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单词 cut short
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cut /kut/

transitive verb (cuttˈing; cut)
  1. To penetrate with a sharp edge, make an incision in
  2. To cleave or pass through
  3. To divide
  4. To carve, hew, trim or make or fashion by cutting
  5. To sever
  6. To reap
  7. To excise
  8. To intersect, cross
  9. To divide (a pack of cards) by lifting the upper portion at random
  10. To expose (a card or suit) in this way
  11. (in tennis, etc) to strike obliquely, imparting spin to
  12. (in golf) to hit (the ball) in such a way that it intentionally moves from left to right in the air (for a right-handed player)
  13. To reduce, lessen or abridge
  14. To wound, hurt or affect deeply
  15. To shorten
  16. To interrupt or break
  17. To switch off (an engine, lights, etc)
  18. To break off acquaintance with
  19. To pass intentionally without greeting
  20. To renounce, give up
  21. To stay away from
  22. To castrate
  23. To perform or execute (eg a caper)
  24. To make (a sound recording, eg a disc)
  25. To grow (teeth) through the gums (see also cut one's teeth (on) below)
  26. To mix another substance with (an illegal drug) to increase weight and volume (slang)
  27. To dilute or adulterate
intransitive verb
  1. To make an incision
  2. To intersect
  3. To strike obliquely
  4. To be cut
  5. To dash, go quickly
  6. To run away, to be off (slang)
  7. (in film-making) to cease photographing
  8. (of a film) to change rapidly to another scene
noun
  1. A cleaving or dividing
  2. An excavation for a road, railway, etc
  3. A canal
  4. A cross-passage
  5. A stroke or blow
  6. (in tennis, etc) a downward stroke, implying spin
  7. (in golf) a shot in which the ball intentionally moves from left to right in the air (for a right-handed player)
  8. (in cricket) an attacking stroke to the offside played with a horizontal bat
  9. The spin imparted to the ball
  10. A reduction or diminution
  11. A stoppage, as in power cut
  12. An act of unkindness
  13. The result of fashioning by cutting, carving, etc (eg clothes, hair, gemstones)
  14. The act, or outcome, of cutting a pack of cards
  15. An incision or wound
  16. An excision
  17. A piece cut off
  18. Total quantity cut
  19. A varying unit of length for cloth and yarn
  20. An engraved block or the picture from it
  21. Manner of cutting, or fashion
  22. The reduction of the field in a golf tournament after a set number of rounds, only those players with the better scores qualifying to play in the final round(s)
  23. An individual product obtained during the distillation of petroleum
  24. A working horse (archaic)
  25. A rake-off or share (slang)
  26. A record, extract of a sound recording, etc (slang)
  27. (in films) the action of cutting or its result
adjective (slang)

(of a drug) adulterated or diluted

ORIGIN: Origin unknown

cuttˈer noun

  1. A person or thing that cuts
  2. A cut-throat (obsolete)
  3. A tailor who measures and cuts out the cloth
  4. A small vessel with one mast, a mainsail, a forestay-sail, and a jib set to bowsprit-end
  5. Any sloop of narrow beam and deep draught
  6. A powerful motor-launch (as used by coastguard and navy) which may be armed
  7. (in quarrying) a joint parallel to the dip of the rocks
  8. A small whisky bottle holding half a mutchkin, shaped for carrying in the hip pocket (Scot)
  9. A medium-sized pig carcase, from which joints and fillets are taken

cuttˈing noun

  1. A dividing or lopping off
  2. An incision
  3. A piece cut from a newspaper
  4. A piece of a plant cut off for propagation
  5. An open excavation for a road, railway, etc
  6. Editing of a film or recording
adjective
  1. (of a remark, etc) intended to be cruel or hurtful
  2. (of wind) cold and penetrating

cuttˈingly adverb

cut-and-thrust see cut and thrust below.

cutˈaway noun

  1. A coat with the skirt cut away in a curve in front
  2. An angled edge on a door
  3. A model or picture showing the interior workings of something, with the overlying parts removed
  4. (in films or television) a shot of action that is related to, or happening simultaneously to, the central events

adjective

Having parts cut away

cutˈback noun

  1. A going back in a plot to earlier happenings
  2. A reduction or decrease, esp in expenditure, workforce, production, etc

cutˈ-down adjective

(used attrib) reduced

cut flowers plural noun

Flowers cut from their plants for display in vases, etc

cut glass noun

Flint glass shaped by cutting or grinding

cutˈglass adjective

  1. Made of cut glass
  2. (of an accent) upper-class, refined

cutˈ-in noun

  1. The act of cutting in
  2. (in films) a shot edited into another shot

cutˈ-leaved adjective (botany)

Having leaves deeply cut

cutˈline noun (US)

A caption

cutˈ-off noun

  1. That which cuts off or shortens, eg a straighter road, a shorter channel cut across a bend of a river
  2. A bend thus cut off
  3. A device for shutting off steam, water, light, electricity, supply of cartridges in a magazine rifle, etc
  4. The point at which something ceases to operate or apply (also adjective)
  5. (in pl) shorts made by cutting off the legs of jeans just above the knee (informal)

cutˈ-out noun

  1. The act of cutting out
  2. Something which has been cut out
  3. A safety device, eg for breaking an electric circuit

cutˈ-over adjective (US)

(of land) having had its timber removed

cut-priceˈ adjective

At a reduced rate

cutˈpurse noun (historical)

  1. A person who stole by slitting purses worn at the belt
  2. A pickpocket

cut-rateˈ adjective (esp N American)

Cut-price

cutˈ-throat noun

  1. An assassin
  2. A ruffian
  3. A modification of bridge, etc for three players, each playing alone
  4. An open razor

adjective

  1. Murderous
  2. (of competition) extremely tough, relentless
  3. (of card games) for three players

cutting edge noun

A part or area (of an organization, branch of study, etc) that breaks new ground, effects change and development, etc (cutting-edgeˈ adjective)

cutting grass noun

A cane rat

cutting list noun (building)

A list giving dimensions of timber required for any given work

cutting room noun (cinematography)

A place where film is cut and edited

cutˈ-up noun (orig US)

  1. A person who makes jokes or plays tricks
  2. A literary collage, composed of cut-up and rearranged passages of prose or verse (also adjective)

cutˈwater noun

  1. The forepart of a ship's prow
  2. The angular edge of a bridge pier

cutˈwork noun

Openwork embroidery or appliqué (also adjective)

cutˈworm noun

A caterpillar, esp of the moth genus Agrotis, that feeds on the stems of young plants near ground level

a cut above

Something distinctly better (than)

cut across

  1. To go or extend beyond the limits of
  2. To take a shorter route across

cut a dash or figure

To have a striking appearance

cut a deal (chiefly N American)

To make a deal

cut along (informal)

To leave, go away quickly

cut and come again

Abundant supply, from the notion of cutting a slice, and returning at will for another

cut and cover

A method of constructing a tunnel by making an open cutting, arching it over, and covering in

cut and dry or cut and dried

  1. Ready made
  2. Fixed beforehand, decided in advance

cut and paste

  1. (in the design of page layouts for newspapers, magazines, etc) a method of arranging areas of text, illustrations, etc by cutting and sticking down with paste
  2. (in word processing, DTP, etc) a technique for moving blocks of text, etc

cut and run

To be off or escape quickly

cut and thrust

  1. (in fencing) the use of the edges and the point of the weapon
  2. Swift, shrewd and cleverly-calculated action or reaction, argument, etc (cut-and-thrustˈ adjective)

cut back

  1. To prune close to the stem
  2. To revert to a previous scene
  3. To reduce (expenditure, etc)

cut both ways

(of a decision, action, situation, etc) to have or result in both advantages and disadvantages

cut corners

  1. To turn corners by the quickest way, not keeping close to the edge of the road
  2. To do something (eg a piece of work) with the minimum of effort and expenditure and therefore often imperfectly

cut dead

To refuse to recognize or acknowledge (another person)

cut down

  1. To bring down by cutting
  2. To reduce, curtail
  3. To maim or kill

cut down to size

To cause (a person) to feel less important or to be less conceited

cut from the same cloth

Very similar in nature

cut in

  1. To interpose
  2. (of an electrical device) to begin working automatically
  3. To deprive someone of a dancing partner
  4. To intercept on the telephone
  5. To manoeuvre into a line of traffic in front of an overtaken vehicle, etc, esp without adequate warning or indication
  6. To come into a game by cutting a card
  7. To give a share

cut it (slang)

To succeed or manage

cut it fine

To take risks by leaving insufficient margin for error

cut it out (informal)

To make an end of it, leave off

cut it too fat

To overdo a thing

cut loose

To break free from constraints

cut no ice see under ice

cut off

  1. To sever
  2. To isolate
  3. To put to an end prematurely
  4. To intercept
  5. To stop
  6. (of an electrical device) to stop working, usu automatically, esp as a safety measure
  7. To disinherit

cut off with a shilling

  1. To bequeath only a shilling
  2. To disinherit

cut one's coat according to one's cloth

To adapt oneself to (esp financial) circumstances

cut one's losses

To have done with an unprofitable venture

cut one's stick

To take one's departure

cut one's teeth (on) (informal)

  1. To gain experience (by means of)
  2. To practise (on)

cut out

  1. To shape
  2. To contrive
  3. To debar
  4. To block (light, etc)
  5. To supplant
  6. To separate from a herd
  7. To pass out of a game on cutting a card
  8. To pass out of a line of traffic in order to overtake
  9. To capture and carry off (a ship) as from a harbour, etc, by getting between her and the shore
  10. (of an engine) suddenly to stop functioning

cut out for

Naturally fitted for

cut short

  1. To abridge
  2. To make short by cutting
  3. To silence by interruption

cut teeth

To have teeth grow through the gums, as an infant

cut to the chase

To get to the point

cut up

  1. To cut into pieces
  2. To criticize severely
  3. To turn out (well or ill) when divided into parts
  4. (in passive) to be deeply distressed
  5. To make jokes, play tricks or behave in a boisterous manner (N American)
  6. To drive recklessly in front of (another vehicle) causing danger to it (slang)

cut up rough

To take something amiss, become difficult or angry

draw cuts (archaic)

To cast lots

make the cut (golf)

To qualify for the final round(s) of a tournament

miss the cut (golf)

To fail to qualify for the final round(s) of a tournament

short cut see under short

short /shört/

adjective
  1. Of little length, tallness, extent, or duration
  2. In the early future (as short day, date)
  3. Concise
  4. Curt or abrupt
  5. Snappish
  6. (of pastry, etc) crisp yet readily crumbling
  7. On the near side
  8. (of memory) not retentive
  9. Failing to go far enough or reach the standard or level required
  10. Deficient
  11. Lacking (in)
  12. Scanty, in inadequate supply
  13. In default
  14. Unable to meet engagements
  15. Relating to the sale of what one cannot supply
  16. Not being in possession of shares, etc at the time of sale in anticipation of a fall in prices before their delivery date (finance)
  17. (of a vowel sound) being the briefer of two possible lengths of vowel (phonetics)
  18. In accentual verse, loosely, unaccented (prosody)
  19. (of an alcoholic drink) undiluted with water, neat (informal)
  20. Having short wool
  21. (of glass) fast-setting
  22. (of metal) brittle (mining)
  23. (of certain fielding positions) relatively near the batsman (cricket)
  24. (of a bowled ball) bouncing at some distance from the batsman (cricket)
adverb
  1. Briefly
  2. Abruptly
  3. Curtly
  4. Without leaving a stump
  5. On this or the near side
  6. At a disadvantage (eg taken short)
  7. See sell short under sell1
noun
  1. That which is short
  2. Shortness, abbreviation, summary
  3. A short circuit
  4. (in pl) short trousers (ie thigh- or knee-length, as opposed to ankle-length)
  5. (in pl) undershorts (US)
  6. (in pl) the bran and coarse part of meal, in mixture
  7. (in pl) short-dated securities
  8. Someone who sells short (stock exchange)
  9. A short film subordinate to a main film in a programme
  10. A drink of spirits (informal)
  11. (in pl) a deficiency (N American)
transitive verb

To short-change

transitive verb and intransitive verb
  1. To shorten (obsolete)
  2. To short-circuit
  3. To fall short of, or perhaps cause to fail (archaic)
ORIGIN: ME, from OE sc(e)ort; related to OHGer scurz, ON skera to cut

shortˈage noun

A lack, deficiency

shortˈen transitive verb

  1. To make shorter
  2. To make to seem short or to fall short
  3. To draw in or back
  4. To check
  5. To make friable (by adding butter, lard, etc)
  6. To put (a baby) in short clothes (old)
intransitive verb

To become shorter

shortˈener noun

shortˈening noun

  1. Making or becoming shorter
  2. Fat for making pastry short

shortˈie or shortˈy noun (informal)

A very short person, garment, etc (also adjective)

shortˈish adjective

shortˈly adverb

  1. Soon
  2. Briefly
  3. Curtly
  4. For a short time (rare)
  5. A little
  6. With shortness in that which is indicated

shortˈness noun

shortˈ-acting adjective

(of a drug) having effects that wear off quickly

shortˈarm adjective (boxing, etc; of a blow)

Using a bent (rather than extended) arm

shortˈarse noun (derog sl)

A small person

shortˈbread noun

A brittle crumbling biscuit of flour, butter and sugar

shortˈcake noun

  1. Shortbread or other friable cake
  2. A light cake, prepared in layers with fruit between, served with cream (orig N American)

short-changeˈ transitive verb

  1. To give less than the correct change to
  2. To deal dishonestly with (a person)

adjective

Relating to cheating

short-chanˈger noun

short circuit noun

  1. A new and unwanted path of comparatively low resistance accidentally created between two points of a circuit, often causing damage to components (elec)
  2. An artificial connection between two normally separate tubular organs or parts (surgery)

short-cirˈcuit transitive verb

  1. To establish a short circuit in
  2. To interconnect where there was obstruction between (surgery)
  3. To provide with a short cut (figurative)

intransitive verb

  1. To cut off current by a short circuit
  2. To save a roundabout passage

short clothes or short coats plural noun

Formerly, the shortened skirts of a child when the first long clothes are left off

shortˈ-coat transitive verb (old)

To put into short coats

shortˈcoming noun

  1. The circumstance of coming or falling short
  2. A neglect of, or failure in, duty
  3. A defect, failing

short commons plural noun

Minimum rations

shortˈ-cord adjective (elec eng)

(of an armature winding) employing coils whose span is less than the pole pitch

short corner noun (hockey)

Same as penalty corner (see under penalty)

short covering noun (stock exchange)

  1. The buying of securities, etc, to cover a short sale
  2. The securities, etc, bought for this purpose

shortˈcrust adjective

(of pastry) short

short cut noun

A shorter route than the usual (also figurative)

shortˈ-cut intransitive verb

To use a shorter route (also figurative)

adjective and noun

(denoting) tobacco cut in short shreds

shortˈ-dāted adjective

  1. (of a bill) having little time to run from its date
  2. (of securities) redeemable in under five years

short-day plant noun (botany)

One that will flower only if the daily period of light is shorter than some critical length (cf day-neutral plant, long-day plant)

short division noun

Division without writing down the working out

shortˈfall noun

The fact or amount of falling short

short fuse noun (informal)

A quick temper

short game noun (golf)

Play on and around the green(s)

shortˈgown noun (old Scot)

A woman's short jacket

shortˈhand noun

  1. A system of writing in which whole words and phrases are represented by (combinations of) simple strokes, used for recording speech at speaking pace
  2. Writing of such a kind

adjective

Relating to or written in shorthand

short-handˈed adjective

  1. Short of an adequate number of workers
  2. With a small or reduced number on the team, in the crew, etc

shortˈ-haul adjective

Involving transportation, etc, over (relatively) short distances

shortˈ-head transitive verb (informal)

To beat by a short head (see also below)

shortˈhold adjective (law)

In England and Wales, of or being a tenancy of only a few (orig between one and five) years

shortˈhorn noun

Any of the various types of beef and dairy cattle developed from a short-horned breed originating in NE England, usu having a red and white, roan or white coat (also called Durham)

short hundredweight see hundredweight under hundred

short iron noun (golf)

An iron club used to play shots from close to the green

short leg noun (cricket)

A fielder, or a fielding position, very near (and in line with) the batsman on the legside

shortˈ-life adjective

Having a short duration, existence, etc

shortˈlist noun

(see also leet3) a list of the most suitable candidates for an office, post, etc, from which the successful candidate will be selected

transitive verb

To include (someone) in a shortlist

shortˈ-lived (or /-līvd/) adjective

Living or lasting only for a short time

short measure noun

Less than the amount promised or paid for

short metre noun (poetry)

A form of four-line stanza of which the first, second and last lines have six syllables and the third line eight

short odds plural noun

(in betting) a nearly even chance, favourable odds in terms of risk, unfavourable in terms of potential gain

short-oil see oil length under oil

short order noun (N American)

(an order for) food that can be prepared quickly

shortˈ-order adjective

shortˈ-priced adjective

Having short odds

shortˈ-range adjective

Of or relating to a short distance or period of time

short rib noun

A floating rib

short sale noun

A sale of something which the seller does not yet own

short score noun

A musical score with some of the parts omitted

short sea noun (nautical)

One in which the distance between the wave crests is comparatively short

short selling see sell short under sell1

short sharp shock noun

A brief severe regime imposed by a prison or detention centre, esp on young offenders

short sheep noun

Short-woolled sheep

short shrift see under shrift

short-sightˈed adjective

  1. Able to see clearly only those objects that are relatively near, myopic
  2. Lacking foresight

short-sightˈedly adverb

short-sightˈedness noun

short-spōˈken adjective

Curt in speech

short-staffedˈ adjective

Having a reduced or inadequate number of staff

short-stāˈple adjective

(of wool, cotton, etc fibre) short

shortˈstop noun (baseball)

The fielding position (or the defending player positioned) between the second and third base

short story noun

A work of prose narrative shorter than a novel and usu concentrating on a single episode or experience and its effect

short subject noun (chiefly US)

A short film shown before the main film in a cinema

shortˈsword noun

A sword with a short blade

short-temˈpered adjective

Easily moved to anger, quick-tempered

short tennis noun

A form of tennis for children, using a smaller court and modified equipment and rules

shortˈ-term adjective

  1. Extending over a short time
  2. Concerned with the immediate present and future as distinct from time further ahead

short-termˈism noun

(a tendency towards) the adopting of only short-term views, solutions to problems, etc

short-termˈist noun and adjective

short-term memory noun (psychology)

A section of the memory with limited capacity, capable of storing information for a short time only

short time noun

(the condition of) working fewer than the normal number of hours per week

shortˈ-time adjective

short ton see ton1

shortˈ-track (skating or speedskating) noun

Speedskating in which contestants race in packs around a 111.12-metre track, over any of several distances between 500m and 5000m

short wave noun

A radio wave with a frequency of between 10m and 100m

shortˈ-wave adjective

short-windˈed adjective

Quickly becoming breathless

by a short head

  1. By a distance less than the length of a horse's head
  2. Narrowly, barely (figurative)

caught short (informal)

Having a sudden, uncontrollable need to urinate or defecate

cut short see under cut

draw the short straw

To be given an unpleasant task, duty, etc, or the most unpleasant of several

fall short see under fall1

for short

As an abbreviation

go short (informal)

To have an insufficient amount (esp of money or food)

have someone by the short and curlies (vulgar slang)

To have someone over a barrel, at one's mercy, in a position difficult to wriggle out of

in short

In a few words, briefly

in short supply

Not available in desired quantity, scarce

in the short run

Over a brief period of time

make short work of

To settle or dispose of promptly

run short see under run

short and sweet

  1. Surprisingly or gratifyingly brief, used eg of a speech expected to be of greater length (and tedium)
  2. (ironically) curt or abrupt

short for

A shortened form of

short of

  1. Less than
  2. Without going so far as
  3. Having insufficient supplies of

short on (informal)

Deficient in

stop short

To come to a sudden standstill

taken short same as caught short above.

take (or take up) short

  1. To take by surprise or at a disadvantage
  2. To interrupt curtly

the short and the long (of it) (Shakespeare)

Same as the long and the short (see under long1)
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