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单词 to cut back
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to cut back
to cut back
1. transitive. To prune by cutting off the shoots close back to the main stem or stock.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [verb (transitive)] > trees: prune or lop
sneda800
shredc1000
crop?c1225
purgec1384
parea1398
shear1398
shridea1425
dodc1440
polla1449
twist1483
top1509
stow1513
lop1519
bough?1523
head?1523
poll-shred1530
prune1547
prime1565
twig1570
reform1574
disbranch1575
shroud1577
snathe1609
detruncate1623
amputate1638
abnodate1656
duba1661
to strip up1664
reprune1666
pollard1670
shrub1682
log1699
switch1811
limb1835
preen1847
to cut back1871
shrig1873
brash1950
summer prune1980
1871 S. Hibberd Amateur's Flower Garden 210 Early in March cut back all the shoots.
2. To plough the second time, across or at right angles to the first furrow; = cross-plough v.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > plough (land) [verb (transitive)] > cross-plough
cross-ploughc1644
overthwart1667
thwart1847
to cut back1858
cross1859
1858 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 19 i. 65 The ordinary method..was for the farmer in the autumn to plough down the field..in the spring he had it cut back.
3. Bread-making. (See quot.)
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1907 J. Kirkland Mod. Baker I. 99 When it has been lying altogether ten hours, it [sc. dough] should be cut in pieces and turned from one end of the trough to the other, and well kneaded. The kneading operation should be repeated in another hour's time; but dough need not be cut back, only well kneaded, and four sides folded up. Machine-made dough ought not to require cutting back at all.
4. Cinematography. To return to a previous scene by repeating a portion of that scene. (See cutback n. 2.) Also transitive.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > special effect > special effects [verb (intransitive)] > cut
to cut back1913
jump cut1953
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > filming > special effect > special effects [verb (transitive)] > cut
cut1913
to cut back1913
1913 E. W. Sargent Technique Photoplay (ed. 2) 91 The same device may be used to get rid of a dinner scene... We cut-back to some other action.
1916 Technique Photoplay (ed. 3) 194 It is well to remember..that not all plays may be cut back.
1959 J. Halas & R. Manvell Technique Film Animation 337 Cut back so many frames..and these frames are shot again.
5. transitive. To reduce or decrease (expenditure, etc.). Also intransitive.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > reduce in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (transitive)]
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anitherOE
wanzelOE
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abatea1398
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forlyten?a1400
imminish14..
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scarcec1440
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underslakec1440
alessa1450
debate?c1450
batec1460
decreasec1470
appetisse1474
alow1494
mince1499
perswage?1504
remita1513
inless?1521
attenuate1530
weaken1530
defray1532
mitigate1532
minorate1534
narrow?1548
diminuec1550
extenuate1555
amain1578
exolve1578
base1581
dejecta1586
amoinder1588
faint1598
qualify1604
contract1605
to pull down1607
shrivel1609
to take down1610
disaugment1611
impoverish1611
shrink1628
decoct1629
persway1631
unflame1635
straiten1645
depress1647
reduce1649
detract1654
minuate1657
alloy1661
lower?1662
sinka1684
retreat1690
nip1785
to drive down1840
minify1866
to knock down1867
to damp down1869
scale1887
mute1891
clip1938
to roll back1942
to cut back1943
downscale1945
downrate1958
slim1963
downshift1972
the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > reduce in quantity, amount, or degree [verb (transitive)] > curtail > of something superfluous
prune1565
to cut back1943
trim1966
society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > moderation or reduction in expenditure > spend money sparingly [verb (transitive)] > reduce expenditure
retrench1626
to cut down1857
to cut back1943
trim1966
1943 Sat. Evening Post 6 Nov. 112 If the Army cuts back a program, it will not need the steel for some other program.
1953 Manch. Guardian Weekly 7 May 3 Western Europe was cutting back its defence programme.
1958 Engineering 4 Apr. 433/1 Industry is continuing to cut back markedly on capital spending plans.
1965 Listener 2 Sept. 334/1 Germany, another country whose aid budget had been built up impressively by the early nineteen-sixties, has recently cut it back.
1971 Daily Tel. 14 Jan. 2/7 A spokesman for ICI said that recruitment of Ph.D. students had been cut back.
6. intransitive. In Surfing, to turn one's surf-board back towards the breaking part of a wave.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > water sports except racing > surfing > surf-ride [verb (intransitive)] > actions of surfer
pearl-dive1923
slide1931
hot-dog1959
to hang five, ten1962
to kick out1962
to cut back1963
to pull out1963
to pull off1964
nose-ride1965
rollercoaster1969
shred1977
rail1986
to pull in1987
1963 Surfing Yearbk. 41/1 Cutting back, when a rider is getting too far ahead of the curl, and has to change his direction to get in a better position relative to the wave.
1969 Observer 3 Aug. 35/1 He can ‘cutback’, turning the board back toward the breaking wave.
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