Cut Away

Definition: Cut Away

Cut Away

Verb

1. Move quickly to another scene or focus, as in filming; "`cut away now!' the director shouted".

2. Remove by cutting off or away; "cut away the branch that sticks out".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Nonaddition Subtraction

Garble, mutilate, amputate, detruncate; cut off, cut away, cut out; abscind, excise; pare, thin, prune, decimate; abrade, scrape, file; geld, castrate; eliminate.

Velocity

Verb: move quickly, trip, fisk; speed, hie, hasten, post, spank, scuttle; scud, scuddle; scour, scour the plain; scamper; run like mad, beat it; fly, race, run a race, cut away, shot, tear, whisk, zoom, swoosh, sweep, skim, brush; cut along, bowl along, barrel along, barrel; scorch, burn up the track; rush; (be violent); dash on, dash off, dash forward; bolt; trot, gallop, amble, troll, bound, flit, spring, dart, boom; march in quick time, march in double time; ride hard, get over the ground.

Crosswords: Cut Away

USS Minneapolis (CA-36) at Tulagi with torpedo damage received in the battle. Photograph was taken on 1 December 1942, as work began to cut away the wreckage of her bow. Credit: NAVY.

Stripped and awaiting scrapping, at Alameda, California, 22 March 1931. Note her foul bottom. Propeller guards and propeller shaft supports have been cut away. Credit: NAVY.

Cut away the anchor!. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cartoon of a soldier, possibly Vietnamese, with arm in flames, carrying firearm and wearing helmet cut away to reveal man inside. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Albanian

pres (amputate, anticipate, await, be asking for, be expecting, be on the watch, be waiting, bide, buck, chop, clip, coin, cut, cut open, detruncate, disforest, dissect, entertain, expect, exscind, fell, hew, host, knife, look for, look forward to, mince, mint, Nick, notch, obtruncate, poll, prune, screw, section, sever, shut off, sit on the fence, slash, slot, snip, take, Tarry, undercut, wait, ween, whack). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قطع (amputate, amputation, ax, axe, break, cease, cessation, chop off, chopping off, cross, crossing, cut, cut across, cut down, cut off, cut out, cutoff, cutting off, disconnect, discontinuance, discontinue, divide, dividing, end, exchange, fell, felling, forbid, halt, hew, hinder from, interrupt, intersect, lop, prevent from, scission, section, segment, segmentation, separate, sever, severance, slit, split, stop, sunder, suspend, suspension, tear, terminate, traverse). (various references)

Bulgarian 

офейквам (abscond, bunk, cut, cut one's lucky, decamp, give leg-bail, hop off, leg it, make off, nip off, run off, scamper, scarper, scoot, scuttle off, skedaddle, skip, sling one's hook, slope, take to one's heel, vamoose), отстранявам (chase, eliminate, extirpate, fend off, get away, keep away, obviate, preclude, push aside, push away, reject, remove, repel, send off, shake, sweep away, take out, weed out), отрязвам (amputate, crop, cut off, excise, exscind, intercept, lop, nip off, sever, shear, slice off, snip off, take off). (various references)

Czech

odstřihnout (cut off), odseknout (chop off, hack off, retort, sever), odříznout (cut off, exscind). (various references)

Danish

tværsnit (cross section, cross sectional view, crosscut, cross-section, cutting diameter, cutting diametre, sectional view, transversal section, transverse section), stikke (pick, stab, sting). (various references)

Dutch

doorsneetekening (cross sectional view, sectional view). (various references)

French

couper (cut, cut back, cut down, cut off), coupe (cup, cut, cutting), vue transversale, vue en coupe, échopper. (various references)

German

wegstechen (scorp), wegschneiden (chop back, trim away), Schnitt (average, crop, cut, cutting, edge, editing, incision, intersection, line, modeling, Nick, notch, pattern, scissored, section, serration, shape, slash, sliced, snip), Querschnitt (cross section, profile, transverse section), ausschneiden (cut out, prune, scrape out). (various references)

Greek 

όψη εγκάρσιας τομής (cross sectional view, sectional view), χαράσσω με γλυφίδα (scorp), ανδρικό επίσημο ένδυμα, αποκόπτω (abscind, amputate, cut off, elide, excise, sever), αφαιρώ τα τοιχώματα χυτού μεταλλουργήματος (scorp), τομή (caesura, cross section, cut, cutting, incision, scission, section). (various references)

Hungarian

elvág (cut, to cut off, to pill, to plough, to sever), elkotródik (buzz off, clear off, to absquatulate, to cut away, to cut one's stick, to decamp, to light out, to make a bolt for it, to move off, to pack off, to pop off, to sheer off, to turkey off, to vamoose, to vamose). (various references)

Indonesian

bukaan (cut away drawing, opener, opening). (various references)

Italian

vista trasversale (cross sectional view, sectional view), vista in sezione (cross sectional view, sectional view), bulinare colla ciappola (scorp). (various references)

Manx

giarrey (abbreviate, abridge, abridging, axe, beat out, bob the tail; severance, bob; severance, carve, castrate, cleave, clip, clip as words; slicing, clip; slicing, condensation, condense, condensing, crop, crop as tail, curtail, curtailment, cut, cut back, cut short, cut up, disconnect, disconnection, dissect, erupt, eruption, flux, gash, hack, hew, incise, incision, infliction, intersect, intersection, lance, levy, lop, mark out, nicking, prune, pruning, puncture, reaping, scission, section, sever, shear, sink, slash, slit, snip, truncate). (various references)

Pig Latin

utcay awayay.(various references)

Portuguese

vista em corte (cross sectional view, sectional view), escoprear (scorp). (various references)

Russian 

срезать (chamfer, cut, detruncate, flunk, pare away, slash), удалить, отрезать (clip, cut off, snip off). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

raščistiti (clear, clear off, disperse), odseći (amputate, chop, chop off, detruncate, exscind, pare). (various references)

Spanish

cortar (ax, axe, bar, behead, block off, Bob, break, break in, chop, clip, comminute, crop, cut, cut across, cut down, cut in, cut off, cut out, cut up, decapitate, detruncate, disbranch, excise, exscind, fell, hack, incise, intersect, joint, lop, lop away, lop off, lumber, mow, Nick, nip, open, pare, pick, pluck, prune, sever, shear, shear off, shear through, shut off, slice, slit, snick, strike off, tear off, trim away, trim off, turn off, turn out, Whittle), cincelar (carve, chase, chisel), vista transversal (cross sectional view, sectional view). (various references)

Swedish

skära bort (excise, lop, pare off, prescind), schakta bort. (various references)

Ukrainian

відрубувати (cut off, hew away), відрізати (amputate, cut off, disbranch, nip, snap out, snip, snip off), виключати (arrest, bar, count out, cut off, declutch, dismember, eliminate, except, exclude, expel, foreclose, open, oust, rule out, send down, shut out), вимикати (cut off, declutch, key off, turn out). (various references)

bacchidem, dem, demas, dementes, dementia, dementis, demere, demetrio, demetrium, dempserint, deputabuntur, deputatae, deputatus, perseco. (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cutaway.

-3 letters: acta, away, yuca.

-4 letters: act, awa, cat, caw, cay, cut, tau, taw, twa, uta, wat, way, yaw.

-5 letters: aa, at, aw, ay, ta, ut, ya.

+1 letter: cutaways.