Sekirov Dictionary

cut

/kʌt/

verb36

  1. To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument.
  2. To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
  3. To reduce, especially intentionally.
  4. To lose body mass, aiming to keep muscle but lose body fat.
  5. to make a thin opening in something with a knife or another sharp object
  6. To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
  7. To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
  8. To separate or omit, in a situation where one was previously associated.
  9. To abridge or shorten a work; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.
  10. To stop, disengage, or cease.
  11. To renounce or give up.
  12. To remove (text, a picture, etc.) and place in memory in order to paste at a later time.
  13. To form or shape by cutting.
  14. To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another.
  15. To engage in self-harm by making cuts in one's own skin.
  16. (slang) To wound with a knife.
  17. To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
  18. To make, negotiate; to finalise, conclude; to issue.
  19. To absent oneself from (a class, an appointment, etc.).
  20. To enter a queue in the wrong place.
  21. To change direction suddenly.
  22. To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage.
  23. To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce.
  24. To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug.
  25. To exhibit (a figure having some trait).
  26. To divide a pack of playing cards into two parts, often followed by placing the two parts back together in the opposite order.
  27. (slang) To leave abruptly.
  28. To ignore as a social rebuff or snub.
  29. To perform (an elaborate dancing movement etc.).
  30. To castrate or geld.
  31. To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it.
  32. To deflect (a bowled ball) to the off, with a chopping movement of the bat.
  33. To drive (a ball) to one side, as by (in billiards or croquet) hitting it fine with another ball, or (in tennis) striking it with the racket inclined.
  34. To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to.
  35. (informal) To run or hurry.
  36. To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.

noun40

  1. The act of cutting.
  2. A decrease or deletion.
  3. A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play, movie script, speech, etc.
  4. An opening of a living body resulting from cutting; an incision or wound.
  5. Such a wound through human skin.
  6. A share or portion of profits.
  7. A slab or slice, especially of meat.
  8. A standard type of meat portion in butchery.
  9. The result of cutting.
  10. A particular version or edit of a film.
  11. The manner or style in which a garment, other article of clothing, or sail is fashioned.
  12. A haircut.
  13. A notch shaved into an eyebrow.
  14. A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc.
  15. In a stroke play competition, the early elimination of those players who have not then attained a preannounced score, so that the rest of the competition is less pressed for time and more entertaining for spectators.
  16. A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
  17. Such a passage dug for a roadway for a paved road or railroad, a canal, a runway, etc.
  18. An artificial channel for marine navigation, as distinguished from a navigable river.
  19. (figurative) A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
  20. (figurative) An unkind act; a cruelty.
  21. (slang, figurative) An insult.
  22. The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
  23. A time period when one attempts to lose fat while retaining muscle mass.
  24. An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
  25. (slang) That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug.
  26. In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball.
  27. A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
  28. Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.
  29. A sleeveless vest worn by members of a motorcycle club.
  30. (Internet) A dividing line in a Tumblr post, the content below which is hidden until the reader reveals it.
  31. An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
  32. (slang, figurative) A hidden, secluded, or secure place.
  33. The card obtained by dividing the pack.
  34. The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups.
  35. A string of railway cars coupled together, shorter than a train.
  36. The range of temperatures used to distill a particular mixture of hydrocarbons from crude oil.
  37. A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits were removed for the creation of some feature such as a ditch or pit.
  38. (slang, old-fashioned) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
  39. A skein of yarn.
  40. (no longer used) A common workhorse; a gelding.

adjective8

  1. Having been cut.
  2. Carved into a shape; not raw.
  3. Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
  4. Reduced.
  5. (informal) Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation.
  6. Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
  7. (Australia, slang) Upset, angry; emotionally hurt.
  8. (New-Zealand, slang) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.

exclamation1

  1. An instruction to cease recording.
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