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cut
English
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 *kutjan?, *kuttan? (“to cut”), of uncertain origin, perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *kwetw? (“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 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 sn?þan; compare German schneiden), which still survives in some dialects as snithe.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?t/
- Rhymes: -?t
Verb
cut (third-person singular simple present cuts, present participle cutting, simple past and past participle cut)
- (transitive) 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.
- To form or shape by cutting.
- (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.
- 1990, Stephen Dobyns, The house on Alexandrine
- (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.
- To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to.
- “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.”
- To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce.
- 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
- 1829, Elijah Hoole, Personal Narrative of a Mission to the South of India, from 1820 to 1828
- To castrate or geld.
- To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
- To perform an incision on, for example with a knife.
- (intransitive) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
- 1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, The Deacon's Masterpiece, in Chapter XI:
- The panels of white-wood that cuts like cheese, / But lasts like iron for things like these;
- 1858, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, The Deacon's Masterpiece, in Chapter XI:
- (transitive, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
- To separate or omit, in a situation where one was previously associated.
- To abridge or shorten a work; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.
- To reduce, especially intentionally.
- To absent oneself from (a class, an appointment, etc.).
- 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.
- 1833, Thomas Hamilton, Men and Manners in America
- To ignore as a social snub.
- 1903, Samuel Barber, The Way of All Flesh, ch 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.
- 1903, Samuel Barber, The Way of All Flesh, ch 73:
- To separate or omit, in a situation where one was previously associated.
- (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.
- (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
- (transitive, computing) To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time.
- (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
- (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
- (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?)
- (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
- (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.
- (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
- (transitive, slang) To write.
- (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug.
- (transitive) To exhibit (a quality).
- (transitive) To stop, disengage, or cease.
- Synonym: cut out
- (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.).
- to cut a caper
Synonyms
- See Thesaurus:cut
Troponyms
- chop, hack, slice, trim
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- copy
- paste
Adjective
cut (comparative more cut, superlative most cut)
- (participial adjective) Having been cut.
- Reduced.
- (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
- (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) (cricket, of a shot) 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.
- 1988, Steve Holman, "Christian Conquers Columbus", 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", 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.
- 1988, Steve Holman, "Christian Conquers Columbus", Ironman 47 (6): 28-34.
- (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
- (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Emotionally hurt.
- (slang, New Zealand, formerly Britain) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
Synonyms
- (intoxicated): See Thesaurus:drunk
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Noun
cut (countable and uncountable, plural cuts)
- The act of cutting.
- The result of cutting.
- An opening resulting from cutting; an incision or wound.
- A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
- which great cut or ditch Sesostris […] purposed to have made a great deale wider and deeper.
- An artificial navigation as distinguished from a navigable river
- A share or portion.
- (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.
- (theater) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play.
- (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
- (card games) The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
- (card games) The card obtained by dividing the pack.
- The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
- A slab, especially 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.
- 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.
- 1819, Washington Irving, (Rip Van Winkle):
- An unkind act; a cruelty.
- A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc.
- (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.
- (rail transport) A string of railway cars coupled together, shorter than a train.
- An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
- (obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding.
- (slang, dated) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
- A skein of yarn.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Wright to this entry?)
- (slang, uncountable) That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
- (fashion) A notch shaved into an eyebrow.
- (bodybuilding) A time period when one tries to lose fat while retaining muscle mass.
- (slang) A hidden or secure place.
Derived terms
Translations
Interjection
cut!
- (film and television) An instruction to cease recording.
- Antonym: action
Anagrams
- TUC, UCT, UTC
Irish
Noun
cut m (genitive singular cuit, nominative plural cuit)
- Cois Fharraige form of cat (“cat”)
Declension
Mutation
Further reading
- "cut" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
Kiput
Etymology
From Proto-North Sarawak *likud, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *likud.
Noun
cut
- back (the rear of body)
Lower Sorbian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?sut/
Verb
cut
- supine of cu?
Welsh
Pronunciation
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /k??t/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /k?t/
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Middle English [Term?], from Old Northern French cot, cote (“hut, cottage”).
Noun
cut m (plural cutiau)
- hut, shed; cottage, hovel; pen, coop; cage
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Noun
cut m (plural cutiaid)
- Alternative form of cud (“kite”)
Mutation
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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lump
English
Etymology
From Middle English lumpe. Compare Dutch lomp (“rag”), German Low German Lump (“rag”), German Lumpen (“rag”) and Lump (“ragamuffin”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l?mp/
- Rhymes: -?mp
Noun
lump (plural lumps)
- Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape.
- Stir the gravy until there are no more lumps.
- a lump of coal; a lump of clay; a lump of cheese
- A group, set, or unit.
- The money arrived all at once as one big lump sum payment.
- A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.
- Do you want one lump or two with your coffee?
- A dull or lazy person.
- Don't just sit there like a lump.
- (informal, as plural) A beating or verbal abuse.
- He's taken his lumps over the years.
- A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
- A kind of fish, the lumpsucker.
- (obsolete, slang) Food given to a tramp to be eaten on the road.
- 1923, Arthur Preston Hankins, Cole of Spyglass Mountain, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter 12,[1]
- “A lump,” explained The Whimperer […] “is wot a kin’ lady slips youse w’en youse batter de back door. If she invites youse in and lets youse t’row yer feet unner de table, it’s a set-down. If she slips youse a lunch in a poiper bag, it’s a lump. See? […] ”
- 1923, Arthur Preston Hankins, Cole of Spyglass Mountain, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter 12,[1]
Hyponyms
- nubble
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
lump (third-person singular simple present lumps, present participle lumping, simple past and past participle lumped)
- (transitive) To treat as a single unit; to group together in a casual or chaotic manner (as if forming an ill-defined lump of the items).
- (transitive) To bear a heavy or awkward burden; to carry something unwieldy from one place to another.
- 1876, Belgravia (volume 30, page 131)
- Well, a male body was brought to a certain surgeon by a man he had often employed, and the pair lumped it down on the dissecting table, and then the vendor received his money and went.
- 1876, Belgravia (volume 30, page 131)
- (transitive, slang) To hit or strike (a person).
- 1962, Floyd Patterson, Victory Over Myself (page 63)
- If that's the only way you can fight, then you'd better be prepared to get lumped.
- 1962, Floyd Patterson, Victory Over Myself (page 63)
Derived terms
- lump together
Translations
See also
- take one’s lumps
- lump it
- like it or lump it
Further reading
- lump in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- lump in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Plum, plum
Czech
Etymology
From German Lump.
Noun
lump m
- scoundrel, rascal
Synonyms
- See also darebák
Related terms
- ni?emný
Further reading
- lump in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- lump in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
French
Etymology
From English lumpfish.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lœ?p/
Noun
lump m (plural lumps)
- lumpfish
References
- “lump” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Hungarian
Etymology
From German Lump.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?lump]
- Hyphenation: lump
- Rhymes: -ump
Adjective
lump (comparative lumpabb, superlative leglumpabb)
- rakish, dissolute, debauched (regularly engaging in late night drunken social gatherings)
- Synonyms: korhely, mulatós, kicsapongó, italos, részeges
Declension
Derived terms
- lumpol
Noun
lump (plural lumpok)
- (colloquial, derogatory, chiefly of a man) rascal, carouser, roisterer, raver, drunkard (a person who regularly attends late night drunken social gatherings)
Declension
References
Further reading
- lump in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Polish
Etymology
From German Lump.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lump/
Noun
lump m pers
- (colloquial, derogatory) ne'er-do-well
Declension
Noun
lump m inan
- (Pozna?) clothing
- (colloquial) Clipping of lumpeks.
Further reading
- lump in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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