cut
- noun
- /kʌt/
- Now, uh, we're going to hear a cut from your new album in just a minute, but I wanted to ask you about your influences.
- a sample cut
Oh hold on, I love these old cuts too.
- Oh hold on, I love these old cuts too.
- And I was so excited about that because that's one of my favorite cuts on that album.
- I got their second song cut cut.
- The first podcast of December is a synth cut.
Examples
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All of the sample cuts started at the same time point, the beginning of the 22-minute sample.
Academic text (2015) -
And I was so excited about that because that's one of my favorite cuts on that album.
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We watched your first cut, all four hours of it.
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I think it was a screening of the director's cut of LAND OF THE DEAD.
Blog text (1) -
I send you a cut of "American Slang" a week before anybody else and you haven't played it once.
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I listen over and over again to a single cut on a CD, Maria Callas singing Ombra leggiera.
Fiction book (1999) -
The album features a beautiful cut that captures the essence of summer.
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His latest cut is a haunting melody that many fans love.
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We enjoyed listening to the new cut from the band's upcoming release.
Synonyms
Idioms
Deliberately do something that hurts you more than the person you want to punish
- Informal
To become independent from your parents and live on your own
- Informal
To become independent from parents and make your own decisions
- Australian
To criticize someone who stands out to make them seem less successful
- Informal
To check something carefully before you do it to avoid mistakes
Compounds
- Specialized
A sudden change between two film shots that makes action or time seem to skip
- Specialized
A short announcement that interrupts a program to give local news or alerts
An event when shops sell goods at much lower prices for a short time to clear old stock
- Specialized
A sudden cut between shots in a film that shows time passing or makes the action jump
Surface Forms
Etymology
Cut for a track on a record treats each song as one item or 'slice', so each cut on an album is one piece of music.