different between length vs cutting

English

Etymology

From Middle English lengthe, from Old English lengþu (“longness; length”), from Proto-West Germanic *langiþu, from Proto-Germanic *langiþ?, equivalent to long +? -th. Cognate with Scots lenth, lainth (“length”), Saterland Frisian Loangte (“length”), West Frisian lingte, langte (“length”), Dutch lengte (“length”), German Low German Längde, Längd, Längte, Längt (“length”), Danish længde (“length”), Swedish längd (“length”), Icelandic lengd (“length”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: l?ng(k)th, l?n(t)th, IPA^(key): /l??(k)?/, /l?n(t)?/
• Rhymes: -??k?, -???, -?nt?, -?n?

Noun

length (countable and uncountable, plural lengths)

1. The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.
2. Duration.
   • 1941, Robert Frost, The Gift Outright

     Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

3. (horse racing) The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race.
4. (mathematics) Distance between the two ends of a line segment.
5. (cricket) The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman.
6. (figuratively) Total extent.

7. Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something.

8. (theater) A unit of script length, comprising 42 lines.
   • 1890, Henry Austin, Address of Henry Austin Before the Second Nationalist Club (page 38)

     […] open your book of the play, which you have previously carefully perused, and at the same time marked with the proper calls, as thus: a length (or 42 lines) before an entrance, with a pen make a figure on the margin, […]

   • 1960, J. L. Hodgkinson, ?Rex Pogson, The Early Manchester Theatre (page 45)

     The boy was engaged to write out parts at a penny a length (42 lines) for Chetwood, who then charged the manager, […]

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

length (third-person singular simple present lengths, present participle lengthing, simple past and past participle lengthed)

1. (obsolete) To lengthen.
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim, XIV. 30:

     Pack night, peep day; good day, of night now borrow: / Short night, to-night, and length thyself to-morrow.

   • 1552, Richard Huloet, "Ladies of Destinie" in Abecedarium Anglico-Latinum

     Was never man such favour could off atall ladies fynde, To cause them lengthe or shorte the day which they to hym assynde.

   • a. 1608, Thomas Sackville, Allegorical Personages described in Hell

     [He] knows full well life doth but length his pain.

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)

1. (countable, uncountable) The action of the verb to cut.
2. (countable) A section removed from a larger whole.
   1. (countable) A newspaper clipping.
   2. (countable, horticulture) A leaf, stem, branch, or root removed from a plant and cultivated to grow a new plant.
3. (countable) An abridged selection of written work, often intended for performance.

4. (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
5. (uncountable, cinematography, sound engineering) The editing of film or other recordings.
6. (uncountable, machining) The process of bringing metals to a desired shape by chipping away the unwanted material.
7. (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)

1. That is used for cutting.
2. Piercing, sharp.
3. Of criticism, remarks, etc.: (potentially) hurtful.
4. (India) Of a beverage: half-sized.

Hyponyms

• cross-cutting

Translations

Verb

cutting

1. 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