Cut-out Definition

adjective

(idiomatic) Well suited; appropriate; fit for a particular activity or purpose.

I'm not really cut out for camping outdoors. I'm allergic to mosquito bites.
We've got our work cut out for us.
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verb

Used other than as an idiom: see cut,"Ž out. To separate into parts with or as if with a sharp-edged instrument; sever.

Cut out the letters and paste them on the poster.
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To refrain from (doing something, using something etc.), to stop/cease (doing something).

He had to cut out smoking in order to be prepared for the marathon.
His diet consisted of cutting out white potatoes.
She kept clicking her heels. He told her to cut it out.
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To remove, omit.

If we cut out the middle-man, we will both have better profits.
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To oust, to replace.
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To separate from a herd.
The cowboy cut out the unbranded heifers.
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noun

A device that disconnects an electric circuit.

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A switch used in telegraphy to change the current from one circuit to another, or for shortening a circuit.

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A space or hole produced when something is removed by cutting; the piece so cut out.

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(US) A railway cutting.

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(US) The separation of a group of cattle from a herd; the place where they are collected.

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Other Word Forms of Cut-out

Noun

Singular:
cut-out
Plural:
cut-outs

Cut-out Sentence Examples

  • Creatures like you, whose hearts I would cut out with my nails if I had nothing else.

  • The former consists of three main basins cut out of the rock, and has an area of 55 acres.

  • The decorative design having been completely chiselled in the round, is then fixed in a field of a different metal, in which a design of exactly similar outline has been cut out.

  • He fell upon a most ingenious plan of doubling the amount of double refraction of a prism by using two prisms of rock-crystal, so cut out of the solid as to give each the same quantity of double refraction, and yet to double the quantity in the effect produced.

  • As a substitute for timber props at the face, pieces of steel joists, with the web cut out for a short distance on either end, with the flanges turned back to give a square bearing surface, have been introduced.

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Words Starting With

CCUCUT

Words Ending With

TUTOUT

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Words Starting With C and Ending With T

Starts With C & Ends With TStarts With CU & Ends With TStarts With C & Ends With UT

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7 Letter Words7 Letter Words Starting With C7 Letter Words Ending With T