Search Result:cut off
Overview of noun cut_off
The noun cutoff has 3 senses
- cutoff -- (a designated limit beyond which something cannot function or must be terminated)
- shortcut, cutoff, crosscut -- (a route shorter than the usual one)
- cutoff -- (a device that terminates the flow in a pipe)
Overview of verb cut_off
The verb cut off has 6 senses
- interrupt, disrupt, break up, cut off -- (make a break in; "We interrupt the program for the following messages")
- cut, cut off -- (cease, stop; "cut the noise"; "We had to cut short the conversation")
- cut off, chop off, lop off -- (remove by or as if by cutting; "cut off the ear"; "lop off the dead branch")
- cut off, cut out -- (cut off and stop; "The bicyclist was cut out by the van")
- chip, knap, cut off, break off -- (break a small piece off from; "chip the glass"; "chip a tooth")
- amputate, cut off -- (remove surgically; "amputate limbs")
Overview of adj cut_off
The adj cut off has 1 sense
- severed, cut off -- (detached by cutting; "cut flowers"; "a severed head"; "an old tale of Anne Bolyn walking the castle walls with her poor cut-off head under her arm")