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cutting
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adj 1: (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character;
"cutting remarks"; "edged satire"; "a stinging comment"
[syn: cutting, edged, stinging]
2: unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North
Atlantic" [syn: bleak, cutting, raw]
3: 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" [syn: cutting, keen, knifelike,
piercing, stabbing, lancinate, lancinating]
n 1: the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and
putting them together to create a film [syn: film
editing, cutting]
2: a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant
to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting [syn:
cutting, slip]
3: the act of cutting something into parts; "his cuts were
skillful"; "his cutting of the cake made a terrible mess"
[syn: cut, cutting]
4: a piece cut off from the main part of something
5: an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine; "he searched
through piles of letters and clippings" [syn: clipping,
newspaper clipping, press clipping, cutting, press
cutting]
6: removing parts from hard material to create a desired pattern
or shape [syn: carving, cutting]
7: the division of a deck of cards before dealing; "he insisted
that we give him the last cut before every deal"; "the
cutting of the cards soon became a ritual" [syn: cut,
cutting]
8: the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge;
"his cut in the lining revealed the hidden jewels" [syn:
cut, cutting]
9: the act of diluting something; "the cutting of whiskey with
water"; "the thinning of paint with turpentine" [syn:
cutting, thinning]
10: the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends;
"the barber gave him a good cut" [syn: cut, cutting,
cutting off]
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jutting
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adj 1: extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary; "the
jutting limb of a tree"; "massive projected buttresses";
"his protruding ribs"; "a pile of boards sticking over
the end of his truck" [syn: jutting, projected,
projecting, protruding, relieved, sticking(p),
sticking out(p)]
n 1: the act of projecting out from something [syn:
protrusion, projection, jut, jutting]
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nothing
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adv 1: in no respect; to no degree; "he looks nothing like his
father"
n 1: a quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had
ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had
done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for
naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it" [syn: nothing,
nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher,
goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo]
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putting
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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]
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shutting
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n 1: the act of closing something [syn: shutting, closing]
[ant: opening]
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dieting
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n 1: the act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of
particular foods) [syn: diet, dieting]
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wainscotting
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n 1: a wainscoted wall (or wainscoted walls collectively) [syn:
wainscoting, wainscotting]
2: wooden panels that can be used to line the walls of a room
[syn: wainscot, wainscoting, wainscotting]
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abutting
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blanketing
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butting
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delimiting
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gutting
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picketing
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pocketing
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profiting
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rebutting
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rocketing
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rutting
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something
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strutting
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ticketing
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accrediting
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clearcutting
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costcutting
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decating
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folkething
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folketing
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remarketing
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skyrocketing
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micatin
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waistcoating
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