crosscut

English

Etymology

cross- +‎ cut

Verb

crosscut (third-person singular simple present crosscuts, present participle crosscutting, simple past and past participle crosscut)

1. To cut across something.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.x:

     Matter of doubt and dread suspitious, / That doth with curelesse care consume the hart, / Corrupts the stomacke with gall vitious, / Croscuts the liuer with internall smart, / And doth transfixe the soule with deathes eternall dart.

2. To cut repeatedly between two concurrent scenes in a film

Noun

crosscut (plural crosscuts)

1. A crosswise cut
2. A shortcut
3. An instance of filmic crosscutting
4. A crosscut saw

Translations

A crosswise cut

• Bulgarian: напречен разрез

A shortcut

• Bulgarian: пряк път