different between line vs cut

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: l?n, IPA^(key): /la?n/
• Rhymes: -a?n

Etymology 1

From Middle English line, lyne, from Old English l?ne (“line, cable, rope, hawser, series, row, rule, direction”), from Proto-West Germanic *l?n?, from Proto-Germanic *l?n? (“line, rope, flaxen cord, thread”), from Proto-Germanic *l?n? (“flax, linen”), from Proto-Indo-European *l?no- (“flax”).

Influenced in Middle English by Middle French ligne (“line”), from Latin linea. More at linen.

The oldest sense of the word is "rope, cord, thread"; from this the senses "path", "continuous mark" were derived.

Noun

line (plural lines)

1. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen; any path, curved or straight.
   • So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
   1. (geometry) An infinitely extending one-dimensional figure that has no curvature; one that has length but not breadth or thickness.

      Synonym: straight line

   2. (geometry, informal) A line segment; a continuous finite segment of such a figure.

      Synonym: line segment

   3. (graph theory) An edge of a graph.
   4. (geography) A circle of latitude or of longitude, as represented on a map.
   5. (geography, ‘the line’ or ‘equinoctial line’) The equator.
      • 1789, Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative, vol. I, ch. 1:

        Benin […] is situated nearly under the line, and extends along the coast about 170 miles […] .
   6. (music) One of the straight horizontal and parallel prolonged strokes on and between which the notes are placed.
   7. (cricket) The horizontal path of a ball towards the batsman (see also length).
   8. (soccer) The goal line.
   9. (motoring) A particular path taken by a vehicle when driving a bend or corner in the road.
2. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
3. A hose or pipe, of any size.
   • 1973, Final Environmental Statement for the Geothermal Leasing Program (US department of the interior):

     There is the possible hazard of an oil spill in case the line breaks but normal pipeline maintenance and safety measures, etc., are designed to prevent large or long continued spillage.

   • 1981 October, Popular Science, volume 219, number 4, page 113:

     To the end of the metal fuel line (where it fits into the carb) you attach a four-foot length of flexible fuel line.

4. Direction, path.

5. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points: a telephone or network connection.

6. A clothesline.
7. A letter, a written form of communication.

   Synonyms: epistle, letter, note

8. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement for forwarding merchandise, etc.

9. (military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied by specified forces.
10. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
11. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
12. (obsolete) A measuring line or cord.

    • The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.

13. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place of abode.

    • The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.

14. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
15. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
16. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often waiting to be processed or dealt with, or arranged abreast of one another in a row (and contrasted with a column), as in a military formation. [from mid-16^thc.]

    Synonyms: (Canada) lineup, (UK, Ireland) queue
17. (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry, artillery, etc.
19. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
    • Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun.
20. A small amount of text. Specifically:
    1. A written or printed row of letters, words, numbers, or other text, especially a row of words extending across a page or column, or a blank in place of such text.

       Synonym: row

    2. A verse (in poetry).
    3. A sentence of dialogue, especially [from the later 19^thc.] in a play, movie, or the like.
    4. A lie or exaggeration, especially one told to gain another's approval or prevent losing it.

21. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade, or intellectual activity. [from earlier 17^thc.]
22. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political or religious faction. [from later 19^thc.]

23. (slang) Information about or understanding of something. (Mostly restricted to the expressions get a line on, have a line on, and give a line on.)
24. A set of products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself. [from earlier 19^thc.]

25. (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
26. A measure of length:
    1. (historical) A tsarist-era Russian unit of measure, approximately equal to one tenth of an English inch, used especially when measuring the calibre of firearms.
    2. One twelfth of an inch.
    3. One fortieth of an inch.
27. (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
28. (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
29. (fencing) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.

    Synonym: line of engagement
30. (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with reference to smooth working).

31. A small path-shaped portion or serving of a powdery illegal drug, especially cocaine.
32. (obsolete) Instruction; doctrine.

    • Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun.

33. (genetics) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
34. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock and a catheter.
35. (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
36. (Australian rules football) A set of positions in a team which play in a similar position on the field; in a traditional team, consisting of three players and acting as one of six such sets in the team.
37. (medicine, colloquial) A vascular catheter.

Derived terms

Related terms

• (geometry) curve, point, segment
• lineage
• lineal
• linear

Translations

Verb

line (third-person singular simple present lines, present participle lining, simple past and past participle lined)

1. (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

2. (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding; to fortify.
3. (transitive) To form a line along.
4. (transitive) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.

5. (transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
6. (transitive) To read or repeat line by line.
   • 1897, Daniel Webster Davis, “De Linin’ ub de Hymns”, quoted in Jerma A. Jackson, “Exuberance or Restraint: Music and Religion after Reconstruction”, in Singing in My Soul: Black Gospel Music in a Secular Age, Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 2004, ISBN 978-0-8078-2860-1, page 15:

     De young folks say ’tain’t stylish to lin’ ’um no mo’; / Dat deys got edikashun, an’ dey wants us all to know / Dey like to hab dar singin’-books a-holin’ fore dar eyes, / An’ sing de hymns right straight along “to manshuns in de skies”.
7. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare fly and ground.

8. (transitive) To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
9. (transitive) To measure.

Derived terms

• line up
• underline

Translations

Etymology 2

Old English l?n (“flax, linen, cloth”). For more information, see the entry linen.

Alternative forms

• lin

Noun

line (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
   • a. 1818, J. C. Atkinson (ed.), North Riding Record Society (publisher), Quarter sessions records VIII p. 52 (compilation of historical records published in 1890, as quoted in the English Dialect Dictionary in 1902):

     To spin 2 lb. of line.

   • 1837, Everett, S. Hick 195:

     Which proved fatal to the line or flax crops.

   • 1858, Journal of the Statistical Society of London, page 409:

     1641.—14 yards of femble cloth, 12s. ; 8 yards of linen, 6s. 8d. ; 20 yards of harden, 10s. ; 5 linen sheets, 1l. ; 7 linen pillow bears, 8s. ; 2 femble sheets and a line hard sheet, 10s. ; 3 linen towels, 4s. ; 6 lin curtains and a vallance, 12s. ; […]

   • 1869, Dixon, Borrowdale, 2:

     T'burring o' t'woo' an' line wheels,

Translations

Verb

line (third-person singular simple present lines, present participle lining, simple past and past participle lined)

1. (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.

2. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
3. (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.

Derived terms

(terms derived from the verb "line"):

• line one's pockets

Translations

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Middle French ligner.

Verb

line (third-person singular simple present lines, present participle lining, simple past and past participle lined)

1. (transitive, now rare, of a dog) To copulate with, to impregnate.
   • 1868 September, The Country Gentleman's Magazine, page 292:

     Bedlamite was a black dog, and although it may be safely asserted that he lined upwards of 100 bitches of all colours, red, white, and blue, all his produce were black.

Translations

Gallery

References

line in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• LEIN, Neil, Niel, Nile, lien

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English line.

Noun

line f (invariable)

1. line management
2. editing (of a TV programme)

Related terms

• off-line
• on-line

Anagrams

• lenì

Latin

Verb

line

1. second-person singular present active imperative of lin?

References

• line in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

Middle English

Alternative forms

• lyne, lin, lyene
• ligne (influenced by Old French ligne)

Etymology 1

From Old English l?ne, from Proto-Germanic *l?n?. Some forms and meanings are from Old French ligne.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li?n(?)/

Noun

line (plural lines)

1. rope, cord
2. line, rule, ruler, measure
3. (figuratively) rule, direction, command, edict
4. line, straight mark; also a fictitious line
5. (written) line, verse

Descendants

• English: line

References

• “l?ne, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-23.

Etymology 2

From Old English l?n.

Noun

line (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of lyne

References

• “lin,, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 29 April 2018.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²li?n?/

Etymology 1

From Latin linea

Alternative forms

• linje

Noun

line f (definite singular lina, indefinite plural liner, definite plural linene)

1. a line (a continuous mark through two or more points; a succession of ancestors or descendants; the stated position of an individual or group)

Derived terms

• kystline
• skiljeline

Etymology 2

From Old Norse lína

Noun

line f (definite singular lina, indefinite plural liner, definite plural linene)

1. a line (a strong rope, cord, string, wire)

References

• “line” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *l?n? (“line, rope, flaxen cord, thread”), from Proto-Germanic *l?n? (“flax, linen”), from Proto-Indo-European *l?no- (“flax”). Akin to Old High German l?na (“line”) (German Leine (“rope”)), Middle Dutch l?ne (“rope, cord”) (Dutch lijn (“rope”)), Old Norse l?na (“cord, rope”) (Danish line (“rope, cord”)), Old English l?n (“flax, linen, cloth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?li?.ne/

Noun

l?ne f

1. line, rope, cable
2. row, series
3. direction, rule

Declension

Related terms

• l?n
• l?nen, linnen

Descendants

• Middle English: line, lyne
  • English: line

Phuthi

Etymology

From Proto-Nguni *niná.

Pronoun

liné

1. you, you all; second-person plural absolute pronoun.

Spanish

Noun

line m (plural lines)

1. (rugby) lineout

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)

1. (transitive) To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
   1. To perform an incision on, for example with a knife.
   2. To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument.
   3. To form or shape by cutting.
   4. (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.

   5. (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.

   6. 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.”

   7. 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

   8. To castrate or geld.

   9. To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
2. (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;

3. (transitive, social) To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
   1. To separate or omit, in a situation where one was previously associated.

   2. To abridge or shorten a work; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.
   3. To reduce, especially intentionally.
   4. 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.

   5. 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.

4. (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.

5. (transitive, film) To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
6. (transitive, computing) To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time.

7. (intransitive) To enter a queue in the wrong place.

8. (intransitive) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
9. (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?)
10. (transitive, cricket) To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
11. (intransitive) To change direction suddenly.

12. (transitive, intransitive) To divide a pack of playing cards into two.

13. (transitive, slang) To write.

14. (transitive, slang) To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug.

15. (transitive) To exhibit (a quality).
16. (transitive) To stop, disengage, or cease.

    Synonym: cut out

17. (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.
18. (bodybuilding) To lose body mass after bulking, aiming to keep the additional muscle but lose the fat.
19. 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)

1. (participial adjective) Having been cut.
2. Reduced.

3. (of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
4. (Can we clean up⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
5. (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.

6. (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
7. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Emotionally hurt.
8. (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)

1. The act of cutting.

2. The result of cutting.

3. An opening resulting from cutting; an incision or wound.

4. 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.

   1. An artificial navigation as distinguished from a navigable river
5. A share or portion.

6. (cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
7. (cricket) Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.
8. (sports) In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball.
9. (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.
10. (theater) A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play.

11. (film) A particular version or edit of a film.
12. (card games) The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.

13. (card games) The card obtained by dividing the pack.
14. The manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
15. A slab, especially of meat.

16. (fencing) An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
17. 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.

18. An unkind act; a cruelty.
19. A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc.

20. (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.
21. A haircut.
22. (graph theory) The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
23. (rail transport) A string of railway cars coupled together, shorter than a train.
24. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.

25. (obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding.
26. (slang, dated) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
27. A skein of yarn.

    (Can we find and add a quotation of Wright to this entry?)

28. (slang, uncountable) That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.

29. (fashion) A notch shaved into an eyebrow.
30. (bodybuilding) A time period when one tries to lose fat while retaining muscle mass.
31. (slang) A hidden or secure place.

Derived terms

Translations

Interjection

cut!

1. (film and television) An instruction to cease recording.

   Antonym: action

Anagrams

• TUC, UCT, UTC

Irish

Noun

cut m (genitive singular cuit, nominative plural cuit)

1. 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

1. back (the rear of body)

Lower Sorbian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?sut/

Verb

cut

1. 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)

1. hut, shed; cottage, hovel; pen, coop; cage

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

cut m (plural cutiaid)

1. 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