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CUT OUT
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having been cut out
Example:
the cut-out pieces of the dress
Classified under:
Similar:
cut (fashioned or shaped by cutting)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cease operating
Example:
The pump suddenly cut out
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "cut out" is one way to...):
cease; end; finish; stop; terminate (have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 2
Meaning:
Delete or remove
Example:
cut out the newspaper article
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "cut out" is one way to...):
do away with; eliminate; extinguish; get rid of (terminate, end, or take out)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cut out"):
excise (remove by cutting)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Derivation:
cutout (a part that is cut out or is intended to be cut out)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Intercept (a player)
Synonyms:
cut down; cut out
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Hypernyms (to "cut out" is one way to...):
arrest; check; contain; hold back; stop; turn back (hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of)
Domain category:
ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 4
Meaning:
Cut off and stop
Example:
The bicyclist was cut out by the van
Synonyms:
cut off; cut out
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "cut out" is one way to...):
intercept; stop (seize on its way)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Sense 5
Meaning:
Strike or cancel by or as if by rubbing or crossing out
Example:
scratch out my name on that list
Synonyms:
cut out; scratch out
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "cut out" is one way to...):
efface; erase; rub out; score out; wipe off (remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
Sense 6
Meaning:
Form and create by cutting out
Example:
Picasso cut out a guitar from a piece of paper
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "cut out" is one way to...):
forge; form; mold; mould; shape; work (make something, usually for a specific function)
"Cut out" entails doing...:
cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cut out"):
gouge out (make gouges into a surface)
rabbet (cut a rectangular groove into)
die; die out (cut or shape with a die)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
cutout (a part that is cut out or is intended to be cut out)
Context examples:
A unit of plane angle measurement equal to the length of the arc cut out by the angle, divided by the circumference of the circle, and multiplied by 360.
(Degree Unit of Plane Angle, NCI Thesaurus)
“A Bible with a bit cut out!” returned Silver derisively.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Very clever were some of their productions, pasteboard guitars, antique lamps made of old-fashioned butter boats covered with silver paper, gorgeous robes of old cotton, glittering with tin spangles from a pickle factory, and armor covered with the same useful diamond shaped bits left in sheets when the lids of preserve pots were cut out.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
An enormous roll of green baize had arrived from Northampton, and been cut out by Mrs. Norris (with a saving by her good management of full three-quarters of a yard), and was actually forming into a curtain by the housemaids, and still the play was wanting; and as two or three days passed away in this manner, Edmund began almost to hope that none might ever be found.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
He soon quitted Bath; and on Mrs Clay's quitting it soon afterwards, and being next heard of as established under his protection in London, it was evident how double a game he had been playing, and how determined he was to save himself from being cut out by one artful woman, at least.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
Perhaps, continued Elinor, if I should happen to cut out, I may be of some use to Miss Lucy Steele, in rolling her papers for her; and there is so much still to be done to the basket, that it must be impossible I think for her labour singly, to finish it this evening.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
His comrades talked of how a dog could break its heart through being denied the work that killed it, and recalled instances they had known, where dogs, too old for the toil, or injured, had died because they were cut out of the traces.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
With this brief introduction, she produced from her pocket an advertisement, carefully cut out of a newspaper, setting forth that in Buckingham Street in the Adelphi there was to be let furnished, with a view of the river, a singularly desirable, and compact set of chambers, forming a genteel residence for a young gentleman, a member of one of the Inns of Court, or otherwise, with immediate possession.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
On the roof of my closet, not directly over the middle of the hammock, I ordered the joiner to cut out a hole of a foot square, to give me air in hot weather, as I slept; which hole I shut at pleasure with a board that drew backward and forward through a groove.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Phrases, lines, and stanzas were cut out, interchanged, or juggled about in the most incomprehensible manner.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
