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How to pronounce cutting in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms clipping, newspaper clipping, press clipping, press cutting
Type of excerpt, extract, excerption, selection
Type Words
Synonyms cut
Type of opening
Has types section, incision, gash, slash, snick, surgical incision, notch, nick
Derivation cut
Type Words
Synonyms film editing
Type of creating by removal
Derivation cut
Type Words
Synonyms thinning
Type of dilution
Derivation cut


the cutting of whiskey with water.
Type Words
Synonyms cut
Type of division
Has types severance, dissection, scission, severing, slicing, undercut
Derivation cut


his cutting of the cake made a terrible mess.
Type Words
Synonyms slip
Type of stem, stalk
Has types quickset
Type Words
Synonyms edged, stinging


cutting remarks.
Type Words
Synonyms cut, cutting off
Type of shortening
Has types snip, clipping, trim, trimming, shearing, clip, haircut
Derivation cut
Type Words
Synonyms keen, knifelike, lancinate, lancinating, piercing, stabbing


a cutting wind.
Type Words
Synonyms carving
Type of creating by removal
Has types petroglyph, truncation
Derivation cut
Type Words
Synonyms cut
Type of division
Derivation cut


the cutting of the cards soon became a ritual.
Type Words
Synonyms bleak, raw
Type Words
Type of part, piece
Has types pruning

Examples of cutting

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At a time where everyone is cutting back, they continue to demand more and more.
From the dailyherald.com
My designs come to life through careful bending, shaping, cutting and sculpting.
From the stltoday.com
Business and other groups are cutting back on conferences and retreats, he said.
From the thenewstribune.com
Shuttering the government is not a strategy for cutting the budget down to size.
From the washingtontimes.com
Too bad he's not injecting that sobering reality into the budget-cutting bender.
From the kentucky.com
Ford gained this price advantage by cutting corners in the right places, mostly.
From the foxbusiness.com
They are not necessarily cutting spending, but they're not increasing it either.
From the businessweek.com
For LTI, it was the kind of sweetheart deal cost-cutting consultants drool over.
From the businessweek.com
What's more, the profit explosion wasn't just the result of savage cost-cutting.
From the businessweek.com
More examples
  • (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character; "cutting remarks"; "edged satire"; "a stinging comment"
  • Film editing: the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film
  • A part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting
  • Bleak: unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North Atlantic"
  • Cut: the act of cutting something into parts; "his cuts were skillful"; "his cutting of the cake made a terrible mess"
  • Painful as if caused by a sharp instrument; "a cutting wind"; "keen winds"; "knifelike cold"; "piercing knifelike pains"; "piercing cold"; "piercing criticism"; "a stabbing pain"; "lancinating pain"
  • Cutting is the separation of a physical object, or a portion of a physical object, into two portions, through the application of an acutely directed force. An implement commonly used for cutting is the knife or in medical cases the scalpel. ...
  • The Cutting was an automobile manufactured in Jackson, Michigan by the Clark-Carter Automobile Company from 1909-11, and the Cutting Motor Car Company from 1911-12. The Cutting was a powerful automobile using engines from Milwaukee, Model, and Wisconsin ranging from 30-60 hp. ...
  • Cutting in line, also known as line/queue jumping, butting, barging, budging, skipping, ditching, breaking, shorting, or pushing in is the act of entering a line or queue at any position other than the end.