Word for the day: cut

cut |kʌt|                                           *recortar (en Español) 

DEFINITIONverb ( cutting;past and past participle cut ) [with obj. ]reduce the amount or quantity of: buyers will bargain hard to cut the cost of the house they want | I should cut down my sugar intake | [no obj. ] : they've cut back on costs.• abridge (a text, film, or performance) by removing material: he had to cut unnecessary additions made to the opening scene.• Computing delete (part of a text or other display) so as to insert a copy of it elsewhere. • end or interrupt the provision of (a supply): we resolved to cut oil supplies to territories controlled by the rebels | if the pump develops a fault, the electrical supply is immediately cut off .• switch off (an engine or a light).• N. Amer.absent oneself from (something one should normally attend, especiallyschool): Rodney was cutting class.

ORIGIN 
Middle English (probably existing, although not recorded, in Old English); probably of Germanic origin and related toNorwegian kutte and Icelandic kuta ‘cut with a small knife’, kuti ‘small blunt knife’.

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