CUT IN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cut in mean? 

• CUT IN (verb)
  The verb CUT IN has 5 senses:

1. allow someone to have a share or profit

2. drive in front of another vehicle leaving too little space for that vehicle to maneuver comfortably

3. break into a conversation

4. interrupt a dancing couple in order to take one of them as one's own partner

5. mix in with cutting motions

  Familiarity information: CUT IN used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUT IN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Allow someone to have a share or profit

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "cut in" is one way to...):

partake; partake in; share (have, give, or receive a share of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam cannot cut in Sue

Sense 2

Meaning:

Drive in front of another vehicle leaving too little space for that vehicle to maneuver comfortably

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "cut in" is one way to...):

pull (move into a certain direction)

Sentence frames:

Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

These cars won't cut in

Sense 3

Meaning:

Break into a conversation

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

barge in; break in; butt in; chime in; chisel in; cut in; put in

Context example:

her husband always chimes in, even when he is not involved in the conversation

Hypernyms (to "cut in" is one way to...):

break up; cut off; disrupt; interrupt (make a break in)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cut in"):

disrupt; interrupt (interfere in someone else's activity)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 4

Meaning:

Interrupt a dancing couple in order to take one of them as one's own partner

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

Jim always cuts in!

Hypernyms (to "cut in" is one way to...):

disrupt; interrupt (interfere in someone else's activity)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 5

Meaning:

Mix in with cutting motions

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "cut in" is one way to...):

blend in; mix in (cause (something) to be mixed with (something else))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

A surgical incision line on the uterus that is transversely cut in relation to the lower uterine segment.

(Lower Uterine Segment Incision, NCI Thesaurus)

Silently, without flinching, he took a second cut in his forward rush, and as he leaped for the throat the groom cried out, "My God!" and staggered backward.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I marked that beneath this hole there was a deep cut in the door, as though a great nail had been driven in.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had heard of jerking beef on the plains, and our seal-meat, cut in thin strips and hung in the smoke, cured excellently.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

A surgical procedure in which the skin is cut in a geometrical fashion resembling an ellipse.

(Elliptical Skin Excision, NCI Thesaurus)

Dance a hornpipe, cut in Fred, as Jo paused for breath, and, as they danced, the rubbishy old castle turned to a man-of-war in full sail.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Show her into the library, of course, cut in the angel girl.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But here Dr. Livesey cut in.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Summerlee was wiping the blood from a cut in his forehead, while I was tying up a nasty stab in the muscle of the neck.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Sometimes, indeed, he left marks in writing on the barks of the trees or cut in stone that guided me and instigated my fury.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)