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cut
Verb
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If you make something shorter or divide it in pieces, you cut it.
Jared cut the meat using his knife and fork.
In the lumber mill, the logs are then cut into boards.
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To hurt with a blade.
I cut my hand.
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To stop something.
They cut the electricity.
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To edit, shorten, or censor (a film).
The film was cut by ten minutes.
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If you remove something to put it somewhere else, you cut it.
Ben cut the text from the Word document and pasted it into another.
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If the picture changes from one scene to another, the scene cuts to another.
cut
Noun
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A scratch, opening in the skin or a surface.
She had a cut on her arm.
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A reduction; lessening.
There was a cut in prices.
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A small piece removed by cutting is a cut.
I will take a cut of beef.
ties
noun
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(dated) Low shoes fastened with lacings.
with
Preposition
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With is used to show the other people or things present when something happened
I went to school with my brother.
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With is used to describe something added to something else
The cat has a collar with a bell on it.
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With is used to show what thing is used to do something
He hit the nail with a hammer.
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Used to introduce non-finite and verbless clauses.
With the children so sick, we weren't able to get much work done.