Word Definition

Cut

  1. A portion severed or cut off; a division; as, a cut of beef; a cut of timber.
  2. Formed or shaped as by cutting; carved.
  3. 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.
  4. To make a stroke with a whip.
  5. To form or shape by cutting; to make by incision, hewing, etc.; to carve; to hew out.
  6. A common work horse; a gelding.
  7. To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce; to lacerate; as, sarcasm cuts to the quick.
  8. To separate the parts of with, or as with, a sharp instrument; to make an incision in; to gash; to sever; to divide.
  9. To sever and remove by cutting; to cut off; to dock; as, to cut the hair; to cut the nails.
  10. An opening made with an edged instrument; a cleft; a gash; a slash; a wound made by cutting; as, a sword cut.
  11. 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.
  12. Manner in which a thing is cut or formed; shape; style; fashion; as, the cut of a garment.
  13. To sever and cause to fall for the purpose of gathering; to hew; to mow or reap.
  14. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove; as, a cut for a railroad.
  15. The surface left by a cut; as, a smooth or clear cut.
  16. Gashed or divided, as by a cutting instrument.
  17. To interfere, as a horse.
  18. To refuse to recognize; to ignore; as, to cut a person in the street; to cut one's acquaintance.
  19. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving; as, a book illustrated with fine cuts.
  20. To do the work of an edged tool; to serve in dividing or gashing; as, a knife cuts well.
  21. A stroke or blow or cutting motion with an edged instrument; a stroke or blow with a whip.
  22. of Cut
  23. To absent one's self from; as, to cut an appointment, a recitation. etc.
  24. The act of dividing a pack cards.
  25. To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
  26. Overcome by liquor; tipsy.
  27. To perform the operation of dividing, severing, incising, intersecting, etc.; to use a cutting instrument.
  28. To move or make off quickly.
  29. To castrate or geld; as, to cut a horse.
  30. The right to divide; as, whose cut is it
  31. A skein of yarn.
  32. The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
  33. To intersect; to cross; as, one line cuts another at right angles.