Butter vs Cutter - What's the difference?
butter | cutter |
(uncountable) A soft, fatty foodstuff made by churning the cream of milk (generally cow's milk).
(countable, obsolete, chemistry) Any specific soft substance.
(uncountable) Any of various foodstuffs made from other foods or oils, similar in consistency to, eaten like or intended as a substitute for butter (preceded by the name of the food used to make it ).
To spread butter on.
to move one's weight backwards or forwards onto the tips or tails of one's skis or snowboard so only the tip or tail is in contact with the snow.
(slang, obsolete, transitive) To increase (stakes) at every throw of dice, or every game.
A person or device that cuts (in various senses).
* 1988 , Jorge Amado, Home is the Sailor (page 55)
(nautical) A single-masted, fore-and-aft rigged, sailing vessel with at least two headsails, and a mast set further aft than that of a sloop.
A foretooth; an incisor.
A heavy-duty motor boat for official use.
(nautical) A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore.
(cricket) A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.
(baseball) A cut fastball.
(slang) A ten-pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use as a weapon.
(slang) A person who practices self-injury.
(obsolete) An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.
(obsolete) A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer.
(obsolete) A kind of soft yellow brick, easily cut, and used for facework.
A light sleigh drawn by one horse.
* 2007 , Carrie A. Meyer, Days on the Family Farm , U of Minnesota Press, page 55 [http://books.google.com/books?id=IaJGWqZk7fYC&pg=RA1-PA55&dq=cutter+snow+horse]:
As nouns the difference between butter and cutter
is that butter is butter while cutter is a person or device that cuts (in various senses).butter
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(wikipedia butter)Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) ).Noun
(en-noun)- butter of antimony
- peanut butter
Derived terms
* almond-butter * apple butter * as if butter would not melt in one's mouth * bean-butter * body butter * bog-butter * brandy butter * bread and butter * bread buttered on both sides * butteraceous * butter-ale * butter-and-egg man * butter and eggs, butter-and-eggs * butter and tallow tree * butter-ball, butterball * butter-back * butter-badger * butter-bag * butter-bake * butter-barrel * butter-basher * butter bean * butter-bird * butter-bitten * butter-boat * butterbore * butter-bowzy * butter-box * butter-boy * butterbread * butter brickle * butterbur * butter-bush * butter-cake * butterchurn * butter clam * butter cloth * butter color, butter colour * butter-cooler * butter cream * butter cross * buttercup * butter curler * butter-cutter * butter dish, butter-dish * butter dock, butter-dock * butter-duck * butter-factor * butter fat, butter-fat, butterfat * butter-fingered, butterfingered * butter-fingers, butterfingers * butter-fish, butterfish * butter-flip * butter-flower * butter icing * butterie * butterine * butterish * butter-jags * butter knife, butter-knife * butter-lamp * butter-leaves * butterless * butter letter * butter-man * butter-mark * butter-milk, buttermilk * butter-mold, butter-mould * butter-mouth * butter muslin * butter-nut, butternut * butter of almonds * butter of antimony * butter of arsenic * butter of bismuth * butter of cacao * butter of mace * butter of tin * butter of wax * butter of zinc * butter oil * butter paper * butter-pat * butter-pear * butter-plate * butter-print * butter-queen * butter-rigged * butter-root * butter salt * butter scoop * butterscot, butter-scotch, butterscotch * butter-slide, butterslide * butter spade * butter-spreader * butter stamp * butter-stick * butter substitute * butter tart * butter-toast * butter tongs * butter-tooth * butter-toothed * butter-tree * butter trier * butter-weed, butterweed * butter week * butter-weight * butter-whore * butter-wife * butter-woman * butter-worker * butter-working * butterwort * buttery * butter yellow * cacao butter * clarified butter * cocoa butter * coconut butter * cocum butter, kokum butter * dika-butter * drawn butter * duck butter * fairy butter, fairy's butter * Galam butter * gren butter * mahwa-butter * make butter and cheese of * May butter * melted butter * nut butter * palm-butter * peanut butter * process butter * renovated butter * rock butter * rum butter * shea butter * sugar-butter sauce * vegetable butter * witches' butterVerb
(en verb)- Butter the toast.
- (Johnson)
Derived terms
* butter one's bread on both sides * butter the cony * butter up * fine words butter no parsnips * have one's bread buttered for life * know which side one's bread is buttered onSee also
* butyraceous * gheeEtymology 2
cutter
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Noun
(en noun)- a stone cutter'''; a die '''cutter
- Chico Pacheco kept repeating the phrase between clenched teeth, lamenting the wasted days of his youth; he had been a notorious cutter of classes.
- (Ray)
- a coastguard cutter .
- Throughout much of the winter, the sled or the cutter' was the vehicle of choice. Emily and Joseph had a ' cutter , for traveling in style in snow.
