Cut vs. Uncut

(participial adjective) Having been cut.

Reduced.

Example: ‘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.’;

Omitted from a literary or musical work.

Example: ‘My favourite song had been cut from the show.’;

(of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.

Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.

(bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.

(informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation

Emotionally hurt.

Eliminated from consideration during a recruitment drive.

Removed from a team roster.

(NZ) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.

An opening resulting from cutting.

Example: ‘Look at this cut on my finger!’;

The act of cutting.

Example: ‘He made a fine cut with his sword.’;

The result of cutting.

Example: ‘a smooth or clear cut’;

A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.

Example: ‘a cut for a railroad’;

(specifically) An artificial navigation as distinguished from a navigable river

A share or portion.

Example: ‘The lawyer took a cut of the profits.’;

(cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.

(cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.

(sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball.

(golf) In a strokeplay 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.

(theatre) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play.

Example: ‘The director asked the cast to note down the following cuts.’;

(cinema) A particular version or edit of a film.

The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.

Example: ‘The player next to the dealer makes a cut by placing the bottom half on top.’;

The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.

Example: ‘I like the cut of that suit.’;

A slab, especially of meat.

Example: ‘That’s our finest cut of meat.’;

(fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.

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.

Example: ‘The drummer on the last cut of their CD is not identified.’;

(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.

A haircut.

(graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.

A string of railway cars coupled together.

An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.

Example: ‘a book illustrated with fine cuts’;

(obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding.

The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.

A skein of yarn.

(slang) That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.

Example: ‘Don't buy his coke: it's full of cut.’;

(fashion) A notch shaved into an eyebrow.

(bodybuilding) A time period when one tries to lose fat while retaining muscle mass.

To incise, to cut into the surface of something.

To perform an incision on, for example with a knife.

To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument.

Example: ‘Would you please cut the cake?’;

To form or shape by cutting.

Example: ‘I have three diamonds to cut today.’;

(slang) To wound with a knife.

(intransitive) To engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin.

Example: ‘The patient said she had been cutting since the age of thirteen.’;

To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to.

To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce.

Example: ‘Sarcasm cuts to the quick.’;

To castrate or geld.

Example: ‘to cut a horse’;

To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.

(intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.

To separate, remove, reject or reduce.

To separate from prior association; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.

Example: ‘Travis was cut from the team.’;

To abridge a piece of printed or written work.

To reduce, especially intentionally.

Example: ‘They're going to cut salaries by fifteen percent.’;

To absent oneself from (a class, an appointment, etc.).

Example: ‘I cut fifth period to hang out with Angela.’;

To ignore as a social snub.

Example: ‘After the incident at the dinner party, people started to cut him on the street.’;

To cease recording activities.

Example: ‘After the actors read their lines, the director yelled, "Cut!"’;

To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.

Example: ‘The camera then cut to the woman on the front row who was clearly overcome and crying tears of joy.’;

To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.

To remove and place in memory for later use.

Example: ‘Select the text, cut it, and then paste it in the other application.’;

(intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.

Example: ‘One student kept trying to cut in front of the line.’;

(intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.

Example: ‘This road cuts right through downtown.’;

To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it. en

To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.

(intransitive) To change direction suddenly.

Example: ‘The football player cut to his left to evade a tackle.’;

To divide a pack of playing cards into two.

Example: ‘If you cut then I'll deal.’;

To write.

Example: ‘cut orders;’; ‘cut a check’;

To dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.

Example: ‘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.’;

(transitive) To exhibit (a quality).

(transitive) To stop or disengage.

Example: ‘Cut the engines when the plane comes to a halt!’;

(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.

(bodybuilding) To lose body mass after bulking, aiming to keep the additional muscle but lose the fat.

To perform (a dancing movement etc.).

Example: ‘to cut a caper’;

To separate the parts of with, or as with, a sharp instrument; to make an incision in; to gash; to sever; to divide.

Example: ‘You must cut this flesh from off his breast.’; ‘Before the whistling winds the vessels fly,With rapid swiftness cut the liquid way.’;

To sever and cause to fall for the purpose of gathering; to hew; to mow or reap.

Example: ‘Thy servants can skill to cut timer.’;

To sever and remove by cutting; to cut off; to dock; as, to cut the hair; to cut the nails.

To castrate or geld; as, to cut a horse.

To form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.; to carve; to hew out.

Example: ‘Why should a man. whose blood is warm within,Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?’; ‘Loopholes cut through thickest shade.’;

To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce; to lacerate; as, sarcasm cuts to the quick.

Example: ‘The man was cut to the heart.’;

To intersect; to cross; as, one line cuts another at right angles.

To refuse to recognize; to ignore; as, to cut a person in the street; to cut one's acquaintance.

To absent one's self from; as, to cut an appointment, a recitation. etc.

Example: ‘An English tradesman is always solicitous to cut the shop whenever he can do so with impunity.’;

To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.

To drive (an object ball) to either side by hitting it fine on the other side with the cue ball or another object ball.

To strike (a ball) with the racket inclined or struck across the ball so as to put a certain spin on the ball.

To drive (a ball) to one side by hitting with another ball.

Example: ‘I would to God, . . . The king had cut off my brother's.’;

To do the work of an edged tool; to serve in dividing or gashing; as, a knife cuts well.

To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.

Example: ‘Panels of white wood that cuts like cheese.’;

To perform the operation of dividing, severing, incising, intersecting, etc.; to use a cutting instrument.

Example: ‘He saved the lives of thousands by his manner of cutting for the stone.’;

To make a stroke with a whip.

To interfere, as a horse.

To move or make off quickly.

To divide a pack of cards into two portion to decide the deal or trump, or to change the order of the cards to be dealt.

An opening made with an edged instrument; a cleft; a gash; a slash; a wound made by cutting; as, a sword cut.

A stroke or blow or cutting motion with an edged instrument; a stroke or blow with a whip.

That which wounds the feelings, as a harsh remark or criticism, or a sarcasm; personal discourtesy, as neglecting to recognize an acquaintance when meeting him; a slight.

Example: ‘Rip called him by name, but the cur snarled, snapped his teeth, and passed on. This was an unkind cut indeed.’;

A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove; as, a cut for a railroad.

Example: ‘This great cut or ditch Secostris . . . purposed to have made a great deal wider and deeper.’;

The surface left by a cut; as, a smooth or clear cut.

A portion severed or cut off; a division; as, a cut of beef; a cut of timber.

Example: ‘It should be understood, moreover, . . . that the group are not arbitrary cuts, but natural groups or types.’;

An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving; as, a book illustrated with fine cuts.

The act of dividing a pack cards.

Manner in which a thing is cut or formed; shape; style; fashion; as, the cut of a garment.

Example: ‘With eyes severe and beard of formal cut.’;

A common work horse; a gelding.

Example: ‘He'll buy me a cut, forth for to ride.’;

The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.

A skein of yarn.

A slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin so given to the ball.

A stroke on the off side between point and the wicket; also, one who plays this stroke.

Example: ‘Now draweth cut . . . The which that hath the shortest shall begin.’;

Gashed or divided, as by a cutting instrument.

Formed or shaped as by cutting; carved.

Overcome by liquor; tipsy.

the act of reducing the amount or number;

Example: ‘the mayor proposed extensive cuts in the city budget’;

a wound made by cutting;

Example: ‘he put a bandage over the cut’;

a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass

a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc;

Example: ‘he played the first cut on the cd’; ‘the title track of the album’;

the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge;

Example: ‘his cut in the lining revealed the hidden jewels’;

a share of the profits;

Example: ‘everyone got a cut of the earnings’;

a step on some scale;

Example: ‘he is a cut above the the rest’;

a trench resembling a furrow that was made by erosion or excavation

(film) an immediate transition from one shot to the next;

Example: ‘the cut from the accident scene to the hospital seemed too abrupt’;

the act of cutting something into parts;

Example: ‘his cuts were skillful’; ‘his cutting of the cake made a terrible mess’;

the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage;

Example: ‘an editor's deletions frequently upset young authors’; ‘both parties agreed on the excision of the proposed clause’;

the style in which a garment is cut;

Example: ‘a dress of traditional cut’;

the act of shortening something by cutting off the ends;

Example: ‘the barber gave him a good cut’;

in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball;

Example: ‘he took a vicious cut at the ball’;

a remark capable of wounding mentally;

Example: ‘the unkindest cut of all’;

a canal made by erosion or excavation

a refusal to recognize someone you know;

Example: ‘the snub was clearly intentional’;

(sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball;

Example: ‘cuts do not bother a good tennis player’;

the division of a deck of cards before dealing;

Example: ‘he insisted that we give him the last cut before every deal’; ‘the cutting of the cards soon became a ritual’;

an unexcused absence from class;

Example: ‘he was punished for taking too many cuts in his math class’;

separate with or as if with an instrument;

Example: ‘Cut the rope’;

cut down on; make a reduction in;

Example: ‘reduce your daily fat intake’; ‘The employer wants to cut back health benefits’;

turn sharply; change direction abruptly;

Example: ‘The car cut to the left at the intersection’; ‘The motorbike veered to the right’;

make an incision or separation;

Example: ‘cut along the dotted line’;

discharge from a group;

Example: ‘The coach cut two players from the team’;

form by probing, penetrating, or digging;

Example: ‘cut a hole’; ‘cut trenches’; ‘The sweat cut little rivulets into her face’;

style and tailor in a certain fashion;

Example: ‘cut a dress’;

hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction;

Example: ‘cut a pingpong ball’;

make out and issue;

Example: ‘write out a check’; ‘cut a ticket’; ‘Please make the check out to me’;

cut and assemble the components of;

Example: ‘edit film’; ‘cut recording tape’;

intentionally fail to attend;

Example: ‘cut class’;

informal: be able to manage or manage successfully;

Example: ‘I can't hack it anymore’; ‘she could not cut the long days in the office’;

give the appearance or impression of;

Example: ‘cut a nice figure’;

move (one's fist);

Example: ‘his opponent cut upward toward his chin’;

pass directly and often in haste;

Example: ‘We cut through the neighbor's yard to get home sooner’;

pass through or across;

Example: ‘The boat cut the water’;

make an abrupt change of image or sound;

Example: ‘cut from one scene to another’;

stop filming;

Example: ‘cut a movie scene’;

make a recording of;

Example: ‘cut the songs’; ‘She cut all of her major titles again’;

record a performance on (a medium);

Example: ‘cut a record’;

create by duplicating data;

Example: ‘cut a disk’; ‘burn a CD’;

form or shape by cutting or incising;

Example: ‘cut paper dolls’;

perform or carry out;

Example: ‘cut a caper’;

function as a cutting instrument;

Example: ‘This knife cuts well’;

allow incision or separation;

Example: ‘This bread cuts easily’;

divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult;

Example: ‘Wayne cut’; ‘She cut the deck for a long time’;

cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch;

Example: ‘Turn off the stereo, please’; ‘cut the engine’; ‘turn out the lights’;

reap or harvest;

Example: ‘cut grain’;

fell by sawing; hew;

Example: ‘The Vietnamese cut a lot of timber while they occupied Cambodia’;

penetrate injuriously;

Example: ‘The glass from the shattered windshield cut into her forehead’;

refuse to acknowledge;

Example: ‘She cut him dead at the meeting’;

shorten as if by severing the edges or ends of;

Example: ‘cut my hair’;

weed out unwanted or unnecessary things;

Example: ‘We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet’;

dissolve by breaking down the fat of;

Example: ‘soap cuts grease’;

have a reducing effect;

Example: ‘This cuts into my earnings’;

cease, stop;

Example: ‘cut the noise’; ‘We had to cut short the conversation’;

reduce in scope while retaining essential elements;

Example: ‘The manuscript must be shortened’;

lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture;

Example: ‘cut bourbon’;

have grow through the gums;

Example: ‘The baby cut a tooth’;

grow through the gums;

Example: ‘The new tooth is cutting’;

cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses);

Example: ‘the vet gelded the young horse’;

separated into parts or laid open or penetrated with a sharp edge or instrument;

Example: ‘the cut surface was mottled’; ‘cut tobacco’; ‘blood from his cut forehead’; ‘bandages on her cut wrists’;

fashioned or shaped by cutting;

Example: ‘a well-cut suit’; ‘cut diamonds’; ‘cut velvet’;

with parts removed;

Example: ‘the drastically cut film’;

made neat and tidy by trimming;

Example: ‘his neatly trimmed hair’;

(used of grass or vegetation) cut down with a hand implement or machine;

Example: ‘the smell of new-mown hay’;

(of pages of a book) having the folds of the leaves trimmed or slit;

Example: ‘the cut pages of the book’;

(of a male animal) having the testicles removed;

Example: ‘a cut horse’;

having a long rip or tear;

Example: ‘a split lip’;

wounded by cutting deeply;

Example: ‘got a gashed arm in a knife fight’; ‘had a slashed cheek from the broken glass’;

cut down;

Example: ‘the tree is down’;

(used of rates or prices) reduced usually sharply;

Example: ‘the slashed prices attracted buyers’;

mixed with water;

Example: ‘sold cut whiskey’; ‘a cup of thinned soup’;

make an opening, incision, or wound in (something) with a sharp-edged tool or object

Example: ‘when fruit is cut open, it goes brown’; ‘he cut his big toe on a sharp stone’;

make a deliberate incision in (one's flesh), as a symptom of psychological or emotional distress

Example: ‘I just started high school and I have a lot of self-confidence issues and as a result I started cutting’; ‘I started cutting myself when I was about 14 and continued for four years’;

remove (something) from something larger by using a sharp implement

Example: ‘I cut his photograph out of the paper’; ‘some prisoners had their right hands cut off’;

castrate (an animal, especially a horse).

make something by cutting

Example: ‘I cut out some squares of paper’;

remove, exclude, or stop eating or doing something undesirable

Example: ‘start today by cutting out fatty foods’;

separate an animal from the main herd

Example: ‘after the target animal is spotted, the pilot swoops down, cutting it out of the herd’;

divide into pieces with a knife or other sharp implement

Example: ‘he cut his food up into teeny pieces’; ‘cut the beef into thin slices’;

make divisions in (something)

Example: ‘land that has been cut up by streams into forested areas’;

separate (something) into two; sever

Example: ‘they cut the rope before he choked’;

cause something to fall by cutting it through at the base

Example: ‘some 24 hectares of trees were cut down’;

(of a weapon, bullet, or disease) kill or injure someone

Example: ‘Barker had been cut down by a sniper's bullet’;

make or form (something) by using a sharp tool to remove material

Example: ‘workmen cut a hole in the pipe’;

make or design (a garment) in a particular way

Example: ‘an impeccably cut suit’;

make (a path, tunnel, or other route) by excavation, digging, or chopping

Example: ‘investigators called for a machete to cut through the bush’; ‘plans to cut a road through a rainforest’;

make (a sound recording)

Example: ‘quadraphonic LPs had to be cut at a lower volume level than conventional records’;

trim or reduce the length of (grass, hair, etc.) by using a sharp implement

Example: ‘cut back all the year's growth to about four leaves’; ‘Ted was cutting the lawn’;

reduce the amount or quantity of

Example: ‘we're looking to cut down on the use of chemicals’; ‘they've cut back on costs’; ‘buyers will bargain hard to cut the cost of the house they want’; ‘I should cut down my sugar intake’;

abridge (a text, film, or performance) by removing material

Example: ‘he had to cut unnecessary additions made to the opening scene’;

delete (part of a text or other display) so as to insert a copy of it elsewhere.

end or interrupt the provision of (a supply)

Example: ‘we resolved to cut oil supplies to territories controlled by the rebels’; ‘if the pump develops a fault, the electrical supply is immediately cut off’;

switch off (an engine or a light)

Example: ‘Niall brought the car to a halt and cut the engine’;

absent oneself from (something one should normally attend, especially school)

Example: ‘Rodney was cutting class’;

ignore or refuse to recognize (someone)

Example: ‘they cut her in public’;

(of a line) cross or intersect (another line)

Example: ‘mark the point where the line cuts the vertical axis’;

pass or traverse, especially so as to shorten one's route

Example: ‘the following aircraft cut across to join him’;

have an effect regardless of (divisions or boundaries between groups)

Example: ‘subcultures which cut across national and political boundaries’;

leave or move hurriedly

Example: ‘you can cut along now’;

stop filming or recording

Example: ‘‘Cut’ shouted a voice, followed by ‘Could we do it again, please?’’;

move to another shot in a film

Example: ‘cut to a dentist's surgery’;

make (a film) into a coherent whole by removing parts or placing them in a different order

Example: ‘I like to watch the rushes at home before I start cutting the film’;

divide a pack of playing cards by lifting a portion from the top, either to reveal a card at random or to place the top portion under the bottom portion

Example: ‘let's cut for dealer’;

strike or kick (a ball) with an abrupt, typically downward motion

Example: ‘Cook cut the ball back to him’;

slice (the ball).

hit (the ball) to the off side with the bat held almost horizontally; play such a stroke against (the bowler).

(of the ball) turn sharply on pitching.

mix (an illegal drug) with another substance

Example: ‘speed cut with rat poison’;

come up to expectations; meet requirements

Example: ‘this CD player doesn't quite cut it’;

a stroke or blow given by a sharp-edged implement or by a whip or cane

Example: ‘he could skin an animal with a single cut of the knife’;

a haircut

Example: ‘his hair was in need of a cut’;

a reduction in amount or size

Example: ‘she took a 20% pay cut’; ‘a cut in interest rates’;

a power cut

Example: ‘fortunately the cut happened at night and power was quickly restored’;

an act of cutting part of a book, play, etc.

Example: ‘they would not publish the book unless the author was willing to make cuts’;

an immediate transition from one scene to another in a film

Example: ‘instead of hard cuts, we used dissolves to give it a very dreamy character’;

the halfway point of a golf tournament, where half of the players are eliminated.

a stroke made with an abrupt, typically horizontal or downward action

Example: ‘Kellett was denied a century by edging a cut to wicketkeeper Burns’;

a long, narrow incision in the skin made by something sharp

Example: ‘blood ran from a cut on his jaw’;

a long, narrow opening or incision made in a surface or piece of material

Example: ‘make a single cut along the top of each potato’;

a piece of meat cut from a carcass

Example: ‘a good lean cut of beef’;

a share of the profits from something

Example: ‘the directors are demanding their cut’;

a recording of a piece of music

Example: ‘a cut from his forthcoming album’;

a version of a film after editing

Example: ‘the final cut’;

a passage cut or dug out, as a railway cutting or a new channel made for a river or other waterway

Example: ‘the cut connected with the Harborough arm of the canal’;

a wounding remark or act

Example: ‘his unkindest cut at Elizabeth was to call her heartless’;

the way or style in which something, especially a garment or someone's hair, is cut

Example: ‘the elegant cut of his dinner jacket’;

Not cut.

(of a gemstone) Not cut or ground to the desired shape.

(of a book) Not having the page edges trimmed.

Not edited or abridged by a censor.

Not circumcised.

Not cut; not separated or divided by cutting or otherwise; - said especially of books, periodicals, and the like, when the leaves have not been separated by trimming in binding.

Not ground, or otherwise cut, into a certain shape; as, an uncut diamond.

Not shortened; not condensed; unabridged; - said of books, plays, and movies; as, an uncut edition of the film.

Not diluted; - said especially of illegal narcotic drugs; as, uncut heroin. Such illegal drugs are often diluted by admixture with harmless foodstuffs such as sugars.

not trimmed;

Example: ‘shaggy untrimmed locks’;

(used of grass or vegetation) not cut down with a hand implement or machine;

Example: ‘uncut grass’; ‘an unmown lawn’;

not shaped by cutting or trimming;

Example: ‘an uncut diamond’; ‘rough gemstones’;

(of pages of a book) having adjacent leaves still joined at the fore edge;

Example: ‘a book with its leaves still uncut’;

not cut

not cut;

Example: ‘glad to get out of the house with my throat uncut’;

not cut down;

Example: ‘standing timber’; ‘uncut trees’;

complete;

Example: ‘the full-length play’;