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Cut up can be an adjective or a verb.
cut up used as an adjective:
- Having been cut into smaller pieces.
"Put the cut up vegetables in the pot." - Wounded with multiple lacerations.
"He is cut up pretty bad." - Emotionally upset; mentally distressed.
"She was seriously cut up over her dog disappearing."
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 up used as a verb:
- To cut into smaller pieces, parts, or sections.
"With a little practice, you can cut up a whole chicken yourself for frying." - To lacerate; to wound by multiple lacerations; to injure or damage by cutting, or as if by cutting.
"The attackers cut him up pretty bad." - To distress mentally or emotionally.
- To severely criticize or censure; to subject to hostile criticism.
"The reviewer cut up the book mercilessly." - To behave like a clown or jokester (a cut-up); to misbehave; to act in a playful, comical, boisterous, or unruly manner to elicit laughter, attention, etc.
"We need to talk about Johnny's tendency to cut up in class." - To aggressively move in front of another vehicle while driving. US: cut off.
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 up?
- Adjective usage: Put the cut up vegetables in the pot.
- Adjective usage: He is cut up pretty bad.
- Adjective usage: She was seriously cut up over her dog disappearing.
- Verb usage: With a little practice, you can cut up a whole chicken yourself for frying.
- Verb usage: The attackers cut him up pretty bad.
- Verb usage: The reviewer cut up the book mercilessly.
- Verb usage: We need to talk about Johnny's tendency to cut up in class.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of cut up 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 up, 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).
