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Cutting
| cutting angle
| cutting board
| cutting edge
| cutting implement
| cutting off
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Cutting (root: cut)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Cutting has 10 senses
- cutting(n = noun.act) film editing - the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film; Array is a kind of creating by removal
- cutting(n = noun.plant) slip - a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting; Array has particulars: quickset
- cutting(n = noun.act) cut - the act of cutting something into parts; "his cuts were skillful"; "his cutting of the cake made a terrible mess" has particulars: severance, severing, dissection, scission, slicing, undercut
- cutting(n = noun.object) Array - a piece cut off from the main part of something; Array is a kind of part, piece
- cutting(n = noun.communication) clipping, newspaper clipping, press clipping, press cutting - an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine; "he searched through piles of letters and clippings" is a kind of excerpt, excerption, extract, selection
- cutting(n = noun.act) carving - removing parts from hard material to create a desired pattern or shape; Array is a kind of creating by removal
- cutting(n = noun.act) cut - the division of a deck of cards before dealing; "he insisted that we give him the last cut before every deal"; "the cutting of the cards soon became a ritual" is a kind of division
- cutting(n = noun.act) cut - the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge; "his cut in the lining revealed the hidden jewels" is a kind of opening
- cutting(n = noun.act) thinning - the act of diluting something; "the cutting of whiskey with water"; "the thinning of paint with turpentine" is a kind of dilution
- cutting(n = noun.act) cut, cutting off - the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends; "the barber gave him a good cut" is a kind of shortening
Derived forms verb cut10, verb cut17
is a kind of stalk, stem
is a kind of division
Derived forms verb cut1, verb cut4
has particulars: pruning
has particulars: petroglyph, truncation
Derived form verb cut22
is a part of card game, cards
Derived form verb cut26
has particulars: nick, notch, snick, gash, slash, incision, section, surgical incision
Derived form verb cut4
Derived form verb cut38
has particulars: clip, clipping, snip, haircut, clipping, trim, trimming, shearing
Derived form verb cut22
Adjective Cutting has 3 senses
- cutting(s = adj.all) edged, stinging - (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character; "cutting remarks"; "edged satire"; "a stinging comment"
- cutting(s = adj.all) bleak, raw - unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North Atlantic"
- cutting(s = adj.all) keen, knifelike, lancinate, lancinating, piercing, stabbing - painful as if caused by a sharp instrument; "a cutting wind"; "keen winds"; "knifelike cold"; "piercing knifelike pains"; "piercing cold"; "piercing criticism"; "a stabbing pain"; "lancinating pain"
CIDE DICTIONARY
Cutting, n.
- The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc. [1913 Webster]
- Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or scion cut off from a stock for the purpose of grafting or of rooting as an independent plant; something cut out of a newspaper; an excavation cut through a hill or elsewhere to make a way for a railroad, canal, etc.; a cut. [1913 Webster]
Cutting, a.
- Adapted to cut; as, a cutting tool. [1913 Webster]
- Chilling; penetrating; sharp; as, a cutting wind. [1913 Webster]
- Severe; sarcastic; biting; as, a cutting reply; a cutting remark. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Cutting, n. & adj.
--n.
1 a piece cut from a newspaper etc.
2 a piece cut from a plant for propagation.
3 an excavated channel through high ground for a railway or road.
--adj. see CUT v. 5.
--n.
1 a piece cut from a newspaper etc.
2 a piece cut from a plant for propagation.
3 an excavated channel through high ground for a railway or road.
--adj. see CUT v. 5.
Derivative
cuttingly adv.
THESAURUS
Cutting
IC analysis, Siberian, abbreviation, abscission, accidence, acerb, acerbate, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulent, acidulous, acrid, acrimonious, acute, adulteration, affix, affixation, algid, allomorph, amphibian, amputation, ana, analects, angiosperm, annual, anthology, apocope, aposiopesis, apportionment, appositive, aquatic plant, arctic, asperous, astringent, attribute, attributive, attrition, bastardizing, below zero, biennial, bit, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, bleak, boreal, bound morpheme, brisk, brumal, budgeting, butchering, butt, caustic, chill, chip, chopping, chunk, clear-cut, cleavage, clip, clipping, clippings, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, collectanea, collection, collop, complement, conjugation, construction modifier, contamination, contemptuous, contraction, corroding, corrosive, corruption, cosmopolite, crasis, crisp, crop, crumb, curtailment, cut, cutting the pie, cuttings, debasement, deciduous plant, declension, decrease, decrement, deep structure, depletion, depreciation, derivation, derogation, detraction, dichotomy, dicot, dicotyledon, difference of form, diluent, dilution, diminution, dip, direct object, disparagement, dissolvent, dividing, division, divvy, doctoring, dollop, double-edged, drastic, driving, edged, effective, elision, ellipsis, enclitic, end, enucleation, ephemeral, escharotic, evergreen, excerpta, excerpts, excessive, excision, exorbitant, exotic, extraction, extracts, extravagant, extreme, featheredged, fierce, filler, fine, fission, florilegium, flowering plant, flowers, forceful, forcible, form-function unit, formative, fortifying, fragment, fragments, free form, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, function, fungus, furious, gametophyte, gathering, gelid, glacial, gleaning, gleanings, gob, gobbet, great, gutsy, gymnosperm, harsh, harvest, harvesting, hibernal, hiemal, hunk, hydrophyte, hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, immediate constituent analysis, immoderate, impairment, imperative, impressive, incisive, inclement, indirect object, infix, infixation, inflection, ingoing, intemperate, intense, invidious, irritating, keen, keen-edged, knifelike, laceration, lacing, lessening, levels, lump, malevolent, malicious, miscellanea, miscellany, modicum, modifier, moiety, monocot, monocotyl, mordacious, mordant, morph, morpheme, morphemic analysis, morphemics, morphology, morphophonemics, morsel, mutilation, nervous, nipping, nippy, nose-tickling, numbing, nutting, object, outrageous, paradigm, parceling, paring, particle, partition, partitioning, penetrating, perennial, phrase structure, piece, piercing, pinching, piquant, plant, poignant, pollution, polycot, polycotyl, polycotyledon, portioning, powerful, predicate, prefix, prefixation, probing, proclitic, pruning, punchy, pungent, qualifier, radical, ranks, rasher, rationing, raw, razor-edged, reaping, reduction, remission, rending, repartition, resection, resolutive, resolvent, retraction, retrenchment, rigorous, ripping, root, rough, sarcastic, sardonic, scathing, scion, scission, scoop, scorching, scornful, scrap, section, seed plant, seedling, sensational, set, severance, severe, shallow structure, shard, sharing, sharing out, sharp, shaving, shiver, shortening, shred, shrinkage, sinewed, sinewy, slashing, sleety, slice, slicing, slip, sliver, slot, slot and filler, slushy, smithereen, snack, snappy, snatch, sneering, snip, snippet, solvent, sour, spermatophyte, spiking, splinter, splitting, sporophyte, stabbing, stem, stern, stinging, stitch, stone-cold, strata, strident, stringent, strong, structure, stump, subject, subzero, suffix, suffixation, supercooled, surface structure, surgery, syncope, syneresis, syntactic analysis, syntactic structure, syntactics, syntax, tagmeme, tart, tatter, tearing, telling, thallophyte, theme, thinning, tough, trenchant, triennial, truncation, two-edged, unconscionable, underlying structure, vascular plant, vegetable, vehement, venomous, vicious, vigorous, violent, virulent, vital, vitriolic, watering, weed, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry, withering, word arrangement, word order, word-formation, woundingROGET THESAURUS
Cutting
Part
N part, portion, dose, item, particular, aught, any, division, ward, subdivision, section, chapter, clause, count, paragraph, verse, article, passage, sector, segment, fraction, fragment, cantle, frustum, detachment, parcel, piece, lump, bit cut, cutting, chip, chunk, collop, slice, scale, lamina, small part, morsel, particle, installment, dividend, share, debris, odds and ends, oddments, detritus, excerpta, member, limb, lobe, lobule, arm, wing, scion, branch, bough, joint, link, offshoot, ramification, twig, bush, spray, sprig, runner, leaf, leaflet, stump, component part, sarmentum, compartment, department, county, fractional, fragmentary, sectional, aliquot, divided, in compartments, multifid, disconnected, partial, partly, in part, partially, piecemeal, part by part, by by installments, by snatches, by inches, by driblets, bit by bit, inch by inch, foot by foot, drop by drop, in detail, in lots.Feeling
N feeling, suffering, endurance, tolerance, sufferance, supportance, experience, response, sympathy, impression, inspiration, affection, sensation, emotion, pathos, deep sense, warmth, glow, unction, gusto, vehemence, fervor, fervency, heartiness, cordiality, earnestness, eagerness, empressement, gush, ardor, zeal, passion, enthusiasm, verve, furore, fanaticism, excitation of feeling, fullness of the heart, passion, ecstasy, blush, suffusion, flush, hectic, tingling, thrill, turn, shock, agitation, quiver, heaving, flutter, flurry, fluster, twitter, tremor, throb, throbbing, pulsation, palpitation, panting, trepidation, perturbation, ruffle, hurry of spirits, pother, stew, ferment, state of excitement, feeling, sentient, sensuous, sensorial, sensory, emotive, emotional, of feeling, with feeling, warm, quick, lively, smart, strong, sharp, acute, cutting, piercing, incisive, keen, keen as a razor, trenchant, pungent, racy, piquant, poignant, caustic, impressive, deep, profound, indelible, deep felt, home felt, heartfelt, swelling, soul-stirring, deep-mouthed, heart-expanding, electric, thrilling, rapturous, ecstatic, earnest, wistful, eager, breathless, fervent, fervid, gushing, passionate, warm-hearted, hearty, cordial, sincere, zealous, enthusiastic, glowing, ardent, burning, red-hot, fiery, flaming, boiling over, pervading, penetrating, absorbing, rabid, raving, feverish, fanatical, hysterical, impetuous, impressed with, moved with, touched with, affected with, penetrated with, seized with, imbued with, devoured by, wrought up, struck all of a heap, rapt, in a quiver, enraptured, heart and soul, from the bottom of one's heart, ab imo pectore, at heart, con amore, heartily, devoutly, over head and ears, head over heels, the heart big, the heart full, the heart swelling, the heart beating, the heart pulsating, the heart throbbing, the heart thumping, the heart beating high, the heart melting, the heart overflowing, the heart bursting, the heart breaking, the heart goes out, a heart as big as all outdoors (sympathy).Painfulness
N painfulness, trouble, care, trial, affliction, infliction, blow, stroke, burden, load, curse, bitter pill, bitter draught, waters of bitterness, annoyance, grievance, nuisance, vexation, mortification, sickener, bore, bother, pother, hot water, sea of troubles, hornet's nest, plague, pest, cancer, ulcer, sting, thorn, canker, scorpion, dagger, scourge, carking care, canker worm of care, mishap, misfortune, desagrement, esclandre, rub, source of irritation, source of annoyance, wound, open sore, sore subject, skeleton in the closet, thorn in the flesh, thorn in one's side, where the shoe pinches, gall and wormwood, sorry sight, heavy news, provocation, affront, head and front of one's offending, infestation, molestation, malignity, causing pain, hurting, hurtful, painful, dolorific, dolorous, unpleasant, unpleasing, displeasing, disagreeable, unpalatable, bitter, distasteful, uninviting, unwelcome, undesirable, undesired, obnoxious, unacceptable, unpopular, thankless, unsatisfactory, untoward, unlucky, uncomfortable, distressing, afflicting, afflictive, joyless, cheerless, comfortless, dismal, disheartening, depressing, depressive, dreary, melancholy, grievous, piteous, woeful, rueful, mournful, deplorable, pitiable, lamentable, sad, affecting, touching, pathetic, irritating, provoking, stinging, annoying, aggravating, mortifying, galling, unaccommodating, invidious, vexatious, troublesome, tiresome, irksome, wearisome, plaguing, plaguy, awkward, importunate, teasing, pestering, bothering, harassing, worrying, tormenting, carking, intolerable, insufferable, insupportable, unbearable, unendurable, past bearing, not to be borne, not to be endured, more than flesh and blood can bear, enough to drive one mad, enough to provoke a saint, enough to make a parson swear, enough to gag a maggot, shocking, terrific, grim, appalling, crushing, dreadful, fearful, frightful, thrilling, tremendous, dire, heart-breaking, heart-rending, heart-wounding, heart-corroding, heart-sickening, harrowing, rending, odious, hateful, execrable, repulsive, repellent, abhorrent, horrid, horrible, horrific, horrifying, offensive, nauseous, nauseating, disgusting, sickening, revolting, nasty, loathsome, loathful, fulsome, vile, hideous, sharp, acute, sore, severe, grave, hard, harsh, cruel, biting, caustic, cutting, corroding, consuming, racking, excruciating, searching, grinding, grating, agonizing, envenomed, catheretic, pyrotic, ruinous, disastrous, calamitous, tragical, desolating, withering, burdensome, onerous, oppressive, cumbrous, cumbersome, painfully, with pain, deuced, Int, hinc illae lachrymae!, surgit amari aliquid, the place being too hot to hold one, the iron entering into the soul, he jests at scars that never felt a wound, I must be cruel only to be kind, what deep wounds ever closed without a scar?.Sharpness
N sharpness, acuity, acumination, spinosity, point, spike, spine, spicule, spiculum, needle, hypodermic needle, tack, nail, pin, prick, prickle, spur, rowel, barb, spit, cusp, horn, antler, snag, tag thorn, bristle, Adam's needle, bear grass, tine, yucca, nib, tooth, tusk, spoke, cog, ratchet, crag, crest, arete, cone peak, sugar loaf, pike, aiguille, spire, pyramid, steeple, beard, chevaux de frise, porcupine, hedgehog, brier, bramble, thistle, comb, awn, beggar's lice, bur, burr, catchweed, cleavers, clivers, goose, grass, hairif, hariff, flax comb, hackle, hatchel, heckle, wedge, knife edge, cutting edge, blade, edge tool, cutlery, knife, penknife, whittle, razor, razor blade, safety razor, straight razor, electric razor, scalpel, bistoury, lancet, plowshare, coulter, colter, hatchet, ax, pickax, mattock, pick, adze, gill, billhook, cleaver, cutter, scythe, sickle, scissors, shears, pruning shears, cutters, wire cutters, nail clipper, paper cutter, sword, bodkin, belduque, bowie knife, paring knife, bushwhacker, drawing knife, drawing shave, microtome, chisel, screwdriver blade, flint blade, guillotine, sharpener, hone, strop, grindstone, whetstone, novaculite, steel, emery, sharp, keen, acute, acicular, aciform, aculeated, acuminated, pointed, tapering, conical, pyramidal, mucronate, mucronated, spindle shaped, needle shaped, spiked, spiky, ensiform, peaked, salient, cusped, cuspidate, cuspidated, cornute, cornuted, cornicultate, prickly, spiny, spinous, spicular, thorny, bristling, muricated, pectinated, studded, thistly, briary, craggy, snaggy, digitated, two-edged, fusiform, dentiform, denticulated, toothed, odontoid, starlike, stellated, stelliform, sagittate, sagittiform, arrowheaded, arrowy, barbed, spurred, acinaciform, apiculate, apiculated, aristate, awned, awny, bearded, calamiform, cone-shaped, coniform, crestate, echinate, gladiate, lanceolate, lanciform, awl, awl-shaped, lance-shaped, awl- shaped, scimitar-shaped, sword-shaped, setarious, spinuliferous, subulate, tetrahedral, xiphoid, cutting, sharp edged, knife edged, sharp as a razor, keen as a razor, sharp as a needle, sharp as a tack, sharpened, set.Disapprobation
N disapprobation, disapproval, improbation, disesteem, disvaluation, displacency, odium, dislike, dispraise, discommendation, blame, censure, obloquy, detraction, disparagement, depreciation, denunciation, condemnation, ostracism, black list, animadversion, reflection, stricture, objection, exception, criticism, sardonic grin, sardonic laugh, sarcasm, insinuation, innuendo, bad compliment, poor compliment, left-handed compliment, satire, sneer, taunt, cavil, carping, censoriousness, hypercriticism, reprehension, remonstrance, expostulation, reproof, reprobation, admonition, increpation, reproach, rebuke, reprimand, castigation, jobation, lecture, curtain lecture, blow up, wigging, dressing, rating, scolding, trimming, correction, set down, rap on the knuckles, coup de bec, rebuff, slap, slap on the face, home thrust, hit, frown, scowl, black look, diatribe, jeremiad, jeremiade, tirade, philippic, clamor, outcry, hue and cry, hiss, hissing, sibilance, sibilation, catcall, execration, chiding, upbraiding, exprobation, abuse, vituperation, invective, objurgation, contumely, hard words, cutting words, bitter words, evil-speaking, bad language, personality, disapproving, scandalized, disparaging, condemnatory, damnatory, denunciatory, reproachful, abusive, objurgatory, clamorous, vituperative, defamatory, satirical, sarcastic, sardonic, cynical, dry, sharp, cutting, biting, severe, withering, trenchant, hard upon, censorious, critical, captious, carping, hypercritical, fastidious, sparing of praise, grudging praise, disapproved, chid, in bad odor, blown upon, unapproved, unblest, at a discount, exploded, weighed in the balance and found wanting, blameworthy, reprehensible, to blame, worthy of blame, answerable, uncommendable, exceptionable, not to be thought of, bad, vicious, unlamented, unbewailed, unpitied, with a wry face, reproachfully, Int, it is too bad!, it won't do, it will never do!, marry come up!, Oh!, come!, 'sdeath!, forbid it Heaven!, God forbid, Heaven forbid!, out upon, fie upon it!, away with!, tut!, O tempora!, O mores!, shame!, fie, fie for shame!, out on you!, tell it not in Gath!.Cold
N cold, coldness, frigidity, inclemency, fresco, winter, depth of winter, hard winter, Siberia, Nova Zembla, wind- chill factor, ice, snow, snowflake, snow crystal, snow drift, sleet, hail, hailstone, rime, frost, hoar frost, white frost, hard frost, sharp frost, barf, glaze, lolly, icicle, thick-ribbed ice, fall of snow, heavy fall, iceberg, icefloe, floe berg, glacier, nev_ee, serac, pruina, freezing mixture, dry ice, liquid nitrogen, liquid helium, chilliness, chill, shivering, goose skin, horripilation, rigor, chattering of teeth, numbness, frostbite, cold, cool, chill, chilly, icy, gelid, frigid, algid, fresh, keen, bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, biting, niveous, cutting, nipping, piercing, pinching, clay-cold, starved, chilled to the bone, shivering, aguish, transi de froid, frostbitten, frost-bound, frost-nipped, cold as a stone, cold as marble, cold as lead, cold as iron, cold as a frog, cold as charity, cold as Christmas, cool as a cucumber, cool as custard, icy, glacial, frosty, freezing, pruinose, wintry, brumal, hibernal, boreal, arctic, Siberian, hyemal, hyperborean, hyperboreal, icebound, frozen out, unwarmed, unthawed, lukewarm, tepid, isocheimal, isocheimenal, isocheimic, frozen, numb, frost-bitten, coldly, bitterly, pierre fendre.
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