Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - cut

 I. verb  (~; ~ting)  Etymology: Middle English ~ten  Date: 13th century  transitive verb  1.  a. to penetrate with or as if with an edged instrument  b. to hurt the feelings of  c. to strike sharply with a ~ting effect  d. to strike (a ball) with a glancing blow that imparts a reverse spin  e. to experience the growth of (a tooth) through the gum  2.  a. trim, pare ~ one's nails  b. to shorten by omissions ~ the manuscript  c. dilute, adulterate ~ the whiskey with water  d. to reduce in amount ~ costs  3.  a. mow, reap ~ hay  b.  (1) to divide into parts with an edged tool ~ bread  (2) fell, hew  c.  (1) to separate or discharge from an organization ~ them from the team  (2) to single out and isolate ~ a calf out from the herd  d. to turn (as a steering wheel) sharply the driver ~ the wheel hard  e. to go or pass around or about ; bypass ~ the checkout line  4.  a. to divide into segments ~ the cake  b. intersect, cross one line ~ting another  c. break, interrupt ~ our supply lines  d.  (1) to divide (a deck of cards) into two portions  (2) to draw (a card) from the deck  e. to divide into shares ; split  f. analyze, break down any way you ~ it, we won  5.  a. to make by or as if by ~ting: as  (1) carve ~ stone  (2) to shape by grinding ~ a diamond  (3) engrave  (4) to shear or hollow out ~ a groove  b.  (1) to sing, play, or act for the recording of ~ an album ~ a commercial  (2) to sing or play (as a song or a track) for a studio recording  c. to type on a stencil  d. edit 1b ~ a motion picture  6.  a. stop, cease ~ the nonsense  b. to refuse to recognize (an acquaintance) they ~ her dead at the party  c. to absent oneself from (as a class)  d. to stop (a motor) by opening a switch  e. to stop the filming of (a motion-picture scene)  7.  a. to engage in (a frolicsome or mischievous action) on summer nights strange capers are ~ under the thin guise of a Christian festival — D. C. Peattie  b. to give the appearance or impression of ~ a fine figure  8. to be able to manage or handle — usually used in negative constructions can't ~ that kind of work anymore  9.  a. to yield or accord to another ; give ~ me some slack  b. to fill out and sign (a check)  intransitive verb  1.  a. to function as or as if as an edged tool  b. to undergo incision or severance cheese ~s easily  c. to perform the operation of dividing, severing, incising, or intersecting  d. to make a stroke with a whip, sword, or other weapon  e. to wound feelings or sensibilities  f. to cause constriction or chafing  g. to be of effect, influence, or significance an analysis that ~s deep  2.  a.  (1) to divide a pack of cards especially in order to decide the deal or settle a bet  (2) to draw a card from the pack  b. to divide spoils ; split  3.  a. to proceed obliquely from a straight course ~ across the yard  b. to move swiftly a yacht ~ting through the water  c. to describe an oblique or diagonal line  d. to change sharply in direction ; swerve  e. to make an abrupt transition from one sound or image to another in motion pictures, radio, or television  f. to make a sudden transition or imaginative leap the story ~s to 1917  4. to stop photographing motion pictures  5. to advance by skipping or bypassing another ~ to the front of the line  II. noun  Date: 1530  1. a product of ~ting: as  a.  (1) an opening made with an edged instrument  (2) a wound made by something sharp ; gash  b. a creek, channel, or inlet made by excavation or worn by natural action  c. a surface or outline left by ~ting  d. a passage ~ as a roadway  e. a grade or step especially in a social scale a ~ above the ordinary  f. a subset of a set such that when it is subtracted from the set the remainder is not connected  g. a pictoriaL ILLUSTRATION  h. track 1e(2)  2. the act or an instance of ~ting: as  a. a gesture or expression that hurts the feelings made an unkind ~  b. a straight passage or course  c. a stroke or blow with the edge of a knife or other edged tool  d. a lash with or as if with a whip  e. the act of reducing or removing a part a ~ in pay  f. an act or turn of ~ting cards; also the result of ~ting  g. the elimination of part of a large field from further participation, consideration, or competition (as in a golf tournament) — often used with miss or make to denote respectively being or not being among those eliminated played well and made the ~  3. something that is ~ or ~ off: as  a. a length of cloth varying from 40 to 100 yards (36.6 to 91.4 meters)  b. the yield of products ~ especially during one harvest  c. a segment or section of a meat carcass or a part of one  d. a group of animals selected from a herd  e. share took his ~ of the profits  4. a voluntary absence from a class  5.  a. a stroke that ~s a ball; also the spin imparted by such a stroke  b. a swing by a batter at a pitched baseball  c. an exchange of captures in checkers  6. a result of editing: as  a. an abrupt transition from one sound or image to another in motion pictures, radio, or television  b. an edited version of a film  7.  a. the shape and style in which a thing is ~, formed, or made clothes of the latest ~  b. pattern, type  c. hair~  III. adjective marked by a well-developed and highly defined musculature ~ abs