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cutting
English
Etymology
From cut +? -ing.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /?k?t??/
- Rhymes: -?t??
- Hyphenation: cut?ting
Noun
cutting (countable and uncountable, plural cuttings)
- (countable, uncountable) The action of the verb to cut.
- (countable) A section removed from a larger whole.
- (countable) A newspaper clipping.
- (countable, horticulture) A leaf, stem, branch, or root removed from a plant and cultivated to grow a new plant.
- (countable) A newspaper clipping.
- (countable) An abridged selection of written work, often intended for performance.
- (countable, Britain) An open passage at a level lower than the surrounding terrain, dug for a canal, railway, or road to go through.
- Synonym: cut
- Antonym: embankment
- (uncountable, cinematography, sound engineering) The editing of film or other recordings.
- (uncountable, machining) The process of bringing metals to a desired shape by chipping away the unwanted material.
- (uncountable, psychology) The act of cutting one's own skin as a symptom of a mental disorder; self-harm.
Derived terms
- cost cutting, cost-cutting
Translations
Adjective
cutting (not comparable)
- That is used for cutting.
- Piercing, sharp.
- Of criticism, remarks, etc.: (potentially) hurtful.
- (India) Of a beverage: half-sized.
Hyponyms
- cross-cutting
Translations
Verb
cutting
- present participle of cut
References
Further reading
- cut (earthmoving) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- cutting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- cutting (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- cutting (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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reduction
English
Etymology
From Middle English reduccion, a borrowing from Old French reducion, from Latin reducti?, reducti?nem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???d?k??n/
- (Malaysia, Singapore) IPA(key): /?i?d?k.??n/
- Rhymes: -?k??n
- Hyphenation: re?duc?tion
Noun
reduction (countable and uncountable, plural reductions)
- The act, process, or result of reducing.
- The amount or rate by which something is reduced, e.g. in price.
- A 5% reduction in robberies
- (chemistry) A reaction in which electrons are gained and valence is reduced; often by the removal of oxygen or the addition of hydrogen.
- (cooking) The process of rapidly boiling a sauce to concentrate it.
- (mathematics) The rewriting of an expression into a simpler form.
- (computability theory) a transformation of one problem into another problem, such as mapping reduction or polynomial reduction.
- (music) An arrangement for a far smaller number of parties, e.g. a keyboard solo based on a full opera.
- (philosophy, phenomenology) A philosophical procedure intended to reveal the objects of consciousness as pure phenomena. (See phenomenological reduction.)
- (medicine) A medical procedure to restore a fracture or dislocation to the correct alignment.
- Synonym: taxis
- (paying) A reduced price of something by a fraction or decimal.
Synonyms
- (act, process, or result of reducing): decline, lessening; See also Thesaurus:diminution
- (amount by which something is reduced): extract, reduction; See also Thesaurus:decrement
Antonyms
- (act, process, or result of reducing): elevation, expansion, increase, promotion; See also Thesaurus:augmentation
- (amount by which something is reduced): addition, supplement; See also Thesaurus:adjunct
- (chemistry): oxidation
Derived terms
Translations
Anagrams
- introduce
reduction From the web:
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