cutting

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film
noun a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting
noun the act of cutting something into parts

From cut + -ing.

I showed him the cutting. — The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu, Sax Rohmer
Cutting, lines of force, 38. — Electricity for Boys, James Slough Zerbe
Her cutting, gentlemen, was simplicity itself. — The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens

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