cut

cut is part of the Basic English 850.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kʌt/
• SAMPA: /"kVt/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}

Verb

Plain form cut

Third person singular cuts

Simple past cut

Past participle cut

Present participle cutting

Some cut food

1. If you make something shorter or divide it in pieces, you cut it.
   • Synonyms: shorten, cut up, cut off, divide, slice, clip
   • Antonyms: lengthen, unite, paste together

   Jared cut the meat using his knife and fork.

   In the lumber mill, the logs are then cut into boards.

2. To hurt with a blade.
   • Synonyms: slash, hack, incise, scratch, score, sever, slice, chop, nick
   • Antonyms: heal, bandage

   I cut my hand.

3. To stop something.
   • Synonyms: stop, cut off, turn off
   • Antonyms: turn on, start, start up

   They cut the electricity.

4. To edit, shorten, or censor (a film).
   • Synonyms: edit, shorten, censor
   • Antonym: lengthen

   The film was cut by ten minutes.

5. (computers) If you remove something to put it somewhere else, you cut it.
   • Antonym: paste

   Ben cut the text from the Word document and pasted it into another.

6. (film) If the picture changes from one scene to another, the scene cuts to another.

Related words and phrases

• box cutter
• chop
• clip
• cutter
• cutting
• cut a rug
• cut back
• cut down
• cut in
• cut loose
• cut off
• cut out
• cut through
• cut up
• cut-up
• haircut
• injure
• paper cut
• slice
• undercut

See also

• incision
• knife
• sword
• scissors
• Cutlass

Noun

Singular cut

Plural cuts

1. A scratch, opening in the [{skin]] or a surface.
   • Synonyms: scratch, slice, slash, graze, incision, nick

   She had a cut on her arm.

2. A reduction; lessening.
   • Synonyms: reduction, lessening, decrease, cutback, decline, drop
   • Antonyms: increase, augment, augmentation, boost, growth, proliferation, spread, expansion, multiplication

   There was a cut in prices.

3. A small piece removed by cutting is a cut.

   I will take a cut of beef.

Adjective

Positive cut

Comparative none

Superlative none

1. If something is absent or not complete, it is cut.
   • Synonyms: absent, removed
   • Antonyms: added, present, uncut

   The cut scenes are found on the DVD.

   The movie clip was cut: it was missing the end.