What is the difference between hack and cut?
hack | cut |
To chop or cut down in a rough manner.
* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 6
To cough noisily.
To withstand or put up with a difficult situation.
(transitive, slang, computing) To hack into; to gain unauthorized access to (a computer system, e.g., a website, or network) by manipulating code; to crack.
(transitive, slang, computing) By extension, to gain unauthorised access to a computer or online account belonging to (a person or organisation).
(computing) To accomplish a difficult programming task.
(computing) To make a quick code change to patch a computer program, often one that, while being effective, is inelegant or makes the program harder to maintain.
(transitive, colloquial, by extension) To apply a trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to something to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
To work with on an intimately technical level.
(ice hockey) To strike an opponent's leg with one's hockey stick.
(ice hockey) To make a flailing attempt to hit the puck with a hockey stick.
(baseball) To swing at a pitched ball.
To strike in a frantic movement.
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A tool for chopping.
A hacking blow.
A gouge or notch made by such a blow.
A dry cough.
A hacking; a catch in speaking; a short, broken cough.
(figuratively) A try, an attempt.
(curling) The foothold traditionally cut into the ice from which the person who throws the rock pushes off for delivery.
(obsolete) A mattock or a miner's pick.
(computing, slang) An illegal attempt to gain access to a computer network.
(computing) An interesting technical achievement, particularly in computer programming.
(computing) A small code change meant to patch a problem as quickly as possible.
(computing) An expedient, temporary solution, meant to be replaced with a more elegant solution at a later date.
(colloquial) A trick, shortcut, skill, or novelty method to increase productivity, efficiency or ease.
(slang, military) Time check.
(baseball) A swing of the bat at a pitched ball by the batter.
A kick on the shins in football.
(falconry) A board which the falcon's food is placed on; used by extension for the state of partial freedom in which they are kept before being trained.
A food-rack for cattle.
A rack used to dry something, such as bricks, fish, or cheese.
A grating in a mill race.
To lay (bricks) on a rack to dry.
(falconry) To keep (young hawks) in a state of partial freedom, before they are trained.
(obsolete) An ordinary saddle horse, especially one which has been let out for hire and is old and tired.
A person, often a journalist, hired to do routine work. (newspaper hack)
* I got by on hack work for years before I finally published my novel.
(pejorative) Someone who is available for hire; hireling, mercenary.
(slang) A taxicab (hackney cab) driver.
A coach or carriage let for hire; particularly, a coach with two seats inside facing each other; a hackney coach.
* Alexander Pope
(pejorative) An untalented writer.
* Dason is nothing but a two-bit hack .
* He's nothing but the typical hack writer.
(pejorative) One who is professionally successful despite producing mediocre work. (Usually applied to persons in a creative field.)
(pejorative) A talented writer-for-hire, paid to put others' thoughts into felicitous language.
(politics) A political agitator. (slightly derogatory)
(obsolete) A bookmaker who hires himself out for any sort of literary work; an overworked man; a drudge.
* Goldsmith
(obsolete) A procuress.
(dated) To make common or cliched; to vulgarise.
To ride a horse at a regular pace; to ride on a road (as opposed to riding cross-country etc.).
(obsolete) To be exposed or offered or to common use for hire; to turn prostitute.
(obsolete) To live the life of a drudge or hack.
To use as a hack; to let out for hire.
To use frequently and indiscriminately, so as to render trite and commonplace.
* J. H. Newman
A small ball usually made of woven cotton or suede and filled with rice, sand or some other filler, for use in hackeysack.
(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.
#*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.
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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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Cut is a troponym of hack.
In transitive terms the difference between hack and cut
is that hack is to chop or cut down in a rough manner while cut is to stop or disengage.In intransitive terms the difference between hack and cut
is that hack is to cough noisily while cut is to change direction suddenly.In obsolete terms the difference between hack and cut
is that hack is to live the life of a drudge or hack while cut is a common workhorse; a gelding.As an adjective cut is
having been cut.hack
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Verb
(en verb)- They hacked the brush down and made their way through the jungle.
- Among other things he found a sharp hunting knife, on the keen blade of which he immediately proceeded to cut his finger. Undaunted he continued his experiments, finding that he could hack and hew splinters of wood from the table and chairs with this new toy.
- This cold is awful. I can't stop hacking .
- Can you hack it out here with no electricity or running water?
- When I logged into the social network, I discovered I'd been hacked .
- He can hack like no one else and make the program work as expected.
- I hacked in a fix for this bug, but we'll still have to do a real fix later.
- I read up on dating tips so I can hack my sex life.
- I'm currently hacking distributed garbage collection.
- He's going to the penalty box after hacking the defender in front of the goal.
- There's a scramble in front of the net as the forwards are hacking at the bouncing puck.
- He went to the batter's box hacking .
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Derived terms
(terms derived from hack) * hack down * hack in * , hackingly, hacky * hack into * hack up * hackability * hackerSynonyms
* (gain unauthorized access) crack * frob * tweakNoun
(en noun)- (Shakespeare)
- Putting your phone in a sandwich bag when you go to the beach is such a great hack .
- He took a few hacks , but the pitcher finally struck him out.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "hack")Synonyms
* (access attempt) crack * band-aid, contrivance, improvision, improvisation, kludge, makeshift, quick fix, patchEtymology 2
Variations of (hatch), (heck).Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)Etymology 3
Abbreviation of , probably from place name HackneyNoun
(en noun)- On horse, on foot, in hacks and gilded chariots.
- Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, / Who long was a bookseller's hack .
Synonyms
*(A saddle horse which is old and tired) nagCoordinate terms
*(worthless horse) bumVerb
(en verb)- (Hanmer)
- (Goldsmith)
- The word "remarkable" has been so hacked of late.
Etymology 4
FromNoun
(en noun)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.}}
