Words that rhyme with cut

• abut 0
  v 1: lie adjacent to another or share a boundary; "Canada adjoins the U.S."; "England marches with Scotland" [syn: border, adjoin, edge, abut, march, butt, butt against, butt on]
• advocate 0
  n 1: a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea [syn: advocate, advocator, proponent, exponent] 2: a lawyer who pleads cases in court [syn: advocate, counsel, counselor, counsellor, counselor-at-law, pleader] v 1: push for something; "The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day" [syn: recommend, urge, advocate] 2: speak, plead, or argue in favor of; "The doctor advocated a smoking ban in the entire house" [syn: preach, advocate]
• affricate 0
  n 1: a composite speech sound consisting of a stop and a fricative articulated at the same point (as `ch' in `chair' and `j' in `joy') [syn: affricate, affricate consonant, affricative]
• ascot 0
  n 1: a cravat with wide square ends; secured with an ornamental pin
• at 0
  n 1: a highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series); a decay product of uranium and thorium [syn: astatine, At, atomic number 85] 2: 100 at equal 1 kip in Laos
• basket 0
  n 1: a container that is usually woven and has handles [syn: basket, handbasket] 2: the quantity contained in a basket [syn: basket, basketful] 3: horizontal circular metal hoop supporting a net through which players try to throw the basketball [syn: basket, basketball hoop, hoop] 4: a score in basketball made by throwing the ball through the hoop [syn: basket, field goal]
• beechnut 0
  n 1: small sweet triangular nut of any of various beech trees
• biscuit 0
  n 1: small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda 2: any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term) [syn: cookie, cooky, biscuit]
• blanket 0
  adj 1: broad in scope or content; "across-the-board pay increases"; "an all-embracing definition"; "blanket sanctions against human-rights violators"; "an invention with broad applications"; "a panoptic study of Soviet nationality"- T.G.Winner; "granted him wide powers" [syn: across-the-board, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-inclusive, blanket(a), broad, encompassing, extensive, panoptic, wide] n 1: bedding that keeps a person warm in bed; "he pulled the covers over his head and went to sleep" [syn: blanket, cover] 2: anything that covers; "there was a blanket of snow" [syn: blanket, mantle] 3: a layer of lead surrounding the highly reactive core of a nuclear reactor v 1: cover as if with a blanket; "snow blanketed the fields" 2: form a blanket-like cover (over)
• breadbasket 0
  n 1: a geographic region serving as the principal source of grain 2: an enlarged and muscular saclike organ of the alimentary canal; the principal organ of digestion [syn: stomach, tummy, tum, breadbasket] 3: a basket for serving bread
• brisket 0
  n 1: a cut of meat from the breast or lower chest especially of beef
• bucket 0
  n 1: a roughly cylindrical vessel that is open at the top [syn: bucket, pail] 2: the quantity contained in a bucket [syn: bucket, bucketful] v 1: put into a bucket 2: carry in a bucket
• but 0
  adv 1: and nothing more; "I was merely asking"; "it is simply a matter of time"; "just a scratch"; "he was only a child"; "hopes that last but a moment" [syn: merely, simply, just, only, but]
• butt 0
  n 1: thick end of the handle [syn: butt, butt end] 2: the part of a plant from which the roots spring or the part of a stalk or trunk nearest the roots 3: a victim of ridicule or pranks [syn: butt, goat, laughingstock, stooge] 4: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass] 5: sports equipment consisting of an object set up for a marksman or archer to aim at [syn: target, butt] 6: finely ground tobacco wrapped in paper; for smoking [syn: cigarette, cigaret, coffin nail, butt, fag] 7: a joint made by fastening ends together without overlapping [syn: butt joint, butt] 8: a large cask (especially one holding a volume equivalent to 2 hogsheads or 126 gallons) 9: the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking) [syn: butt, stub] v 1: lie adjacent to another or share a boundary; "Canada adjoins the U.S."; "England marches with Scotland" [syn: border, adjoin, edge, abut, march, butt, butt against, butt on] 2: to strike, thrust or shove against; "He butted his sister out of the way"; "The goat butted the hiker with his horns" [syn: butt, bunt] 3: place end to end without overlapping; "The frames must be butted at the joints"
• butternut 0
  n 1: North American walnut tree having light-brown wood and edible nuts; source of a light-brown dye [syn: butternut, butternut tree, white walnut, Juglans cinerea] 2: oily egg-shaped nut of an American tree of the walnut family
• casket 0
  n 1: box in which a corpse is buried or cremated [syn: coffin, casket] 2: small and often ornate box for holding jewels or other valuables [syn: casket, jewel casket] v 1: enclose in a casket
• catgut 0
  n 1: perennial subshrub of eastern North America having downy leaves yellowish and rose flowers and; source of rotenone [syn: catgut, goat's rue, wild sweet pea, Tephrosia virginiana] 2: a strong cord made from the intestines of sheep and used in surgery [syn: catgut, gut]
• certificate 0
  n 1: a document attesting to the truth of certain stated facts [syn: certificate, certification, credential, credentials] 2: a formal declaration that documents a fact of relevance to finance and investment; the holder has a right to receive interest or dividends; "he held several valuable securities" [syn: security, certificate] v 1: present someone with a certificate 2: authorize by certificate
• chestnut 0
  adj 1: (of hair or feathers) of a golden brown to reddish brown color; "a chestnut horse"; "chestnut hair" n 1: wood of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea 2: any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur [syn: chestnut, chestnut tree] 3: edible nut of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea 4: the brown color of chestnuts 5: a small horny callus on the inner surface of a horse's leg 6: a dark golden-brown or reddish-brown horse
• circuit 0
  n 1: an electrical device that provides a path for electrical current to flow [syn: circuit, electrical circuit, electric circuit] 2: a journey or route all the way around a particular place or area; "they took an extended tour of Europe"; "we took a quick circuit of the park"; "a ten-day coach circuit of the island" [syn: tour, circuit] 3: an established itinerary of venues or events that a particular group of people travel to; "she's a familiar name on the club circuit"; "on the lecture circuit"; "the judge makes a circuit of the courts in his district"; "the international tennis circuit" 4: the boundary line encompassing an area or object; "he had walked the full circumference of his land"; "a danger to all races over the whole circumference of the globe" [syn: circumference, circuit] 5: (law) a judicial division of a state or the United States (so-called because originally judges traveled and held court in different locations); one of the twelve groups of states in the United States that is covered by a particular circuit court of appeals 6: a racetrack for automobile races [syn: racing circuit, circuit] 7: movement once around a course; "he drove an extra lap just for insurance" [syn: lap, circle, circuit] v 1: make a circuit; "They were circuiting about the state"
• coconut 0
  n 1: the edible white meat of a coconut; often shredded for use in e.g. cakes and curries [syn: coconut, coconut meat] 2: large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk [syn: coconut, cocoanut] 3: tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics [syn: coconut, coconut palm, coco palm, coco, cocoa palm, coconut tree, Cocos nucifera]
• cricket 0
  n 1: leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together 2: a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs v 1: play cricket
• crosscut 0
  n 1: a diagonal path 2: a route shorter than the usual one [syn: shortcut, cutoff, crosscut] v 1: cut using a diagonal line [syn: crosscut, cut across]
• delegate 0
  n 1: a person appointed or elected to represent others v 1: transfer power to someone [syn: delegate, depute] 2: give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) [syn: delegate, designate, depute, assign]
• delicate 0
  adj 1: exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury; "a delicate violin passage"; "delicate china"; "a delicate flavor"; "the delicate wing of a butterfly" [ant: rugged] 2: marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique; "a surgeon's delicate touch" 3: easily broken or damaged or destroyed; "a kite too delicate to fly safely"; "fragile porcelain plates"; "fragile old bones"; "a frail craft" [syn: delicate, fragile, frail] 4: easily hurt; "soft hands"; "a baby's delicate skin" [syn: delicate, soft] 5: developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety; "the satire touches with finespun ridicule every kind of human pretense" [syn: finespun, delicate] 6: difficult to handle; requiring great tact; "delicate negotiations with the big powers";"hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter"; "a touchy subject" [syn: delicate, ticklish, touchy] 7: of an instrument or device; capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely; "almost undetectable with even the most delicate instruments"
• docket 0
  n 1: (law) the calendar of a court; the list of cases to be tried or a summary of the court's activities 2: a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to [syn: agenda, docket, schedule] v 1: place on the docket for legal action; "Only 5 of the 120 cases docketed were tried" 2: make a summary or abstract of a legal document and inscribe it in a list
• donut 0
  n 1: a small ring-shaped friedcake [syn: doughnut, donut, sinker]
• doughnut 0
  n 1: a toroidal shape; "a ring of ships in the harbor"; "a halo of smoke" [syn: ring, halo, annulus, doughnut, anchor ring] 2: a small ring-shaped friedcake [syn: doughnut, donut, sinker]
• ducat 0
  n 1: formerly a gold coin of various European countries
• duplicate 0
  adj 1: identically copied from an original; "a duplicate key" 2: being two identical [syn: duplicate, matching, twin(a), twinned] n 1: something additional of the same kind; "he always carried extras in case of an emergency" [syn: extra, duplicate] 2: a copy that corresponds to an original exactly; "he made a duplicate for the files" [syn: duplicate, duplication] v 1: make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick" [syn: duplicate, reduplicate, double, repeat, replicate] 2: duplicate or match; "The polished surface twinned his face and chest in reverse" [syn: twin, duplicate, parallel] 3: make a duplicate or duplicates of; "Could you please duplicate this letter for me?" 4: increase twofold; "The population doubled within 50 years" [syn: double, duplicate]
• etiquette 0
  n 1: rules governing socially acceptable behavior
• gasket 0
  n 1: seal consisting of a ring for packing pistons or sealing a pipe joint
• glut 0
  n 1: the quality of being so overabundant that prices fall [syn: glut, oversupply, surfeit] v 1: overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream" [syn: gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf out] 2: supply with an excess of; "flood the market with tennis shoes"; "Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient" [syn: flood, oversupply, glut]
• gut 0
  n 1: the part of the alimentary canal between the stomach and the anus [syn: intestine, bowel, gut] 2: a narrow channel or strait 3: a strong cord made from the intestines of sheep and used in surgery [syn: catgut, gut] v 1: empty completely; destroy the inside of; "Gut the building" 2: remove the guts of; "gut the sheep"
• haircut 0
  n 1: the style in which hair has been cut 2: the act of cutting the hair
• hut 0
  n 1: temporary military shelter [syn: hut, army hut, field hut] 2: small crude shelter used as a dwelling [syn: hovel, hut, hutch, shack, shanty]
• indelicate 0
  adj 1: in violation of good taste even verging on the indecent; "an indelicate remark"; "an off-color joke" [syn: indelicate, off-color, off-colour] 2: lacking propriety and good taste in manners and conduct; "indecorous behavior" [syn: indecorous, indelicate] [ant: decorous] 3: verging on the indecent; "an indelicate proposition"
• intricate 0
  adj 1: having many complexly arranged elements; elaborate; "intricate lacework"
• jacket 0
  n 1: a short coat 2: an outer wrapping or casing; "phonograph records were sold in cardboard jackets" 3: (dentistry) dental appliance consisting of an artificial crown for a broken or decayed tooth; "tomorrow my dentist will fit me for a crown" [syn: crown, crownwork, jacket, jacket crown, cap] 4: the outer skin of a potato 5: the tough metal shell casing for certain kinds of ammunition v 1: provide with a thermally non-conducting cover; "The tubing needs to be jacketed" 2: put a jacket on; "The men were jacketed"
• jut 0
  n 1: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings; "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns" [syn: bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence] 2: the act of projecting out from something [syn: protrusion, projection, jut, jutting] v 1: extend out or project in space; "His sharp nose jutted out"; "A single rock sticks out from the cliff" [syn: stick out, protrude, jut out, jut, project]
• linocut 0
  n 1: a print that is made from a design carved in relief into a block of linoleum 2: a design carved in relief into a block of linoleum
• market 0
  n 1: the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold; "without competition there would be no market"; "they were driven from the marketplace" [syn: market, marketplace, market place] 2: the customers for a particular product or service; "before they publish any book they try to determine the size of the market for it" 3: a marketplace where groceries are sold; "the grocery store included a meat market" [syn: grocery store, grocery, food market, market] 4: the securities markets in the aggregate; "the market always frustrates the small investor" [syn: market, securities industry] 5: an area in a town where a public mercantile establishment is set up [syn: marketplace, market place, mart, market] v 1: engage in the commercial promotion, sale, or distribution of; "The company is marketing its new line of beauty products" 2: buy household supplies; "We go marketing every Saturday" 3: deal in a market 4: make commercial; "Some Amish people have commercialized their way of life" [syn: commercialize, commercialise, market]
• mascot 0
  n 1: a person or animal that is adopted by a team or other group as a symbolic figure
• microcircuit 0
  n 1: a microelectronic computer circuit incorporated into a chip or semiconductor; a whole system rather than a single component [syn: integrated circuit, microcircuit]
• musket 0
  n 1: a muzzle-loading shoulder gun with a long barrel; formerly used by infantrymen
• mutt 0
  n 1: an inferior dog or one of mixed breed [syn: cur, mongrel, mutt]
• nut 0
  n 1: usually large hard-shelled seed 2: Egyptian goddess of the sky 3: a small (usually square or hexagonal) metal block with internal screw thread to be fitted onto a bolt 4: half the width of an em [syn: en, nut] 5: a whimsically eccentric person [syn: crackpot, crank, nut, nut case, fruitcake, screwball] 6: someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction; "a golf addict"; "a car nut"; "a bodybuilding freak"; "a news junkie" [syn: addict, nut, freak, junkie, junky] 7: one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens; "she kicked him in the balls and got away" [syn: testis, testicle, orchis, ball, ballock, bollock, nut, egg] v 1: gather nuts
• packet 0
  n 1: a collection of things wrapped or boxed together [syn: package, bundle, packet, parcel] 2: (computer science) a message or message fragment 3: a small package or bundle 4: a boat for carrying mail [syn: mailboat, mail boat, packet, packet boat]
• peanut 0
  adj 1: of little importance or influence or power; of minor status; "a minor, insignificant bureaucrat"; "peanut politicians" [syn: insignificant, peanut] n 1: underground pod of the peanut vine 2: widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions; showy yellow flowers on stalks that bend over to the soil so that seed pods ripen underground [syn: peanut, peanut vine, Arachis hypogaea] 3: a young child who is small for his age 4: pod of the peanut vine containing usually 2 nuts or seeds; `groundnut' and `monkey nut' are British terms [syn: peanut, earthnut, goober, goober pea, groundnut, monkey nut]
• picket 0
  n 1: a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event [syn: lookout, lookout man, sentinel, sentry, watch, spotter, scout, picket] 2: a detachment of troops guarding an army from surprise attack 3: a protester posted by a labor organization outside a place of work 4: a vehicle performing sentinel duty 5: a wooden strip forming part of a fence [syn: picket, pale] 6: a form of military punishment used by the British in the late 17th century in which a soldier was forced to stand on one foot on a pointed stake [syn: picket, piquet] v 1: serve as pickets or post pickets; "picket a business to protest the layoffs" 2: fasten with a picket; "picket the goat"
• pickpocket 0
  n 1: a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places [syn: pickpocket, cutpurse, dip]
• pocket 0
  n 1: a small pouch inside a garment for carrying small articles 2: an enclosed space; "the trapped miners found a pocket of air" [syn: pouch, sac, sack, pocket] 3: a supply of money; "they dipped into the taxpayers' pockets" 4: (bowling) the space between the headpin and the pins behind it on the right or left; "the ball hit the pocket and gave him a perfect strike" 5: a hollow concave shape made by removing something [syn: scoop, pocket] 6: a local region of low pressure or descending air that causes a plane to lose height suddenly [syn: air pocket, pocket, air hole] 7: a small isolated group of people; "they were concentrated in pockets inside the city"; "the battle was won except for cleaning up pockets of resistance" 8: (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican) [syn: pouch, pocket] 9: an opening at the corner or on the side of a billiard table into which billiard balls are struck v 1: put in one's pocket; "He pocketed the change" 2: take unlawfully [syn: pocket, bag]
• predicate 0
  n 1: (logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula; "`Socrates is a man' predicates manhood of Socrates" 2: one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements [syn: predicate, verb phrase] v 1: make the (grammatical) predicate in a proposition; "The predicate `dog' is predicated of the subject `Fido' in the sentence `Fido is a dog'" 2: affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of; "The speech predicated the fitness of the candidate to be President" [syn: predicate, proclaim] 3: involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic; "solving the problem is predicated on understanding it well" [syn: connote, predicate]
• putt 0
  n 1: hitting a golf ball that is on the green using a putter; "his putting let him down today; he didn't sink a single putt over three feet" [syn: putt, putting] v 1: strike (a golf ball) lightly, with a putter; "he putted the ball several feet past the hole" 2: hit a putt; "he lost because he putted so poorly"
• rebut 0
  v 1: overthrow by argument, evidence, or proof; "The speaker refuted his opponent's arguments" [syn: refute, rebut] 2: prove to be false or incorrect [syn: refute, rebut, controvert]
• rocket 0
  n 1: any vehicle self-propelled by a rocket engine [syn: rocket, projectile] 2: a jet engine containing its own propellant and driven by reaction propulsion [syn: rocket, rocket engine] 3: erect European annual often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender [syn: rocket, roquette, garden rocket, rocket salad, arugula, Eruca sativa, Eruca vesicaria sativa] 4: propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon [syn: rocket, skyrocket] 5: sends a firework display high into the sky [syn: skyrocket, rocket] v 1: shoot up abruptly, like a rocket; "prices skyrocketed" [syn: rocket, skyrocket] 2: propel with a rocket
• rut 0
  n 1: a groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels) 2: a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape; "they fell into a conversational rut" [syn: rut, groove] 3: applies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity [syn: estrus, oestrus, heat, rut] [ant: anestrum, anestrus, anoestrum, anoestrus] v 1: be in a state of sexual excitement; of male mammals 2: hollow out in the form of a furrow or groove; "furrow soil" [syn: furrow, rut, groove]
• shortcut 0
  n 1: a route shorter than the usual one [syn: shortcut, cutoff, crosscut]
• shut 0
  adj 1: not open; "the door slammed shut" [syn: shut, unopen, closed] [ant: open, unfastened] 2: used especially of mouth or eyes; "he sat quietly with closed eyes"; "his eyes were shut against the sunlight" [syn: closed, shut] [ant: open, opened] v 1: move so that an opening or passage is obstructed; make shut; "Close the door"; "shut the window" [syn: close, shut] [ant: open, open up] 2: become closed; "The windows closed with a loud bang" [syn: close, shut] [ant: open, open up] 3: prevent from entering; shut out; "The trees were shutting out all sunlight"; "This policy excludes people who have a criminal record from entering the country" [syn: exclude, keep out, shut out, shut] [ant: admit, include, let in]
• silicate 0
  n 1: a salt or ester derived from silicic acid
• skyrocket 0
  n 1: propels bright light high in the sky, or used to propel a lifesaving line or harpoon [syn: rocket, skyrocket] 2: sends a firework display high into the sky [syn: skyrocket, rocket] v 1: shoot up abruptly, like a rocket; "prices skyrocketed" [syn: rocket, skyrocket]
• slut 0
  n 1: a dirty untidy woman [syn: slattern, slut, slovenly woman, trollop] 2: a woman adulterer [syn: adulteress, fornicatress, hussy, jade, loose woman, slut, strumpet, trollop]
• smut 0
  n 1: a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink [syn: carbon black, lampblack, soot, smut, crock] 2: destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores 3: any fungus of the order Ustilaginales [syn: smut, smut fungus] 4: an offensive or indecent word or phrase [syn: obscenity, smut, vulgarism, filth, dirty word] 5: creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire [syn: pornography, porno, porn, erotica, smut] v 1: make obscene; "This line in the play smuts the entire act" 2: stain with a dirty substance, such as soot 3: become affected with smut; "the corn smutted and could not be eaten" 4: affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn
• socket 0
  n 1: a bony hollow into which a structure fits 2: receptacle where something (a pipe or probe or end of a bone) is inserted 3: a receptacle into which an electric device can be inserted
• somewhat 0
  adv 1: to a small degree or extent; "his arguments were somewhat self-contradictory"; "the children argued because one slice of cake was slightly larger than the other" [syn: slightly, somewhat, more or less] 2: to a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "pretty big"; "pretty bad"; "jolly decent of him"; "the shoes are priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers" [syn: reasonably, moderately, pretty, jolly, somewhat, fairly, middling, passably] [ant: immoderately, unreasonably]
• sophisticate 0
  n 1: a worldly-wise person [syn: sophisticate, man of the world] v 1: make less natural or innocent; "Their manners had sophisticated the young girls" 2: practice sophistry; change the meaning of or be vague about in order to mislead or deceive; "Don't twist my words" [syn: twist, twist around, pervert, convolute, sophisticate] 3: alter and make impure, as with the intention to deceive; "Sophisticate rose water with geraniol" [syn: sophisticate, doctor, doctor up] 4: make more complex or refined; "a sophisticated design"
• sprocket 0
  n 1: roller that has teeth on the rims to pull film or paper through 2: thin wheel with teeth that engage with a chain [syn: sprocket, sprocket wheel] 3: tooth on the rim of gear wheel [syn: cog, sprocket]
• straitjacket 0
  n 1: anything immaterial that severely hinders or confines; "they defected because Russian dance was in a straitjacket"; "the government is operating in an economic straitjacket" 2: a garment similar to a jacket that is used to bind the arms tightly against the body as a means of restraining a violent person [syn: straitjacket, straightjacket]
• strut 0
  n 1: a proud stiff pompous gait [syn: strut, prance, swagger] 2: brace consisting of a bar or rod used to resist longitudinal compression v 1: to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others; "He struts around like a rooster in a hen house" [syn: tittup, swagger, ruffle, prance, strut, sashay, cock]
• syndicate 0
  n 1: a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities [syn: syndicate, crime syndicate, mob, family] 2: an association of companies for some definite purpose [syn: consortium, pool, syndicate] 3: a news agency that sells features or articles or photographs etc. to newspapers for simultaneous publication v 1: join together into a syndicate; "The banks syndicated" 2: organize into or form a syndicate 3: sell articles, television programs, or photos to several publications or independent broadcasting stations
• ticket 0
  n 1: a commercial document showing that the holder is entitled to something (as to ride on public transportation or to enter a public entertainment) 2: a label written or printed on paper, cardboard, or plastic that is attached to something to indicate its owner, nature, price, etc. [syn: tag, ticket] 3: a summons issued to an offender (especially to someone who violates a traffic regulation) 4: a list of candidates nominated by a political party to run for election to public offices [syn: slate, ticket] 5: the appropriate or desirable thing; "this car could be just the ticket for a small family" [syn: ticket, just the ticket] v 1: issue a ticket or a fine to as a penalty; "I was fined for parking on the wrong side of the street"; "Move your car or else you will be ticketed!" [syn: ticket, fine] 2: provide with a ticket for passage or admission; "Ticketed passengers can board now"
• trinket 0
  n 1: cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing [syn: bangle, bauble, gaud, gewgaw, novelty, fallal, trinket]
• triplicate 0
  n 1: one of three copies; any of three things that correspond to one another exactly v 1: reproduce threefold; "triplicate the letter for the committee"
• tunicate 0
  n 1: primitive marine animal having a saclike unsegmented body and a urochord that is conspicuous in the larva [syn: tunicate, urochordate, urochord]
• turbot 0
  n 1: flesh of a large European flatfish 2: a large brownish European flatfish [syn: turbot, Psetta maxima]
• uncut 0
  adj 1: not trimmed; "shaggy untrimmed locks" [syn: untrimmed, uncut] [ant: cut, trimmed] 2: (used of grass or vegetation) not cut down with a hand implement or machine; "uncut grass"; "an unmown lawn" [syn: unmown, uncut] [ant: cut, mown] 3: not shaped by cutting or trimming; "an uncut diamond"; "rough gemstones" [syn: uncut, rough] [ant: cut] 4: (of pages of a book) having adjacent leaves still joined at the fore edge; "a book with its leaves still uncut" [ant: cut] 5: not cut [ant: cut] 6: not cut; "glad to get out of the house with my throat uncut"- Tobias Smollett 7: complete; "the full-length play" [syn: full-length, uncut]
• undercut 0
  n 1: the material removed by a cut made underneath 2: the tender meat of the loin muscle on each side of the vertebral column [syn: tenderloin, undercut] 3: a notch cut in the trunk of tree in order to determine the direction of its fall 4: (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball; "cuts do not bother a good tennis player" [syn: cut, undercut] 5: a cut made underneath to remove material v 1: sell cheaper than one's competition [syn: undersell, undercut] 2: cut away material from the underside of (an object) so as to leave an overhanging portion in relief 3: cut away the underpart of; "undercut a vein of ore" 4: strike (the ball) in golf, tennis, or hockey obliquely downward so as to give a backspin or elevation to the shot 5: cut obliquely into (a tree) below the main cut and on the side toward which the tree will fall
• uppercut 0
  n 1: a swinging blow directed upward (especially at an opponent's chin)
• wainscot 0
  n 1: panel forming the lower part of an interior wall when it is finished differently from the rest of the wall [syn: wainscot, dado] 2: wooden panels that can be used to line the walls of a room [syn: wainscot, wainscoting, wainscotting]
• waistcoat 0
  n 1: a man's sleeveless garment worn underneath a coat [syn: vest, waistcoat]
• walnut 0
  n 1: nut of any of various walnut trees having a wrinkled two- lobed seed with a hard shell 2: hard dark-brown wood of any of various walnut trees; used especially for furniture and paneling 3: any of various trees of the genus Juglans [syn: walnut, walnut tree]
• wastebasket 0
  n 1: a container with an open top; for discarded paper and other rubbish [syn: wastepaper basket, waste-paper basket, wastebasket, waste basket, circular file]
• wicket 0
  n 1: cricket equipment consisting of a set of three stumps topped by crosspieces; used in playing cricket 2: a small arch used as croquet equipment [syn: wicket, hoop] 3: small gate or door (especially one that is part of a larger door) [syn: wicket, wicket door, wicket gate] 4: small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted [syn: wicket, lattice, grille]
• woodcut 0
  n 1: a print made from a woodcut [syn: woodcut, wood engraving] 2: engraving consisting of a block of wood with a design cut into it; used to make prints [syn: woodcut, wood block, wood engraving]
• workbasket 0
  n 1: container for holding implements and materials for work (especially for sewing) [syn: workbasket, workbox, workbag]
• knut 0
  n 1: king of Denmark and Norway who forced Edmund II to divide England with him; on the death of Edmund II, Canute became king of all England (994-1035) [syn: Canute, Cnut, Knut, Canute the Great]
• tut 0
  v 1: utter `tsk,' `tut,' or `tut-tut,' as in disapproval [syn: tsk, tut, tut-tut]
• muscat 0
  n 1: any of several cultivated grapevines that produce sweet white grapes [syn: muscat, muskat] 2: a port on the Gulf of Oman and capital of the sultanate of Oman [syn: Muscat, Masqat, capital of Oman] 3: wine from muscat grapes [syn: muscat, muscatel, muscadel, muscadelle] 4: sweet aromatic grape used for raisins and wine [syn: muscat, muscatel, muscat grape]
• alcott 0
  n 1: United States novelist noted for children's books (1832-1888) [syn: Alcott, Louisa May Alcott]
• endicott 0
  n 1: born in England; in 1629 he became the founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (1588-1665) [syn: Endecott, Endicott, John Endecott, John Endicott]
• becket 0
  n 1: (Roman Catholic Church) archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 to 1170; murdered following his opposition to Henry II's attempts to control the clergy (1118-1170) [syn: Becket, Thomas a Becket, Saint Thomas a Becket, St. Thomas a Becket] 2: (nautical) a short line with an eye at one end and a knot at the other; used to secure loose items on a ship
• ghat 0
  n 1: stairway in India leading down to a landing on the water
• scut 0
  n 1: a short erect tail
• connecticut 0
  n 1: a New England state; one of the original 13 colonies [syn: Connecticut, Nutmeg State, Constitution State, CT] 2: a river in the northeastern United States; flows south from northern New Hampshire along the border between New Hampshire and Vermont and through Massachusetts and Connecticut where it empties into Long Island Sound [syn: Connecticut, Connecticut River] 3: one of the British colonies that formed the United States
• newmarket 0
  n 1: a long close-fitting coat worn for riding in the 19th century 2: a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card [syn: Michigan, Chicago, Newmarket, boodle, stops]
• patriarchate 0
  n 1: the jurisdiction of a patriarch 2: a form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line [syn: patriarchy, patriarchate]
• upmarket 0
  adj 1: designed for consumers with high incomes; "he turned up in well-cut clothes...and upmarket felt hats"- New Yorker [ant: downmarket]
• endecott 0
  n 1: born in England; in 1629 he became the founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (1588-1665) [syn: Endecott, Endicott, John Endecott, John Endicott]
• foregut 0
• haute 0

See also cut definition and cut synonyms