Lexic.us

Definition of Cut away

1. Verb. Move quickly to another scene or focus when filming. "`cut away now!' the director shouted"

2. Verb. Remove by cutting off or away. "Cut away the branch that sticks out"

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cut Away

cut-throat razor cut-throat razors cut-up cut a caper cut a dash cut a rug cut a swath cut a swathe cut a wide swath cut a wide swathe

cut across cut and cover cut and dried cut and paste cut and run cut away (current term) cut back cut bait cut both ways cut capers

cut corners cut down cut fastball cut from the same cloth cut in cut into cut it cut it close

Literary usage of Cut away

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (1876)
"like something that had grown in her flesh with pain, but that she could never have cut away without worse pain. She went close to her brother, and, ..."

2. The Law of General Average by Richard Lowndes, Edward Louis De Hart, George Rupert Rudolf, William Robertson Coe (1912)
"I may conclude this section by adding one Sail cut away case in which a sacrifice purposely made is not in practice treated as general average, ..."

3. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray, Luther Holden (1878)
"(The Pancreas has been cut away, except its head.) The ileum, («х«», to twist\ so called from its numerous coils or convolution?, includes the remaining ..."

4. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain) (1898)
"125. gre (with letters cut away after e). 126. fe refe (altered to ]>e erfe, ... 154. he mift (with long s; part of the h is cut away; but read he). 157. ..."

5. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"CUT-AWAY, a coat, the skirts of which are cut away, so that they do not hang down »s in a frock-coat : also used as an adjective. ..."

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