CUT OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cut out mean? 

• CUT OUT (adjective)
  The adjective CUT OUT has 1 sense:

1. having been cut out

  Familiarity information: CUT OUT used as an adjective is very rare.

• CUT OUT (verb)
  The verb CUT OUT has 6 senses:

1. delete or remove

2. form and create by cutting out

3. cut off and stop

4. strike or cancel by or as if by rubbing or crossing out

5. intercept (a player)

6. cease operating

  Familiarity information: CUT OUT used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUT OUT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having been cut out

Context example:

the cut-out pieces of the dress

Similar:

cut (fashioned or shaped by cutting)

• CUT OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Delete or remove

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

cut out the newspaper article

Hypernyms (to "cut out" is one way to...):

do away with; eliminate; extinguish; get rid of (terminate, end, or take out)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cut out"):

excise (remove by cutting)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

cutout (a part that is cut out or is intended to be cut out)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Form and create by cutting out

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

Picasso cut out a guitar from a piece of paper

Hypernyms (to "cut out" is one way to...):

forge; form; mold; mould; shape; work (make something, usually for a specific function)

"Cut out" entails doing...:

cut (separate with or as if with an instrument)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cut out"):

gouge out (make gouges into a surface)

rabbet (cut a rectangular groove into)

die; die out (cut or shape with a die)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

cutout (a part that is cut out or is intended to be cut out)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Cut off and stop

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

cut off; cut out

Context example:

The bicyclist was cut out by the van

Hypernyms (to "cut out" is one way to...):

intercept; stop (seize on its way)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Sense 4

Meaning:

Strike or cancel by or as if by rubbing or crossing out

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

cut out; scratch out

Context example:

scratch out my name on that list

Hypernyms (to "cut out" is one way to...):

efface; erase; rub out; score out; wipe off (remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 5

Meaning:

Intercept (a player)

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

cut down; cut out

Hypernyms (to "cut out" is one way to...):

arrest; check; contain; hold back; stop; turn back (hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of)

Domain category:

ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 6

Meaning:

Cease operating

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The pump suddenly cut out

Hypernyms (to "cut out" is one way to...):

cease; end; finish; stop; terminate (have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

 Context examples 

Really, I am frequently almost sure that I was cut out to be a radical.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

At every camp, at every post, at every Indian village, do they cut out the tired dogs and put in fresh dogs.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

This accomplished, the hook was cut out.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

If the growth can't be cut out through surgery, it may be burnt away with radiation or poisoned by chemotherapy.

(‘Energetic Cancer Cells’ May Be Origin of Cancer Spread, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It was he who, with six rowing-boats, cut out the 44-gun frigate Hermione from under the muzzles of two hundred shore-guns in the harbour of Puerto Cabello.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Uses a thin, low-voltage electrified wire loop to cut out a thin layer of abnormal tissue; generally used to remove abnormal cells on the surface of the cervix.

(Loop Electrosurgical Excision, NCI Thesaurus)

The sequence of DNA in between exons that is initially copied into RNA but is cut out of the final RNA transcript and therefore does not change the amino acid code.

(Intron, NCI Dictionary)

It was the face of a woman cut out of a portrait.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You would not have little Henry cut out from Donwell?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Hans went into the stable, cut out all the calves’ and sheep’s eyes, and threw them in Gretel’s face.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)