CUTTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cutting mean? 

• CUTTING (noun)
  The noun CUTTING has 10 senses:

1. the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film

2. a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting

3. the act of cutting something into parts

4. a piece cut off from the main part of something

5. an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine

6. removing parts from hard material to create a desired pattern or shape

7. the division of a deck of cards before dealing

8. the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge

9. the act of diluting something

10. the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends

  Familiarity information: CUTTING used as a noun is familiar.

• CUTTING (adjective)
  The adjective CUTTING has 3 senses:

1. (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character

2. unpleasantly cold and damp

3. painful as if caused by a sharp instrument

  Familiarity information: CUTTING used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUTTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

cutting; film editing

Hypernyms ("cutting" is a kind of...):

creating by removal (the act of creating by removing something)

Derivation:

cut (cut and assemble the components of)

cut (make an abrupt change of image or sound)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

cutting; slip

Hypernyms ("cutting" is a kind of...):

stalk; stem (a slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cutting"):

quickset (cuttings of plants set in the ground to grow as hawthorn for hedges or vines)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of cutting something into parts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

cut; cutting

Context example:

his cutting of the cake made a terrible mess

Hypernyms ("cutting" is a kind of...):

division (the act or process of dividing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cutting"):

undercut (a cut made underneath to remove material)

slicing (the act of cutting into slices)

scission (the act of dividing by cutting or splitting)

dissection (cutting so as to separate into pieces)

severance; severing (the act of severing)

Derivation:

cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)

cut (make an incision or separation)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A piece cut off from the main part of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("cutting" is a kind of...):

part; piece (a portion of a natural object)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cutting"):

pruning (something that has been pruned off of a plant)

Sense 5

Meaning:

An excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

clipping; cutting; newspaper clipping; press clipping; press cutting

Context example:

he searched through piles of letters and clippings

Hypernyms ("cutting" is a kind of...):

excerpt; excerption; extract; selection (a passage selected from a larger work)

Sense 6

Meaning:

Removing parts from hard material to create a desired pattern or shape

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

carving; cutting

Hypernyms ("cutting" is a kind of...):

creating by removal (the act of creating by removing something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cutting"):

petroglyph (a carving or line drawing on rock (especially one made by prehistoric people))

truncation (the replacement of an edge or solid angle (as in cutting a gemstone) by a plane (especially by a plane that is equally inclined to the adjacent faces))

Derivation:

cut (form or shape by cutting or incising)

Sense 7

Meaning:

The division of a deck of cards before dealing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

cut; cutting

Context example:

the cutting of the cards soon became a ritual

Hypernyms ("cutting" is a kind of...):

division (the act or process of dividing)

Holonyms ("cutting" is a part of...):

card game; cards (a game played with playing cards)

Derivation:

cut (divide a deck of cards at random into two parts to make selection difficult)

Sense 8

Meaning:

The act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

cut; cutting

Context example:

his cut in the lining revealed the hidden jewels

Hypernyms ("cutting" is a kind of...):

opening (becoming open or being made open)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cutting"):

nick; notch; snick (a small cut)

gash; slash (a strong sweeping cut made with a sharp instrument)

incision; section; surgical incision (the cutting of or into body tissues or organs (especially by a surgeon as part of an operation))

Derivation:

cut (make an incision or separation)

Sense 9

Meaning:

The act of diluting something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

cutting; thinning

Context example:

the thinning of paint with turpentine

Hypernyms ("cutting" is a kind of...):

dilution (weakening (reducing the concentration) by the addition of water or a thinner)

Derivation:

cut (lessen the strength or flavor of a solution or mixture)

Sense 10

Meaning:

The act of shortening something by chopping off the ends

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

cut; cutting; cutting off

Context example:

the barber gave him a good cut

Hypernyms ("cutting" is a kind of...):

shortening (act of decreasing in length)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cutting"):

haircut (the act of cutting the hair)

clipping; trim; trimming (cutting down to the desired size or shape)

shearing (removing by cutting off or clipping)

clip; clipping; snip (the act of clipping or snipping)

Derivation:

cut (form or shape by cutting or incising)

• CUTTING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character

Synonyms:

cutting; edged; stinging

Context example:

a stinging comment

Similar:

unkind (lacking kindness)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Unpleasantly cold and damp

Synonyms:

bleak; cutting; raw

Context example:

bleak winds of the North Atlantic

Similar:

cold (having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Painful as if caused by a sharp instrument

Synonyms:

cutting; keen; knifelike; lancinate; lancinating; piercing; stabbing

Context example:

lancinating pain

Similar:

sharp (keenly and painfully felt; as if caused by a sharp edge or point)

 Context examples 

You are cutting your throat every day you waste in them trying to prostitute beauty to the needs of magazinedom.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The son was to join in cutting off the entail, as soon as he should be of age, and the widow and younger children would by that means be provided for.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Months afterwards a curious newspaper cutting reached us from Buda-Pesth.

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

The first project was, to shorten discourse, by cutting polysyllables into one, and leaving out verbs and participles, because, in reality, all things imaginable are but norms.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Grafting is done by cutting a plant off near the root, shaping its stalk into a wedge and fitting this into a matching groove on the severed stem of another plant.

(Grafting helps pepper plants deal with drought, SciDev.Net)

The sixth, “Who has been cutting with my knife?”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I will take the black clay with me, also the pencil cuttings.

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

“Why, what can be worse than cutting our throats?” she asked, with pretty naïve surprise.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He stumbled from weakness and pitched head foremost on his face, cutting his cheek, his pack upon his back.

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

This suggests that cutting RIPK1, thereby disarming it, is crucial to controlling cell death and inflammation.

(Researchers discover new autoinflammatory disease and uncover its biological cause, National Institutes of Health)