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say it: kuht
cut is a verb, noun and adjective meaning "separate with or as if with an instrument". It carries 70 recorded senses.
make an incision or separation
“cut along the dotted line”
hit (a ball) with a spin so that it turns in the opposite direction
“cut a Ping-Pong ball”
sport
divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult
“Wayne cut”
“She cut the deck for a long time”
cause to stop operating by disengaging a switch
“Turn off the stereo, please”
“cut the engine”
“turn out the lights”
penetrate injuriously
“The glass from the shattered windshield cut into her forehead”
weed out unwanted or unnecessary things
“We had to lose weight, so we cut the sugar from our diet”
reduce in scope while retaining essential elements
“The manuscript must be shortened”
cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses)
“the vet gelded the young horse”
(film) an immediate transition from one shot to the next
“the cut from the accident scene to the hospital seemed too abrupt”
a piece of meat that has been cut from an animal carcass
a canal made by erosion or excavation
a refusal to recognize someone you know
“the snub was clearly intentional”
in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball
“he took a vicious cut at the ball”
the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends
“the barber gave him a good cut”
the act of reducing the amount or number
“the mayor proposed extensive cuts in the city budget”
an unexcused absence from class
“he was punished for taking too many cuts in his math class”
(of pages of a book) having the folds of the leaves trimmed or slit
“the cut pages of the book”
(of a male animal) having the testicles removed
“a cut horse”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cut come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.