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How to pronounce crosscut in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms cutoff, shortcut
Type of road, route
Type Words
Synonyms cut across
Type of cut
Type Words
Type of itinerary, path, route

Examples of crosscut

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These were crosscut with more bone than meat and the sauce seemed flavorless.
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Similar tunnels, known as drifts, are driven along the ore veins from the crosscut.
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On the walls hung Mr. Mellowhorn's mounted mule deer heads and a two-man crosscut saw.
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A crosscut section of the maritime center proposed for a site in Scituate.
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For sawing standard lumber, choose between a ripsaw and a crosscut saw.
From the charlotteobserver.com
A crosscut saw has smaller, finer teeth, for making final cuts down to the finished size.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Use a crosscut shredder on everything before throwing paper in the trash.
From the timesunion.com
As highly rhythmic lines ricochet off of one another, moods crosscut between scenes in an instant.
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Crosscut and some circular saws have different arrangements because not all of their teeth cut.
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More examples
  • Cut using a diagonal line
  • Shortcut: a route shorter than the usual one
  • A crosscut saw is a saw that is specially designed for making crosscuts. A crosscut is a cut made horizontally through the trunk of a standing tree, but the term also applies to cutting free lumber.
  • A crosswise cut; A shortcut; An instance of filmic crosscutting; A crosscut saw; To cut across something; To cut repeatedly between two concurrent scenes in a film
  • (Crosscuts) 1. Definition: "Areas where combinations of trends might interact together in a significant way." 2. Description. Crosscuts describe the complex combinations of and dynamic interaction between individual trends (economic, social, technological), which produces multiplistic scenarios. [2]
  • (Crosscutting) Editing that alternates shots of two or more lines of action occurring in different places, usually simultaneously.
  • (crosscutting) Cutting across the wood grain; to crosscut a board is to cut across its width.
  • (cross-cutting) the alternating of shots between two or more scenes usually in different locations, thereby suggesting that they are taking place at the same time. Cross-cutting is a key to building tension in chase scenes by switching back and forth between the pursuer and the pursued. ...
  • (Cross-cutting) Alternation from one scene to another in editing so that two or more events are represented as taking place simultaneously.