单词 | cutting room |
释义 | cutting roomn. 1. A room where cutting (in various senses) is carried out, as by a tailor, hairdresser, butcher, etc.In quot. 1708: a room where surgical operations are performed (cf. cut v. 26). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > place where specific jobs are done > [noun] > others cutting room1700 pearl fishery1702 refinery1716 gin house1796 dressing shed1802 ginning house1819 boring-mill1833 sorting office1851 gut-scrapery1854 conditioning house1858 packery1861 washery1875 try-house1891 wet room1901 pump-out1935 1700 Ingenii fructus ii. 95 A brisk Taylor..departed, going home into his Cutting-room; where having not been long using his Sheers, but he was fit for his Bodkin. 1708 E. Hatton New View London II. 763/2 The Cutting Room..where they cut for the stone. 1840 C. Dickens Master Humphrey's Clock (1849) I. 101 A young hairdresser..had..a floor-clothed cuttin'-room upstairs. 1884 Berrow's Worcester Jrnl. 10 May 5/1 New glove manufactory... On the second floor, the central portion and right hand wing is taken up by the cutting room. 1902 Daily Chron. 25 Oct. 7/6 At the rear is a cutting-room, where meat is cut up. 1987 N.Y. Times 21 Sept. d 1/5 The quick response program would place computer terminals at every point of the manufacturing and sales process—from the fabric mill where the raw cloth is woven, to the clothing manufacturer's cutting room. 2004 Geelong (Austral.) Advertiser (Nexis) 29 Dec. 14 He can produce every cut from neat senior to the latest colour and trend but..Matty believes in making his cutting room really comfortable for clients. 2. A room in a film or television studio where film or video is edited (see cut v. 21e). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > editing > [noun] > cutting room cutting room1914 edit room1917 editing room1931 1914 Moving Picture World 2 May 665/1 Mr. Katterjohn and the Coroner spoke at some length of the evil that men do in the cutting room, explaining..the slovenly process of cutting out entire scenes instead of gaining by shortening the scenes at the start and finish. 1959 Guardian 9 Nov. 5/7 The young technicians..crowded into the cutting-room to watch some..experimental commercials. 2021 Hollywood Reporter (Nexis) 8 July Tarantino said that was tough to say goodbye to [the scene] in the cutting room—but he had no choice. Compounds cutting room floor n. used in various expressions referring to the destination of footage removed from a film or television programme, or (figuratively) to the imagined destination of something or someone that has been rejected or discarded; as to end up on the cutting room floor, etc. ΚΠ 1923 Lincoln Nebraska State Jrnl. 12 Aug. b 9/2 By the director's order..much of Miss Shotwell's excellent performance ended up on the cutting room floor. 1965 Decatur (Alabama) Daily 22 Aug. b4/4 Some of the collegians who have looked good to date may wind up on the cutting room floor when..squads are cut to the maximum of 40. 1991 Traveller Winter 47/2 The resultant round-table interview through an interpreter was so ponderous that it bit the cutting-room floor almost immediately. 2021 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 30 June Major climate measures sought by the White House..were left on the cutting room floor during infrastructure negotiations with Republicans. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021). < n.1700 |
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