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say it: KUHT-ing
cutting is a noun and adjective meaning "the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film". It is pronounced /ˈkʌtɪŋ/ — KUHT-ing. It carries 13 recorded senses.
the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film
an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine
“he searched through piles of letters and clippings”
removing parts from hard material to create a desired pattern or shape
the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends
“the barber gave him a good cut”
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 cutting 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.