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Definition of Cutting

1. Adjective. (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character. "A stinging comment"

2. Noun. The activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film.

3. Adjective. Unpleasantly cold and damp. "Bleak winds of the North Atlantic"

4. Noun. A part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting.

5. Adjective. Painful as if caused by a sharp instrument. "Lancinating pain"

6. Noun. The act of cutting something into parts. "His cutting of the cake made a terrible mess"

7. Noun. A piece cut off from the main part of something.

8. Noun. An excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine. "He searched through piles of letters and clippings"

9. Noun. Removing parts from hard material to create a desired pattern or shape.

10. Noun. The division of a deck of cards before dealing. "The cutting of the cards soon became a ritual"

11. Noun. The act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge. "His cut in the lining revealed the hidden jewels"

12. Noun. The act of diluting something. "The thinning of paint with turpentine"

13. Noun. The act of shortening something by chopping off the ends. "The barber gave him a good cut"

Definition of Cutting

1. n. The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc.

2. a. Adapted to cut; as, a cutting tool.

Definition of Cutting

1. Verb. (present participle of cut) ¹

2. Noun. (countable uncountable) The action of the verb to '''cut'''. ¹

3. Noun. A section removed from the larger whole. ¹

4. Noun. A newspaper clipping. ¹

5. Noun. A leaf, stem, branch, or root removed from a plant and cultivated to grow a new plant. ¹

6. Noun. An abridged selection of written work, often intended for performance. ¹

7. Noun. The editing of film or other recordings. ¹

8. Noun. Self-harm; the act of cutting one's own skin. ¹

9. Noun. A narrow passage, dug for a road, railway or canal to go through. ¹

10. Adjective. (not comparable) That is used for cutting. ¹

11. Adjective. Of remarks, criticism, etc., potentially hurtful. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cutting

1. a section cut from a plant [n -S]

Medical Definition of Cutting

1. Portion of a stem, root, or leaf cut from the parent plant for the production of a new independent plant by inducing it to form shoots and roots under favorable environmental conditions (for example, stem cuttings, leaf cuttings, leaf-bud cuttings, and root cuttings). (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cutting

cuttable cuttage cuttages cutted cutter cutter-offer cuttermen cutters cutteth cutthroat

cutthroats cuttie cuttier cutties cuttiest cutting (current term) cutting-edge cutting angle cutting bait cutting board

cutting boards cutting down cutting edge cutting forceps cutting implement cutting in cutting it cutting needle cutting off cutting off one's nose to spite one's face

Literary usage of Cutting

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

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"... 1919, and the purpose is to recover damages of defendant for wrongfully cutting timber trees from lands claimed by plaintiff, and to restrain defendant ..."

2. Proceedings by Bristol Naturalists' Society (Bristol, England), Bristol Naturalists' Society (1891)
"Mr. Charles Richardson kindly took ine to see the cutting in an early stage, and with the permission of Mr. WK Lawrence, I have since frequently visited the ..."

3. Bulletin by Philippines. Bureau of forestry (1906)
"cutting AREAS. cutting areas should conform as nearly as possible to the wishes of ... In assigning cutting areas, the forester shall follow as nearly as ..."

4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"in the patent as being used for cutting tongues, grooves, mortises, etc. cutting grooves or mortises or tongues, by the Newton rotary disc, is merely sawing ..."

5. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1890)
"The cutting instrument is a small copper disk, sometimes as tiny as a dentist's tool, ... This is the real cutting agent ; the disk simply applies it. ..."

6. International Law: A Treatise by Lassa Oppenheim (1912)
"In 1886. one AK cutting, a subject of the United States, was arrested in Mexico for an alleged ... Mexico maintained that she had a right to punish cutting, ..."

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