Buster vs Cut - What's the difference?
buster | cut |
Someone who or something that bursts, breaks, or destroys a specified thing.
* 1614 , S. Jerome, Moses his Sight of Canaan , 147:
* 2005 , J. Madhavan, Sita & Forest Bandits , 122:
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#* 1958 February 10, Life , 70:
Someone who or something that 'breaks', tames, or overpowers a specified person or thing.
# A bronco-buster.
#* 1891 July, Harper's Magazine , 208/2
# (Forming compounds denoting an agent or agency tasked with reducing or eliminating the first element).
#* 1920 , F. A. McKenzie, ‘Pussyfoot’ Johnson , v. 83:
#* 1974''' July 4, ''New Scientist , 65/2:
#* 1984 November 18, N.Y. Times , iv. 24/2:
Someone]] or something remarkable, especially for being loud, large, [[etc..
* 1833 April, Parthenon , 293:
* 2004 November 20, South Wales Echo , 9:
# : guy, dude, fella, mack, buddy, loser. (Originally as 'old buster' .)
#* 1838 March 24, New Yorker , 4/1:
#* 1919 , , ''(My Man Jeeves), 79:
#* 2001 , S. MacKay, Fall Guy , ix. 113:
A loaf of bread.
* 1835 September 16, Morning Post , 4/2:
* 1904 June 8, Journal of the Department of Labour (New Zealand), 536:
A drinking spree, a binge.
* 1848 , John Russell Bartlett, Dictionary of Americanisms :
* 1922 , (James Joyce), , 405:
a southerly buster.
* 1848 , John Russell Bartlett, Dictionary of Americanisms
* 1886 , Frank Cowan, Australia , 14:
* 1991 , J. Moore, By Way of Wind , 121:
a staged fall, a pratfall.
* 1874 April, Baily's Monthly Magazine , 114:
A molting crab.
*1855 October 18, Henry A. Wise, letter in J.P. Hambleton's Biographical Sketch of Henry A. Wise (1856), 448:
* 2002 January 6, N.Y. Times , v. 4/6:
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(participial adjective) Having been cut .
Reduced.
(of a gem) Carved into a shape; not raw.
(rfc-sense) (cricket, of a shot) Played with a horizontal bat to hit the ball backward of point.
(bodybuilding) Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles.
* 1988', Steve Holman, "Christian Conquers Columbus", '''' ' 47 (6): 28-34.
* 2010', Bill Geiger, "6-pack Abs in 9 Weeks", ''Reps!'' ' 17 :106
(informal) Circumcised.
(Australia, NZ, slang) Emotionally hurt.
Eliminated from consideration during a recruitment drive.
Removed from a team roster.
(NZ) Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol.
An opening resulting from cutting.
The act of cutting.
The result of cutting.
A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove.
* Knolles
A share or portion.
(cricket) A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point.
(cricket) 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 manner or style a garment etc. is fashioned in.
* Shakespeare
A slab, especially of meat.
(fencing) 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.
* Washington Irving
A definable part, such as an individual song, of a recording, particularly of commercial records, audio tapes, CDs, etc.
(archaeology) 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.
A haircut.
(graph theory) the partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups
A string of railway cars coupled together.
An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving.
(obsolete) A common workhorse; a gelding.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
(slang, dated) The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise.
A skein of yarn.
To incise, to cut into the surface of something.
#To perform an incision on, for example with a knife.
#*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
#*:You must cut this flesh from off his breast.
#To divide with a knife, scissors, or another sharp instrument.
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#*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
#*:Before the whistling winds the vessels fly, / With rapid swiftness cut the liquid way.
#To form or shape by cutting.
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#*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
#*:Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, / Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?
#*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
#*:loopholes cut through thickest shade
#To wound with a knife.
#*1990 , (Stephen Dobyns), The house on Alexandrine
#*:We don't want your money no more. We just going to cut you.
#To deliver a stroke with a whip or like instrument to.
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#*:“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”
#To wound or hurt deeply the sensibilities of; to pierce.
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#*(Joseph Addison) (1672–1719)
#*:The man was cut to the heart.
#To castrate or geld.
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#To interfere, as a horse; to strike one foot against the opposite foot or ankle in using the legs.
(lb) To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument.
*1858 , , (The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table)'', ''The Deacon's Masterpiece , in Chapter XI:
*:The panels of white-wood that cuts like cheese, / But lasts like iron for things like these;
To separate, remove, reject or reduce.
#To separate from prior association; to remove a portion of a recording during editing.
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#To reduce, especially intentionally.
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#* (1789-1842)
#*:An English tradesman is always solicitous to cut the shop whenever he can do so with impunity.
#To ignore as a social snub.
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To cease recording activities.
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To remove and place in memory for later use.
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(lb) To enter a queue in the wrong place.
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(lb) To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so.
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(lb) To change direction suddenly.
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To divide a pack of playing cards into two.
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To write.
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To dilute a liquid, usually alcohol.
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(lb) To exhibit (a quality).
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As nouns the difference between buster and cut
is that buster is (a specific instance of) buster : guy, dude, fella, mack, buddy, loser while cut is vial.As a proper noun buster
is or buster can be (male).As an interjection cut is
beat it]]!; take a hike!; [[get lost|get lost!.As a verb cut is
to beat it; to take a hike; to get lost.buster
English
(Buster)Alternative forms
* Buster * -busterNoun
(en noun)- Now death, I pray thee what is it, but a buster of bonds; a destruction of toyle?
- Rothlin was described... by the papers as the buster of the bandit ring.
- German ‘balloon busters ’ attack the Dover barrage.
- Our main purpose in further experimentation with nuclear bombs is not... to make city-busters more horrible.
- The buster must be careful to keep well away from sheds and timber.
- Men nicknamed him the ‘Booze Buster ’, and cartoonists loved to picture him, revolver in hand,... fighting the demon rum.
- The professional fraud-busters [of the art world].
- New York City traffic agents have become Gridlock Busters' and cigarette foes are ' smokebusters .
- ‘I had to clean this old roarer,’ continued the ‘editor’... as he wiped the barrel of his pistol. ‘She's a buster , I tell you.’
- What a buster of a lunch it turned out to be.
- That's generous, old buster .
- An extremely wealthy old buster .
- ‘Careful, buster ,’ she said. ‘I've got a knife in my hand.’
- Three penny busters , and a whole kit-full of winegar and mustard.
- An 8 loaf of brown bread... goes by the name of ‘buster ’, I suppose on account of the way they blow you out.
- They were on a buster , and were taken up by the police.
- All off for a buster , armstrong, hollering down the street.
- ‘This is a buster ,’ i.e. a powerful or heavy wind.
- The Buster and Brickfielder: austral red-dust blizzard and red-hot Simoom.
- When the barometer drops rapidly... watch out for a strong sou'wester. A buster can be on you in a flash.
- Dainty... came down ‘a buster ’ at the last hurdle, and Scots Grey cantered in by himself.
- In that state he is called a ‘Buster ’, bursting his shell.
- Restaurant August... serves contemporary French cuisine prepared with Louisiana ingredients like buster crabs, shrimp and oysters.
Derived terms
* ballbuster, ball-buster * balloon-buster * belly-buster, belly buster * blockbuster, block-buster * booze-buster * brainbuster * broncobuster, bronco-buster, bronco buster * bunker buster * chartbuster * come a buster * crime buster, crime-buster, crimebuster * dam-buster * dustbuster, dust buster * fort-buster * gangbuster * gangbusters * ghostbuster * have a buster * knuckle-buster * old buster * price buster * rate-buster * rust-buster * scud-buster * ship-buster * skull-buster * tankbuster * unionbusterAnagrams
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The pitcher threw a cut fastball that was slower than his usual pitch.
- Cut brandy is a liquor made of brandy and hard grain liquor.
- Or how 'bout Shane DiMora? Could he possibly get rip-roaring cut this time around?
- That's the premise of the overload principle, and it must be applied, even to ab training, if you're going to develop a cut , ripped midsection.
Synonyms
* snitheDerived terms
* cut and dried * mad as a cut snake,Noun
(en noun)- Look at this cut on my finger!
- He made a fine cut with his sword.
- a smooth or clear cut
- a cut for a railroad
- This great cut or ditch Secostris purposed to have made a great deal wider and deeper.
- The lawyer took a cut of the profits.
- The player next to the dealer makes a cut by placing the bottom half on top.
- I like the cut of that suit.
- with eyes severe and beard of formal cut
- That’s our finest cut of meat.
- Rip called him by name, but the cur snarled, snapped his teeth, and passed on. This was an unkind cut indeed.
- The drummer on the last cut of their CD is not identified.
- a book illustrated with fine cuts
- He'll buy me a cut , forth for to ride.
- (Wright)
Derived terms
* a cut above * a cut below * boot cut * bowl cut * brush cut * budget cut * crew cut * cut of one's jib * cut-set * direct cut * director's cut * final cut/make the final cut * fine cut * French cut * jump cut/jump-cut * line cut * make the cut * maximum cut * minimum cut * pay cut * power cut * price cut * princess cut * rose cut * shaggy cut * shortcut * s-t cut * tax cut *Verb
Money just makes the rich suffer, passage=In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. Essential public services are cut so that the rich may pay less tax.
Manchester City 4 Leicester City 2, passage=Leicester's response was swift although the referee, Mark Halsey, was generous in the extreme when he awarded the penalty from which Paul Gallagher made it 1-1. Neither Joleon Lescott nor Vieira appeared to make any contact with Dyer as he cut between them.}}
John Vidal
Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas, passage=Most of the Himalayan rivers have been relatively untouched by dams near their sources. Now the two great Asian powers, India and China, are rushing to harness them as they cut through some of the world's deepest valleys.}}
Arsenal 3-0 Ipswich (agg. 3-1), passage=Arsenal were starting to work up a head of steam and Tractor Boys boss Paul Jewell cut an increasingly frustrated figure on the touchline.}}