Cut vs Copied - What's the difference?
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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.
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(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.
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#*: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.
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*: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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#*: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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(copy)
The result of copying; an identical duplicate of an original.
* Denham
An imitation, sometimes of inferior quality.
(journalism) The text that is to be typeset.
(journalism) A gender-neutral abbreviation for copy boy
(marketing) The output of copywriters, who are employed to write material which encourages consumers to buy goods or services.
(uncountable) The text of newspaper articles.
A school work pad.
A printed edition of a book or magazine.
Writing paper of a particular size, called also bastard.
(obsolete) That which is to be imitated, transcribed, or reproduced; a pattern, model, or example.
* Holder
(obsolete) An abundance or plenty of anything.
* Ben Jonson
(obsolete) copyhold; tenure; lease
(genetics) The result of gene or chromosomal duplication.
(label) To produce an object identical to a given object.
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(label) To imitate.
* (Dugald Stewart) (1753–1828)
To receive a transmission successfully.
As verbs the difference between cut and copied
is that cut is To incise, to cut into the surface of something.copied is past tense of copy.As an adjective cut
is having been cut.As a noun cut
is an opening resulting from cutting.cut
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.}}
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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.}}
Synonyms
* SeeTroponyms
* chop, hack, slice, trimDerived terms
* becut * cut a caper * cut a deal * cut a figure * cut a rug / cut the rug * cut a swathe * cut a wide swathe * cut and paste * cut and run * cut both ways * cut capers * cut corners * cut down * cut for someone's size * cut from the same cloth * cut in * cut in line * cut it * cut it close * cut it fine * cut it out * cut like a knife * cut loose * cut off * cut one loose * cut one's coat according to one's cloth * cut one's losses * cut one's teeth * cut oneself * cut out * cut red tape * cut short * cut someone some slack/cut somebody some slack * cut the cheese * cut the mustard * cut the muster * cut the rug * cut to black * cut to the chase * cut to the quick * cut up * cut wind * cutthroat * cutting edge * cutting remark * fish or cut bait * forcut * forecut * fussy cut * have one's work cut out for one * incut * measure twice cut once / measure twice and cut once * offcut * outcut * overcut * undercutSee also
* copy * pasteStatistics
*copied
English
Verb
(head)copy
English
Noun
(copies)- Please bring me the copies of those reports.
- I have not the vanity to think my copy equal to the original.
- That handbag is a copy . You can tell because the buckle is different.
- Submit all copy to the appropriate editor.
- Tim got in trouble for forgetting his maths copy .
- Have you seen the latest copy of "Newsweek" yet?
- The library has several copies of the Bible.
- His virtues are an excellent copy for imitation.
- Let him first learn to write, after a copy , all the letters.
- She was blessed with no more copy of wit, but to serve his humour thus.
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* carbon copy * duplicate * facsimile * image * likeness * reduplication * replica * replication * reproduction * simulacrum * fake * forgery * phony * shamAntonyms
* originalDerived terms
* advance copy * backup copy * deep copy * carbon copy * certified copy * clean copy * conformed copy * copy area * copy book * copy boy * copy cat/copycat * copy constructor * copy desk * copydom * copy editor * copy holder * copy key * copy menu * copy number * copy protection * copy room * copy ruler * copy shop * copy test * copy typist * copywriter * courtesy copy * duplicate copy * fair copy * hard copy * image copy * master copy * office copy * photocopy * presentation copy * promotional copy * reading copy * review copy * scaled copy * shallow copy * soft copy * top copy * xerox copyVerb
(en-verb)Magician’s brain, passage=[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes. The truth is that Newton was very much a product of his time.}}
- We copy instinctively the voices of our companions, their accents, and their modes of pronunciation.