cut

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A reduction in the amount, number, or size of something.

   The mayor announced deep cuts in the city budget.

2. 2
   adj

   Opened or divided using a knife or other sharp tool.

   The cut apple turned brown after a few minutes.

3. 3
   adj

   Shaped or styled by cutting.

   He wore a beautifully cut suit to the wedding.

4. 4
   adj

   Having parts removed to make it shorter.

   We watched the cut version of the film on TV.

5. 5
   verb

   to divide, open or remove something with a sharp edge

   Use the scissors to cut the ribbon.

Multiword verbs with cut

• cut across Prepositional verb A1

  to cross an area by taking a direct route through it

• cut off Phrasal verb A1

  to remove part of something by cutting through it

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Simplified etymology

The verb cut is recorded from the end of the 13th century. It may have existed earlier in Old English, but no written examples survive to prove this.

From Middle English cutten, kitten, kytten, ketten (“to cut”) (compare Scots kut, kit (“to cut”)), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse *kytja, *kutta, from Proto-Germanic *kutjaną, *kuttaną (“to cut”), of uncertain origin, perhaps related to Proto-Germanic *kwetwą (“meat, flesh”) (compare Old Norse kvett (“meat”)). Akin to Middle Swedish kotta (“to cut or carve with a knife”) (compare dialectal Swedish kåta, kuta (“to cut or chip with a knife”), Swedish kuta, kytti (“a knife”)), Norwegian Bokmål kutte (“to cut”), Norwegian Nynorsk kutte (“to cut”), Icelandic kuta (“to cut with a knife”),…

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