CUT TO

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does cut to mean? 

• CUT TO (verb)
  The verb CUT TO has 1 sense:

1. move to another scene when filming

  Familiarity information: CUT TO used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUT TO (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move to another scene when filming

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

The camera cut to the sky

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

move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

 Context examples 

“Ah,” said Silver, “it were fortunate for me that I had Hawkins here. You would have let old John be cut to bits, and never given it a thought, doctor.”

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I have been cut to the quick.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As he fled back over the Danube, leaving his forces to be cut to pieces, so now he is intent on being safe, careless of all.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

No Gytrash was this,—only a traveller taking the short cut to Millcote.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"You see that blasted redwood? Take the little trail turning off to the right. It's the short cut to her house. You can't miss it."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The nails were long and fine, and cut to a sharp point.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)