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Definition of Cut out

1. Adjective. Having been cut out. "The cut-out pieces of the dress"

2. Verb. Delete or remove. "Cut out the newspaper article"

3. Verb. Form and create by cutting out. "Picasso cut out a guitar from a piece of paper"

4. Verb. Cut off and stop. "The bicyclist was cut out by the van"

5. Verb. Strike or cancel by or as if by rubbing or crossing out. "Scratch out my name on that list"

6. Verb. Intercept (a player).

7. Verb. Cease operating. "The pump suddenly cut out"

Definition of Cut out

1. Adjective. (idiomatic) Well suited; appropriate; fit for a particular activity or purpose. ¹

2. Verb. (&lit cut out) ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To refrain from (doing something, using something etc.), to stop/cease (doing something). ¹

4. Verb. (transitive) To remove, omit. ¹

5. Verb. (transitive) To oust, to replace. ¹

6. Verb. (transitive) To separate from a herd. ¹

7. Verb. (intransitive) To stop working, to switch off; (of a person on the telephone etc.) to be inaudible, be disconnected. ¹

8. Verb. (intransitive) To leave suddenly. ¹

9. Verb. (context: usually in passive) To arrange. ¹

10. Verb. (transitive) To intercept ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cut Out

cut of meat cut of mutton cut of one's jib cut of pork cut of the same cloth cut of veal cut off cut off one's nose to spite one's face cut offs cut one's coat according to one's cloth

cut one's losses cut one's teeth cut oneself cut out (current term) cut out of the same cloth cut price cut rate cut red tape cut scene cut scenes

cut short cut someone loose cut someone some slack cut splice cut the cheese cut the mustard cut the muster

Literary usage of Cut out

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

1. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1814)
"The pillars in this court are forty feet high. The work of the capitals is not in relief, but only cut out in lines. He next mentions a place like ..."

2. Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia by Andrew Lee Dyke (1920)
"IVr mit belt to slip when first starting and gain speed gradually. The cut-out should cut in, or close at about i'T.0 to 67") rp in. ..."

3. Homerica, Emendations and Elucidations of the Odyssey by Thomas Leyden Agar (1908)
"... something very unsatisfactory in the way An is here dealt with, either by (i) absolute removal, or (2) substitution of in, which then has to be cut out ..."

4. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1902)
"The doors are only the wall of the silo cut out on bevel, and the pieces thus cut out nailed together with some barrel staves, the staves giving the short ..."

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