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/kət ɪntˈu/ Listen

verb

Cut v. i. (past & past part. cut; pres. part. cutting)

1.

To do the work of an edged tool; to serve in dividing or gashing; as, a knife cuts well.

2.

To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument. "Panels of white wood that cuts like cheese."

3.

To perform the operation of dividing, severing, incising, intersecting, etc.; to use a cutting instrument. "He saved the lives of thousands by his manner of cutting for the stone."

4.

To make a stroke with a whip.

5.

To interfere, as a horse.

6.

To move or make off quickly. (Colloq.)

7.

To divide a pack of cards into two portion to decide the deal or trump, or to change the order of the cards to be dealt.

To cut across, to pass over or through in the most direct way; as, to cut across a field.

To cut and run, to make off suddenly and quickly; from the cutting of a ship's cable, when there is not time to raise the anchor. (Colloq.)

To cut in or To cut into, to interrupt; to join in anything suddenly.

To cut up.

(a)

To play pranks. (Colloq.)

(b)

To divide into portions well or ill; to have the property left at one's death turn out well or poorly when divided among heirs, legatees, etc. (Slang.) "When I die, may I cut up as well as Morgan Pendennis."

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Etymology of 'Cut into'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cut into" Quotes from Famous Books

... are cut into the shapes of faces, or figures, or robes, or canopies, or whatever you want and whatever the subject demands; then features are painted on the faces, folds on the robes, and so forth—not with colour, merely with brown shading; then, when this shading has been burnt ...

— Stained Glass Work - A text-book for students and workers in glass • C. W. Whall

... cut into convenient sizes and served like lettuce, but is we think, more delicious, when cooked like cabbage and served up in any of the many ways ...

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... had frozen and burst the barrel that contained it. And Mael was sucking pieces of ice to quench his thirst, and his food was bread dipped in dirty water. His beard and his hair were broken like glass. His habit was covered with a layer of ice and cut into him at every movement of his limbs. Huge waves rose up and opened their foaming jaws at the old man. Twenty times the boat was filled by masses of sea. And the ocean swallowed up the book of the Holy Gospels which the apostle guarded with extreme ...

— Penguin Island • Anatole France

... "I'm no boy. I play for keeps, me. Don't be so fast, if you please. This money ain't won yet. Cut into that dollar! I was from Missouri before ...

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... The Romans built beautiful arches to celebrate their victories. Several of these still remain, with sentences cut into their stone tablets telling of the triumphs of their builders. Modern people have taken them as ...

— Introductory American History • Henry Eldridge Bourne and Elbert Jay Benton

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