cutter
See also: Cutter
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English cutter, cuttere, kutter. By surface analysis, cut + -er.
Pronunciation
edit- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkʌtɚ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkʌtə/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ʌtə(ɹ)
Noun
editcutter (plural cutters)
- A person or device that cuts (in various senses).
- a stone cutter; a die cutter
- In some CNC programs, the diameter of the cutter (such as an end mill) is handled by cutter compensation codes.
- 1982, The Movies, page 288:
- The intervening years, however, were spent as a cutter. He was, indeed, one of the best film editors in the business, winning an Academy Award for Body and Soul (1947).
- 1988, Jorge Amado, Home is the Sailor, page 55:
- Chico Pacheco kept repeating the phrase between clenched teeth, lamenting the wasted days of his youth; he had been a notorious cutter of classes.
- (nautical) A single-masted, fore-and-aft rigged, sailing vessel with at least two headsails, and a mast set further aft than that of a sloop.
- A foretooth; an incisor.
- A heavy-duty motor boat for official use.
- a coastguard cutter.
- (nautical) A ship's boat, used for transport ship-to-ship or ship-to-shore.
- (cricket) A ball that moves sideways in the air, or off the pitch, because it has been cut.
- (baseball) A cut fastball.
- (slang) A ten-pence piece. So named because it is the coin most often sharpened by prison inmates to use as a weapon.
- (informal) A person who practices self-injury by making cuts in the flesh.
- 2013, Leona Davis, Past, Future, and End, FriesenPress, page 33:
- After I got out of the mental institution I was looking at t.v. show I was looking it a teenage girl who was a cutter her arm look just like my arm.
- (medicine, colloquial, slang, humorous or derogatory) A surgeon.
- Synonym: slasher
- An animal yielding inferior meat, with little or no external fat and marbling.
- Coordinate terms: canner, darkcutter
- 1905, United States. Bureau of Corporations, Report of the Commissioner of Corporations on the Beef Industry, page 89:
- Bulls and cows used for breeding, when finally sent to market, are inferior for dressed-beef production. Bulls are demanded especially for sausage and similar products. Cows are largely used as cutters and canners […]
- (obsolete) An officer in the exchequer who notes by cutting on the tallies the sums paid.
- (obsolete) A ruffian; a bravo; a destroyer.
- Martin Parker, A True Tale of Robin Hood
- So being outlaw'd (as 'tis told), / He with a crew went forth / Of lusty cutters, bold and strong, / And robbed in the north.
- 1633, A Match at Midnight (disputed authorship)
- He's out of cash, and thou know'st by cutter's law, / We are bound to relieve one another.
- Martin Parker, A True Tale of Robin Hood
- (obsolete) A kind of soft yellow brick, easily cut, and used for facework.
- A light sleigh drawn by one horse.
- 2007, Carrie A. Meyer, Days on the Family Farm, U of Minnesota Press, page 55:
- Throughout much of the winter, the sled or the cutter was the vehicle of choice. Emily and Joseph had a cutter, for traveling in style in snow.
- (television) A flag or similar instrument for blocking light.
- 2012, John Jackman, Lighting for Digital Video and Television, page 86:
- Flags and other cutters allow the DP or gaffer to throw large controlled shadows on parts of the scene.
- (MLE) A knife.
- (Maine) An active child.
- 2017 July 25, Farley (lyrics and music), “Out Here”[1], 0:42–0:47:
- Late night, take a flow, tryna find the rats
Twelve inch cutter in and out, then Imma ride them back
- 2021 August 16, (Mali Strip) Killa Kurse x AR x Rondo (lyrics and music), “Buck aii LGR diss”[2], 1:23–1:28:
- Hop out the ride with things and stuff
Back the longest cutter, watch him cut him, [grate their neek trips?] up
- 2021 November 29, KMulla (lyrics and music), “Mutual Feeling”[3], 1:24–1:27:
- […] swing my cutter
Get man down if he is on my brother
- (intactivism, derogatory) A supporter of infant circumcision or female genital mutilation; pro-circumcisionist.
Derived terms
edit- biscuit cutter
- bolt cutter
- box cutter
- box-cutter
- cane cutter
- cheese cutter
- cigar cutter
- cookie cutter
- cookie-cutter
- copy cutter
- cord-cutter
- cutter and paster
- cutter-off
- cutter-offer
- daisy cutter
- daisy-cutter
- dark cutter
- diamond cutter
- egg cutter
- gem-cutter
- gem cutter
- glass cutter
- leaf cutter
- leaf-cutter
- leaf-cutter ant
- leaf-cutter bee
- leg cutter
- milling cutter
- nail cutter
- negative cutter
- off cutter
- paper cutter
- phlegm-cutter
- pipe cutter
- pizza cutter
- revenue cutter
- rug-cutter
- stump cutter
- swear like a cutter
- turd cutter
- wheel cutter
- wire cutters
Translations
editperson that cuts
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device that cuts
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single-masted sailing ship type
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heavy-duty motor boat for official use
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ship's boat
cricket: ball that has been cut
baseball: cut fastball
slang: ten pence piece
slang: person who cuts him or herself
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French
editPronunciation
editNoun
editcutter m (plural cutters)
- utility knife, box cutter, Stanley knife (tool used to cut)
- Synonyms: couteau à lame rétractable, (Canada) exacto
- (nautical) cutter (vessel)
Further reading
edit- “cutter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from English cutter.
Noun
editcutter m
- utility knife, box cutter, Stanley knife (tool used to cut)
- Synonyms: taglierino, trincetto
- (nautical) cutter (vessel)
Romanian
editNoun
editcutter n (plural cuttere)
- Alternative form of cuter
Declension
editDeclension of cutter
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) cutter | cutterul | (niște) cuttere | cutterele |
genitive/dative | (unui) cutter | cutterului | (unor) cuttere | cutterelor |
vocative | cutterule | cutterelor |
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