paper cutter
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- noun
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cortadora de papel
- Make sure to line up the sheets correctly before using the paper cutter for a clean cut.
Examples
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The Teacher Resource Room has a large selection of die cuts, a paper cutter, and a laminator.
Blog text (23) -
The teacher showed the students how to safely operate the paper cutter during art class.
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"It looks like you got it caught in the paper cutter at school."
Fiction book (2000) -
He cut holes in 30 boxes with a paper cutter.
Blog text (23) -
To complete the production system, a paper cutter, modified to handle braille paper, was installed and integrated into the system.
Academic text (1997) -
The third drawer has my vinyl and paper cutter, and since I had a little extra space, I couldn't resist buying a super tiny wood lathe.
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Now, stack the two photos so that the foreground element in each is superimposed, and use a paper cutter to cut the most interesting 3-1/2-inch square out of the stacked prints.
Academic text (1999) -
She used the paper cutter to neatly trim the edges of her art projects.
Synonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is directly compositional: 'paper' specifies the material and 'cutter' denotes a tool that cuts, so the meaning 'a device that cuts paper' is transparently derivable from the constituents. This noun–noun compounding is a very common and cross-linguistic pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Paper cutter comes from the simple image of a straight blade you push down to cut a stack of paper. The part cutter shows the tool's job, so paper cutter means 'a device for cutting paper'.