Cut vs Nut - 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.
* 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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#*: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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A hard-shelled seed.
A fastener: a piece of metal, usually square or hexagonal in shape, with a hole through it having machined internal threads, intended to be screwed onto a bolt or other threaded shaft.
* 1998 , Brian Hingley, Furniture Repair & Refinishing - Page 95[http://books.google.com/books?id=lPYWVti6GR0C&pg=PA95&dq=bolt+%22nut+into%22&hl=en&ei=FPAWTuXGOIm08QPkl5j8Dw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CE0Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=bolt%20%22nut%20into%22&f=false]
(slang) A crazy person.
(slang) The head.
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(US, slang) Financial term for monthly expense to keep a venture running.
(US, slang) The amount of money necessary to set up some venture; set-up costs.
* 1971 , Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas , Harper Perennial (2005), page 11:
(US, slang) A stash of money owned by an extremely rich investor, sufficient to sustain a high level of consumption if all other money is lost.
(musical instruments, lutherie) On string instruments such as guitars and violins, the small piece at the peghead end of the fingerboard that holds the strings at the proper spacing and, in most cases, the proper height.
En, a unit of measurement equal to half of the height of the type in use.
An extravagantly fashionable young man of the 1910s and 1920s.
* 1914 , (w), ‘The Dreamer’, Beasts and Superbeasts , Penguin 2000 (Complete Short Stories), p. 323:
(vulgar, slang, rarely used in the singular) A testicle.
(vulgar, slang) Semen, ejaculate.
An extreme enthusiast.
(climbing) A shaped piece of metal, threaded by a wire loop, which is jammed in a crack in the rockface and used to protect a climb. (Originally, machine nuts [sense #2] were used for this purpose.)
* 2005 , Tony Lourens, Guide to climbing page 88
(poker, only in attributive use) Relating to the , the best possible hand on a given board.
The tumbler of a gunlock.
(nautical) A projection on each side of the shank of an anchor, to secure the stock in place.
(UK, transitive, slang) To hit deliberately with the head; to headbutt.
* 1999 , Nik Cohn, Yes we have no: adventures in the other England
(slang) To ejaculate (semen ).
As nouns the difference between cut and nut
is that cut is vial while nut is knot.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.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.}}
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.}}
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
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English
(wikipedia nut)Noun
(en noun)- There are many sort of nuts - peanuts, cashews, pistachios, Brazil nuts and more.
- As the bolt tightens into the nut', it pulls the tenon on the side rail into the mortise in the bedpost and locks them together. There are also some European beds that reverse the bolt and '''nut''' by setting the ' nut into the bedpost with the bolt inserted into a slotted area in the side of the rail.
- He was driving his car like a nut .
- My attorney was waiting in a bar around the corner. “This won't make the nut ,” he said, “unless we have unlimited credit.”
- ‘You are not going to be what they call a Nut', are you?’ she inquired with some anxiety, partly with the idea that a ' Nut would be an extravagance which her sister's small household would scarcely be justified in incurring [...].
- I kicked him in the nuts .
- a fashion nut
- a gun nut
- a sailing nut
- When placing nuts', always look for constrictions within the crack, behind which the ' nut can be wedged.
- a nut''' hand; a '''nut flush
- (Knight)
Synonyms
* (insane person) loony, nutbag, nutcase, nutter * (the head) bonce, noodle (see further synonyms under head) * (a testicle) ball, bollock (taboo slang), nadsDerived terms
* coconut * groundnut * hard nut to crack * hazelnut * monkeynut * peanut * nutbeam * nutbag * nutcase * nutter * nutcracker * nutdriver * nutmeat * nutmeg * nut roast * nutshell * off one's nut * sweet as a nut * walnutVerb
(nutt)- One night, we were fumbling each other out by the toilets when a Rocker in full leathers came out of the Gents and, without breaking stride or saying a word, nutted me square between the eyes. I went down as though shot...