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GeezerVison is showing en.wiktionary.org (truncated) — cut - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

See also: Appendix:Variations of "cut"

Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of English Cuicatec, Teutila.

Symbol

cut

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Teutila Cuicatec.

See also

  • Wiktionary’s coverage of Teutila Cuicatec terms

English

Alternative forms

  • cvt (censored spelling)

Etymology

    From Middle English cutten, of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse *kytja, *kutta, from Proto-Germanic *kutjaną, *kuttaną (“to cut”), of uncertain origin, perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *kwetwą (“meat, flesh”) (compare Old Norse kvett (“meat”)). Sometimes instead compared to French couteau, itself from Latin culter (“knife”).[1]

    Compare Scots kut, kit (“to cut”)); also akin to Middle Swedish kotta (“to cut or carve with a knife”) (compare dialectal Swedish kåta, kuta (“to cut or chip with a knife”), Swedish kuta, kytti (“a knife”)), Norwegian Bokmål kutte (“to cut”), Norwegian Nynorsk kutte (“to cut”), Icelandic kuta (“to cut with a knife”), Old Norse kuti (“small knife”), Norwegian kyttel, kytel, kjutul (“pointed slip of wood used to strip bark”). Displaced Middle English snithen (from snīþan), still attested in dialectal snithe and snead. See snide.

    The adjective sense of "drunk" (now rare and now usually used in the originally humorous derivative form of half-cut) dates from the 17th century, from cut in the leg or to have cut your leg, a euphemism for being very drunk.

    Pronunciation

    • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /kʌt/
    • (Australia, New Zealand) IPA(key): /kɐt/
    • (Northern England) IPA(key): /kʊt/
    • Audio (Southern England):(file)
    • Audio (US):(file)
    • Audio (Australia):(file)
    • Rhymes: -ʌt
    • Hyphenation: cut

    Verb

    cut (third-person singular simple present cuts, present participle cutting, simple past cut or (nonstandard, archaic) cutted, past participle cut or (nonstandard, archaic) cutted or (archaic) cutten)

    1. (chiefly transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
      1. To perform an incision on, for example with a knife.
        • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
          You must cut this flesh from off his breast.
        • 1969, Jerome Bixby, “Day of the Dove”, in Star Trek: The Original Series, season 3, episode 7, Culver City, California: Desilu Studios; distributed by Paramount Television, published 1969:
          Mara: We are forty against four hundred. // Klingon: Four thousand throats may be cut in one night by a running man.
      2. To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument.
        Would you please cut the cake?
        • 1725, Homer, “Book III”, in [Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume I, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:
          Before the whistling winds the vessels fly, / With rapid swiftness cut the liquid way.
        • 2012 May 8, Yotam Ottolenghi, Sami Tamimi, Ottolenghi: The Cookbook‎[1], Random House, →ISBN, page 79:
          First, marinate the tofu. In a bowl, whisk the kecap manis, chilli sauce, and sesame oil together. Cut the tofu into strips about 1cm thick, mix gently (so it doesn't break) with the marinade and leave in the fridge for half an hour.
      3. To form or shape by cutting.
        I have three diamonds to cut today.
        • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
          Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, / Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster
        • 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
          loopholes cut through thickest shade
      4. (slang) To wound with a knife.
        • 1990, Stephen Dobyns, The house on Alexandrine:
          We don't want your money no more. We just going to cut you.
      5. (intransitive) To engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin.
        The patient said she had been cutting since the age of thirteen.
        • 2023 July 18, Noelle Stockwood [Femtanyl], “PUSH UR T3MPRR”, in CHASER:
          I was inspired not to cu-cu-cu-cut / When you told me that you wanna see
      6. (ambitransitive) To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to.
        • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
          “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
      7. To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce.
        Sarcasm cuts to the quick.
        • 1829, Elijah Hoole, Personal Narrative of a Mission to the South of India, from 1820 to 1828:
          she feared she should laugh to hear an European preach in Tamul , but on the contrary , was cut to the heart by what she heard
      8. To castrate or geld.
        to cut a horse
      9. To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
    2. (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
      • 1857–1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes [Sr.], “(please specify the page)”, in The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, Boston, Mass.: Phillips, Sampson and Company, published 1858, →OCLC:
        The panels of white-wood that cuts like cheese, / But lasts like iron for things like these;
    3. (transitive, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
      1. To separate or omit, in a situation where one was previously associated.
        Travis was cut from the team.
      2. To abridge or shorten a work; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.
      3. To reduce, especially intentionally.
        They're going to cut salaries by fifteen percent.
        • 2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19:
          In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax.
        • 2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3:
          The principle of prioritising longer-distance trains by cutting services to wayside stations (often leading directly to their closure) is not new.
      4. To absent oneself from (a class, an appointment, etc.).
        I cut fifth period to hang out with Angela.
        • 1833, Thomas Hamilton, Men and Manners in America:
          An English tradesman is always solicitous to cut the shop whenever he can do so with impunity.
      5. (intransitive, slang) To leave abruptly.
        Synonym: (slang) dip
        I gotta cut but I'll see you tomorrow, okay?
        • 2023 September 3, @tamashbean, X‎[2] (post):
          my friends and i had gone for lunch but i had to cut early and couldn't get dessert (which if you know me it's my top priority) so they got it packed and dropped off at my place without a word "open the lift and take it" ?????????? how is this real i will literally cry
    4. (transitive, social) To ignore as a social rebuff or snub.
      Synonym: spear
      After the incident at the dinner party, people started to cut him on the street.
      • 1903, Samuel Barber, The Way of All Flesh chapter 73:
        At first it had been very painful to him to meet any of his old friends, [...] but this soon passed; either they cut him, or he cut them; it was not nice being cut for the first time or two, but after that, it became rather pleasant than not [...] The ordeal is a painful one, but if a man's moral and intellectual constitution are naturally sound, there is nothing which will give him so much strength of character as having been well cut.
      • 1973, Gore Vidal, Burr:
        The ordinary people greet him (Aaron Burr) warmly while the respectable folk tend to cut him dead.
      • 27 September 2013, Kane, Kathryn, The Regency Redingote Blog The Cut: The Ultimate & Final Social Weapon:
        The Monthly Magazine, Or, British Register for 1798 included an explanation by a reader of how the cut was carried out in his college days in a lengthy letter to the editor, signed by the pseudonym "Ansonius." In his rambling letter, Ansonius noted that when he was at college, " … if a man passed an old acquaintance wittingly, without recognizing him, he was said— ‘To cut him.’" Ansonius then went on to explain the performance of the cut and noted that for a time the term "to spear" was used instead of to cut. However, that term did not remain long in use, and this act was generally known as "the cut" ever after.
    5. (intransitive, film) To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.
      The camera then cut to the woman on the front row who was clearly overcome and crying tears of joy.
    6. (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
    7. (transitive, computing) To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time.
      Select the text, cut it, and then paste it in the other application.
    8. (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
      One student kept trying to cut in front of the line.
      • 2010 June 8, guy & rOdd, “Brevity”, in gocomics.com‎[3], archived from the original on 26 October 2023:
        Excuse me, do you mind if I cut?!
    9. (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
      This road cuts right through downtown.
      • 2011 January 18, Daniel Taylor, “Manchester City 4 Leicester City 2”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:
        Neither Joleon Lescott nor Vieira appeared to make any contact with Dyer as he cut between them.
      • 2013 August 16, John Vidal, “Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 10, page 8:
        Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.
    10. (transitive, cricket) To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
    11. (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
    12. (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
      The football player cut to his left to evade a tackle.
    13. (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.
      If you cut then I'll deal.
    14. (transitive, slang) To make, negotiate; to finalise, conclude; to issue.
      I'll cut a check for you.
      I didn't deserve it, but he cut me a deal.
      to cut a deal, to cut deals
      to cut a fantastic deal, to cut a raw deal
    15. (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug.
      The best malt whiskies are improved if they are cut with a dash of water.
      The bartender cuts his beer to save money and now it's all watery.
      Drug dealers sometimes cut cocaine with lidocaine.
    16. (transitive) To exhibit (a figure having some trait).
      The Bender family cut a very distinct profile.
      • 2011 January 25, Paul Fletcher, “Arsenal 3-0 Ipswich (agg. 3-1)”, in BBC:
        Arsenal were starting to work up a head of steam and Tractor Boys boss Paul Jewell cut an increasingly frustrated figure on the touchline.
    17. (transitive) To stop, disengage, or cease.
      Synonym: cut out
      The schoolchildren were told to cut the noise.
      Cut the engines when the plane comes to a halt!
      • 2026 April 27, Aidin Vaziri, “Hundreds of gallons of jet fuel spill at Oakland airport”, in San Francisco Chronicle‎[4], archived from the original on 27 April 2026:
        The International Air Transport Association warned this month that airlines could begin seeing jet fuel shortages by late May, and some have already cut flights as fuel prices climb.
    18. (transitive) To renounce or give up.
      Synonym: cut out
    19. (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.
    20. (bodybuilding) To lose body mass, aiming to keep muscle but lose body fat.
      Coordinate term: bulk
    21. To perform (an elaborate dancing movement etc.).
      to cut a caper
      • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
        'Choke, chicken, there's more a-hatching,' said Miss Mag, in a sort of aside, and cutting a flic-flac with a merry devilish laugh, and a wink to Puddock.
    22. (colloquial, intransitive) To run or hurry.
      • 1911, Rudyard Kipling, “The Honours of War”, in A Diversity of Creatures, London: Macmillan and Co., […], published 1917, →OCLC, page 114:
        ‘Look here, you're nearest his size. Cut up to your rooms and give Ipps your dinner things and a clean shirt for him.’
      • 1950, Frank Richards, Billy Bunter's Benefit:
        Now one of us had better cut down to Courtfield on a bike […]

    Synonyms

    • See Thesaurus:cut

    Troponyms

    • chop, hack, slice, trim

    Derived terms

    single words
    • becut
    • buzzcut
    • crosscut
    • cutaway
    • cut-away
    • cutbeard
    • cutblock
    • Cutbush
    • cutpurse
    • cutround
    • cuttability
    • cuttable
    • cuttage
    • cuttee
    • cutter
    • cutthroat
    • cutwater
    • dikes, dykes
    • dykes
    • forcut
    • forecut
    • forthcut
    • incut
    • intercut
    • miscut
    • offcut
    • outcut
    • overcut
    • precut
    • recut
    • tocut
    • uncut
    • undercut
    • upcut
    multiword phrases
    • any way one cuts it
    • bob cut
    • butt cut
    • caper-cutting
    • caper cutting
    • cut about
    • cut a caper
    • cut across
    • cut a dash
    • cut a deal
    • cut a feather
    • cut a figure
    • cut along
    • cut and carve
    • cut and choose
    • cut and come again
    • cut and cover, cut-and-cover
    • cut and paste
    • cut and run
    • cut and sew
    • cut-and-shut
    • cut a rug
    • cut a shine
    • cut a swath
    • cut a swathe
    • cut away
    • cut away one's soul
    • cut a wide swath
    • cut a wide swathe
    • cut back
    • cut bait
    • cut both ways
    • cut capers
    • cut class
    • cut corners
    • cut deeper than a knife
    • cut down
    • cut down to size
    • cut for sign
    • cut from the same cloth
    • cut ice
    • cut in
    • cut in line
    • cut into
    • cut it
    • cut it close
    • cut it fat
    • cut it fine
    • cut it loose
    • cut it out
    • cut it up
    • cut like a knife
    • cut logs
    • cut loose
    • cut off
    • cut off one's head
    • cut off someone's head
    • cut on
    • cut one
    • cut one loose
    • cut one's cloth to suit one's purse
    • cut one's coat according to one's cloth
    • cut oneself
    • cut one's eyeteeth
    • cut one's losses
    • cut one's lucky
    • cut one's own throat
    • cut one's stick
    • cut one's teeth
    • cut out
    • cut red tape
    • cut round
    • cut short
    • cut slingload
    • cut someone cold
    • cut someone dead
    • cut someone loose
    • cut someone off at the knees
    • cut someone's comb
    • cut someone slack
    • cut someone some slack
    • cut someone's throat
    • cut someone up
    • cut some shapes
    • cut stick
    • cut swathes
    • cut the baby in half
    • cut the bullshit
    • cut the cheese
    • cut the coat according to the cloth
    • cut the cord
    • cut the crap
    • cut the fool
    • cut the Gordian knot
    • cut the ground from under someone's feet
    • cut the knot
    • cut the mustard
    • cut the muster
    • cut the pigeon wing
    • cut the rug
    • cut the shit
    • cut the umbilical cord
    • cut-through
    • cutting block
    • cutting board
    • cutting contest
    • cutting edge
    • cutting fluid
    • cutting garden
    • cutting horse
    • cutting room
    • cut to black
    • cut to ribbons
    • cut to the bone
    • cut to the chase
    • cut to the heart
    • cut to the quick
    • cut under
    • cut up
    • cut up shapes
    • cut wind
    • cut with a knife and fork
    • daisy-cutting
    • diamond cut diamond
    • don't cut yourself on that edge
    • fish or cut bait
    • fussy cut
    • have one's work cut out for one
    • is someone cutting onions
    • jump-cut
    • leaf-cutting
    • measure twice and cut once
    • ninjas cutting onions
    • nut cutting
    • one's stomach thinks one's throat has been cut
    • price-cut
    • tongue long enough to cut one's throat
    • trust everybody, but cut the cards
    • words cut deep
    • you could cut the air with a knife
    • you could cut the atmosphere with a knife

    Translations

    to perform an incision — see also incide
    • Afrikaans: sny (af)
    • Albanian: pres (sq)
    • Altai:
      Southern Altai: кезер (kezer)
    • Amami Ōshima:
      Northern Amami Ōshima: 切るり (きるり, kiruri)
      Southern Amami Ōshima: 切りゅむっ (きりゅむっ, kiryum)
    • Amharic: መቁረጥ (mäquräṭ)
    • Arabic: جَرَحَ (ar) (jaraḥa)
      Hijazi Arabic: جرح (jaraḥ), قطع (gaṭaʕ)
    • Armenian: կտրել (hy) (ktrel)
    • Aromanian: talju, talj
    • Ashkun: ćina
    • Assamese:
      Central Assamese: কাটা (kata)
      Eastern Assamese: কটা (kota)
    • Asturian: curtar
    • Azerbaijani: kəsmək (az), çapmaq
    • Bashkir: киҫеү (kiθew), ҡырҡыу (qïrqïw), киртеү (kirtew)
    • Belarusian: рэ́заць impf (rézacʹ), секчы́ impf (sjekčý), рубі́ць impf (rubícʹ) (axe)
    • Bengali: কাটা (bn) (kaṭa)
    • Bulgarian: ре́жа (bg) (réža)
    • Burmese: ကိုက် (my) (kuik), ဆုန်း (my) (hcun:), တစ် (my) (tac)
    • Catalan: tallar (ca)
    • Chinese:
      Cantonese: 切 (cit3)
      Mandarin: 切 (zh) (qiē)
    • Choctaw: bʋshli
    • Czech: řezat (cs) impf, tít impf
    • Dalmatian: taljur
    • Danish: skære (da), snitte
    • Dolgan: быс (bïs)
    • Dutch: snijden (nl)
    • Egyptian:
      n
      S
      mT30
      (nšm)
    • Esperanto: tranĉi
    • Estonian: lõikama (et)
    • Evenki: минэми (minəmi), хусчами (husçami)
    • Finnish: leikata (fi)
    • French: couper (fr), inciser (fr)
      Old French: trenchier, colper
    • Friulian: taiâ
    • Galician: cortar (gl), sarxar, tallar (gl)
    • Georgian: გაჭრა (gač̣ra), გაკვეთა (gaḳveta)
    • German: einschneiden (de)
    • Greek: κόβω (el) (kóvo)
      Ancient Greek: τέμνω (témnō)
    • Hebrew: חתך (he) (khatákh)
    • Hindi: काटना (hi) (kāṭnā)
    • Hungarian: vág (hu), megvág (hu), bevág (hu)
    • Icelandic: skera (is)
    • Indonesian: potong (id), memotong (id)
    • Ingrian: leikata, leikkoa
    • Irish: gearr
    • Istriot: talgià
    • Italian: tagliare (it), incidere (it)
    • Japanese: 切る (ja) (きる, kiru)
    • Kaitag: чербирхьва́ра (čerbirxvára)
    • Kamkata-viri: ćia
    • Karachay-Balkar: кесерге (keserge)
    • Kashmiri: ژَٹُن (ċaṭun)
    • Kashubian: please add this translation if you can
    • Kazakh: кесу (kesüw)
    • Khakas: кизерге (kizerge)
    • Khmer: កាត់ (km) (kat)
    • Kikai: 切ゆい (ちゆい, chiyui)
    • Korean: 끊다 (ko) (kkeunta)
    • Kumyk: гесмек (gesmek), туврамакъ (tuwramaq), тилмек (tilmek)
    • Kunigami: 切ん (ちん, chin)
    • Kurdish:
      Northern Kurdish: birîn (ku), birrîn (ku), jê kirin (ku)
    • Kyrgyz: кесүү (ky) (kesüü)
    • Lao: ຕັດ (tat)
    • Latin: inseco, incido
    • Latvian: griezt (lv)
    • Lithuanian: kirpti
    • Lombard: taià
    • Macedonian: сече impf (seče), реже impf (reže)
    • Manchu: ᡤᡳᡵᡳᠮᠪᡳ (girimbi), ᠮᡝᡳᡨᡝᠮᠪᡳ (meitembi), ᡶᡠᡵᡠᠮᠪᡳ (furumbi)
    • Mandar: mappolong
    • Māori: tapahi
    • Miyako: 切 (きぃー, ksïï)
    • Mongolian: хяргах (mn) (xjargax)
    • Muong: cách
    • Murut:
      Keningau Murut: manatas, mamidis
    • Nahuatl: tequi, cotōna
    • Nanai: муи- (mui-)
    • Neapolitan: taglià
    • Nogai: кесуьв (kesüv)
    • Norman: coper
    • Occitan: talhar (oc)
    • Okinawan: 切ーん (ちーん, chīn)
    • Okinoerabu: 切ゅん (きゅん, kyun)
    • Oromo: muruu
    • Paicî: taari
    • Persian: بریدن (fa) (boridan)
    • Piedmontese: tajé
    • Polish: ciąć (pl) impf
    • Portuguese: cortar (pt), incisar
    • Quechua: khuchuy
    • Rapa Nui: tarai
    • Romanian: a tăia (ro)
    • Romansh: tagliar, taglier, tagler
    • Russian: ре́зать (ru) impf (rézatʹ), поре́зать (ru) pf (porézatʹ), (axe) руби́ть (ru) impf (rubítʹ), поруби́ть (ru) pf (porubítʹ)
    • Sanskrit: छिनत्ति (sa) (chinátti), कृन्तति (sa) (kṛntáti)
    • Sardinian: secare
    • Scottish Gaelic: geàrr
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Cyrillic: резати impf, сећи impf, сјећи impf
      Latin: rezati (sh) impf, seći impf, sjeći impf
    • Shor: кезерге (kezerge)
    • Sicilian: tagghiari (scn)
    • Sidamo: mur-
    • Slovak: rezať impf, ťať
    • Slovene: rezati (sl) impf
    • Somali: jarid, sarid
    • Sorbian:
      Lower Sorbian: rězaś
      Upper Sorbian: rězać
    • Spanish: cortar (es)
    • Sundanese: teukteuk (su)
    • Swahili: kukata (sw)
    • Swedish: skära (sv)
    • Sylheti: ꠇꠣꠐꠣ (xaṭa)
    • Tagalog: hiwa
    • Tamil: வெட்டு (ta) (veṭṭu), நறுக்கு (ta) (naṟukku), அரி (ta) (ari), அறு (ta) (aṟu)
    • Tarantino: tagghià
    • Tatar: кисү (kisü)
    • Tetum: tesi
    • Thai: ตัด (th) (dtàt)
    • Tigrinya: ቁረጽ (ḳuräṣ)
    • Tofa: кеъсер (keʺser)
    • Tokunoshima: 切りぃ (きりぃ, kirï)
    • Turkish: kesmek (tr), biçmek (tr)
    • Turkmen: kesmek
    • Tuvan: кезер (kezer), быжыр (bıjır)
    • Ukrainian: рі́зати impf (rízaty), руба́ти impf (rubáty) (axe)
    • Ulithian: chibey
    • Urdu: کاٹنا (kāṭnā)
    • Urum: кес- (kes-)
    • Uyghur: késmek
    • Uzbek: kesmoq (uz)
    • Venetan: tajar (vec)
    • Vietnamese: cắt (vi)
    • Waigali: ćina
    • Welsh: torri (cy)
    • Yaeyama: 切すん (きぃすん, kïsun)
    • Yakut: быс (bïs)
    • Yámana: tačikama
    • Yiddish: האַקן (hakn), שנײַדן (shnaydn)
    • Yonaguni: 切ん (つん, tsun)
    • Yoron: 切ゅん (きゅん, kyun)
    • Zazaki: bırnayen, birnayîş
    • Zealandic: snieë
    • ǃXóõ: gǂháá
    to divide with a sharp instrument — see also sever,‎ truncate,‎ trim,‎ tonsure
    • Afrikaans: sny (af)
    • Aklanon: utod
    • Albanian: pres (sq)
    • Arabic: قَطَعَ (ar) (qaṭaʕa)
      Hijazi Arabic: قطع (gaṭaʕ), قص (gaṣṣ), قَطَّع (gaṭṭaʕ)
    • Armenian: կտրատել (hy) (ktratel)
    • Azerbaijani: kəsmək (az), çapmaq
    • Bashkir: ҡырҡыу (qïrqïw), киҫеү (kiθew)
    • Bengali: কাটা (bn) (kaṭa)
    • Bulgarian: ре́жа (bg) (réža), сека (bg) (seka), разсичам (bg) (razsičam)
    • Burmese: ညှပ် (my) (hnyap)
    • Catalan: tallar (ca)
    • Chinese:
      Cantonese: 切 (cit3)
      Hokkien: kā
      Mandarin: 切 (zh) (qiē)
    • Choctaw: bʋshli
    • Comorian:
      Ngazidja Comorian: upua
    • Czech: přeříznout pf
    • Dalmatian: taljur
    • Danish: udskære
    • Daur: хad-
    • Dutch: snijden (nl), knippen (nl) (with scissors)
    • Esperanto: tranĉi
    • Finnish: leikata (fi)
    • French: couper (fr)
      Old French: colper, couper, coper
    • Friulian: taiâ
    • Galician: cortar (gl), tallar (gl)
    • German: schneiden (de)
    • Greek: κόβω (el) (kóvo)
      Ancient Greek: κόπτω (kóptō)
    • Hebrew: חתך (he) (khatákh)
    • Hungarian: elvág (hu), szétvág (hu), kettévág (hu)
    • Icelandic: (with a knife) skera (is), (with scissors) klippa (is)
    • Irish: bain (grass, hay, etc.)
    • Istriot: talgià
    • Italian: tagliare (it)
    • Japanese: 切る (ja) (きる, kiru)
    • Javanese: kethok, ngethok (jv)
      Old Javanese: kĕṭok
    • Latin: seco (la), interseco, curto
    • Latvian: griezt (lv)
    • Lingala: sese
    • Low German:
      German Low German: snieden
    • Malay: potong (ms), memotong
    • Maltese: qata’
    • Manobo:
      Western Bukidnon Manobo: garab, getas, lapa'
    • Mansaka: otod, garab, gonting, lapa
    • Māori: whakaiho (of hair), tarotaro (of hair)
    • Mari:
      Eastern Mari: аваш (avaš)
    • Naga:
      Khiamniungan Naga: thàm
    • Norman: coper
    • Occitan: talhar (oc)
    • Polish: kroić (pl) impf, przycinać (pl) impf, przyciąć (pl) pf
    • Portuguese: cortar (pt)
    • Quechua: kuchuy, p'itiy
    • Romanian: tăia (ro)
    • Romansh: tagliar
    • Russian: разреза́ть (ru) impf (razrezátʹ), разре́зать (ru) pf (razrézatʹ)
    • Scottish Gaelic: geàrr
    • Serbo-Croatian: rezati (sh) impf
    • Sicilian: tagghiari (scn)
    • Sorbian:
      Lower Sorbian: rězaś impf, kšajaś impf (food like bread and cheese)
    • Spanish: cortar (es), hair: mondar (es), tusar (es), pelucar (es), peluquear (es); tranzar (es)
    • Swedish: skära (sv) (with knife), klippa (sv) (with scissors), kapa (sv)
    • Thai: ตัด (th) (dtàt), หั่น (th) (hàn)
    • Tigrinya: ቁረጽ (ḳuräṣ)
    • Uzbek: kesmoq (uz)
    • Welsh: torri (cy)
    • Wolaytta: qanxxa
    • Yiddish: שנײַדן (shnaydn), שערן (shern)
    to cut out fabric to specific lengths and shapes to make clothes
    • Esperanto: tondi (eo)
    • French: couper (fr)
    • German: schneiden (de)
    • Hungarian: szab (hu)
    • Nanai: гири- (giri-)
    • Russian: кроить (ru) (kroitʹ)
    • Slovene: krojiti, prirezovati
    • Spanish: cortar (es)
    • Swedish: tillskära, skära (sv), klippa (sv)
    to separate from prior association
    • Afrikaans: sny (af)
    • Albanian: nderpres
    • Armenian: կտրել (hy) (ktrel)
    • Czech: oddělit (cs), rozdělit (cs)
    • Danish: udelukke
    • Dutch: scheiden (nl)
    • Finnish: jättää pois
    • German: trennen (de)
    • Greek: βγάζω (el) (vgázo)
    • Portuguese: remover (pt), retirar (pt)
    • Scottish Gaelic: geàrr
    • Spanish: retirar (es)
    • Swedish: utesluta (sv) (from a team), klippa bort (remove a portion during editing of a tape), kapa (sv)
    computing: to remove and place in memory
    • Afrikaans: knip (af), sny (af)
    • Arabic: قَصَّ (qaṣṣa)
    • Catalan: retallar (ca)
    • Dutch: knippen (nl)
    • Esperanto: enpoŝigi, movi en la poŝon
    • Finnish: leikata (fi)
    • French: couper (fr)
    • Galician: cortar (gl)
    • German: ausschneiden (de)
    • Greek: αποκοπή (el) f (apokopí)
    • Gujarati: કાપવું (kāpvũ)
    • Italian: tagliare (it)
    • Māori: tapahi
    • Portuguese: recortar (pt)
    • Scottish Gaelic: geàrr
    • Spanish: cortar (es)
    • Swedish: klippa (sv)
    to enter a queue in a wrong place
    • Armenian: կտրել (hy) (ktrel)
    • Chinese:
      Mandarin: 插隊 / 插队 (zh) (chāduì), 加塞兒 / 加塞儿 (zh) (jiāsāir)
    • Danish: snyde (da)
    • Dutch: voorsteken (nl)
    • Finnish: etuilla (fi), kiilata (fi)
    • Greek: πηδάω (el) (pidáo)
    • Icelandic: troðast (is), troða sér (is)
    • Japanese: 横切る (ja) (よこぎる, yokogiru)
    • Portuguese: furar (pt)
    • Spanish: colar (es)
    • Swedish: tränga (sv) sig
    to cease recording
    • Dutch: knippen (nl), stoppen (nl)
    • Finnish: katkaista (fi)
    • French: couper (fr)
    • German: klappe (de)
    • Portuguese: cortar (pt)
    • Spanish: cortar (es)
    • Swedish: klippa (sv)
    • Zazaki: qırpnayen
    to reduce
    • Armenian: կտրել (hy) (ktrel)
    • Bengali: কাটা (bn) (kaṭa)
    • Bulgarian: орязвам (bg) (orjazvam)
    • Danish: skære (da), beskære, nedsætte
    • Dutch: snijden (nl) in, verminderen (nl)
    • Finnish: leikata (fi)
    • French: réduire (fr)
    • German: beschneiden (de)
    • Greek: κόβω (el) (kóvo), μειώνω (el) (meióno)
    • Hungarian: csökkent (hu)
    • Icelandic: skera niður
    • Japanese: 減らす (ja) (へらす, herasu), 削減する (ja) (さくげんする, sakugen suru)
    • Portuguese: diminuir (pt), reduzir (pt)
    • Romanian: diminua (ro), reduce (ro)
    • Russian: уреза́ть (ru) impf (urezátʹ), уре́зать (ru) pf (urézatʹ)
    • Scottish Gaelic: geàrr
    • Spanish: recortar (es)
    • Swedish: skära (sv)
    • Thai: ตัด (th) (dtàt), ทอน (th) (tɔɔn), ลด (th) (lót)
    • Turkish:
      Ottoman Turkish: قاصمق (kasmak)
    to form or shape by cutting
    • Danish: slibe (gems), tilskære, tilhugge
    • Dutch: slijpen (nl)
    • Esperanto: tajli (eo)
    • Finnish: leikata (fi), hioa (fi)
    • French: tailler (fr)
    • Portuguese: talhar (pt) m
    • Russian: выреза́ть (ru) impf (vyrezátʹ), выре́зать (ru) pf (vyrézatʹ)
    • Scottish Gaelic: geàrr
    • Spanish: tallar (es)
    • Swedish: skära (sv), skära ut, klippa ut (sv)
    • Thai: ตัด (th) (dtàt)
    to intersect dividing into half
    • Armenian: կտրել (hy) (ktrel)
    • Danish: skære (da), krydse
    • Dutch: verdelen (nl)
    • Finnish: jakaa (kahtia)
    • German: schneiden (de), trennen (de)
    • Polish: rozciąć (pl)
    • Portuguese: atravessar (pt)
    • Spanish: atravesar (es)
    in cricket, to make the ball spin sideways
    • Danish: snitte
    colloquial, not to attend a class
    • Chinese:
      Mandarin: 逃 (zh) (táo), 翹 / 翘 (zh) (qiào)
    • Danish: pjække fra
    • Dutch: spijbelen (nl)
    • Finnish: lintsata (fi)
    • French: sécher (fr)
    • German: schwänzen (de)
    • Greek: κάνω κοπάνα f (káno kopána)
    • Hebrew: הבריז (he) (hivríz)
    • Hungarian: lóg (hu), ellóg (hu), elbliccel (hu)
    • Icelandic: skrópa
    • Italian: saltare (it)
    • Japanese: 休む (ja) (やすむ, yasumu), 欠席する (ja) (けっせきする, kesseki suru), サボる (ja) (saboru)
    • Portuguese: matar (pt), faltar (pt), gazetear (pt)
    • Spanish: faltar (es)
    to change direction suddenly
    • Dutch: kappen (nl)
    • Finnish: mutkitella (fi), koukata (fi)
    • Hebrew: חתך (he) (khatákh)
    to divide a pack of playing cards
    • Chinese:
      Mandarin: 切牌 (qiēpái)
    • Dutch: schudden (nl)
    • Finnish: nostaa (fi)
    • French: couper (fr)
    • German: schneiden (de), abheben (de) (intransitive use)
    • Greek: κόβω (el) (kóvo)
    • Hungarian: emel (hu)
    • Icelandic: skipta (is), skera (is), draga (is)
    • Italian: alzare (it)
    • Māori: katikati, wāwāhi, wāhi
    • Polish: przekładać (pl) impf, przełożyć (pl) pf
    • Portuguese: cortar (pt)
    • Spanish: cortar (es)
    • Swedish: kupera (sv)
    to wound — see also slice
    • Spanish: cortar (es)
    to engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin
    • Chinese:
      Mandarin: 割手 (gēshǒu), 改花刀 (gǎi huādāo)
    transitive: to stop, disengage or cease
    • Spanish: cortar (es)
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    • Albanian: (please verify) pret
    • Dyirbal: (please verify) nudin, (please verify) gunban, (please verify) banyin (Guwal), (please verify) jalnggan, (please verify) bubaman (Jalnguy)
    • Esperanto: (please verify) tranĉi, (please verify) fasoni
    • Indonesian: (please verify) potong (id), (please verify) kerat (id), (please verify) iris (id), (please verify) memotong (id)
    • Romanian: (please verify) croi (ro)
    • Serbo-Croatian:
      Latin: (please verify) rezati (sh), (please verify) iseći, (please verify) rez (sh), (please verify) spustiti (sh), (please verify) sniziti (sh), (please verify) pobeći
    • Telugu: (please verify) కోయు (te) (kōyu) (1,2), (please verify) తెంచు (te) (teñcu) (3), (please verify) కోత వేయు (kōta vēyu) (6), (please verify) ఖండించుకొను (khaṇḍiñcukonu) (8)
    • Woiwurrung: (please verify) bendi

    See also

    • copy
    • paste

    Adjective

    cut (comparative more cut, superlative most cut)

    1. (participial adjective) Having been cut.
      • 1958 November 7 [1956], Excerpts from "Economic Geography of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region"‎[5], United States Joint Publications Research Service, →OCLC, page 58:
        The real purpose of building this railway on the part of the Japanese imperialists at that time was to spy on the Mongolian People's Republic and to transport the timber produced in the A-erh-t'ai forest zone. […] The principal cargo consists of cut timber from the A-erh-t'ai-shan, and the cereal products of Wu-lan-hao-t'e.
    2. Reduced.
      The pitcher threw a cut fastball that was slower than his usual pitch.
      Cut brandy is a liquor made of brandy and hard grain liquor.
    3. (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
    4. (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
    5. (bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
      • 1988, Steve Holman, “Christian Conquers Columbus”, in Ironman, 47 (6): 28-34:
        Or how 'bout Shane DiMora? Could he possibly get rip-roaring cut this time around?
      • 2010, Bill Geiger, “6-pack Abs in 9 Weeks”, in Reps!, 17:106:
        That's the premise of the overload principle, and it must be applied, even to ab training, if you're going to develop a cut, ripped midsection.
    6. (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
    7. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Upset, angry; emotionally hurt. [from 20th c.]
      • 1999, Julia Leigh, The Hunter, Faber & Faber 2012, p. 41:
        ‘Here y'are,’ says the happy butcher, dragging out a bucket. ‘Good riddance. But me dogs'll be cut tonight, I tell ya. That's their grub.’
    8. (slang, New Zealand, formerly UK) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.[2]
      Synonyms: see Thesaurus:drunk
      • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 51, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
        I was dev’lish cut—uncommon—been dining with some chaps at Greenwich.

    Derived terms

    Terms related to cut (adjective)
    • baby-cut
    • boy-cut
    • clean-cut
    • clear-cut
    • clear cut
    • closed-cut valley
    • crinkle-cut
    • cut and dried
    • cut autograph
    • cutbank
    • Cut Bank
    • cut cake
    • cut cavendish
    • cut fastball
    • cut glass
    • cut lunch
    • cut nail
    • cut of the same cloth
    • cut out of the same cloth
    • cut-price
    • cut-rate
    • cut sig
    • cut signature
    • cut splice
    • English-cut
    • half cut
    • handcut
    • heartcut
    • kiss-cut
    • lowcut
    • mad as a cut snake
    • mad as cut snakes
    • noncut
    • offcut
    • party-cut
    • pointcut
    • rose-cut
    • steak-cut
    • steel-cut
    • straight-cut
    • tavern-cut
    • V-cut
    • wavecut

    Translations

    having been cut
    • Afrikaans: gesnyde
    • Albanian: prerë (sq)
    • Assamese: কাট (kat)
    • Danish: skåret (da)
    • Dutch: gesneden (nl)
    • Finnish: leikattu (fi)
    • French: coupé (fr), coupée (fr), coupés (fr), coupées (fr)
    • German: geschnitten (de)
    • Greek: κομμένος (el) (komménos)
    • Hebrew: חתוך (khatúkh)
    • Italian: tagliato (it) m, ritagliato (it) m, accorciato (it) m, ridotto (it) m
    • Kashmiri: ژۆٹمُت (ċoṭmut)
    • Malay: putus (ms), terpotong
    • Old English: gesniden (ang)
    • Old Saxon: gisnidan
    • Portuguese: cortado (pt)
    • Romanian: tăiat (ro)
    • Russian: ре́заный (ru) (rézanyj), наре́заный (narézanyj), поре́заный (porézanyj), разре́заный (razrézanyj)
    • Spanish: cortado (es)
    • Swedish: klippt (sv), skuren (sv)
    • Turkish: kesik (tr)
    • Vietnamese: cắt (vi)
    reduced
    • Assamese:
      Central Assamese: কাটা (kata)
      Eastern Assamese: কটা (kota)
    • Bengali: কাটা (bn) (kaṭa)
    • Finnish: leikattu (fi), vähennetty (fi), kevennetty, heikennetty
    • German: geschnitten (de)
    • Greek: κομμένος (el) (komménos)
    • Italian: ridotto (it), tagliato (it), accorciato (it), ritagliato (it) m, potato (it) m
    • Portuguese: reduzido (pt)
    • Russian: уре́заный (urézanyj)
    • Zazaki: qesn
    of a gem, carved into a shape
    • Danish: slebet
    • Dutch: geslepen (nl)
    • Finnish: hiottu (fi)
    • French: taillé (fr)
    • German: geschnitten (de), geschliffen (de)
    • Italian: tagliato (it)
    • Portuguese: lapidado (pt)
    • Romanian: tăiat (ro)
    • Russian: огранённый (ru) (ogranjónnyj)
    • Spanish: tallado (es)
    cricket: played with a horizontal bat
    • Zazaki: bırnayen
    bodybuilding: having individual groups of muscle fibers stand out
    • German: geschnitten (de)
    • Italian: scolpito (it) m, cesellato (it) m
    colloquial: circumcised — see also circumcised
    • Finnish: silvottu
    • Greek: περιτετμημένος (el) (peritetmiménos)
    • Italian: circonciso (it) m
    • Portuguese: circuncidado (pt)
    • Russian: обре́заный (obrézanyj)
    • Spanish: circuncidado (es)
    slang: emotionally hurt
    • Finnish: loukkaantunut (fi)
    intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol
    • Finnish: päihtynyt (fi)

    Noun

    cut (countable and uncountable, plural cuts)

    A cut (graph theory sense) in a graph with five vertices, which partitioned it into two subgroups (one with white vertices and another with black vertices).
    1. (literal, figurative) The act of cutting.
      He made a fine cut with his sword.
      1. (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
      2. (bodybuilding) A time period when one attempts to lose fat while retaining muscle mass.
    2. (literal, figurative) The result of cutting.
      a smooth or clear cut
      1. An opening of a living body resulting from cutting; an incision or wound.
        1. Such a wound through human skin.
          Look at this cut on my finger!
      2. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
        1. Such a passage dug for a roadway for a paved road or railroad, a canal, a runway, etc.
          a cut through the hillside for a railroad
          • 1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
            which great cut or ditch Sesostris […] purposed to have made a great deale wider and deeper.
      3. An artificial channel for marine navigation, as distinguished from a navigable river.
        Hyponym: canal
      4. A share or portion of profits.
        The taxman always gets his cut, and that's fine as long as it's a haircut and not an amputation.
        The bank robbers disbanded after everyone got their cut of the money.
        • 2022 April 6, Andrew R. Chow, “Inside Epic's Unreal Engine 5”, in Time‎[6], New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 July 2025:
          Starting today, UE5 is free to download and use, with Epic taking a 5% cut on products created with it only after they earn over $1 million in gross revenue.
      5. A decrease or deletion.
        Antonyms: hike (used in same contexts); increase
        The boss took a 5% pay cut.
        The editors went a little crazy making so many cuts.
        They've made slashing cuts to the budget.
      6. The manner or style in which a garment, other article of clothing, or sail is fashioned.
        I like the cut of that suit.
        I like the cut of that jib.
        • c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:
          with eyes severe and beard of formal cut
      7. A slab or slice, especially of meat.
        That’s our largest cut of meat.
        • 1919, Henry B[lake] Fuller, “Cope Amidst Cross-Purposes”, in Bertram Cope’s Year: A Novel, Chicago, Ill.: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, The Alderbrink Press, →OCLC, page 110:
          Cope pushed away his coffee-cup and asked the young Greek for a cut of pie.
      8. A standard type of meat portion in butchery.
        The Vegas Strip is a supposedly new cut of beef.
      9. (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
      10. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.
      11. (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball.
      12. (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.
      13. (especially theater, film) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play, movie script, speech, etc.
        The director asked the cast to note down the following cuts.
      14. (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
        the director's cut
      15. (card games) The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
        The player next to the dealer makes a cut by placing the bottom half on top.
      16. (card games) The card obtained by dividing the pack.
      17. A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
        • 1819, Washington Irving, (Rip Van Winkle)::
          Rip called him by name, but the cur snarled, showed his teeth, and passed on. This was an unkind cut indeed.
        • 1847 March 30, Herman Melville, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:
          After several experiences like this, I began to entertain a sort of respect for Kooloo, as quite a man of the world. In good sooth, he turned out to be one; in one week's time giving me the cut direct, and lounging by without even nodding. He must have taken me for part of the landscape.
      18. An unkind act; a cruelty.
      19. (slang) An insult.
        • 1966-1969, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
          We got out & there was a group of boppers, bout 25 of 'm in a group. They started yellin cuts, "queer" seemed to be the favorite they all began chanting it. "Hey, yer not gonna serve those queers, are ya Howie?"
      20. A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc.
        Synonym: track
        The drummer on the last cut of their CD is not identified.
        • 1975, Billboard, volume 87, number 24, page 50:
          Best cuts: "The Evil Dude," "Kung Fu, Too!" "Mama Love," "New Orleans" (with a punchy vocal by Teresa Brewer).
      21. (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.
      22. A haircut.
      23. (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
      24. (Internet) A dividing line in a Tumblr post, the content below which is hidden until the reader reveals it.
        That's the TL;DR, anyway. You can find a more detailed version under the cut.
      25. (rail transport) A string of railway cars coupled together, shorter than a train.
        • 1960 June, “Talking of Trains: The new Margam yard”, in Trains Illustrated, page 323:
          The shunter has a lightweight portable radio transmitter by which, as he uncouples an incoming train into cuts for marshalling, he informs the Traffic Office of the number of wagons in each cut and its siding; [...].
      26. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
        a book illustrated with fine cuts
      27. (obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding.
        • 1613–1614, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, “The Two Noble Kinsmen”, in Fifty Comedies and Tragedies. […], [part 2], London: […] J[ohn] Macock [and H. Hills], for John Martyn, Henry Herringman, and Richard Marriot, published 1679, →OCLC, Act III, scene iv, page 436, column 2:
          He's buy me a whit Cut, forth for to ride
      28. (slang, dated) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
      29. A skein of yarn.
        • 1632, North Riding Record:
          Two women for stealing 30 cuttes of linen yarn.
      30. (slang, uncountable) That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
        Synonym: mix
        Don't buy his coke: it's full of cut.
      31. (fashion) A notch shaved into an eyebrow.
      32. (slang) A hidden, secluded, or secure place.
        • 1992 September 22, Da Lench Mob, “Guerillas[sic] in tha Mist” (track 6), in Guerillas in tha Mist‎[7]:
          I'm laying in a cut 'bout to shoot me a mutt
        • 2003 January 7, “In da Club” (track 5), in Get Rich or Die Tryin'‎[8], performed by 50 Cent:
          I see Xzibit in the cut, hey, nigga, roll that weed up.
        • 2008 March 9, David Simon, “-30-”, in The Wire, season 5, episode 10 (television production), spoken by Slim Charles (Anwan Glover), via HBO:
          You don't mind me askin', why you want to sell? I mean, even from inside here, you can take a slice for just layin' in the cut.
        • 2010 April 14, Wiz Khalifa, “In the Cut”, in Kush & Orange Juice‎[9]:
          In the cut, in the cut, rolling doobies up
        • 2012, Honey Cocaine, “In The Cut”:
          Bitch I'm out, catch me chillin' in the cut. Me and my homies swag it out in the cut. It's a party going down in the cut.
        • 2016, Drake, “Summer Sixteen"”:
          Famous as fuck, but I’m still in the cut when they round up the troops.
        • 2021, Redferrin, "Stuck":
          She got me stuck. Like a truck, deep mud, deep ruts, way out in the cut. She got me stuck. Even four-wheel drive won't work this time, yeah.
        • 2023 January 9th, Santana Hannah, in JOLLY, "Brits try REAL Southern Fried Chicken for the first time!", YouTube, 11:27:
          We're off the beaten path from River Street downtown. So, it's, we're back here in the cut.
      33. (petrochemistry) The range of temperatures used to distill a particular mixture of hydrocarbons from crude oil.
      34. A sleeveless vest worn by members of a motorcycle club.

    Derived terms

    Terms derived from cut (noun)
    • a cut below
    • basin cut
    • beard cut
    • Beatle cut
    • bird's nest cut
    • boot cut
    • bowl cut
    • branch cut
    • broccoli cut
    • brush cut
    • budget cut
    • butch cut
    • buzzcut
    • Caesar cut
    • Chelsea cut
    • Chinese cut
    • clearcut
    • cold cuts
    • comic cut
    • covid cut
    • crew cut
    • curb cut
    • cut above
    • cut and thrust
    • cut below
    • cut buddy
    • cut card
    • cut crease
    • cutgrass
    • cutlet
    • cutline
    • cutman
    • cutmark
    • cut money
    • cut of one's jib
    • cutover
    • cutpoint
    • cutproof
    • cut scene
    • cutscore
    • cutset
    • cut-set
    • cut sheet
    • cutsies
    • cuttie
    • cutty
    • cutwidth
    • cutwork
    • cutworm
    • death by a thousand cuts
    • Dedekind cut
    • Deepcut
    • deep cut
    • devil's cut
    • die-cut
    • direct cut
    • director's cut
    • draw cuts
    • final cut
    • fine cut
    • flash cut
    • French cut
    • fresh cut
    • golden cut
    • haircut
    • headcut
    • heartcut
    • Heisenberg cut
    • highcut
    • hime cut
    • house cut
    • jump cut
    • L cut
    • linecut
    • linocut
    • lion cut
    • longcut
    • low-cut
    • make the cut
    • match cut
    • maximum cut
    • midcut
    • mini-cut
    • minimum cut
    • miscut
    • mushroom cut
    • narrow-cut
    • near cut
    • no-cut
    • non-cut
    • paper cut
    • pay cut
    • pixie cut
    • plug cut
    • power cut
    • price cut
    • prime cut
    • princess cut
    • roadcut
    • rose-cut
    • rose cut
    • rough cut
    • saw-cut
    • shaggy cut
    • shift the cut
    • short cut
    • shortcut
    • sidecut
    • sideline cut
    • smash cut
    • sound cut
    • spacecut
    • s-t cut
    • supercut
    • tax cut
    • trench cut
    • upcut
    • uppercut
    • V-cut
    • wide-cut
    • wolf cut
    • woodcut
    • α-cut

    Translations

    act of cutting
    • Bulgarian: рязане (bg) n (rjazane)
    • Catalan: tall (ca) m
    • Czech: řez (cs), říznutí
    • Danish: hug n
    • Finnish: leikkaus (fi), viilto (fi)
    • French: coupe (fr) f, entaille (fr) f
    • Galician: corte (gl) m
    • Georgian: გაჭრა (gač̣ra)
    • German: Schnitt (de) m
    • Greek: κόψιμο (el) (kópsimo)
    • Hebrew: חיתוך m (khitúkh)
    • Icelandic: skurður (is) m
    • Italian: taglio (it) m
    • Latvian: cirtiens
    • Norwegian: kutt n
    • Polish: krojenie (pl) n, cięcie (pl) n
    • Portuguese: corte (pt) m
    • Romanian: tăiere (ro) f
    • Russian: ре́зание (ru) n (rézanije)
    • Scottish Gaelic: gearradh m
    • Spanish: corte (es) m
    • Swedish: snitt (sv) n
    • Turkish: kesme (tr)
    • Welsh: toriad (cy) m
    • Zazaki: qesnayış, qesnaış (Northern Zazaki)
    result of cutting
    • Catalan: tall (ca) m
    • Danish: snit n
    • Dutch: snee (nl) f
    • Esperanto: tranĉo, tranĉaĵo
    • Finnish: leikkaus (fi), viilto (fi); viipale (fi), siivu (fi); haava (fi) (wound)
    • French: coupe (fr) f
    • Galician: corte (gl) m, tallada f
    • German: Schnitt (de) m
    • Icelandic: afskurður m
    • Italian: taglio (it) m
    • Kabuverdianu: kórti, kórte
    • Polish: przecięcie (pl) n
    • Portuguese: corte (pt) m
    • Romanian: tăietură (ro) f
    • Russian: поре́з (ru) m (poréz)
    • Scottish Gaelic: gearradh m
    • Spanish: corte (es) m
    • Swedish: snitt (sv) n
    • Welsh: toriad (cy) m
    opening resulting from cutting
    • Aromanian: tãljiturã f
    • Bulgarian: разрез (bg) m (razrez)
    • Catalan: tall (ca) m
    • Danish: snitsår n, skramme c
    • Dutch: snee (nl) f, snijwond (nl) f (wound)
    • Esperanto: tranĉo, tranĉaĵo
    • Finnish: haava (fi), viilto (fi), viiltohaava
    • French: coupure (fr) f, entaille (fr) f
    • Galician: corte (gl) m
    • German: Schnitt (de) m
    • Greek: κόψιμο (el) n (kópsimo), τομή (el) f (tomí)
      Ancient Greek: τομή f (tomḗ)
    • Hebrew: חתך (he) m (khétekh)
    • Icelandic: skurður (is) m
    • Italian: taglio (it) m, incisione (it) f
    • Kabuverdianu: kórti, kórte
    • Kurdish:
      Central Kurdish: برین (brîn)
    • Māori: motunga
    • Polish: skaleczenie (pl) n, rozcięcie n
    • Portuguese: corte (pt) m
    • Romanian: tăietură (ro) f, incizie (ro) f
    • Russian: поре́з (ru) m (poréz) (wound), разре́з (ru) m (razréz)
    • Scottish Gaelic: gearradh m
    • Spanish: corte (es) m
    • Sundanese: raheut
    • Swedish: skärsår (sv) n
    • Tagalog: hiwa
    • Turkish: kesik (tr)
    • Welsh: toriad (cy) m
    • Zazaki: değiz
    notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging
    • Finnish: leikkaus (fi)
    artificial navigation as distinguished from a navigable river
    • Finnish: kanava (fi)
    share or portion
    • Finnish: osuus (fi); siivu (fi) (informal)
    • Galician: tallada f
    • Polish: skrawek (pl) m
    in cricket, batsman's shot played with a swinging motion
    in cricket, sideways movement of the ball through the air
    lawn tennis: slanting stroke; resulting spin
    • Finnish: kierrelyönti (stroke); kierre (fi) (spin)
    golf: early elimination of worse performers
    theatre: passage omitted or to be omitted from a play
    cinema: particular version or edit of a film
    • Finnish: versio (fi)
    • German: Filmbearbeitung f, Bearbeitungsversion f
    • Portuguese: corte (pt) m, versão (pt) f
    act of dividing a deck of playing cards
    • Czech: snímání
    • Danish: aftagning c
    • Finnish: nosto (fi)
    • French: coupe (fr) f
    • Greek: κόψιμο (el) n (kópsimo)
    • Italian: alzata (it) f
    • Portuguese: corte (pt) f
    • Romanian: tăiere (ro) f
    • Swedish: giv (sv) c
    • Turkish: kesmek (tr)
    • Zazaki: qesnayen, bırnayen (Central Zazaki), cı kerden (Northern Zazaki)
    manner or style a garment is fashioned in
    • Bulgarian: кройка (bg) f (krojka)
    • Catalan: costura (ca) f
    • Danish: snit n, mode c
    • Dutch: snit (nl)
    • Finnish: leikkaus (fi)
    • French: coupe (fr) f
    • German: Schnitt (de) m
    • Greek: κόψιμο (el) n (kópsimo)
    • Icelandic: snið (is) n
    • Italian: taglia (it) f, taglio (it) m
    • Polish: krój (pl) m
    • Portuguese: corte (pt) m
    • Russian: покро́й (ru) m (pokrój)
    • Spanish: corte (es) m
    • Swedish: skärning (sv) c, snitt (sv) n
    • Turkish: kesim (tr)
    • Welsh: toriad (cy) m
    • Zazaki: bırnayış, qesnayış (Central zazaki)
    slab of meat
    • Danish: udskæring c, stykke (da) n
    • Dutch: stuk (nl) n
    • Finnish: pala (fi)
    • French: coupe (fr) f
    • Galician: tallada f, corte (gl) m
    • Greek: κομμάτι (el) n (kommáti)
    • Hebrew: חתיכה (he) f (khatikhá)
    • Italian: taglio (it) m, pezzo (it) m
    • Norwegian:
      Bokmål: stykningsdel (no) m, stykke (no) n
    • Portuguese: corte (pt) m
    • Spanish: corte (es) m
    fencing: attack made with a chopping motion of the blade
    • French: coupé (fr)
    • Italian: intagliata (it)
    • Portuguese: corte (pt) m, golpe de corte m
    • Spanish: cupé (es)
    • Welsh: toriad (cy) m
    deliberate snub
    definable part of a music recording
    • Finnish: raita (fi), kappale (fi), piisi (fi), biisi (fi)
    • German: Aufnahmestück n, Stück (de) n
    archaeology: truncation
    haircut — see haircut
    partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups
    • Finnish: leikkaus (fi)
    • Italian: taglio (it) m
    • Portuguese: corte (pt) m
    string of railway cars coupled together
    engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving
    • Finnish: kaiverrus (fi)
    • Swedish: träsnitt (sv) n, kopparstick (sv) n, gravyr (sv) c
    common workhorse — see gelding
    failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise
    • Finnish: ohari (fi)
    skein of yarn — see skein
    slang: that which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug
    fashion: notch shaved into an eyebrow
    bodybuilding: time period when one tries to lose fat while retaining muscle mass
    • Finnish: rasvanpolttokausi
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    • Romanian: (please verify) tăietură (ro)
    • Telugu: (please verify) కోత (te) (kōta), (please verify) గాటు (te) (gāṭu)

    Interjection

    cut

    1. (film and television) An instruction to cease recording.
      Antonym: action
      Near-synonym: scene

    Descendants

    • → Chinese: cut
      → Mandarin: 卡 (kā)
    • → Finnish: poikki (calque)
    • → French: coupez (calque)
    • → Japanese: カット (katto)
    • → Korean: 컷 (keot)
    • → Portuguese: corta (calque)
    • → Portuguese: corten (calque)

    Translations

    Translations
    • Chinese: cut (zh)
      Mandarin: 卡 (zh) (kā)
    • Finnish: poikki (fi)
    • French: coupez (fr), c'est dans la boîte
    • Japanese: カット (ja) (katto)
    • Korean: 컷 (keot)
    • Portuguese: corta (pt)
    • Spanish: corten (es)

    See also

    • nut-cut (likely etymologically unrelated)

    References

    1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “cut”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
    2. ^ “Cut” in [John Camden Hotten], The Slang Dictionary […], 5th edition, London: Chatto and Windus, 1874, page 137.

    Anagrams

    • TCU, TUC, UCT, UTC

    Albanian

    Alternative forms

    • cus

    Etymology

    Related to cyt and nxit, zis, with the i:u:y alteration.[1]

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /t͡sut/

    Verb

    cut (aorist cuta, participle cutur)

    1. (Gheg) to explore, to experiment, to test
      Synonyms: zhbiroj, eksperimentoj, provoj, testoj

    Conjugation

    Standard Albanian conjugation of cut (active voice)
    • Show compound tenses:  

    participle cutur
    gerund duke cutur
    infinitive për të cutur
    singular plural
    1st pers. 2nd pers. 3rd pers. 1st pers. 2nd pers. 3rd pers.
    indicative present cut cut cut cutim cutni cutin
    imperfect cutja cutje cutte cutnim cutnit cutnin
    aorist cuta cute cuti cutëm cutët cutën
    perfect kam cutur ke cutur ka cutur kemi cutur keni cutur kanë cutur
    past perfect kisha cutur kishe cutur kishte cutur kishim cutur kishit cutur kishin cutur
    aorist II pata cutur pate cutur pati cutur patëm cutur patët cutur patën cutur
    future1 do të cut do të cutësh do të cutë do të cutim do të cutni do të cutin
    future perfect2 do të kem cutur do të kesh cutur do të ketë cutur do të kemi cutur do të keni cutur do të kenë cutur
    subjunctive present të cut të cutësh të cutë të cutim të cutni të cutin
    imperfect të cutja të cutje të cutte të cutnim të cutnit të cutnin
    perfect të kem cutur të kesh cutur të ketë cutur të kemi cutur të keni cutur të kenë cutur
    past perfect të kisha cutur të kishe cutur të kishte cutur të kishim cutur të kishit cutur të kishin cutur
    conditional1, 2 imperfect do të cutja do të cutje do të cutte do të cutnim do të cutnit do të cutnin
    past perfect do të kisha cutur do të kishe cutur do të kishte cutur do të kishim cutur do të kishit cutur do të kishin cutur
    optative present cutsha cutsh cuttë cutshim cutshi cutshin
    perfect paça cutur paç cutur pastë cutur paçim cutur paçit cutur paçin cutur
    admirative present cutkam cutke cutka cutkemi cutkeni cutkan
    imperfect cutkësha cutkëshe cutkësh cutkëshim cutkëshit cutkëshin
    perfect paskam cutur paske cutur paska cutur paskemi cutur paskeni cutur paskan cutur
    past perfect paskësha cutur paskëshe cutur paskësh cutur paskëshim cutur paskëshit cutur paskëshin cutur
    imperative present — cut — — cutni —
    1) indicative future identical with conditional present 2) indicative future perfect identical with conditional perfect

    Related terms

    • cyt
    • nxit

    References

    1. ^ Çabej, E. (1987), “cys”, in Studime etimologjike në fushë të shqipes (in Albanian), volumes III: C–D, Tirana: Akademia e Shkencave e Republikës Popullore të Shqipërisë, Instituti i Gjuhësisë dhe i Letërsisë, page 71

    Chinese

    Etymology

    From English cut.

    Pronunciation

    • Cantonese (Jyutping): kat1

    • Cantonese
      • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)+
        • Jyutping: kat1
        • Yale: kāt
        • Cantonese Pinyin: kat7
        • Guangdong Romanization: ked1
        • Sinological IPA (key): /kʰɐt̚⁵/

    Verb

    cut (Hong Kong Cantonese)

    1. to cut; to incise; to divide
      Synonym: 切
      cut開嚿牛扒/cut开嚿牛扒 [Hong Kong Cantonese]  ―  kat1 hoi1 gau6 ngau4 paa4-2 [Jyutping]  ―  to cut a steak into pieces
    2. to cut; to reduce
      Synonym: 削減 / 削减 (xuējiǎn)
      cut budget [Hong Kong Cantonese]  ―  kat1 bat1 zik4 [Jyutping]  ―  to reduce allocated budget
    3. to enter a queue at the wrong place; to switch directions suddenly
      cut線/cut线 [Hong Kong Cantonese]  ―  kat1 sin3 [Jyutping]  ―  to change lanes when driving
    4. to terminate; to end; to sever
      cut線/cut线 [Hong Kong Cantonese]  ―  kat1 sin3 [Jyutping]  ―  to end a call
      cut單/cut单 [Hong Kong Cantonese]  ―  kat1 daan1 [Jyutping]  ―  to terminate an order
      cut咗張卡佢/cut咗张卡佢 [Hong Kong Cantonese]  ―  kat1 zo2 zoeng1 kaat1 keoi5 [Jyutping]  ―  to cancel a credit card

    Interjection

    cut (Hong Kong Cantonese)

    1. (film and television) An instruction to cease recording

    Derived terms

    • cut刀
    • cut口
    • cut單 / cut单
    • cut嘴
    • cut線 / cut线 (kat1 sin3)

    References

    • English Loanwords in Hong Kong Cantonese

    Irish

    Pronunciation

    • (Galway) IPA(key): /kut̪ˠ/[1][2]

    Noun

    cut m (genitive singular cuit, nominative plural cuit)

    1. Galway form of cat (“cat”)

    Declension

    Declension of cut (first declension)
    bare forms
    singular plural
    nominative cut cuit
    vocative a chuit a chuta
    genitive cuit cut
    dative cut cuit
    forms with the definite article
    singular plural
    nominative an cut na cuit
    genitive an chuit na gcut
    dative leis an gcut
    don chut
    leis na cuit

    Mutation

    Mutated forms of cut
    radical lenition eclipsis
    cut chut gcut

    Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
    All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

    References

    1. ^ de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1977), Gaeilge Chois Fhairrge: An Deilbhíocht [The Irish of Cois Fharraige: Accidence] (in Irish), 2nd edition, Institiúid Ard-Léinn Bhaile Átha Cliath [Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies], page 313
    2. ^ Ó Máille, T. S. (1974), Liosta Focal as Ros Muc [Word list from Rosmuck] (in Irish), Baile Átha Cliath [Dublin]: Irish University Press, →ISBN, page 38

    Further reading

    • Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “cut”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

    Kiput

    Etymology

    From Proto-North Sarawak *likud, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *likud.

    Noun

    cut

    1. back (the rear of body)

    Lower Sorbian

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈt͡sut/
    • Rhymes: -ut
    • Syllabification: cut

    Verb

    cut

    1. supine of cuś

    Welsh

    Pronunciation

    • (North Wales) IPA(key): /kɨ̞t/
    • (South Wales) IPA(key): /kɪt/

    Etymology 1

    Borrowed from Middle English cot, from Old Northern French cot, cote (“hut, cottage”).

    Noun

    cut m (plural cutiau)

    1. hut, shed
      Synonyms: cwt, sièd
    2. cottage, hovel
      Synonyms: bwthyn, caban
    3. pen, coop
      Synonyms: lloc, ffald, twlc
    4. cage
      Synonym: cawell
    Derived terms
    • cut ieir
    • cut moch

    Etymology 2

    From English kite.

    Noun

    cut m (plural cutiaid)

    1. alternative form of cud (“kite”)
      Synonym: barcud

    Mutation

    Mutated forms of cut
    radical soft nasal aspirate
    cut gut nghut chut

    Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
    All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

    References

    • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “cut”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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