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Cut can be an adjective, a noun or a verb.
cut used as an adjective:
- Having been cut.
- Reduced.
"The pitcher threw a cut fastball that was slower than his usual pitch." - Carved into a shape; not raw.
- Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
- Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
- Circumcised.
Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →
cut used as a noun:
- An opening resulting from cutting.
"Look at this cut on my finger!" - The act of cutting.
"He made a fine cut with his sword." - The result of cutting.
- A share or portion.
"The lawyer took a cut of the profits." - A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
- Sideways movement of the ball through the air caused by a fast bowler imparting spin to the ball.
- The act or right of dividing a deck of playing cards.
"The player next to the dealer makes a cut by placing the bottom half on top." - The manner or style a garment is fashioned in.
"I like the cut of that suit." - A slab, especially of meat.
"That’s our finest cut of meat." - An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point.
- A deliberate snub, typically a refusal to return a bow or other acknowledgement of acquaintance.
- A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc.
"The drummer on the last cut of their CD is not identified." - A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits were removed for the creation of some feature such as a ditch or pit.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
cut used as a verb:
- To perform an incision, for example with a knife.
"I cut the skin on my arm." - To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument.
"Would you please cut the cake?" - To separate from prior association; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.
"Travis was cut from the team." - To enter a queue in the wrong place.
"One student kept trying to cut in front of the line." - To cease recording activities.
"After the actors read their lines, the director yelled "Cut!"" - To reduce, especially intentionally.
"They're going to cut salaries by fifteen percent." - To form or shape by cutting.
"I have three diamonds to cut today." - To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
"This road cuts right through downtown." - To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it.
- To not attend a class, especially when not permitted.
"I cut fifth period to hang out with Angela." - To change direction suddenly.
"The football player cut to his left to evade a tackle." - To divide a pack of playing cards into two
"If you cut then I'll deal." - To dilute a liquid, usually alcohol.
"The bartender cuts his beer to save money and now it's all watery."
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
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What type of word is cut?
- Adjective usage: The pitcher threw a cut fastball that was slower than his usual pitch.
- Adjective usage: Cut brandy is a liquor made of brandy and hard grain liquor.
- Noun usage: Look at this cut on my finger!
- Noun usage: He made a fine cut with his sword.
- Noun usage: The lawyer took a cut of the profits.
- Noun usage: The player next to the dealer makes a cut by placing the bottom half on top.
- Noun usage: I like the cut of that suit.
- Noun usage: That’s our finest cut of meat.
- Noun usage: The drummer on the last cut of their CD is not identified.
- Verb usage: I cut the skin on my arm.
- Verb usage: Would you please cut the cake?
- Verb usage: Travis was cut from the team.
- Verb usage: One student kept trying to cut in front of the line.
- Verb usage: After the actors read their lines, the director yelled "Cut!"
- Verb usage: They're going to cut salaries by fifteen percent.
- Verb usage: I have three diamonds to cut today.
- Verb usage: This road cuts right through downtown.
- Verb usage: I cut fifth period to hang out with Angela.
- Verb usage: The football player cut to his left to evade a tackle.
- Verb usage: If you cut then I'll deal.
- Verb usage: The bartender cuts his beer to save money and now it's all watery.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of cut are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of cut, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).