cut
Definition of cut:
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part of speech: noun
A stroke or blow with a sharp instrument; a cleft; a notch; a gash; a channel or ditch made by digging or cutting; a part cut off; a carving or engraving, likewise the print from it; form; shape; fashion.
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part of speech: noun
A cleaving or dividing: a stroke or blow: an incision or wound: a piece cut off: an engraved block, or the picture from it: manner of cutting, or fashion.
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part of speech: adjective
Divided; carved; intersected.
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part of speech: verb
To separate by a cutting instrument; to divide; to sever; to hew, as timber; to penetrate or pierce; to affect deeply; to intersect or cross; to intercept.
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part of speech: participle
Divided; pierced; deeply affected: to cut a figure, to show off conspicuously: to cut a joke, to be witty and sociable: to cut down, to reduce; to retrench; to fell, as timber: to cut off, to separate; to destroy; to intercept: to cut up, to divide into pieces: to be cut up, applied to an army in the field that has lost many men in killed and wounded: to cut out, to remove a part; to shape: to cut out a ship, to enter a harbour and seize and carry off a ship by a sudden attack: to cut short, to abridge: to cut one's acquaintance, to refuse or avoid recognising him when meeting or passing each other: to cut a knot, to effect anything by short and strong measures: to cut the cards, to divide a pack into two portions: to cut and dry, or dried, prepared for use: to cut in, to divide; to join in anything suddenly: to draw cuts, to draw lots by means of straws or pieces of paper, & c., cut in pieces of different lengths and held between the forefinger and thumb.
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part of speech: verb
To make an incision: to cleave or pass through: to divide: to carve or hew: to wound or hurt: to affect deeply: to castrate:- pr. p. cutting; pa. t. and pa. p. cut.
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Common misspellings:
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- cout (3.6%)
- cit (4.2%)
- cul (1.2%)
- cuty (0.6%)
- dink (0.6%)
- fi (0.6%)
- sut (1.2%)
- cust (12.0%)
- ut (2.4%)
- ct (3.0%)
- cuted (0.6%)
- cuta (1.8%)
- layed (0.6%)
- cutt (44.6%)
- sevre (0.6%)
- cutted (14.5%)
- vut (4.2%)
- 1cut (1.8%)
- cutm (1.2%)
- uot (0.6%)
Usage examples for cut:
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" We came over to explain about the wire's being cut said Jack.
"The Boy Scout Aviators" – George Durston -
Mrs. Joyce cut her short.
"Victor Ollnee's Discipline" – Hamlin Garland -
What I'd do don't cut any figger, Amateur.
"An Amateur Fireman" – James Otis -
You think this should cut off all hope?
"What Answer?" – Anna E. Dickinson
