crosscut
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Lua error in Module:parameters at line 360: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "RP" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E. IPA(key): /ˈkɹɒskʌt/ (also, especially formerly /ˈkɹɔːskʌt/)
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- Hyphenation: cross‧cut
- Rhymes: -ʌt
Noun
crosscut (plural crosscuts)
- A crosswise cut.
- A shortcut.
- An instance of filmic crosscutting.
- A crosscut saw.
- (mining) A level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another.
Translations
A crosswise cut
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shortcut — see shortcut
instance of crosscutting in film
crosscut saw — see crosscut saw
Verb
crosscut (third-person singular simple present crosscuts, present participle crosscutting, simple past and past participle crosscut)
- To cut across something.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- 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.
- To cut (wood, lumber) across the grain.
- Coordinate term: rip (verb)
- (film) To cut repeatedly between two concurrent scenes.