cut

1. verb To stop doing something. You better cut these antics before your father gets home. Cut the eye-rolling, will you? Would you kids cut the complaining and try to enjoy this hike? Please?

2. verb To make a recording of something, usually musical. Our band is going out to LA to cut a demo. How long does it take to cut an album these days? I can't believe we're going to cut a record with such a famous producer!

3. noun A portion of the profits from something, such as a business venture. I better get a cut of this deal—I came up with the original concept! A: "He gets a cut too?" B: "Did he write any part of the song? Then yes, he gets a cut." Once Sarah heard how much money Mel was making at his new software company, she wanted a cut too.

4. noun A single song on an album or other compilation. Here's a cut from their latest record. How do we get one of our cuts into the hands of a DJ? Listen to the cut we made with that famous producer—it sounds incredible!

5. adjective, slang Circumcised. Guys who aren't cut can be self-conscious.

6. adjective, slang Having well-defined muscles, especially the abdominals. Did you see that lifeguard with his shirt off? He's really cut! Tom used to be a skinny little dude, but he spent the summer getting totally cut! Ugh, there are always these cut dudes who strut around the boardwalk with their shirts off, like they're going to impress someone or something.

7. adjective, slang Drunk. Do you remember last night at the bar at all? You were really cut! Well, I must have been cut if I got up and did karaoke at the bar! Help him get home, will ya? He started drinking whiskey, and now he's totally cut.

cutting

1. Mean-spirited. Oh, I stopped listening to Drew a long time ago. All he does is make cutting remarks about our family. A: "I hope she's colorblind—if not, it means she picked out that hideous outfit because she thought it looked good." B: "Ouch, that was a pretty cutting assessment." Yeah, I figured those two don't like each other, considering all the cutting asides.

2. Sharp or piercing. I buttoned the collar of my coat against the cutting wind. Ah! What is that cutting sound, and why aren't dogs the only ones who can hear it? I do not miss the cutting winter winds of the Northeast now that I live in Southern California!

References in periodicals archive

The lower beam quality has been set to match the numerical apeture of standard commercially available cutting heads, to ensure that all of the laser power is delivered to the sheet metal and that beam clipping does not occur within the cutting head.

Improving sheet metal cutting using a high-power fibre laser with variable beam quality: Paul Harrison, chief engineer for product applications at SPI Lasers, describes a new mode of operation for fibre lasers that enables beam quality to be varied on demand

During the material removal of high-efficiency process of natural marble milling by diamond tool, the contact stress of diamond grit on per unit volume is decided by equivalent cutting thickness, which has a great impact on the material removal efficiency and surface quality of workpiece [11].

Research on Mathematical Model and Cutting Characteristics in Machining of Natural Marble by Diamond Coated Tool

Dynamic Waterjet technology corrects the bending waterjet and chamfer of the cutting edge at maximum cutting speeds with high accuracy.

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No longer seduced, perhaps, by the authorizing singularity of the printed book, we nonetheless seem to remain seduced by the uses of Shakespearean writing, and, based on all the evidence marshalled by Shakespeare | Cut, we continue to search for ways to keep that writing cutting into our lives.

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Three sowing dates and three cutting frequencies were tested.

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Turn cutting board around so that newly straightened edge is to the left (right).

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Table, 2 showed that the genotype Cuf 101 scored the highest plant height (52.7) for 20 days cutting interval whereas the genotype Siriver attained the lowest plant height (31.55) for 20 and 25 days cutting intervals.

Effect of cutting intervals on yield and yield components of three alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) genotypes

Minimum rooted cuttings (2%) with minimum rooted cuttings out of healthy green cuttings (3%) were found in the cuttings planted on 16th March.

SEEKING EFFECTIVE TIME OF PLANTING FOR IBA TREATED JOJOBA (SIMMONDSIA CHINENSIS) CUTTINGS UNDER POLY-TUNNEL

Coal and Rock Breaking Mechanism and Loads Analysis of Cutting Head

Study on Roadheader cutting load at different properties of coal and rock

The ceramic cutting tools for testing were supplied by Tungaloy Company.

Tungaloy ceramic cutting tools at interrupted machining

Here's a trick for cutting bevels that exceed 45 degrees.

Circ saw savvy: circular saws can do so much more than crosscut and rip wood. Here are a few tricks to put in your carpenter's quiver

(1) Schuocker attributed the periodic striation formation to a pulsation of the melt layer on cutting front.

AE signals during laser cutting of different steel sheet thicknesses

The 7500 and 8500 E-Cut mowers feature a four-wheel design and a larger cut width, also using Deere's Quick Adjust 5 cutting units.

Deere redesigns golf course mowers; new E-Cut Hybrid fairway mowers reduce leak points, fuel usage and noise using electrically powered cutting units

Label converters seeking guidance on how to best configure laser cutting technology for their specific application requirements now have access to a comprehensive guide compiled by Spartanics: Laser Cutting Technical Guide: How to Match Today's Laser Cutting Technology to Application Requirements--Parts I and II.

Spartanics publishes laser cutting guide