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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 off and stop
- To remove by cutting.
- remove by or as if by cutting
- make a break in
- remove surgically
- cease, stop
- break a small piece off from
- 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).
adj
noun
verb
- cut off and stop
- cease operating
- delete or remove
- strike or cancel by or as if by rubbing or crossing out
- intercept (a player)
- form and create by cutting out
- (transitive) To oust; to replace.
- (nautical) To take a ship out of a harbor etc. by getting between her and the shore.
- (transitive) To intercept.
- (transitive) To remove; to omit.
- (usually passive voice) To arrange or prepare.
- (intransitive) To stop working, to switch off; (of a person on the telephone etc.) to be inaudible, be disconnected.
- (US, Australia, New Zealand) To separate (an animal) from the herd.
- (intransitive) To leave suddenly.
- (transitive, informal) To refrain from (doing something, using something etc.), to stop or cease (doing something).
- (intransitive, Australia, slang) To serve time in prison as an alternative to paying fines.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, out. To separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever.
adj
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noun
verb
- cut off from a whole
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- (transitive, usually with off) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.
- To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
- To allow to hang down.
noun
verb
- remove by cutting off or away
- move quickly to another scene or focus when filming
- (recorded media) To fail to show something; to stop before showing something; to leave a scene; to switch to a different scene quickly.
- (transitive) to cut out something; to remove all or portions of a damaged or diseased area by cutting
verb
- cut drastically
- cut open
- move or stir about violently
- beat severely with a whip or rod
- cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete
- (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.
- To cut with a swift broad stroke of an edged weapon.
- (figuratively) To criticize cuttingly.
- To move quickly and violently.
noun
- 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
- (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.
adv
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noun
adj
verb
- cut the top off
- irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear
- make ridges into by pinching together
- squeeze tightly between the fingers
- make off with belongings of others
- (hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
- To squeeze between two objects.
- (figurative) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
- To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
- (of animals) To seize; to grip; to bite.
- (slang, transitive) To steal, usually something inconsequential.
- To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- (intransitive) Of clothing, to be uncomfortably tight in specific spots.
- (slang, transitive) To arrest or capture.
- To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
- (nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
- (horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
noun
- a small sharp bite or snip
- a squeeze with the fingers
- a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action
- a slight but appreciable amount
- a painful or straitened circumstance
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
- an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed
- (slang) An arrest.
- An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
- The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.
- An organic herbal smoke additive.
- (physics) A magnetic compression of an electrically conducting filament.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A steep incline; a very steep section of road.
- A close compression of anything with the fingers.
- The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.
- A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
verb
- cut the top off
- be superior or better than some standard
- be the culminating event
- reach or ascend the top of
- finish up or conclude
- provide with a top or finish the top (of a structure)
- be at the top of or constitute the top or highest point
- be ahead of others; be the first
- pass by, over, or under without making contact
- strike (the top part of a ball in golf, baseball, or pool) giving it a forward spin
- To put a stiffening piece or back on (a saw blade).
- To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of (a steel ingot) to remove unsound metal.
- (dyeing) To cover with another dye.
- (of a horse) To strike the top of (an obstacle) with the hind feet while jumping, so as to gain new impetus.
- To exceed in height.
- To excel, to surpass, to beat, to exceed.
- (golf) To strike (the ball) above the centre; also, to make (a stroke, etc.) by hitting the ball in this way.
- (British, Australia, slang, reflexive) To commit suicide.
- (LGBTQ slang, transitive, intransitive) To penetrate during sexual intercourse.
- To improve (domestic animals, especially sheep) by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior breeds.
- To cover on the top or with a top.
- To cut or remove the top (as of a tree)
- (nautical) To raise one end of (a yard, etc.), making it higher than the other.
- (BDSM) To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
- To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of).
adj
noun
- the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
- the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
- the first half of an inning; while the visiting team is at bat
- a garment (especially for women) that extends from the shoulders to the waist or hips
- a canvas tent to house the audience at a circus performance
- a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin
- the greatest possible intensity
- covering for a hole (especially a hole in the top of a container)
- platform surrounding the head of a lower mast
- the upper part of anything
- the highest or uppermost side of anything
- (military) The First Sergeant or Master Sergeant (U.S. Marine Corps), senior enlisted man at company level.
- A framework at the top of a ship's mast to which rigging is attached.
- A child's spinning toy; a spinning top.
- (golf, billiards, racquet sports) A stroke on the top of the ball.
- The highest rank; the most honourable position; the utmost attainable place.
- The highest or uppermost part of something.
- (ropemaking) A plug or conical block of wood with longitudinal grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting.
- Ellipsis of topswarm.
- (irrespective of present orientation) The part of something that is usually highest or uppermost.
- (loosely, by extension) A dominant partner in a sexual relationship.
- A lid, cap, or cover of a container.
- The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.
- (sound) Highest pitch or loudest volume.
- (LGBTQ slang) A person who penetrates or has a preference for penetrating during intercourse.
- A garment worn to cover the torso.
- (golf, billiards, racquet sports) A forward spin given to the ball by hitting it on or near the top; topspin.
- (in restaurants, preceded by a number) (A table at which there is, or which has enough seats for) a group of a specified number of people eating at a restaurant.
- (particle physics) A top quark.
- (slang, vulgar, African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE) Fellatio; a blowjob.
- The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
- The uppermost part of a page, picture, viewing screen, etc.
- The near end of somewhere.
- (wool manufacture) A bundle or ball of slivers of combed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.
- (finance) A peak price of a security during a trading period, before it begins a downward trend.
- (Philippines, usually in the plural) a shoot (eaten as a vegetable).
- (BDSM) A dominant partner in a sadomasochistic relationship or roleplay.
- (baseball) The first half of an inning, during which the home team fields and the visiting team bats.
adv
verb
- (transitive) To cut off; chop off.
- (transitive, archery) To shoot directly at short range.
- (transitive, now chiefly British, dialectal, marbles) To strike another player's marble when playing from the trigger.
- (transitive) To cut off little by little; cheat by small and reiterated tricks; purloin.
- (transitive, archery) To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent.
- To appropriate unlawfully; to embezzle.
- (intransitive, archery) To shoot at a mark at short range.
- (transitive, now chiefly British, dialectal) To scold.
- (transitive, now chiefly British, dialectal) To beat; thrash; drub.
- (transitive) To entice step by step.
noun
noun
- removing by cutting off or clipping
- The material cut off in this way.
- (Scotland) The act or operation of reaping.
- Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions.
- 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.
adj
verb
verb
- cut or eliminate
- wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information
- remove or make invisible
- (transitive) To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer or other device.
- (transitive, slang) To kill or murder.
- (online gaming, slang) To defeat or dominate.
noun
verb
- cut or eliminate
- prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting
- cut and assemble the components of
- supervise the publication of
- To assemble a film by cutting and splicing raw footage.
- (transitive) To be the editor of a publication.
- (computing) To change the contents of a file, website, etc.
- (comedy) To cut short or otherwise alter an improvised scene.
- To alter a photograph or recording of sound or video.
- To change a text, or a document.
- (ergative) To lend itself to editing in a certain way.
- (biology) To alter the DNA sequence of a chromosome; to perform gene splicing.
noun
- An edited piece of media, especially video footage.
- (Internet, specifically) A compilation of memorable moments (in a show, sport, etc.), often featuring stylized camera effects and intense music.
- (fashion) A range of products related by theme or purpose.
- (comedy) An interruption or change to an improvised scene.
- (computing) A change in the text of a file, a website or the code of software.
- (genetics) An alteration to the DNA sequence of a chromosome; an act of gene splicing.
- A change to the text of a document.
verb
- make shorter as if by cutting off
- cause to end earlier than intended
- terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent
- interrupt before its natural or planned end
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, short.
- (transitive) To interrupt or curtail before the planned end time.
- (transitive) To stop someone from finishing what they are saying.
adj
verb
- make shorter as if by cutting off
- replace a corner by a plane
- approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one
- (mathematics, transitive) To shorten (a decimal number) by removing trailing (or leading) digits.
- (geometry) To replace a corner by a plane (or to make a similar change to a crystal).
- (transitive) To shorten (something) by, or as if by, cutting part of it off.
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noun
- A piece cut off; sliver.
- (thieves' cant) A knife.
- (in the plural or attributive) The leaves of this plant used as a herb.
- (Trinidad and Tobago, dialect) The spring onion; the green onion; the scallion.
- (thieves' cant) A file.
- (thieves' cant) A saw.
- A perennial plant, Allium schoenoprasum, related to the onion.
- perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning
verb
noun
- The act or process of cutting off.
- the act of cutting something off
- (rhetoric) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly
- (botany) The natural separation of a part at a predetermined location, such as a leaf at the base of the petiole.
- shedding of flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of scar tissue in a plant
verb
- To trim.
- (slang, intransitive) To get angry suddenly; to quickly or unreasonably become enraged.
- To be swung or whisked.
- (ecclesiastical) To shift to another circuit.
- (sports, transitive) To move (the ball or equivalent) from one side of the playing area to the other.
- (intransitive) To take on the opposite role (leader vs. follower) in a partner dance.
- (transitive, in modern times Southern US) To whip or hit with a switch.
- (transitive) To change (something) to the specified state using a switch.
- (intransitive) To change places, tasks, etc.
- To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; generally with off, from, etc.
- To swing or whisk.
- (transitive) To exchange.
- cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation
- make a shift in or exchange of
- exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- flog with or as if with a flexible rod
- change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
adj
noun
- A device to turn electric current on and off or direct its flow.
- (telecommunications) A system of specialized relays, computer hardware, or other equipment which allows the interconnection of a calling party's telephone line with any called party's line.
- (especially BDSM) One who is willing to take either a submissive or a dominant role in a sexual relationship.
- (historical) A separate mass or tress of hair, or of some substance (such as jute) made to resemble hair, formerly worn on the head by women.
- (sports) A play in which the ball (or equivalent) is moved from one side of the playing area to the other.
- A change or exchange.
- (music) Synonym of rute.
- (genetics) A mechanism within DNA that activates or deactivates a gene.
- (computer science) A command line notation allowing specification of optional behavior.
- (rail transport, US, Philippines) A movable section of railroad track which allows the train to be directed down one of two destination tracks; (set of) points.
- (computing, programming) A programming construct that takes different actions depending on the value of an expression.
- (multiplicity slang) The process of the currently fronting headmate changing; an instance of this.
- (computing, networking) A networking device connecting multiple wires, allowing them to communicate simultaneously, when possible. Compare to the less efficient hub device that solely duplicates network packets to each wire.
- (card games) A variant of crazy eights where one card, such as an ace, reverses the direction of play.
- A long, slender woody plant stem or a flexible, thin rod used as a whip to administer corporal punishment in the United States.
- (slang, metonymic) A Glock pistol equipped with a Glock switch.
- (firearms, slang) Synonym of Glock switch.
- an event in which one thing is substituted for another
- hairpiece consisting of a tress of false hair; used by women to give shape to a coiffure
- railroad track having two movable rails and necessary connections; used to turn a train from one track to another or to store rolling stock
- a flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment
- a basketball maneuver; two defensive players shift assignments so that each guards the player usually guarded by the other
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit
verb
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 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 remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
- 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 away the underpart of
- cut away material from the underside of (an object) so as to leave an overhanging portion in relief
- strike (the ball) in golf, tennis, or hockey obliquely downward so as to give a backspin or elevation to the shot
- sell cheaper than one's competition
- cut obliquely into (a tree) below the main cut and on the side toward which the tree will fall
- To downplay or minimize.
- (motor racing) To employ the undercut strategy.
- To sell (something) at a lower price, or to work for lower wages, than a competitor.
- To undermine.
- To create an overhang by cutting away material from underneath.
- To strike a heavy blow upward.
noun
- A cut made in the lower part of something; the material so removed.
- a cut made underneath to remove material
- the tender meat of the loin muscle on each side of the vertebral column
- a notch cut in the trunk of tree in order to determine the direction of its fall
- (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball
- the material removed by a cut made underneath
- The notch cut in a tree to direct its fall when being felled.
- The underside of a sirloin of beef; the fillet.
- (moldmaking) A section of a mold or pattern with negative draft angle
- The continuation of the saddle of a rabbit's coat toward the front legs.
- A hairstyle that is shaved or clipped short on the sides and kept long on the top.
- (motor racing) A pit stop strategy in which a driver seeks to gain an advantage over someone by pitting before them and using fresh tyres to make up time.
- A blow dealt upward.
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- 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
noun
- 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
- (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.
adj
verb
- cut short
- prepare for crops
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- yield crops
- feed as in a meadow or pasture
- let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
- (transitive) To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.
- (transitive) To mow, reap or gather.
- (transitive) To beat with a crop, or riding-whip.
- (transitive) To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
- (intransitive) To yield harvest.
- (transitive) To cause to bear a crop.
- (transitive) To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
noun
- the yield from plants in a single growing season
- a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale
- the stock or handle of a whip
- a collection of people or things appearing together
- a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food
- the output of something in a season
- A short haircut.
- The lashing end of a whip.
- (figurative) A group, cluster, or collection of things occurring at the same time.
- A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.
- A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.
- (mining) An outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
- (agriculture) A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
- (mining) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
- (architecture) The foliate part of a finial.
- An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding.
- The act of cropping.
- The production amount of such an output for a specific season or year, particularly of plants.
- (slang, in the plural) Marijuana.
- (anatomy) A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion or for regurgitation.
- An entire oxhide.
- A rocky outcrop.
verb
- (transitive) To cut off the top of; to lop off.
- (transitive) To strike with the head
- (by extension) To check or restrain.
- (intransitive) To move in a specified direction.
- (fishing, transitive) To remove the head from (a fish).
- To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
- (transitive, of hardware) To form a head (on or to); to fit or furnish (something) with a head.
- (transitive) To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
- (transitive) To be in command of. (See also head up.)
- To set on the head.
- (intransitive) To form a head.
- (intransitive) To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
- To go in front of.
- form a head or come or grow to a head
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- travel in front of; go in advance of others
- take its rise
- to go or travel towards
- be in the front of or on top of
- remove the head of
- be in charge of
- be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel
adj
noun
- (lacrosse) The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
- (UK, Ireland, metonymic) A headteacher.
- (automotive) The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
- A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
- (journalism) Ellipsis of headline.
- A headdress; a covering for the head.
- (slang, countable) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
- Topic; subject.
- A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
- The antlers of a deer.
- The larger-diameter end of an unused rivet, properly the factory head or ambiguously the shop head, as opposed to the bucktail which is passed through the items to be fastened and then upset into an appropriate shape, generally pancake-shaped for a solid rivet or doughnut-shaped for a blind rivet, called the field head or ambiguously the shop head.
- (coopering) The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
- (billiards) The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
- An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
- (social, countable, metonymic) A leader or expert.
- (British, geology) Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
- (plural head) A single animal; measure word for livestock and game.
- The place of honor or command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
- The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
- (jazz) The principal melody or theme of a piece.
- Either, or in plural both, ends of a used rivet, the factory head and the field head.
- (medicine) The end of an abscess where pus collects.
- (computing) The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
- (machining) A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
- The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
- A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
- The population of game.
- (nautical) The toilet of a ship.
- The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
- (figurative, metonymic) Mind; one's own thoughts.
- (slang) The glans penis.
- (figurative, metonymic) An individual person.
- (linguistics) A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.
- (chemistry) The first fraction of a distillation run, having a low boiling point.
- (countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
- (uncountable, countable) The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
- Headway; progress.
- The leafy top part of a tree.
- (slang, vulgar, uncountable) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
- A title or heading in a book or other document.
- (anatomy) The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
- The top edge of a sail.
- (in the plural) Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
- (geology) The uppermost part of a valley.
- (only in the singular) Denouement; crisis.
- (music) A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
- More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
- (music) The headstock of a guitar.
- The bow of a vessel.
- The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
- (British) A headland.
- (music, slang, figurative, metonymic) A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
- (uncountable, countable) A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
- (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
- Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
- The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
- The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
- (engineering) The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
- forward movement
- that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves
- a dense cluster of flowers or foliage
- the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates)
- a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)
- a single domestic animal
- the part in the front or nearest the viewer
- (usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head
- (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
- the top of something
- the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint
- (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk
- a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
- the educator who has executive authority for a school
- (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent
- the front of a military formation or procession
- the pressure exerted by a fluid
- a person who is in charge
- the source of water from which a stream arises
- a difficult juncture
- an individual person
- the striking part of a tool
- that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
- the foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container
- a user of (usually soft) drugs
- oral stimulation of the genitals
- a rounded compact mass
- a projection out from one end
- a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum
- the length or height based on the size of a human or animal head
- the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
- the subject matter at issue
adj
character
intj
noun
num
particle
prep
adj
noun
verb
noun
- chopped meat mixed with potatoes and browned
- purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen
- (computing, cryptocurrencies) One guess made by a mining computer in the effort of finding the correct answer which releases the next unit of cryptocurrency; see also hashrate.
- (computing) The result generated by a hash function.
- A confused mess.
- A hash run.
- (slang) Hashish, a drug derived from the cannabis plant.
- Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together.
- A new mixture of old material; a second preparation or exhibition; a rehashing.
- (typography) The # symbol (octothorpe, pound).
- (Scotland) A stupid fellow.
verb
noun
- (Western Pennsylvania, dialectal, derogatory) Ellipsis of jagoff (“an irritating, inept, or repugnant person”).
- (Western Pennsylvania, dialectal) A thorn from a bush (see jaggerbush).
- A flap, a tear in a clothing
- A binge or period of overindulgence; a spree.
- A sharp projection.
- (Scotland) A medical injection, a jab.
- A fit, spell, outburst.
- Enough liquor to make a person noticeably drunk; a skinful.
- (botany) A cleft or division.
- A part broken off; a fragment.
- A one-horse cart load, or, in modern times, a truck load, of hay or wood.
- a bout of drinking or drug taking
- a slit in a garment that exposes material of a different color underneath; used in Renaissance clothing
- a sharp projection on an edge or surface
- a flap along the edge of a garment; used in medieval clothing
verb
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- move something or somebody to a lower position
- cause to come to the ground
- impose something unpleasant
- cause the downfall of; of rulers
- cause to be enthusiastic
- (transitive) To make (something, especially something flying) fall to the ground, usually by firing a weapon of some kind.
- (transitive) To stop the effects of intoxication in (someone).
- To cause to fall down, e.g. in an accident.
- (transitive) To take (someone) to prison.
- (transitive) To humble.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bring, down.
- (transitive) To make (someone) feel bad emotionally.
- (transitive) To calm down (someone).
- (transitive) To reduce.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) To receive a prison sentence.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, transitive) To incite excitement in (a place or crowd).
- (transitive) To make (a ruler or government) lose their position of power.
- (sports, transitive) To cause (an opponent) to fall after a tackle.
verb
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- penetrate injuriously
- function as a cutting instrument
- divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult
- form by probing, penetrating, or digging
- fell by sawing; hew
- refuse to acknowledge
- discharge from a group
- allow incision or separation
- record a performance on (a medium)
- hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction
- pass directly and often in haste
- stop filming
- intentionally fail to attend
- grow through the gums
- cut and assemble the components of
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- give the appearance or impression of
- make an incision or separation
- make an abrupt change of image or sound
- cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses)
- style and tailor in a certain fashion
- form or shape by cutting or incising
- cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch
- have a reducing effect
- separate with or as if with an instrument
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- pass through or across
- make out and issue
- be able to manage or manage successfully
- turn sharply; change direction abruptly
- weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
- make a recording of
- reap or harvest
- create by duplicating data
- move (one's fist)
- shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of
- cease, stop
- dissolve by breaking down the fat of
- perform or carry out
- have grow through the gums
- To absent oneself from (a class, an appointment, etc.).
- (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
- (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it.
- (intransitive, slang) To leave abruptly.
- (intransitive) To engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin.
- To perform an incision on, for example with a knife.
- To abridge or shorten a work; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.
- (slang) To wound with a knife.
- To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce.
- (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
- (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
- To separate or omit, in a situation where one was previously associated.
- (transitive, social) To ignore as a social rebuff or snub.
- To perform (an elaborate dancing movement etc.).
- (transitive) To exhibit (a figure having some trait).
- To reduce, especially intentionally.
- (ambitransitive) To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to.
- (bodybuilding) To lose body mass, aiming to keep muscle but lose body fat.
- (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
- (transitive, computing) To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time.
- (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.
- To castrate or geld.
- (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
- (slang, intransitive) To run or hurry.
- (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug.
- (intransitive, film) To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.
- (transitive, slang) To make, negotiate; to finalise, conclude; to issue.
- (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.
- To form or shape by cutting.
- (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
- (transitive) To renounce or give up.
- To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
- To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument.
- (transitive) To stop, disengage, or cease.
adj
- (used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine
- (of pages of a book) having the folds of the leaves trimmed or slit
- mixed with water
- separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument
- (of a male animal) having the testicles removed
- (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply
- with parts removed
- made neat and tidy by trimming
- fashioned or shaped by cutting
- (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
- (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
- (slang, New Zealand, formerly UK) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
- (participial adjective) Having been cut.
- (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
- Reduced.
- (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Upset, angry; emotionally hurt.
noun
- a wound made by cutting
- in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
- the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage
- a refusal to recognize someone you know
- (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball
- a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc
- a remark capable of wounding mentally
- a canal made by erosion or excavation
- a share of the profits
- 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
- a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass
- (film) an immediate transition from one shot to the next
- the style in which a garment is cut
- a step on some scale
- the act of reducing the amount or number
- an unexcused absence from class
- the division of a deck of cards before dealing
- a trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation
- (slang, uncountable) That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
- (card games) The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
- (slang) An insult.
- An opening of a living body resulting from cutting; an incision or wound.
- (slang) A hidden, secluded, or secure place.
- An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
- (card games) The card obtained by dividing the pack.
- The manner or style in which a garment, other article of clothing, or sail is fashioned.
- A decrease or deletion.
- (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.
- (Internet) A dividing line in a Tumblr post, the content below which is hidden until the reader reveals it.
- A haircut.
- (bodybuilding) A time period when one attempts to lose fat while retaining muscle mass.
- (literal, figurative) The act of cutting.
- Such a wound through human skin.
- A sleeveless vest worn by members of a motorcycle club.
- (fashion) A notch shaved into an eyebrow.
- (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
- (especially theater, film) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play, movie script, speech, etc.
- (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
- (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
- A skein of yarn.
- Such a passage dug for a roadway for a paved road or railroad, a canal, a runway, etc.
- A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
- (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.
- A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
- A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc.
- (literal, figurative) The result of cutting.
- (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
- (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball.
- A slab or slice, especially of meat.
- (rail transport) A string of railway cars coupled together, shorter than a train.
- (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.
- An unkind act; a cruelty.
- A share or portion of profits.
- An artificial channel for marine navigation, as distinguished from a navigable river.
- (petrochemistry) The range of temperatures used to distill a particular mixture of hydrocarbons from crude oil.
intj
verb
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- return in time
- place restrictions on
- (intransitive often with on) To reduce consumption.
- (intransitive with on) To reduce spending.
- (transitive and intransitive with on) To reduce the amount of (something).
- (intransitive, surfing) To perform the cutback maneuver.
- (intransitive often with to) To use a short cut; to move to a location to block someone; to cut someone off
verb
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow
- cause to come or go down
- intercept (a player)
- cut with a blade or mower
- cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete
- (slang, intransitive, transitive) To shoot a gun; to shoot (someone or many people), usually to kill them.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To insult, to belittle.
- (idiomatic) To reduce the amount of something.
- (transitive) To bring down by cutting.
- (intransitive, literally) To cut downward.
- (slang, transitive, African-American Vernacular) To challenge (someone); to prove superiority to (someone).
- (transitive, literally) To adulterate a drug.
adj
verb
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons
- cook until very little liquid is left
- lessen and make more modest
- be cooked until very little liquid is left
- reduce in size; reduce physically
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- be the essential element
- make smaller
- lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation
- make less complex
- simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
- narrow or limit
- undergo meiosis
- put down by force or intimidation
- bring to humbler or weaker state or condition
- destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it
- take off weight
- (transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
- (intransitive) To lose weight.
- (transitive, Scots law) To annul by legal means.
- (transitive, military) To reform a line or column from (a square).
- (transitive) To be forced by circumstances (into something one considers unworthy).
- (transitive, metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
- (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
- (transitive, medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
- (transitive, law) To convert to written form. (Usage note: this verb almost always appears as "reduce to writing".)
- (transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
- (transitive) To bring to an inferior state or condition.
- (transitive, computer science) To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.
- (transitive, military) To strike off the payroll.
- (transitive, phonetics, phonology) To pronounce (a sound or word) with less effort.
- (transitive, mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
- (transitive, chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
- (transitive, cooking) To decrease the liquid content of (a food) by boiling much of its water off.
- (transitive, logic) To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form.
verb
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- cut closely
- adjust (sails on a ship) so that the wind is optimally used
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- decorate, as with ornaments
- decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods
- be in equilibrium during a flight
- balance in flight by regulating the control surfaces
- remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size
- (transitive, aviation, of an aircraft) To adjust the positions of control surfaces, sometimes using trim tabs, so as to modify or eliminate the aircraft's tendency to pitch, roll, or yaw when the cockpit controls are released.
- (transitive, nautical, of a vessel's sails) To modify the angle (of the sails) relative to the wind, especially to set them at the most advantageous angle.
- (transitive, nautical, of a vessel) To modify the angle relative to the water by shifting cargo or ballast; to adjust for sailing; to assume, or cause to assume a certain position, or trim, in the water.
- (transitive) To decorate or adorn; especially of a Christmas tree.
- (transitive, historical) To cut back the wick of (a lamp) to maintain a clean, bright flame.
- (transitive) To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.
- (transitive) To reduce slightly; to cut; especially, to remove excess.
- (transitive, carpentry, of timber) To dress; to make smooth.
- (transitive, by extension) To change the carbon rods of (an arc lamp).
adj
noun
- cutting down to the desired size or shape
- attitude of an aircraft in flight when allowed to take its own orientation
- a state of arrangement or appearance
- a decoration or adornment typically on the edge of a garment
- (uncountable, underwater diving) The horizontal position of an underwater water
- (printing, binding, publishing) Any of the three cut edges of book pages, trimmed with a shear after binding.
- Dress; gear; ornaments.
- (by extension, uncountable, slang, mildly vulgar) Sexual intercourse with a woman.
- (especially automotive) Features optionally available on a vehicle; an established configuration of such features within a model (a trim level).
- (nautical) The arrangement of the sails with reference to the wind.
- (uncountable, aviation, of an aircraft) The state of adjustment of control surfaces such that the desired attitude can be maintained without requiring the continuous application of force to the cockpit controls.
- (nautical) The fore-and-aft angle of the vessel to the water, with reference to the cargo and ballast; the manner in which a vessel floats on the water, whether on an even keel or down by the head or stern.
- (countable) A haircut, especially a moderate one to touch up an existing style.
- (countable) The manner in which something is equipped or adorned; order; disposition.
- (uncountable, aviation, by extension) The mechanism(s) used to trim an aircraft in roll, pitch, and/or yaw.
- (uncountable, slang, mildly vulgar) The female genitalia.
- (uncountable) Decoration; especially, decoration placed along edges or borders.
adv
verb
noun
noun
- removing by cutting off or clipping
- The material cut off in this way.
- (Scotland) The act or operation of reaping.
- Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions.
- 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.
adj
verb
noun
- A piece cut off; sliver.
- (thieves' cant) A knife.
- (in the plural or attributive) The leaves of this plant used as a herb.
- (Trinidad and Tobago, dialect) The spring onion; the green onion; the scallion.
- (thieves' cant) A file.
- (thieves' cant) A saw.
- A perennial plant, Allium schoenoprasum, related to the onion.
- perennial having hollow cylindrical leaves used for seasoning
verb
noun
- The act or process of cutting off.
- the act of cutting something off
- (rhetoric) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly
- (botany) The natural separation of a part at a predetermined location, such as a leaf at the base of the petiole.
- shedding of flowers and leaves and fruit following formation of scar tissue in a plant
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 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 remove by pinching, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip.
- 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 off and stop
- To remove by cutting.
- remove by or as if by cutting
- make a break in
- remove surgically
- cease, stop
- break a small piece off from
- 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).
adj
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
verb
- cut away the underpart of
- cut away material from the underside of (an object) so as to leave an overhanging portion in relief
- strike (the ball) in golf, tennis, or hockey obliquely downward so as to give a backspin or elevation to the shot
- sell cheaper than one's competition
- cut obliquely into (a tree) below the main cut and on the side toward which the tree will fall
- To downplay or minimize.
- (motor racing) To employ the undercut strategy.
- To sell (something) at a lower price, or to work for lower wages, than a competitor.
- To undermine.
- To create an overhang by cutting away material from underneath.
- To strike a heavy blow upward.
noun
- A cut made in the lower part of something; the material so removed.
- a cut made underneath to remove material
- the tender meat of the loin muscle on each side of the vertebral column
- a notch cut in the trunk of tree in order to determine the direction of its fall
- (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball
- the material removed by a cut made underneath
- The notch cut in a tree to direct its fall when being felled.
- The underside of a sirloin of beef; the fillet.
- (moldmaking) A section of a mold or pattern with negative draft angle
- The continuation of the saddle of a rabbit's coat toward the front legs.
- A hairstyle that is shaved or clipped short on the sides and kept long on the top.
- (motor racing) A pit stop strategy in which a driver seeks to gain an advantage over someone by pitting before them and using fresh tyres to make up time.
- A blow dealt upward.
adj
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 off and stop
- To remove by cutting.
- remove by or as if by cutting
- make a break in
- remove surgically
- cease, stop
- break a small piece off from
- 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).
adj
noun
verb
- cut off and stop
- cease operating
- delete or remove
- strike or cancel by or as if by rubbing or crossing out
- intercept (a player)
- form and create by cutting out
- (transitive) To oust; to replace.
- (nautical) To take a ship out of a harbor etc. by getting between her and the shore.
- (transitive) To intercept.
- (transitive) To remove; to omit.
- (usually passive voice) To arrange or prepare.
- (intransitive) To stop working, to switch off; (of a person on the telephone etc.) to be inaudible, be disconnected.
- (US, Australia, New Zealand) To separate (an animal) from the herd.
- (intransitive) To leave suddenly.
- (transitive, informal) To refrain from (doing something, using something etc.), to stop or cease (doing something).
- (intransitive, Australia, slang) To serve time in prison as an alternative to paying fines.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, out. To separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever.
adj
verb
noun
verb
- cut off from a whole
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- (transitive, usually with off) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.
- To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
- To allow to hang down.
noun
verb
- remove by cutting off or away
- move quickly to another scene or focus when filming
- (recorded media) To fail to show something; to stop before showing something; to leave a scene; to switch to a different scene quickly.
- (transitive) to cut out something; to remove all or portions of a damaged or diseased area by cutting
verb
- cut drastically
- cut open
- move or stir about violently
- beat severely with a whip or rod
- cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete
- (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.
- To cut with a swift broad stroke of an edged weapon.
- (figuratively) To criticize cuttingly.
- To move quickly and violently.
noun
- 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
- (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.
adv
conj
verb
- cut the top off
- irritate as if by a nip, pinch, or tear
- make ridges into by pinching together
- squeeze tightly between the fingers
- make off with belongings of others
- (hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
- To squeeze between two objects.
- (figurative) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
- To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
- (of animals) To seize; to grip; to bite.
- (slang, transitive) To steal, usually something inconsequential.
- To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- (intransitive) Of clothing, to be uncomfortably tight in specific spots.
- (slang, transitive) To arrest or capture.
- To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
- (nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
- (horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
noun
- a small sharp bite or snip
- a squeeze with the fingers
- a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action
- a slight but appreciable amount
- a painful or straitened circumstance
- the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
- an injury resulting from getting some body part squeezed
- (slang) An arrest.
- An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
- The narrow part connecting the two bulbs of an hourglass.
- An organic herbal smoke additive.
- (physics) A magnetic compression of an electrically conducting filament.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A steep incline; a very steep section of road.
- A close compression of anything with the fingers.
- The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
- A metal bar used as a lever for lifting weights, rolling wheels, etc.
- A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
verb
- cut the top off
- be superior or better than some standard
- be the culminating event
- reach or ascend the top of
- finish up or conclude
- provide with a top or finish the top (of a structure)
- be at the top of or constitute the top or highest point
- be ahead of others; be the first
- pass by, over, or under without making contact
- strike (the top part of a ball in golf, baseball, or pool) giving it a forward spin
- To put a stiffening piece or back on (a saw blade).
- To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of (a steel ingot) to remove unsound metal.
- (dyeing) To cover with another dye.
- (of a horse) To strike the top of (an obstacle) with the hind feet while jumping, so as to gain new impetus.
- To exceed in height.
- To excel, to surpass, to beat, to exceed.
- (golf) To strike (the ball) above the centre; also, to make (a stroke, etc.) by hitting the ball in this way.
- (British, Australia, slang, reflexive) To commit suicide.
- (LGBTQ slang, transitive, intransitive) To penetrate during sexual intercourse.
- To improve (domestic animals, especially sheep) by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior breeds.
- To cover on the top or with a top.
- To cut or remove the top (as of a tree)
- (nautical) To raise one end of (a yard, etc.), making it higher than the other.
- (BDSM) To be the dominant partner in a BDSM relationship or roleplay.
- To be in the lead, to be at number one position (of).
adj
noun
- the top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill)
- the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development
- the first half of an inning; while the visiting team is at bat
- a garment (especially for women) that extends from the shoulders to the waist or hips
- a canvas tent to house the audience at a circus performance
- a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin
- the greatest possible intensity
- covering for a hole (especially a hole in the top of a container)
- platform surrounding the head of a lower mast
- the upper part of anything
- the highest or uppermost side of anything
- (military) The First Sergeant or Master Sergeant (U.S. Marine Corps), senior enlisted man at company level.
- A framework at the top of a ship's mast to which rigging is attached.
- A child's spinning toy; a spinning top.
- (golf, billiards, racquet sports) A stroke on the top of the ball.
- The highest rank; the most honourable position; the utmost attainable place.
- The highest or uppermost part of something.
- (ropemaking) A plug or conical block of wood with longitudinal grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting.
- Ellipsis of topswarm.
- (irrespective of present orientation) The part of something that is usually highest or uppermost.
- (loosely, by extension) A dominant partner in a sexual relationship.
- A lid, cap, or cover of a container.
- The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.
- (sound) Highest pitch or loudest volume.
- (LGBTQ slang) A person who penetrates or has a preference for penetrating during intercourse.
- A garment worn to cover the torso.
- (golf, billiards, racquet sports) A forward spin given to the ball by hitting it on or near the top; topspin.
- (in restaurants, preceded by a number) (A table at which there is, or which has enough seats for) a group of a specified number of people eating at a restaurant.
- (particle physics) A top quark.
- (slang, vulgar, African-American Vernacular, MLE, MTE) Fellatio; a blowjob.
- The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
- The uppermost part of a page, picture, viewing screen, etc.
- The near end of somewhere.
- (wool manufacture) A bundle or ball of slivers of combed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.
- (finance) A peak price of a security during a trading period, before it begins a downward trend.
- (Philippines, usually in the plural) a shoot (eaten as a vegetable).
- (BDSM) A dominant partner in a sadomasochistic relationship or roleplay.
- (baseball) The first half of an inning, during which the home team fields and the visiting team bats.
adv
verb
- (transitive) To cut off; chop off.
- (transitive, archery) To shoot directly at short range.
- (transitive, now chiefly British, dialectal, marbles) To strike another player's marble when playing from the trigger.
- (transitive) To cut off little by little; cheat by small and reiterated tricks; purloin.
- (transitive, archery) To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent.
- To appropriate unlawfully; to embezzle.
- (intransitive, archery) To shoot at a mark at short range.
- (transitive, now chiefly British, dialectal) To scold.
- (transitive, now chiefly British, dialectal) To beat; thrash; drub.
- (transitive) To entice step by step.
noun
verb
- cut or eliminate
- wipe out digitally or magnetically recorded information
- remove or make invisible
- (transitive) To remove, get rid of or erase, especially written or printed material, or data on a computer or other device.
- (transitive, slang) To kill or murder.
- (online gaming, slang) To defeat or dominate.
noun
verb
- cut or eliminate
- prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting
- cut and assemble the components of
- supervise the publication of
- To assemble a film by cutting and splicing raw footage.
- (transitive) To be the editor of a publication.
- (computing) To change the contents of a file, website, etc.
- (comedy) To cut short or otherwise alter an improvised scene.
- To alter a photograph or recording of sound or video.
- To change a text, or a document.
- (ergative) To lend itself to editing in a certain way.
- (biology) To alter the DNA sequence of a chromosome; to perform gene splicing.
noun
- An edited piece of media, especially video footage.
- (Internet, specifically) A compilation of memorable moments (in a show, sport, etc.), often featuring stylized camera effects and intense music.
- (fashion) A range of products related by theme or purpose.
- (comedy) An interruption or change to an improvised scene.
- (computing) A change in the text of a file, a website or the code of software.
- (genetics) An alteration to the DNA sequence of a chromosome; an act of gene splicing.
- A change to the text of a document.
verb
- make shorter as if by cutting off
- cause to end earlier than intended
- terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent
- interrupt before its natural or planned end
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, short.
- (transitive) To interrupt or curtail before the planned end time.
- (transitive) To stop someone from finishing what they are saying.
adj
verb
- make shorter as if by cutting off
- replace a corner by a plane
- approximate by ignoring all terms beyond a chosen one
- (mathematics, transitive) To shorten (a decimal number) by removing trailing (or leading) digits.
- (geometry) To replace a corner by a plane (or to make a similar change to a crystal).
- (transitive) To shorten (something) by, or as if by, cutting part of it off.
adj
verb
- To trim.
- (slang, intransitive) To get angry suddenly; to quickly or unreasonably become enraged.
- To be swung or whisked.
- (ecclesiastical) To shift to another circuit.
- (sports, transitive) To move (the ball or equivalent) from one side of the playing area to the other.
- (intransitive) To take on the opposite role (leader vs. follower) in a partner dance.
- (transitive, in modern times Southern US) To whip or hit with a switch.
- (transitive) To change (something) to the specified state using a switch.
- (intransitive) To change places, tasks, etc.
- To turn from one railway track to another; to transfer by a switch; generally with off, from, etc.
- To swing or whisk.
- (transitive) To exchange.
- cause to go on or to be engaged or set in operation
- make a shift in or exchange of
- exchange or give (something) in exchange for
- flog with or as if with a flexible rod
- change over, change around, as to a new order or sequence
- lay aside, abandon, or leave for another
- reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action)
adj
noun
- A device to turn electric current on and off or direct its flow.
- (telecommunications) A system of specialized relays, computer hardware, or other equipment which allows the interconnection of a calling party's telephone line with any called party's line.
- (especially BDSM) One who is willing to take either a submissive or a dominant role in a sexual relationship.
- (historical) A separate mass or tress of hair, or of some substance (such as jute) made to resemble hair, formerly worn on the head by women.
- (sports) A play in which the ball (or equivalent) is moved from one side of the playing area to the other.
- A change or exchange.
- (music) Synonym of rute.
- (genetics) A mechanism within DNA that activates or deactivates a gene.
- (computer science) A command line notation allowing specification of optional behavior.
- (rail transport, US, Philippines) A movable section of railroad track which allows the train to be directed down one of two destination tracks; (set of) points.
- (computing, programming) A programming construct that takes different actions depending on the value of an expression.
- (multiplicity slang) The process of the currently fronting headmate changing; an instance of this.
- (computing, networking) A networking device connecting multiple wires, allowing them to communicate simultaneously, when possible. Compare to the less efficient hub device that solely duplicates network packets to each wire.
- (card games) A variant of crazy eights where one card, such as an ace, reverses the direction of play.
- A long, slender woody plant stem or a flexible, thin rod used as a whip to administer corporal punishment in the United States.
- (slang, metonymic) A Glock pistol equipped with a Glock switch.
- (firearms, slang) Synonym of Glock switch.
- an event in which one thing is substituted for another
- hairpiece consisting of a tress of false hair; used by women to give shape to a coiffure
- railroad track having two movable rails and necessary connections; used to turn a train from one track to another or to store rolling stock
- a flexible implement used as an instrument of punishment
- a basketball maneuver; two defensive players shift assignments so that each guards the player usually guarded by the other
- the act of changing one thing or position for another
- control consisting of a mechanical or electrical or electronic device for making or breaking or changing the connections in a circuit
verb
verb
- cut away the underpart of
- cut away material from the underside of (an object) so as to leave an overhanging portion in relief
- strike (the ball) in golf, tennis, or hockey obliquely downward so as to give a backspin or elevation to the shot
- sell cheaper than one's competition
- cut obliquely into (a tree) below the main cut and on the side toward which the tree will fall
- To downplay or minimize.
- (motor racing) To employ the undercut strategy.
- To sell (something) at a lower price, or to work for lower wages, than a competitor.
- To undermine.
- To create an overhang by cutting away material from underneath.
- To strike a heavy blow upward.
noun
- A cut made in the lower part of something; the material so removed.
- a cut made underneath to remove material
- the tender meat of the loin muscle on each side of the vertebral column
- a notch cut in the trunk of tree in order to determine the direction of its fall
- (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball
- the material removed by a cut made underneath
- The notch cut in a tree to direct its fall when being felled.
- The underside of a sirloin of beef; the fillet.
- (moldmaking) A section of a mold or pattern with negative draft angle
- The continuation of the saddle of a rabbit's coat toward the front legs.
- A hairstyle that is shaved or clipped short on the sides and kept long on the top.
- (motor racing) A pit stop strategy in which a driver seeks to gain an advantage over someone by pitting before them and using fresh tyres to make up time.
- A blow dealt upward.
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verb
noun
- 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
- (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.
adj
verb
- cut short
- prepare for crops
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- yield crops
- feed as in a meadow or pasture
- let feed in a field or pasture or meadow
- (transitive) To remove the outer parts of a photograph or other image, typically in order to frame the subject better.
- (transitive) To mow, reap or gather.
- (transitive) To beat with a crop, or riding-whip.
- (transitive) To remove the top end of something, especially a plant.
- (intransitive) To yield harvest.
- (transitive) To cause to bear a crop.
- (transitive) To cut (especially hair or an animal's tail or ears) short.
noun
- the yield from plants in a single growing season
- a cultivated plant that is grown commercially on a large scale
- the stock or handle of a whip
- a collection of people or things appearing together
- a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resembles a stomach for storage and preliminary maceration of food
- the output of something in a season
- A short haircut.
- The lashing end of a whip.
- (figurative) A group, cluster, or collection of things occurring at the same time.
- A group of vesicles at the same stage of development in a disease.
- A photograph or other image that has been reduced by removing the outer parts.
- (mining) An outcrop of a vein or seam at the surface.
- (agriculture) A plant, grown for it, or its fruits or seeds, to be harvested as food, livestock fodder, or fuel or for any other economic purpose.
- (mining) Tin ore prepared for smelting.
- (architecture) The foliate part of a finial.
- An entire short whip, especially as used in horse-riding.
- The act of cropping.
- The production amount of such an output for a specific season or year, particularly of plants.
- (slang, in the plural) Marijuana.
- (anatomy) A pouch-like part of the alimentary tract of some birds (and some other animals), used to store food before digestion or for regurgitation.
- An entire oxhide.
- A rocky outcrop.
verb
- (transitive) To cut off the top of; to lop off.
- (transitive) To strike with the head
- (by extension) To check or restrain.
- (intransitive) To move in a specified direction.
- (fishing, transitive) To remove the head from (a fish).
- To get in the front of, so as to hinder or stop; to oppose.
- (transitive, of hardware) To form a head (on or to); to fit or furnish (something) with a head.
- (transitive) To come at the beginning or front of; to commence.
- (transitive) To be in command of. (See also head up.)
- To set on the head.
- (intransitive) To form a head.
- (intransitive) To originate; to spring; to have its course, as a river.
- To go in front of.
- form a head or come or grow to a head
- direct the course; determine the direction of travelling
- travel in front of; go in advance of others
- take its rise
- to go or travel towards
- be in the front of or on top of
- remove the head of
- be in charge of
- be the first or leading member of (a group) and excel
adj
noun
- (lacrosse) The top part of a lacrosse stick that holds the ball.
- (UK, Ireland, metonymic) A headteacher.
- (automotive) The cylinder head, a platform above the cylinders in an internal combustion engine, containing the valves and spark plugs.
- A clump of seeds, leaves or flowers; a capitulum.
- (journalism) Ellipsis of headline.
- A headdress; a covering for the head.
- (slang, countable) A heavy or habitual user of illicit drugs.
- Topic; subject.
- A machine element which reads or writes electromagnetic signals to or from a storage medium.
- The antlers of a deer.
- The larger-diameter end of an unused rivet, properly the factory head or ambiguously the shop head, as opposed to the bucktail which is passed through the items to be fastened and then upset into an appropriate shape, generally pancake-shaped for a solid rivet or doughnut-shaped for a blind rivet, called the field head or ambiguously the shop head.
- (coopering) The end cap of a cask or other barrel.
- (billiards) The end of a pool table opposite the end where the balls have been racked.
- An ear of wheat, barley, or other small cereal.
- (social, countable, metonymic) A leader or expert.
- (British, geology) Deposits near the top of a geological succession.
- (plural head) A single animal; measure word for livestock and game.
- The place of honor or command; the most important or foremost position; the front.
- The end of a nail, screw, bolt, or similar fastener which is opposite the point; usually blunt and relatively wide.
- (jazz) The principal melody or theme of a piece.
- Either, or in plural both, ends of a used rivet, the factory head and the field head.
- (medicine) The end of an abscess where pus collects.
- (computing) The part of a disk drive responsible for reading and writing data.
- (machining) A milling head, a part of a milling machine that houses the spindle.
- The sharp end of an arrow, spear, or pointer.
- A headache; especially one resulting from intoxication.
- The population of game.
- (nautical) The toilet of a ship.
- The end of a hammer, axe, golf club, or similar implement used for striking other objects.
- (figurative, metonymic) Mind; one's own thoughts.
- (slang) The glans penis.
- (figurative, metonymic) An individual person.
- (linguistics) A morpheme that determines the category of a compound or the word that determines the syntactic type of the phrase of which it is a member.
- (chemistry) The first fraction of a distillation run, having a low boiling point.
- (countable) The topmost, foremost, or leading part.
- (uncountable, countable) The foam that forms on top of beer or other carbonated beverages.
- Headway; progress.
- The leafy top part of a tree.
- (slang, vulgar, uncountable) Fellatio or cunnilingus; oral sex.
- A title or heading in a book or other document.
- (anatomy) The rounded part of a bone fitting into a depression in another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
- The top edge of a sail.
- (in the plural) Tiles laid at the eaves of a house.
- (geology) The uppermost part of a valley.
- (only in the singular) Denouement; crisis.
- (music) A drum head, the membrane which is hit to produce sound.
- More generally, energy in a mass of fluid divided by its weight.
- (music) The headstock of a guitar.
- The bow of a vessel.
- The difference in elevation between two points in a column of fluid, and the resulting pressure of the fluid at the lower point.
- (British) A headland.
- (music, slang, figurative, metonymic) A person with an extensive knowledge of hip hop.
- (uncountable, countable) A buildup of fluid pressure, often quantified as pressure head.
- (countable) The part of the body of an animal or human which contains the brain, mouth, and main sense organs.
- Mental or emotional aptitude or skill.
- The source of a river; the end of a lake where a river flows into it.
- The end of a rectangular table furthest from the entrance; traditionally considered a seat of honor.
- (engineering) The end cap of a cylindrically-shaped pressure vessel.
- forward movement
- that part of a skeletal muscle that is away from the bone that it moves
- a dense cluster of flowers or foliage
- the tip of an abscess (where the pus accumulates)
- a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea)
- a single domestic animal
- the part in the front or nearest the viewer
- (usually plural) the obverse side of a coin that usually bears the representation of a person's head
- (nautical) a toilet on board a boat or ship
- a line of text serving to indicate what the passage below it is about
- the top of something
- the rounded end of a bone that fits into a rounded cavity in another bone to form a joint
- (computer science) a tiny electromagnetic coil and metal pole used to write and read magnetic patterns on a disk
- a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer
- the educator who has executive authority for a school
- (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent
- the front of a military formation or procession
- the pressure exerted by a fluid
- a person who is in charge
- the source of water from which a stream arises
- a difficult juncture
- an individual person
- the striking part of a tool
- that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason
- the foam or froth that accumulates at the top when you pour an effervescent liquid into a container
- a user of (usually soft) drugs
- oral stimulation of the genitals
- a rounded compact mass
- a projection out from one end
- a membrane that is stretched taut over a drum
- the length or height based on the size of a human or animal head
- the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
- the subject matter at issue
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noun
- chopped meat mixed with potatoes and browned
- purified resinous extract of the hemp plant; used as a hallucinogen
- (computing, cryptocurrencies) One guess made by a mining computer in the effort of finding the correct answer which releases the next unit of cryptocurrency; see also hashrate.
- (computing) The result generated by a hash function.
- A confused mess.
- A hash run.
- (slang) Hashish, a drug derived from the cannabis plant.
- Food, especially meat and potatoes, chopped and mixed together.
- A new mixture of old material; a second preparation or exhibition; a rehashing.
- (typography) The # symbol (octothorpe, pound).
- (Scotland) A stupid fellow.
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noun
- (Western Pennsylvania, dialectal, derogatory) Ellipsis of jagoff (“an irritating, inept, or repugnant person”).
- (Western Pennsylvania, dialectal) A thorn from a bush (see jaggerbush).
- A flap, a tear in a clothing
- A binge or period of overindulgence; a spree.
- A sharp projection.
- (Scotland) A medical injection, a jab.
- A fit, spell, outburst.
- Enough liquor to make a person noticeably drunk; a skinful.
- (botany) A cleft or division.
- A part broken off; a fragment.
- A one-horse cart load, or, in modern times, a truck load, of hay or wood.
- a bout of drinking or drug taking
- a slit in a garment that exposes material of a different color underneath; used in Renaissance clothing
- a sharp projection on an edge or surface
- a flap along the edge of a garment; used in medieval clothing
verb
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- move something or somebody to a lower position
- cause to come to the ground
- impose something unpleasant
- cause the downfall of; of rulers
- cause to be enthusiastic
- (transitive) To make (something, especially something flying) fall to the ground, usually by firing a weapon of some kind.
- (transitive) To stop the effects of intoxication in (someone).
- To cause to fall down, e.g. in an accident.
- (transitive) To take (someone) to prison.
- (transitive) To humble.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bring, down.
- (transitive) To make (someone) feel bad emotionally.
- (transitive) To calm down (someone).
- (transitive) To reduce.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) To receive a prison sentence.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang, transitive) To incite excitement in (a place or crowd).
- (transitive) To make (a ruler or government) lose their position of power.
- (sports, transitive) To cause (an opponent) to fall after a tackle.
verb
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- penetrate injuriously
- function as a cutting instrument
- divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult
- form by probing, penetrating, or digging
- fell by sawing; hew
- refuse to acknowledge
- discharge from a group
- allow incision or separation
- record a performance on (a medium)
- hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction
- pass directly and often in haste
- stop filming
- intentionally fail to attend
- grow through the gums
- cut and assemble the components of
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- give the appearance or impression of
- make an incision or separation
- make an abrupt change of image or sound
- cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses)
- style and tailor in a certain fashion
- form or shape by cutting or incising
- cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch
- have a reducing effect
- separate with or as if with an instrument
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- pass through or across
- make out and issue
- be able to manage or manage successfully
- turn sharply; change direction abruptly
- weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
- make a recording of
- reap or harvest
- create by duplicating data
- move (one's fist)
- shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of
- cease, stop
- dissolve by breaking down the fat of
- perform or carry out
- have grow through the gums
- To absent oneself from (a class, an appointment, etc.).
- (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
- (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it.
- (intransitive, slang) To leave abruptly.
- (intransitive) To engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin.
- To perform an incision on, for example with a knife.
- To abridge or shorten a work; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.
- (slang) To wound with a knife.
- To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce.
- (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
- (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
- To separate or omit, in a situation where one was previously associated.
- (transitive, social) To ignore as a social rebuff or snub.
- To perform (an elaborate dancing movement etc.).
- (transitive) To exhibit (a figure having some trait).
- To reduce, especially intentionally.
- (ambitransitive) To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to.
- (bodybuilding) To lose body mass, aiming to keep muscle but lose body fat.
- (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
- (transitive, computing) To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time.
- (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.
- To castrate or geld.
- (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
- (slang, intransitive) To run or hurry.
- (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug.
- (intransitive, film) To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.
- (transitive, slang) To make, negotiate; to finalise, conclude; to issue.
- (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.
- To form or shape by cutting.
- (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
- (transitive) To renounce or give up.
- To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
- To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument.
- (transitive) To stop, disengage, or cease.
adj
- (used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine
- (of pages of a book) having the folds of the leaves trimmed or slit
- mixed with water
- separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument
- (of a male animal) having the testicles removed
- (used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply
- with parts removed
- made neat and tidy by trimming
- fashioned or shaped by cutting
- (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
- (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
- (slang, New Zealand, formerly UK) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
- (participial adjective) Having been cut.
- (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
- Reduced.
- (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Upset, angry; emotionally hurt.
noun
- a wound made by cutting
- in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
- the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage
- a refusal to recognize someone you know
- (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball
- a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc
- a remark capable of wounding mentally
- a canal made by erosion or excavation
- a share of the profits
- 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
- a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass
- (film) an immediate transition from one shot to the next
- the style in which a garment is cut
- a step on some scale
- the act of reducing the amount or number
- an unexcused absence from class
- the division of a deck of cards before dealing
- a trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation
- (slang, uncountable) That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
- (card games) The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
- (slang) An insult.
- An opening of a living body resulting from cutting; an incision or wound.
- (slang) A hidden, secluded, or secure place.
- An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
- (card games) The card obtained by dividing the pack.
- The manner or style in which a garment, other article of clothing, or sail is fashioned.
- A decrease or deletion.
- (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.
- (Internet) A dividing line in a Tumblr post, the content below which is hidden until the reader reveals it.
- A haircut.
- (bodybuilding) A time period when one attempts to lose fat while retaining muscle mass.
- (literal, figurative) The act of cutting.
- Such a wound through human skin.
- A sleeveless vest worn by members of a motorcycle club.
- (fashion) A notch shaved into an eyebrow.
- (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
- (especially theater, film) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play, movie script, speech, etc.
- (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
- (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
- A skein of yarn.
- Such a passage dug for a roadway for a paved road or railroad, a canal, a runway, etc.
- A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
- (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.
- A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
- A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc.
- (literal, figurative) The result of cutting.
- (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
- (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball.
- A slab or slice, especially of meat.
- (rail transport) A string of railway cars coupled together, shorter than a train.
- (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.
- An unkind act; a cruelty.
- A share or portion of profits.
- An artificial channel for marine navigation, as distinguished from a navigable river.
- (petrochemistry) The range of temperatures used to distill a particular mixture of hydrocarbons from crude oil.
intj
verb
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- return in time
- place restrictions on
- (intransitive often with on) To reduce consumption.
- (intransitive with on) To reduce spending.
- (transitive and intransitive with on) To reduce the amount of (something).
- (intransitive, surfing) To perform the cutback maneuver.
- (intransitive often with to) To use a short cut; to move to a location to block someone; to cut someone off
verb
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow
- cause to come or go down
- intercept (a player)
- cut with a blade or mower
- cut with sweeping strokes; as with an ax or machete
- (slang, intransitive, transitive) To shoot a gun; to shoot (someone or many people), usually to kill them.
- (idiomatic, transitive) To insult, to belittle.
- (idiomatic) To reduce the amount of something.
- (transitive) To bring down by cutting.
- (intransitive, literally) To cut downward.
- (slang, transitive, African-American Vernacular) To challenge (someone); to prove superiority to (someone).
- (transitive, literally) To adulterate a drug.
adj
verb
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- to remove oxygen from a compound, or cause to react with hydrogen or form a hydride, or to undergo an increase in the number of electrons
- cook until very little liquid is left
- lessen and make more modest
- be cooked until very little liquid is left
- reduce in size; reduce physically
- lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture
- reposition (a broken bone after surgery) back to its normal site
- reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
- be the essential element
- make smaller
- lower in grade or rank or force somebody into an undignified situation
- make less complex
- simplify the form of a mathematical equation of expression by substituting one term for another
- narrow or limit
- undergo meiosis
- put down by force or intimidation
- bring to humbler or weaker state or condition
- destress and thus weaken a sound when pronouncing it
- take off weight
- (transitive) To bring to an inferior rank; to degrade, to demote.
- (intransitive) To lose weight.
- (transitive, Scots law) To annul by legal means.
- (transitive, military) To reform a line or column from (a square).
- (transitive) To be forced by circumstances (into something one considers unworthy).
- (transitive, metallurgy) To produce metal from ore by removing nonmetallic elements in a smelter.
- (transitive) To bring down the size, quantity, quality, value or intensity of something; to diminish, to lower.
- (transitive, medicine) To perform a reduction; to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
- (transitive, law) To convert to written form. (Usage note: this verb almost always appears as "reduce to writing".)
- (transitive) To humble; to conquer; to subdue; to capture.
- (transitive) To bring to an inferior state or condition.
- (transitive, computer science) To express the solution of a problem in terms of another (known) algorithm.
- (transitive, military) To strike off the payroll.
- (transitive, phonetics, phonology) To pronounce (a sound or word) with less effort.
- (transitive, mathematics) To simplify an equation or formula without changing its value.
- (transitive, chemistry) To add electrons / hydrogen or to remove oxygen.
- (transitive, cooking) To decrease the liquid content of (a food) by boiling much of its water off.
- (transitive, logic) To convert a syllogism to a clearer or simpler form.
verb
- cut down on; make a reduction in
- cut closely
- adjust (sails on a ship) so that the wind is optimally used
- cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
- decorate, as with ornaments
- decorate (food), as with parsley or other ornamental foods
- be in equilibrium during a flight
- balance in flight by regulating the control surfaces
- remove the edges from and cut down to the desired size
- (transitive, aviation, of an aircraft) To adjust the positions of control surfaces, sometimes using trim tabs, so as to modify or eliminate the aircraft's tendency to pitch, roll, or yaw when the cockpit controls are released.
- (transitive, nautical, of a vessel's sails) To modify the angle (of the sails) relative to the wind, especially to set them at the most advantageous angle.
- (transitive, nautical, of a vessel) To modify the angle relative to the water by shifting cargo or ballast; to adjust for sailing; to assume, or cause to assume a certain position, or trim, in the water.
- (transitive) To decorate or adorn; especially of a Christmas tree.
- (transitive, historical) To cut back the wick of (a lamp) to maintain a clean, bright flame.
- (transitive) To make trim; to put in due order for any purpose; to make right, neat, or pleasing; to adjust.
- (transitive) To reduce slightly; to cut; especially, to remove excess.
- (transitive, carpentry, of timber) To dress; to make smooth.
- (transitive, by extension) To change the carbon rods of (an arc lamp).
adj
noun
- cutting down to the desired size or shape
- attitude of an aircraft in flight when allowed to take its own orientation
- a state of arrangement or appearance
- a decoration or adornment typically on the edge of a garment
- (uncountable, underwater diving) The horizontal position of an underwater water
- (printing, binding, publishing) Any of the three cut edges of book pages, trimmed with a shear after binding.
- Dress; gear; ornaments.
- (by extension, uncountable, slang, mildly vulgar) Sexual intercourse with a woman.
- (especially automotive) Features optionally available on a vehicle; an established configuration of such features within a model (a trim level).
- (nautical) The arrangement of the sails with reference to the wind.
- (uncountable, aviation, of an aircraft) The state of adjustment of control surfaces such that the desired attitude can be maintained without requiring the continuous application of force to the cockpit controls.
- (nautical) The fore-and-aft angle of the vessel to the water, with reference to the cargo and ballast; the manner in which a vessel floats on the water, whether on an even keel or down by the head or stern.
- (countable) A haircut, especially a moderate one to touch up an existing style.
- (countable) The manner in which something is equipped or adorned; order; disposition.
- (uncountable, aviation, by extension) The mechanism(s) used to trim an aircraft in roll, pitch, and/or yaw.
- (uncountable, slang, mildly vulgar) The female genitalia.
- (uncountable) Decoration; especially, decoration placed along edges or borders.
adv
verb
adj
verb
- cut off and stop
- To remove by cutting.
- remove by or as if by cutting
- make a break in
- remove surgically
- cease, stop
- break a small piece off from
- 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).
adj
noun
verb
- cut off and stop
- cease operating
- delete or remove
- strike or cancel by or as if by rubbing or crossing out
- intercept (a player)
- form and create by cutting out
- (transitive) To oust; to replace.
- (nautical) To take a ship out of a harbor etc. by getting between her and the shore.
- (transitive) To intercept.
- (transitive) To remove; to omit.
- (usually passive voice) To arrange or prepare.
- (intransitive) To stop working, to switch off; (of a person on the telephone etc.) to be inaudible, be disconnected.
- (US, Australia, New Zealand) To separate (an animal) from the herd.
- (intransitive) To leave suddenly.
- (transitive, informal) To refrain from (doing something, using something etc.), to stop or cease (doing something).
- (intransitive, Australia, slang) To serve time in prison as an alternative to paying fines.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cut, out. To separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever.