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cut across
(mass) | cut across
- prerušiť |
cut across
(encz) | cut across,protnout v: Zdeněk Brož |
cut across
(encz) | cut across,přerušit v: Zdeněk Brož |
cut across
(encz) | cut across,přesekat v: Zdeněk Brož |
cut across
(encz) | cut across,přetnout v: Zdeněk Brož |
cut across
(wn) | cut across
v 1: travel across or pass over; "The caravan covered almost 100
miles each day" [syn: traverse, track, cover,
cross, pass over, get over, get across, {cut
through}, cut across]
2: be contrary to ordinary procedure or limitations; "Opinions
on bombing the Serbs cut across party lines"
3: cut using a diagonal line [syn: crosscut, cut across] |
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To cut across
(gcide) | Cut \Cut\ (k[u^]t), v. i.
1. To do the work of an edged tool; to serve in dividing or
gashing; as, a knife cuts well.
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2. To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting
instrument.
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Panels of white wood that cuts like cheese.
--Holmes.
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3. To perform the operation of dividing, severing, incising,
intersecting, etc.; to use a cutting instrument.
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He saved the lives of thousands by his manner of
cutting for the stone. --Pope.
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4. To make a stroke with a whip.
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5. To interfere, as a horse.
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6. To move or make off quickly. [Colloq.]
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7. To divide a pack of cards into two portion to decide the
deal or trump, or to change the order of the cards to be
dealt.
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To cut across, to pass over or through in the most direct
way; as, to cut across a field.
To cut and run, to make off suddenly and quickly; -- from
the cutting of a ship's cable, when there is not time to
raise the anchor. [Colloq.]
To cut in or To cut into, to interrupt; to join in
anything suddenly.
To cut up.
(a) To play pranks. [Colloq.]
(b) To divide into portions well or ill; to have the
property left at one's death turn out well or poorly
when divided among heirs, legatees, etc. [Slang.]
"When I die, may I cut up as well as Morgan
Pendennis." --Thackeray.
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