cut

Where “cut” sits in English frequency

Definition

1. 1
   To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
2. 2
   To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
3. 3
   To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
4. 4
   To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
5. 5
   To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
6. 6
   To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
7. 7
   To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
8. 8
   To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
9. 9
   To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
10. 10
    To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
11. 11
    To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
12. 12
    To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
13. 13
    To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
14. 14
    To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
15. 15
    To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
16. 16
    To ignore as a social rebuff or snub.
17. 17
    To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.
18. 18
    To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
19. 19
    To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time.
20. 20
    To enter a queue in the wrong place.
21. 21
    To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
22. 22
    To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it.
23. 23
    To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
24. 24
    To change direction suddenly.
25. 25
    To divide a pack of playing cards into two parts, often followed by placing the two parts back together in the opposite order.
26. 26
    To make, negotiate; to finalise, conclude; to issue.
27. 27
    To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug.
28. 28
    To exhibit (a figure having some trait).
29. 29
    To stop, disengage, or cease.
30. 30
    To renounce or give up.
31. 31
    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.
32. 32
    To lose body mass, aiming to keep muscle but lose body fat.
33. 33
    To perform (an elaborate dancing movement etc.).
34. 34
    To run or hurry.

Etymology

From Middle English cutten, kitten, kytten, ketten (“to cut”) (compare Scots kut, kit (“to cut”)), 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”)). 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 native Middle English snithen (from Old English snīþan; compare German schneiden), which still survives in some dialects as snithe or snead. See snide. Adjective sense of "drunk" (now rare and now usually used in the originally jocular derivative form of half-cut) dates from the 17th century, from cut in the leg, to have cut your leg, euphemism for being very drunk.

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