land left unincorporated due to competing surveys or a surveying error.
- A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail or a skirt.
- A triangular piece of land where roads meet.
- An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.
- The curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe, or an equivalent section of a spherical or dome-shaped object in general.ᵂᵖ
- (heraldry) A charge, delineated by two inwardly curved lines, starting respectively from the middle base corner and one of the two chief corners and meeting in the fess point.
- (obsolete except in dialects) Dirt, filth, often dung or mud.
- A sign immediately adjacent to an exit from a roadway identifying it as an exit, optionally with the exit's identification number.
- A projecting point.
- Carnage, bloodshed, murder, violence.
adj
noun
- (countable, UK) An open passage at a level lower than the surrounding terrain, dug for a canal, railway, or road to go through.
- (countable) A newspaper clipping.
- (uncountable, cinematography, sound engineering) The editing of film or other recordings.
- (countable) An abridged selection of written work, often intended for performance.
- (countable) A section removed from a larger whole.
- (countable, horticulture) A leaf, stem, branch, or root removed from a plant and cultivated to grow a new plant.
- (uncountable, machining) The process of bringing metals to a desired shape by chipping away the unwanted material.
- (uncountable, psychology) The act of cutting one's own skin as a symptom of a mental disorder; self-harm.
- (countable, uncountable) The action of the verb to cut.
- an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine
- the act of diluting something
- a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting
- removing parts from hard material to create a desired pattern or shape
- the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends
- the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge
- the act of cutting something into parts
- the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film
- a piece cut off from the main part of something
- the division of a deck of cards before dealing
verb
noun
- A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
- A part of a document, especially a major part; often notated with §.
- (surgery, colloquial) Ellipsis of Caesarean section.
- (music) A group of instruments in an orchestra.
- (Philippines, education) A class in a school; a group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher in a certain school year or semester or school quarter year.
- (geology) A sequence of rock layers.
- (topology) A function that generalizes the notion of the graph of a function; formally, a continuous right inverse to the projection map of a fiber bundle.
- A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
- (botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
- (zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
- An act or instance of cutting.
- (sciences) thin section, a thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
- (generalizing the topology sense in a different way, sheaf theory) An object which is defined by analogy with sections of fiber bundles but in a more general setting (that of sheaves). Formally, an element of the image of an open set under the action of a (pre-)sheaf.
- (New Zealand) A piece of residential land; a plot.
- (military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
- (aviation) A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.
- (US, Canada, law and land surveying) Synonym of square mile, a unit of land area, especially in the contexts of Canadian surveys and American land grants and legal property descriptions.
- (surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
- A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
- The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.
- (technology) Angle section, L-section, angle iron, steel angle, slotted angle.
- (archaeology) Archeological section; vertical plane and cross-section of the ground to view its profile and stratigraphy; part of an archeological sequence.
- (generalizing the topology sense, algebra, category theory) A right inverse of a morphism in some category
- one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object
- a division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class
- (geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid
- a small team of policemen working as part of a police platoon
- a distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people
- a small army unit usually having a special function
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- a segment of a citrus fruit
- a specialized division of a large organization
- a very thin slice (of tissue or mineral or other substance) for examination under a microscope
- a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical)
- a small class of students who are part of a larger course but are taught separately
- the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation)
- a land unit equal to 1 square mile
verb
- To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
- To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.
- (medicine) To perform a cesarean section on (someone).
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand) To commit (a person) to a hospital for mental health treatment as an involuntary patient. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.
- divide into segments
verb
- cut into slices
- (transitive) To cut into slices.
- make a clean cut through
- hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels in a different direction
- hit a ball so that it causes a backspin
- (transitive, golf) To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
- (transitive, tennis) To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.
- (transitive, rowing) To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
- (transitive) To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
- (transitive, badminton) To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
- (transitive, soccer) To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
- (transitive) To cut with an edge using a drawing motion.
noun
- a wound made by cutting
- a golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer
- a share of something
- a thin flat piece cut off of some object
- a spatula for spreading paint or ink
- a serving that has been cut from a larger portion
- A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.
- A piece of pizza, shaped like a sector of a circle.
- (golf) A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw.
- A salver, platter, or tray.
- (cricket) A kind of cut shot where the bat makes an obtuse angle with the batter.
- A thin, broad piece cut off.
- (Australia, New Zealand, UK) Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
- (falconry) A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
- That which is thin and broad.
- A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
- One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
- (colloquial) An amount of anything.
- (printing) A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
- (British) A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
- (medicine) A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
- (programming) A contiguous portion of an array.
- A broad, thin piece of plaster.
adj
verb
- cut or carve deeply into
- fortify by surrounding with trenches
- impinge or infringe upon
- cut a trench in, as for drainage
- set, plant, or bury in a trench
- dig a trench or trenches
- To have direction; to aim or tend.
- To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.
- (archaeology) To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.
- To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next.
- (usually followed by upon) To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.
- (military, infantry) To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.
- To cut furrows or ditches in.
noun
- a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth
- a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
- any long ditch cut in the ground
- (archaeology) A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation.
- A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.
- (informal) A trench coat.
- (military) A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces.
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verb
adj
noun
- (slang) Poor-quality beer, usually watered down.
- (slang, chiefly UK, Antarctica) Rubbish, particularly on board a ship or aircraft.
- (slang, UK, now vulgar) Something low quality.
- (slang, vulgar) A vulva.
- A deep cut.
- (slang) Unused film or sound during film editing.
- (slang, uncountable, offensive, derogatory) A woman.
- (slang, UK, now vulgar) Nonsense.
- a wound made by cutting
- a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument
- a trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation
verb
noun
verb
- To remove by cutting.
- To stop the provision or supply of something, e.g. power, water.
- To swerve in front of (another car) while driving.
- (Southern US) To turn off or switch off (an electrical device).
- To move so as to block someone else's movement in a direction.
- To isolate or remove from contact.
- To end abruptly.
- (of a boundary) To exclude (something) from the field of view.
- To interrupt (someone speaking).
- To stop providing funds or something else to (someone).
- make a break in
- remove surgically
- remove by or as if by cutting
- cease, stop
- break a small piece off from
- cut off and stop
noun
adj
noun
- One who slashes.
- A tool for cutting undergrowth.
- One who self-injures by cutting.
- A murderer in such a film.
- (fandom slang) One who writes slash fiction and/or supports male/male ships.
- A machine for applying size to warp yarns.
- (informal, film) A horror movie with graphic blood and violence; a slasher movie.
- a weapon (a sword or dagger) used for slashing
- someone who slashes another person
noun
- A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
- A small amount of food or drink, (particularly) a small amount of liquor.
- (nautical) A short turn in a rope.
- (Manitoba, Northwestern Ontario) A hamburger.
- A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
- Briskly cold weather.
- (papermaking) The place of intersection where one roll touches another
- A pinch with the nails or teeth.
- A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
- A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching
- (mining) A more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum.
- (slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A nipple, usually of a woman.
- A playful bite.
- the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
- a small drink of liquor
- a small sharp bite or snip
- a tart spicy quality
- the property of being moderately cold
verb
- To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
- To taunt.
- (slang, vulgar) To have erect nipples.
- To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
- (informal) To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.
- (Scotland, Northern England) To squeeze or pinch.
- To benumb [e.g., cheeks, fingers, nose] by severe cold.
- To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
- To annoy, as by nipping.
- sever or remove by pinching or snipping
- give a small sharp bite to
- squeeze tightly between the fingers
verb
- To cut with a swift broad stroke of an edged weapon.
- cut drastically
- (Scotland, intransitive) To work in wet conditions.
- To produce a similar wound with a savage strike of a whip.
- (fashion) To create slashes in a garment.
- (ice hockey) To strike swiftly and laterally with a hockey stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.
- (cricket) To swing wildly at the ball.
- To crack a whip with a slashing motion.
- (figuratively) To reduce sharply.
- To strike violently and randomly, particularly:
- (intransitive, UK, slang) To piss, to urinate.
- (intransitive, fandom slang) To write slash fiction.
- (US, Canada) To clear land, (particularly forestry) with violent action such as logging or brushfires or (agriculture, uncommon) through grazing.
- (figuratively) To criticize cuttingly.
- To move quickly and violently.
- move or stir about violently
- beat severely with a whip or rod
- cut open
- cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete
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noun
- (vulgar, slang) The vulva.
- (Scotland) A large quantity of watery food such as broth.
- (botany) A deep taper-pointed incision in a plant.
- A deep cut or laceration, as made by an edged weapon or whip.
- (fashion) A slit in an outer garment, usually exposing a lining or inner garment of a contrasting color or design.
- A swift, broad cutting stroke, especially one made with an edged weapon or whip.
- (eastern US, uncommon) A slash pine, which grows in such (swampy) areas.
- (eastern US) A swampy area; a swamp.
- (idiomatic, by extension) The conjunctions and or also (during a conversation).
- (UK) Alternative form of slatch: a deep trough of finely-fractured culm or a circular or elliptical pocket of coal.
- (US and Canada) The loose woody debris remaining from a slash; the trimmings left while preparing felled trees for removal.
- (UK, slang, vulgar, rare) Piss; urine.
- (originally US, typography) The slash mark: the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩.
- (UK, slang, vulgar) A piss: an act of urination.
- (sports) A wide striking motion made with an implement such as a cricket bat, hockey stick, or lacrosse stick.
- (figuratively) A sharp reduction in resources allotted.
- (US and Canada) A clearing in a forest, particularly one made by logging, fire, or other violent action.
- (often proscribed) Any similar typographical mark, such as the backslash ⟨\⟩.
- (fandom slang) Slash fiction; fan fiction focused on homoerotic pairing of fictional characters.
- an open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind)
- a wound made by cutting
- a punctuation mark (‘/’) used to separate related items of information
- a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument
noun
verb
noun
verb
verb
- cut or cut through with shears
- shear the wool from
- become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain
- cut with shears
- (Scotland) To reap, as grain.
- (figurative) To deprive of property; to fleece.
- (mining, intransitive) To make a vertical cut in coal.
- (intransitive, transitive) To remove the fleece from (a sheep, llama, etc.) by clipping.
- (physics) To deform because of forces pushing in opposite directions.
- (engineering) (also 'shear off') To break or suddenly separate because of excessive force, eg. a bolt.
- (mathematics) To transform by displacing every point in a direction parallel to some given line by a distance proportional to the point’s distance from the line.
- To cut the hair of (a person).
- (aviation, meteorology, intransitive, of wind) To change in direction or speed.
- To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears.
noun
- (physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves
- a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it
- (aviation, meteorology, countable) A specific instance of wind shear.
- (aviation, meteorology, uncountable) The phenomenon of wind shear.
- (physics) Forces that push in opposite directions.
- The act of shearing, or something removed by shearing.
- (geology) The response of a rock to deformation usually by compressive stress, resulting in particular textures.
- (mathematics) A transformation that displaces every point in a direction parallel to some given line by a distance proportional to the point's distance from the line.
- A cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger.
- (metalworking) A large machine use for cutting sheet metal.
adj
verb
- (transitive) To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
- (informal) To fly a helicopter or be flown in a helicopter.
- (intransitive) To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
- (slang, transitive) To have sex with.
- (intransitive) To interrupt; with in or out.
- (transitive, figurative) To separate or divide.
- To converse, discuss, or speak with another.
- (slang, transitive) To manipulate or separate out a line of cocaine.
- (poker) To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players.
- (transitive, Hong Kong) To stab.
- (computing, transitive, Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string).
- (transitive, baseball) To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.
- To chap or crack.
- To seal a licence or passport.
- (transitive) to give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand.
- (transitive) To sever with an axe or similar implement.
- (nautical) To vary or shift suddenly.
- (transitive, colloquial, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) To stamp or seal (a document); to mark, impress or otherwise place a design or symbol on paper or other material, usually, but not necessarily, to indicate authenticity.
- (intransitive) To make a quick, heavy stroke or a series of strokes, with or as with an ax.
- cut into pieces with repeated blows
- hit sharply
- cut with a hacking tool
- strike sharply, as in some sports
- move suddenly
- form or shape by chopping
noun
- A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
- (chiefly in the plural) A jaw of an animal.
- A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar implement.
- (poker) A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.
- (informal, with "the") Termination, especially from employment; the sack.
- (colloquial, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) A stamp or seal; a mark, imprint or impression on a document (or other object or material) made by stamping or sealing a design with ink or wax, respectively, or by other methods.
- (uncountable) Aircraft turbulence.
- Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.
- A movable jaw or cheek, as of a vice.
- A licence or passport that has been sealed.
- (MLE, slang) A knife, especially one used as a weapon.
- A mark indicating nature, quality, or brand.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A woodchopping competition.
- A turn of fortune; change; a vicissitude.
- A complete shipment.
- (martial arts) A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.
- The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbour, or channel.
- (Internet) An IRC channel operator.
- (UK, slang) Cocaine.
- (colloquial, by extension, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) The device used for stamping or sealing, which also contains the design to be imprinted.
- a grounder that bounces high in the air
- a tennis return made with a downward motion that puts backspin on the ball
- the irregular motion of waves (usually caused by wind blowing in a direction opposite to the tide)
- a jaw
- a small cut of meat including part of a rib
verb
- cut with a saw
- (intransitive) To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw.
- (colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of see
- (transitive) To form or produce (something) by cutting with a saw.
- simple past of see
- (intransitive) To be cut with a saw.
- (transitive) To cut (something) with a saw.
noun
- hand tool having a toothed blade for cutting
- a power tool for cutting wood
- a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people
- A musical saw.
- A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal.
- Such a tool with an abrasive coating instead of teeth.
- (whist) The situation where two partners agree to trump a suit alternately, playing that suit to each other for the express purpose.
- A sawtooth wave.
noun
- The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.
- Ellipsis of razor blade.
- (sailing) The rudder, daggerboard, or centerboard of a vessel.
- Thin plate, foil.
- (mathematics) An exterior product of vectors. (The product may have more than two factors. Also, a scalar counts as a 0-blade, a vector as a 1-blade; an exterior product of k vectors may be called a k-blade.)
- (climbing) Synonym of knifeblade.
- (ultimate frisbee) A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude.
- (athletics, informal) An artificial foot used by amputee athletes, shaped like an upside-down question mark.
- A bulldozer or surface-grading machine with mechanically adjustable blade that is nominally perpendicular to the forward motion of the vehicle.
- (archaeology) A piece of prepared, sharp-edged stone, often flint, at least twice as long as it is wide; a long flake of ground-edge stone or knapped vitreous stone.
- (architecture, in the plural) The principal rafters of a roof.
- (uncountable, music) The quality of singing with a pure, resonant sound; especially of a countertenor.
- The part of a key that is inserted into the lock.
- (botany) The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole).
- A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck).
- (slang, chiefly US) A homosexual, usually male.
- (computing) Ellipsis of blade server.
- (metonymic) A sword or knife.
- (photography) One of a series of small plates that make up the aperture or the shutter of a camera.
- (slang, chiefly US) An area of a city which is commonly known for prostitution.
- (biology) The four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell.
- The flat functional end or piece of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, chisel, screwdriver, skate, etc.
- A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade.
- (chiefly phonetics, phonology) The part of the tongue just behind the tip, used to make laminal consonants.
- The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.
- something long and thin resembling a blade of grass
- a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard
- flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water
- a cut of beef from the shoulder blade
- a broad flat body part (as of the shoulder or tongue)
- especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole
- the flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a cutting edge
- a dashing young man
- the part of the skate that slides on the ice
verb
verb
- (transitive) To cut with a knife.
- (intransitive) To cut through as if with a knife.
- (transitive) To positively ignore, especially in order to denigrate; compare cut.
- (transitive) To betray, especially in the context of a political slate.
- (transitive) To use a knife to injure or kill by stabbing, slashing, or otherwise using the sharp edge of the knife as a weapon.
- use a knife on
noun
- Any blade-like part in a tool or a machine designed for cutting, such as that of a chipper.
- A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge, attached to a handle. The blade may be pointed for piercing.
- A weapon designed with the aforementioned specifications intended for slashing or stabbing but too short to be called a sword; a dagger.
- edge tool used as a cutting instrument; has a pointed blade with a sharp edge and a handle
- a weapon with a handle and blade with a sharp point
- any long thin projection that is transient
noun
- Someone or something that slices.
- A slicing cucumber.
- A broad, flat knife.
- A piece of software that converts a model into a series of thin layers for 3D printing.
- (cooking) A machine that cuts meats, also named a deli slicer.
- (computing) A kind of data filter used in data visualization.
- a machine for cutting; usually with a revolving blade
- knife especially designed for slicing particular foods, as cheese
- a golfer whose shots typically curve right (for right-handed golfers)
adj
verb
- cut to pieces
- (transitive) To cut into smaller pieces, parts, or sections.
- (transitive, idiomatic, UK, Ireland) To move aggressively in front of another vehicle while driving.
- (informal, motor racing) Comprise a particular selection of runners.
- (transitive, informal) To lacerate; to wound by multiple lacerations; to injure or damage by cutting, or as if by cutting.
- (intransitive) To disintegrate; to break into pieces.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To distress mentally or emotionally.
- (intransitive, literally) To cut upward.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To behave like a clown or jokester (a cut-up); to misbehave; to act in a playful, comical, boisterous, or unruly manner to elicit laughter, attention, etc.
- significantly cut up a manuscript
- separate into isolated compartments or categories
- damage or injure severely
verb
- cut slightly, with a razor
- mate successfully; of livestock
- divide or reset the tail muscles of
- cut a nick into
- (transitive) To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.
- (transitive, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, law enforcement, slang) To arrest.
- (transitive, mining) To make a cut at the side of the face.
- (transitive, rare) To make a crosscut or cuts on the underside of (the tail of a horse, in order to make the animal carry it higher).
- (transitive, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, colloquial) To steal.
- (transitive) To make ragged or uneven, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to deface, to mar.
noun
- (British slang) a prison
- a small cut
- an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
- (genetics) One of the single-stranded DNA segments produced during nick translation.
- (cricket) A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, law enforcement, slang) A police station or prison.
- (Internet) Clipping of nickname.
- (real tennis, squash, racquetball) The point where the wall of the court meets the floor.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, colloquial) Often in the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition, state.
verb
noun
adj
noun
- (Scotland) The act or operation of reaping.
- Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions.
- The material cut off in this way.
- The act or operation of dividing with shears.
- The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
- (mining) The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.
- Alternative form of shearling.
- The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
- removing by cutting off or clipping
verb
verb
- cut away
- significantly cut up a manuscript
- cut with a hacking tool
- kick on the shins
- be able to manage or manage successfully
- cough spasmodically
- fix a computer program piecemeal until it works
- kick on the arms
- (computing) To accomplish a difficult programming task.
- To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
- To play hackeysack.
- To drive a hackney cab.
- (ice hockey) To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
- (transitive, slang, computing, by extension) To gain unauthorized access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
- (transitive) To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
- (falconry) To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
- (intransitive, video games) To cheat by using unauthorized modifications.
- (transitive, colloquial, by extension) To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
- (baseball) To swing at a pitched ball.
- (computing) To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain.
- (intransitive) To cough noisily.
- (equestrianism) To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
- To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
- (transitive) To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
- (computing, slang, transitive) To work with something on an intimately technical level.
- To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
- To strike in a frantic movement.
- To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
- (transitive, slang, computing) To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.
- (soccer and rugby) To kick (a player) on the shins.
- (ice hockey) To strike an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
noun
- a horse kept for hire
- a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
- one who works hard at boring tasks
- a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil
- a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
- a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
- an old or over-worked horse
- a mediocre and disdained writer
- A kick on the shins in football of any type.
- A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
- A hacking blow.
- (derogatory) One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
- (military, slang) An airplane of poor quality or in poor condition.
- (derogatory, authorship) An untalented writer.
- A tool for chopping.
- A dry cough.
- (slang, military) Time check, as for example upon synchronization of wristwatches.
- (colloquial) A trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method to increase productivity, efficiency, or ease.
- A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work.
- (curling) The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
- (computing, slang) A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
- (politics, slightly derogatory) A political agitator.
- (computing, slang) An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date; a workaround.
- A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.
- A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
- A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
- (now chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney cab, now typically a taxicab.
- A food-rack for cattle.
- (derogatory) A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
- (derogatory) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) A practical joke that showcases cleverness and creativity.
- (falconry) A board upon which the falcon's food is placed; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
- (computing, slang) An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
- A hearse.
- (slang) The driver of a taxicab (hackney cab).
- (ice hockey) The act of striking an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- (baseball) A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter, particularly a choppy, ungraceful one that misses the ball such as at a fastball.
- A grating in a mill race.
- (informal) An improvised device or solution to a problem.
- (uncountable, slang, naval) Confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.
- (UK, student politics, derogatory) A person who frequently canvasses for votes, either directly or by appearing to continuously act with the ulterior motive of furthering their political career.
- A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
- (figuratively) A try, an attempt.
- (computing, slang) The illegal accessing of a computer network.
intj
verb
- cut to pieces
- form by carving
- engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface
- To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work, especially with cuts that are curved rather than only straight slices.
- (figuratively) To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
- To cut meat in order to serve it.
- To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
- (snowboarding) To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
noun
noun
noun
- A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
- A part of a document, especially a major part; often notated with §.
- (surgery, colloquial) Ellipsis of Caesarean section.
- (music) A group of instruments in an orchestra.
- (Philippines, education) A class in a school; a group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher in a certain school year or semester or school quarter year.
- (geology) A sequence of rock layers.
- (topology) A function that generalizes the notion of the graph of a function; formally, a continuous right inverse to the projection map of a fiber bundle.
- A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
- (botany) A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
- (zoology) An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
- An act or instance of cutting.
- (sciences) thin section, a thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
- (generalizing the topology sense in a different way, sheaf theory) An object which is defined by analogy with sections of fiber bundles but in a more general setting (that of sheaves). Formally, an element of the image of an open set under the action of a (pre-)sheaf.
- (New Zealand) A piece of residential land; a plot.
- (military) A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
- (aviation) A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.
- (US, Canada, law and land surveying) Synonym of square mile, a unit of land area, especially in the contexts of Canadian surveys and American land grants and legal property descriptions.
- (surgery) An incision or the act of making an incision.
- A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
- The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.
- (technology) Angle section, L-section, angle iron, steel angle, slotted angle.
- (archaeology) Archeological section; vertical plane and cross-section of the ground to view its profile and stratigraphy; part of an archeological sequence.
- (generalizing the topology sense, algebra, category theory) A right inverse of a morphism in some category
- one of several parts or pieces that fit with others to constitute a whole object
- a division of an orchestra containing all instruments of the same class
- (geometry) the area created by a plane cutting through a solid
- a small team of policemen working as part of a police platoon
- a distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people
- a small army unit usually having a special function
- one of the portions into which something is regarded as divided and which together constitute a whole
- a segment of a citrus fruit
- a specialized division of a large organization
- a very thin slice (of tissue or mineral or other substance) for examination under a microscope
- a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical)
- a small class of students who are part of a larger course but are taught separately
- the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation)
- a land unit equal to 1 square mile
verb
- To cut, divide or separate into pieces.
- To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.
- (medicine) To perform a cesarean section on (someone).
- (UK, Australia, New Zealand) To commit (a person) to a hospital for mental health treatment as an involuntary patient. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.
- divide into segments
noun
- One who slashes.
- A tool for cutting undergrowth.
- One who self-injures by cutting.
- A murderer in such a film.
- (fandom slang) One who writes slash fiction and/or supports male/male ships.
- A machine for applying size to warp yarns.
- (informal, film) A horror movie with graphic blood and violence; a slasher movie.
- a weapon (a sword or dagger) used for slashing
- someone who slashes another person
noun
- A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
- A small amount of food or drink, (particularly) a small amount of liquor.
- (nautical) A short turn in a rope.
- (Manitoba, Northwestern Ontario) A hamburger.
- A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
- Briskly cold weather.
- (papermaking) The place of intersection where one roll touches another
- A pinch with the nails or teeth.
- A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
- A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching
- (mining) A more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum.
- (slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A nipple, usually of a woman.
- A playful bite.
- the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
- a small drink of liquor
- a small sharp bite or snip
- a tart spicy quality
- the property of being moderately cold
verb
- To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
- To taunt.
- (slang, vulgar) To have erect nipples.
- To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
- (informal) To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.
- (Scotland, Northern England) To squeeze or pinch.
- To benumb [e.g., cheeks, fingers, nose] by severe cold.
- To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
- To annoy, as by nipping.
- sever or remove by pinching or snipping
- give a small sharp bite to
- squeeze tightly between the fingers
verb
- To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.
- (informal) To perform a vasectomy.
- (Internet) To remove the irrelevant parts of quotations in the reply message.
- (informal) To circumcise.
- To speak or say in a snippish manner.
- To break off; to snatch away.
- To reduce the price of a product, to create a snip.
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- sever or remove by pinching or snipping
noun
- A piece cut out by snipping.
- The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something.
- (onomatopoeia) An act or sound of snipping, the sound produced by scissors.
- (definite, the snip, euphemistic) A vasectomy.
- A single cut with scissors, clippers, or similar tool.
- (informal) Something acquired for a low price; a bargain.
- (informal) A small or weak person, especially a young one.
- A small amount of something; a pinch.
- A white marking on a horse's muzzle, between the nostrils.
- the act of clipping or snipping
- a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off)
noun
noun
- The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.
- Ellipsis of razor blade.
- (sailing) The rudder, daggerboard, or centerboard of a vessel.
- Thin plate, foil.
- (mathematics) An exterior product of vectors. (The product may have more than two factors. Also, a scalar counts as a 0-blade, a vector as a 1-blade; an exterior product of k vectors may be called a k-blade.)
- (climbing) Synonym of knifeblade.
- (ultimate frisbee) A throw characterized by a tight parabolic trajectory due to a steep lateral attitude.
- (athletics, informal) An artificial foot used by amputee athletes, shaped like an upside-down question mark.
- A bulldozer or surface-grading machine with mechanically adjustable blade that is nominally perpendicular to the forward motion of the vehicle.
- (archaeology) A piece of prepared, sharp-edged stone, often flint, at least twice as long as it is wide; a long flake of ground-edge stone or knapped vitreous stone.
- (architecture, in the plural) The principal rafters of a roof.
- (uncountable, music) The quality of singing with a pure, resonant sound; especially of a countertenor.
- The part of a key that is inserted into the lock.
- (botany) The thin, flat part of a plant leaf, attached to a stem (petiole).
- A cut of beef from near the shoulder blade (part of the chuck).
- (slang, chiefly US) A homosexual, usually male.
- (computing) Ellipsis of blade server.
- (metonymic) A sword or knife.
- (photography) One of a series of small plates that make up the aperture or the shutter of a camera.
- (slang, chiefly US) An area of a city which is commonly known for prostitution.
- (biology) The four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell.
- The flat functional end or piece of a propeller, oar, hockey stick, chisel, screwdriver, skate, etc.
- A flat bone, especially the shoulder blade.
- (chiefly phonetics, phonology) The part of the tongue just behind the tip, used to make laminal consonants.
- The narrow leaf of a grass or cereal.
- something long and thin resembling a blade of grass
- a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard
- flat surface that rotates and pushes against air or water
- a cut of beef from the shoulder blade
- a broad flat body part (as of the shoulder or tongue)
- especially a leaf of grass or the broad portion of a leaf as distinct from the petiole
- the flat part of a tool or weapon that (usually) has a cutting edge
- a dashing young man
- the part of the skate that slides on the ice
verb
noun
- Someone or something that slices.
- A slicing cucumber.
- A broad, flat knife.
- A piece of software that converts a model into a series of thin layers for 3D printing.
- (cooking) A machine that cuts meats, also named a deli slicer.
- (computing) A kind of data filter used in data visualization.
- a machine for cutting; usually with a revolving blade
- knife especially designed for slicing particular foods, as cheese
- a golfer whose shots typically curve right (for right-handed golfers)
verb
- (transitive) To cut anything in this fashion.
- To reduce in size, weight, time taken etc., usually by a small amount.
- (transitive) To make (the head, skin etc.) bald or (the hair) shorter by using a tool such as a razor or electric clippers to cut the hair close to the skin.
- (MLE, slang, transitive) To injure by employing a knife.
- To skim along or near the surface of; to pass close to, or touch lightly, in passing.
- (intransitive) To remove hair from one's face by this means.
- (transitive) To cut finely, for example slices of meat.
- cut the price of
- cut closely
- remove body hair with a razor
- cut or remove with or as if with a plane
- make shavings of or reduce to shavings
- touch the surface of lightly
noun
verb
noun
- (uncountable, music, Caribbean) A genre of music played with a ripsaw and other instruments, originally associated mainly with Turks and Caicos Islands.
- (woodworking) A saw that is designed to cut wood along its grain, i.e. to rip, to execute a rip cut.
- a handsaw for cutting with the grain of the wood
verb
- To cut up or carve up with a knife.
- (more generally) To trim with a knife.
- (figurative) To sit up or stand up suddenly.
- (figurative) To move in a stabbing or penetrating manner
- (figurative) To slice through; to cut or traverse a path through or between.
- To rise precipitously.
- (figurative) To traverse up the body in a quick stabbing sensation
- (figurative) To penetrate sharply upward.
- To extract a morsel or dab (of something) with a knife.
verb
- To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors.
- (informal) To perform a vasectomy.
- (Internet) To remove the irrelevant parts of quotations in the reply message.
- (informal) To circumcise.
- To speak or say in a snippish manner.
- To break off; to snatch away.
- To reduce the price of a product, to create a snip.
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- sever or remove by pinching or snipping
noun
- A piece cut out by snipping.
- The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something.
- (onomatopoeia) An act or sound of snipping, the sound produced by scissors.
- (definite, the snip, euphemistic) A vasectomy.
- A single cut with scissors, clippers, or similar tool.
- (informal) Something acquired for a low price; a bargain.
- (informal) A small or weak person, especially a young one.
- A small amount of something; a pinch.
- A white marking on a horse's muzzle, between the nostrils.
- the act of clipping or snipping
- a small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off)
verb
- penetrate or cut, as with a knife
- cause a sharp or stinging pain or discomfort
- to grip, cut off, or tear with or as if with the teeth or jaws
- deliver a sting to
- (intransitive, of a fish) To bite a baited hook or other lure and thus be caught.
- (intransitive) To cause a smarting sensation; to have a property which causes such a sensation; to be pungent.
- (intransitive, figurative) To accept something offered, often secretly or deceptively, to cause some action by the acceptor.
- (transitive, informal, vulgar) To perform oral sex on. Used in invective.
- (transitive) To hold something by clamping one's teeth.
- (intransitive) To cause sharp pain; to produce anguish; to hurt or injure; to have the property of so doing.
- (intransitive) To take or keep a firm hold.
- (transitive) To cut into something by clamping the teeth.
- (transitive) To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to.
- (intransitive) To have significant effect, often negative.
- (intransitive) To take hold; to establish firm contact with.
- (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To plagiarize, to imitate.
- (intransitive) To attack with the teeth.
- (stative, slang) To lack quality; to be worthy of derision; to suck.
- (intransitive, transitive, of an insect) To sting.
- (intransitive, chiefly in the negative) To behave aggressively; to reject advances.
- (transitive, sometimes figurative) To cause sharp pain or damage to; to hurt or injure.
noun
- a strong odor or taste property
- a small amount of solid food; a mouthful
- (angling) an instance of a fish taking the bait
- a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin
- a light informal meal
- a portion removed from the whole
- a wound resulting from biting by an animal or a person
- wit having a sharp and caustic quality
- the act of gripping or chewing off with the teeth and jaws
- The act of biting.
- (printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
- The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another.
- (television) Ellipsis of sound bite.
- (slang) Something unpleasant.
- (slang) A cut, a proportion of profits; an amount of money.
- (figuratively, uncountable) incisiveness, provocativeness, exactness.
- A small meal or snack.
- (slang) An act of plagiarism.
- (figuratively, uncountable) Aggression.
- (cricket) The turn that a spin bowler imparts to a pitch.
- A piece of food of a size that would be produced by biting; a mouthful.
- The swelling of one's skin caused by an insect's mouthparts or sting.
- The wound left behind after having been bitten.
verb
noun
- the shedding of blood resulting in murder
- a piece of cloth that is generally triangular or tapering; used in making garments or umbrellas or sails
- coagulated blood from a wound
- Blood, especially that from a wound when thickened due to exposure to the air.
- (surveying, chiefly US) A small piece of land left unincorporated due to competing surveys or a surveying error.
- A triangular or rhomboid piece of fabric, especially one forming part of a three-dimensional surface such as a sail or a skirt.
- A triangular piece of land where roads meet.
- An elastic gusset for providing a snug fit in a shoe.
- The curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe, or an equivalent section of a spherical or dome-shaped object in general.ᵂᵖ
- (heraldry) A charge, delineated by two inwardly curved lines, starting respectively from the middle base corner and one of the two chief corners and meeting in the fess point.
- (obsolete except in dialects) Dirt, filth, often dung or mud.
- A sign immediately adjacent to an exit from a roadway identifying it as an exit, optionally with the exit's identification number.
- A projecting point.
- Carnage, bloodshed, murder, violence.
verb
- cut into slices
- (transitive) To cut into slices.
- make a clean cut through
- hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels in a different direction
- hit a ball so that it causes a backspin
- (transitive, golf) To hit a shot that slices (travels from left to right for a right-handed player).
- (transitive, tennis) To hit the ball with a stroke that causes a spin, resulting in the ball swerving or staying low after a bounce.
- (transitive, rowing) To angle the blade so that it goes too deeply into the water when starting to take a stroke.
- (transitive) To clear (e.g. a fire, or the grate bars of a furnace) by means of a slice bar.
- (transitive, badminton) To hit the shuttlecock with the racket at an angle, causing it to move sideways and downwards.
- (transitive, soccer) To kick the ball so that it goes in an unintended direction, at too great an angle or too high.
- (transitive) To cut with an edge using a drawing motion.
noun
- a wound made by cutting
- a golf shot that curves to the right for a right-handed golfer
- a share of something
- a thin flat piece cut off of some object
- a spatula for spreading paint or ink
- a serving that has been cut from a larger portion
- A plate of iron with a handle, forming a kind of chisel, or a spadelike implement, variously proportioned, and used for various purposes, as for stripping the planking from a vessel's side, for cutting blubber from a whale, or for stirring a fire of coals; a slice bar; a peel; a fire shovel.
- A piece of pizza, shaped like a sector of a circle.
- (golf) A shot that (for the right-handed player) curves unintentionally to the right. See fade, hook, draw.
- A salver, platter, or tray.
- (cricket) A kind of cut shot where the bat makes an obtuse angle with the batter.
- A thin, broad piece cut off.
- (Australia, New Zealand, UK) Any of a class of heavy cakes or desserts made in a tray and cut out into squarish slices.
- (falconry) A hawk's or falcon's dropping which squirts at an angle other than vertical. (See mute.)
- That which is thin and broad.
- A knife with a thin, broad blade for taking up or serving fish; also, a spatula for spreading anything, as paint or ink.
- One of the wedges by which the cradle and the ship are lifted clear of the building blocks to prepare for launching.
- (colloquial) An amount of anything.
- (printing) A removable sliding bottom to a galley.
- (British) A snack consisting of pastry with savoury filling.
- (medicine) A section of image taken of an internal organ using MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), CT (computed tomography), or various forms of x-ray.
- (programming) A contiguous portion of an array.
- A broad, thin piece of plaster.
adj
verb
- cut or carve deeply into
- fortify by surrounding with trenches
- impinge or infringe upon
- cut a trench in, as for drainage
- set, plant, or bury in a trench
- dig a trench or trenches
- To have direction; to aim or tend.
- To cut; to form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.
- (archaeology) To excavate an elongated and often narrow pit.
- To dig or cultivate very deeply, usually by digging parallel contiguous trenches in succession, filling each from the next.
- (usually followed by upon) To invade, especially with regard to the rights or the exclusive authority of another; to encroach.
- (military, infantry) To excavate an elongated pit for protection of soldiers and or equipment, usually perpendicular to the line of sight toward the enemy.
- To cut furrows or ditches in.
noun
- a ditch dug as a fortification having a parapet of the excavated earth
- a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
- any long ditch cut in the ground
- (archaeology) A pit, usually rectangular with smooth walls and floor, excavated during an archaeological investigation.
- A long, narrow ditch or hole dug in the ground.
- (informal) A trench coat.
- (military) A narrow excavation as used in warfare, as a cover for besieging or emplaced forces.
verb
noun
adj
verb
adj
noun
- (slang) Poor-quality beer, usually watered down.
- (slang, chiefly UK, Antarctica) Rubbish, particularly on board a ship or aircraft.
- (slang, UK, now vulgar) Something low quality.
- (slang, vulgar) A vulva.
- A deep cut.
- (slang) Unused film or sound during film editing.
- (slang, uncountable, offensive, derogatory) A woman.
- (slang, UK, now vulgar) Nonsense.
- a wound made by cutting
- a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument
- a trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation
verb
noun
verb
- To remove by cutting.
- To stop the provision or supply of something, e.g. power, water.
- To swerve in front of (another car) while driving.
- (Southern US) To turn off or switch off (an electrical device).
- To move so as to block someone else's movement in a direction.
- To isolate or remove from contact.
- To end abruptly.
- (of a boundary) To exclude (something) from the field of view.
- To interrupt (someone speaking).
- To stop providing funds or something else to (someone).
- make a break in
- remove surgically
- remove by or as if by cutting
- cease, stop
- break a small piece off from
- cut off and stop
noun
adj
verb
- To cut with a swift broad stroke of an edged weapon.
- cut drastically
- (Scotland, intransitive) To work in wet conditions.
- To produce a similar wound with a savage strike of a whip.
- (fashion) To create slashes in a garment.
- (ice hockey) To strike swiftly and laterally with a hockey stick, usually across another player's arms or legs.
- (cricket) To swing wildly at the ball.
- To crack a whip with a slashing motion.
- (figuratively) To reduce sharply.
- To strike violently and randomly, particularly:
- (intransitive, UK, slang) To piss, to urinate.
- (intransitive, fandom slang) To write slash fiction.
- (US, Canada) To clear land, (particularly forestry) with violent action such as logging or brushfires or (agriculture, uncommon) through grazing.
- (figuratively) To criticize cuttingly.
- To move quickly and violently.
- move or stir about violently
- beat severely with a whip or rod
- cut open
- cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete
adv
conj
noun
- (vulgar, slang) The vulva.
- (Scotland) A large quantity of watery food such as broth.
- (botany) A deep taper-pointed incision in a plant.
- A deep cut or laceration, as made by an edged weapon or whip.
- (fashion) A slit in an outer garment, usually exposing a lining or inner garment of a contrasting color or design.
- A swift, broad cutting stroke, especially one made with an edged weapon or whip.
- (eastern US, uncommon) A slash pine, which grows in such (swampy) areas.
- (eastern US) A swampy area; a swamp.
- (idiomatic, by extension) The conjunctions and or also (during a conversation).
- (UK) Alternative form of slatch: a deep trough of finely-fractured culm or a circular or elliptical pocket of coal.
- (US and Canada) The loose woody debris remaining from a slash; the trimmings left while preparing felled trees for removal.
- (UK, slang, vulgar, rare) Piss; urine.
- (originally US, typography) The slash mark: the punctuation mark ⟨/⟩.
- (UK, slang, vulgar) A piss: an act of urination.
- (sports) A wide striking motion made with an implement such as a cricket bat, hockey stick, or lacrosse stick.
- (figuratively) A sharp reduction in resources allotted.
- (US and Canada) A clearing in a forest, particularly one made by logging, fire, or other violent action.
- (often proscribed) Any similar typographical mark, such as the backslash ⟨\⟩.
- (fandom slang) Slash fiction; fan fiction focused on homoerotic pairing of fictional characters.
- an open tract of land in a forest that is strewn with debris from logging (or fire or wind)
- a wound made by cutting
- a punctuation mark (‘/’) used to separate related items of information
- a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument
verb
noun
verb
verb
- cut or cut through with shears
- shear the wool from
- become deformed by forces tending to produce a shearing strain
- cut with shears
- (Scotland) To reap, as grain.
- (figurative) To deprive of property; to fleece.
- (mining, intransitive) To make a vertical cut in coal.
- (intransitive, transitive) To remove the fleece from (a sheep, llama, etc.) by clipping.
- (physics) To deform because of forces pushing in opposite directions.
- (engineering) (also 'shear off') To break or suddenly separate because of excessive force, eg. a bolt.
- (mathematics) To transform by displacing every point in a direction parallel to some given line by a distance proportional to the point’s distance from the line.
- To cut the hair of (a person).
- (aviation, meteorology, intransitive, of wind) To change in direction or speed.
- To cut, originally with a sword or other bladed weapon, now usually with shears, or as if using shears.
noun
- (physics) a deformation of an object in which parallel planes remain parallel but are shifted in a direction parallel to themselves
- a large edge tool that cuts sheet metal by passing a blade through it
- (aviation, meteorology, countable) A specific instance of wind shear.
- (aviation, meteorology, uncountable) The phenomenon of wind shear.
- (physics) Forces that push in opposite directions.
- The act of shearing, or something removed by shearing.
- (geology) The response of a rock to deformation usually by compressive stress, resulting in particular textures.
- (mathematics) A transformation that displaces every point in a direction parallel to some given line by a distance proportional to the point's distance from the line.
- A cutting tool similar to scissors, but often larger.
- (metalworking) A large machine use for cutting sheet metal.
adj
verb
- (transitive) To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
- (informal) To fly a helicopter or be flown in a helicopter.
- (intransitive) To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
- (slang, transitive) To have sex with.
- (intransitive) To interrupt; with in or out.
- (transitive, figurative) To separate or divide.
- To converse, discuss, or speak with another.
- (slang, transitive) To manipulate or separate out a line of cocaine.
- (poker) To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players.
- (transitive, Hong Kong) To stab.
- (computing, transitive, Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string).
- (transitive, baseball) To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.
- To chap or crack.
- To seal a licence or passport.
- (transitive) to give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand.
- (transitive) To sever with an axe or similar implement.
- (nautical) To vary or shift suddenly.
- (transitive, colloquial, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) To stamp or seal (a document); to mark, impress or otherwise place a design or symbol on paper or other material, usually, but not necessarily, to indicate authenticity.
- (intransitive) To make a quick, heavy stroke or a series of strokes, with or as with an ax.
- cut into pieces with repeated blows
- hit sharply
- cut with a hacking tool
- strike sharply, as in some sports
- move suddenly
- form or shape by chopping
noun
- A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
- (chiefly in the plural) A jaw of an animal.
- A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar implement.
- (poker) A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.
- (informal, with "the") Termination, especially from employment; the sack.
- (colloquial, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) A stamp or seal; a mark, imprint or impression on a document (or other object or material) made by stamping or sealing a design with ink or wax, respectively, or by other methods.
- (uncountable) Aircraft turbulence.
- Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.
- A movable jaw or cheek, as of a vice.
- A licence or passport that has been sealed.
- (MLE, slang) A knife, especially one used as a weapon.
- A mark indicating nature, quality, or brand.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A woodchopping competition.
- A turn of fortune; change; a vicissitude.
- A complete shipment.
- (martial arts) A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.
- The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbour, or channel.
- (Internet) An IRC channel operator.
- (UK, slang) Cocaine.
- (colloquial, by extension, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) The device used for stamping or sealing, which also contains the design to be imprinted.
- a grounder that bounces high in the air
- a tennis return made with a downward motion that puts backspin on the ball
- the irregular motion of waves (usually caused by wind blowing in a direction opposite to the tide)
- a jaw
- a small cut of meat including part of a rib
verb
- cut with a saw
- (intransitive) To make a motion back and forth similar to cutting something with a saw.
- (colloquial, nonstandard) past participle of see
- (transitive) To form or produce (something) by cutting with a saw.
- simple past of see
- (intransitive) To be cut with a saw.
- (transitive) To cut (something) with a saw.
noun
- hand tool having a toothed blade for cutting
- a power tool for cutting wood
- a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people
- A musical saw.
- A tool with a toothed blade used for cutting hard substances, in particular wood or metal.
- Such a tool with an abrasive coating instead of teeth.
- (whist) The situation where two partners agree to trump a suit alternately, playing that suit to each other for the express purpose.
- A sawtooth wave.
verb
- (transitive) To cut with a knife.
- (intransitive) To cut through as if with a knife.
- (transitive) To positively ignore, especially in order to denigrate; compare cut.
- (transitive) To betray, especially in the context of a political slate.
- (transitive) To use a knife to injure or kill by stabbing, slashing, or otherwise using the sharp edge of the knife as a weapon.
- use a knife on
noun
- Any blade-like part in a tool or a machine designed for cutting, such as that of a chipper.
- A utensil or a tool designed for cutting, consisting of a flat piece of hard material, usually steel or other metal (the blade), usually sharpened on one edge, attached to a handle. The blade may be pointed for piercing.
- A weapon designed with the aforementioned specifications intended for slashing or stabbing but too short to be called a sword; a dagger.
- edge tool used as a cutting instrument; has a pointed blade with a sharp edge and a handle
- a weapon with a handle and blade with a sharp point
- any long thin projection that is transient
noun
- A small cut, or a cutting off the end.
- A small amount of food or drink, (particularly) a small amount of liquor.
- (nautical) A short turn in a rope.
- (Manitoba, Northwestern Ontario) A hamburger.
- A blast; a killing of the ends of plants by frost.
- Briskly cold weather.
- (papermaking) The place of intersection where one roll touches another
- A pinch with the nails or teeth.
- A biting sarcasm; a taunt.
- A seizing or closing in upon; a pinching
- (mining) A more or less gradual thinning out of a stratum.
- (slang, vulgar, chiefly in the plural) A nipple, usually of a woman.
- A playful bite.
- the taste experience when a savoury condiment is taken into the mouth
- a small drink of liquor
- a small sharp bite or snip
- a tart spicy quality
- the property of being moderately cold
verb
- To remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
- To taunt.
- (slang, vulgar) To have erect nipples.
- To blast, as by frost; to check the growth or vigor of; to destroy.
- (informal) To make a quick, short journey or errand, usually a round trip.
- (Scotland, Northern England) To squeeze or pinch.
- To benumb [e.g., cheeks, fingers, nose] by severe cold.
- To catch and enclose or compress tightly between two surfaces, or points which are brought together or closed; to pinch; to close in upon.
- To annoy, as by nipping.
- sever or remove by pinching or snipping
- give a small sharp bite to
- squeeze tightly between the fingers
verb
- cut slightly, with a razor
- mate successfully; of livestock
- divide or reset the tail muscles of
- cut a nick into
- (transitive) To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.
- (transitive, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, law enforcement, slang) To arrest.
- (transitive, mining) To make a cut at the side of the face.
- (transitive, rare) To make a crosscut or cuts on the underside of (the tail of a horse, in order to make the animal carry it higher).
- (transitive, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, colloquial) To steal.
- (transitive) To make ragged or uneven, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to deface, to mar.
noun
- (British slang) a prison
- a small cut
- an impression in a surface (as made by a blow)
- (genetics) One of the single-stranded DNA segments produced during nick translation.
- (cricket) A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, law enforcement, slang) A police station or prison.
- (Internet) Clipping of nickname.
- (real tennis, squash, racquetball) The point where the wall of the court meets the floor.
- (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, colloquial) Often in the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition, state.
verb
noun
verb
- cut away
- significantly cut up a manuscript
- cut with a hacking tool
- kick on the shins
- be able to manage or manage successfully
- cough spasmodically
- fix a computer program piecemeal until it works
- kick on the arms
- (computing) To accomplish a difficult programming task.
- To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
- To play hackeysack.
- To drive a hackney cab.
- (ice hockey) To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
- (transitive, slang, computing, by extension) To gain unauthorized access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
- (transitive) To strike lightly as part of tapotement massage.
- (falconry) To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
- (intransitive, video games) To cheat by using unauthorized modifications.
- (transitive, colloquial, by extension) To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
- (baseball) To swing at a pitched ball.
- (computing) To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain.
- (intransitive) To cough noisily.
- (equestrianism) To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
- To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
- (transitive) To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
- (computing, slang, transitive) To work with something on an intimately technical level.
- To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
- To strike in a frantic movement.
- To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
- (transitive, slang, computing) To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code.
- (soccer and rugby) To kick (a player) on the shins.
- (ice hockey) To strike an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
noun
- a horse kept for hire
- a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money
- one who works hard at boring tasks
- a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil
- a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends
- a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.
- an old or over-worked horse
- a mediocre and disdained writer
- A kick on the shins in football of any type.
- A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
- A hacking blow.
- (derogatory) One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
- (military, slang) An airplane of poor quality or in poor condition.
- (derogatory, authorship) An untalented writer.
- A tool for chopping.
- A dry cough.
- (slang, military) Time check, as for example upon synchronization of wristwatches.
- (colloquial) A trick, shortcut, skill, or novel method to increase productivity, efficiency, or ease.
- A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work.
- (curling) The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
- (computing, slang) A video game or any computer software that has been altered from its original state.
- (politics, slightly derogatory) A political agitator.
- (computing, slang) An expedient, temporary solution, such as a small patch or change to code, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date; a workaround.
- A horse for hire, especially one which is old and tired.
- A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
- A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
- (now chiefly Canada, US, colloquial) A vehicle let for hire; originally, a hackney cab, now typically a taxicab.
- A food-rack for cattle.
- (derogatory) A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
- (derogatory) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) A practical joke that showcases cleverness and creativity.
- (falconry) A board upon which the falcon's food is placed; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
- (computing, slang) An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
- A hearse.
- (slang) The driver of a taxicab (hackney cab).
- (ice hockey) The act of striking an opponent with one's hockey stick, typically on the leg but occasionally and more seriously on the back, arm, head, etc.
- (baseball) A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter, particularly a choppy, ungraceful one that misses the ball such as at a fastball.
- A grating in a mill race.
- (informal) An improvised device or solution to a problem.
- (uncountable, slang, naval) Confinement of an officer to their stateroom as a punishment.
- (UK, student politics, derogatory) A person who frequently canvasses for votes, either directly or by appearing to continuously act with the ulterior motive of furthering their political career.
- A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
- (figuratively) A try, an attempt.
- (computing, slang) The illegal accessing of a computer network.
intj
adj
verb
- cut to pieces
- (transitive) To cut into smaller pieces, parts, or sections.
- (transitive, idiomatic, UK, Ireland) To move aggressively in front of another vehicle while driving.
- (informal, motor racing) Comprise a particular selection of runners.
- (transitive, informal) To lacerate; to wound by multiple lacerations; to injure or damage by cutting, or as if by cutting.
- (intransitive) To disintegrate; to break into pieces.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To distress mentally or emotionally.
- (intransitive, literally) To cut upward.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To behave like a clown or jokester (a cut-up); to misbehave; to act in a playful, comical, boisterous, or unruly manner to elicit laughter, attention, etc.
- significantly cut up a manuscript
- separate into isolated compartments or categories
- damage or injure severely
verb
- cut to pieces
- form by carving
- engrave or cut by chipping away at a surface
- To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work, especially with cuts that are curved rather than only straight slices.
- (figuratively) To take or make, as by cutting; to provide.
- To cut meat in order to serve it.
- To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
- (snowboarding) To perform a series of turns without pivoting, so that the tip and tail of the snowboard take the same path.
noun
adj
noun
- (countable, UK) An open passage at a level lower than the surrounding terrain, dug for a canal, railway, or road to go through.
- (countable) A newspaper clipping.
- (uncountable, cinematography, sound engineering) The editing of film or other recordings.
- (countable) An abridged selection of written work, often intended for performance.
- (countable) A section removed from a larger whole.
- (countable, horticulture) A leaf, stem, branch, or root removed from a plant and cultivated to grow a new plant.
- (uncountable, machining) The process of bringing metals to a desired shape by chipping away the unwanted material.
- (uncountable, psychology) The act of cutting one's own skin as a symptom of a mental disorder; self-harm.
- (countable, uncountable) The action of the verb to cut.
- an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine
- the act of diluting something
- a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting
- removing parts from hard material to create a desired pattern or shape
- the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends
- the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge
- the act of cutting something into parts
- the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film
- a piece cut off from the main part of something
- the division of a deck of cards before dealing
verb
adj
verb
- cut to pieces
- (transitive) To cut into smaller pieces, parts, or sections.
- (transitive, idiomatic, UK, Ireland) To move aggressively in front of another vehicle while driving.
- (informal, motor racing) Comprise a particular selection of runners.
- (transitive, informal) To lacerate; to wound by multiple lacerations; to injure or damage by cutting, or as if by cutting.
- (intransitive) To disintegrate; to break into pieces.
- (transitive, idiomatic) To distress mentally or emotionally.
- (intransitive, literally) To cut upward.
- (intransitive, idiomatic) To behave like a clown or jokester (a cut-up); to misbehave; to act in a playful, comical, boisterous, or unruly manner to elicit laughter, attention, etc.
- significantly cut up a manuscript
- separate into isolated compartments or categories
- damage or injure severely
adj
noun
- (Scotland) The act or operation of reaping.
- Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions.
- The material cut off in this way.
- The act or operation of dividing with shears.
- The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth.
- (mining) The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal.
- Alternative form of shearling.
- The process of preparing shear steel; tilting.
- removing by cutting off or clipping