CUTTINGS

"CUTTINGS" is a plural of: cutting.

Date "CUTTINGS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Environment

Metallurgy

Mining

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

Choice

Selection, excerption, gleaning, eclecticism; excerpta, gleanings, cuttings, scissors and paste; pick; (best).

Compendium

Album; scrap book, note book, memorandum book, commonplace book; extracts, excerpta, cuttings; fugitive pieces, fugitive writing; spicilegium, flowers, anthology, collectanea, analecta; compilation.

Crosswords: CUTTINGS

Paper Cuttings (1912)

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

References

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Tanned and Dressed Furskins Including Pieces and Cuttings in Africa (reference)

• The 2002 World Forecasts of Tanned and Dressed Furskins including Pieces and Cuttings Export Supplies (reference)

• The 2003 World Forecasts of Tanned and Dressed Furskins including Pieces and Cuttings Export Supplies (reference)

• The 2002 World Market Forecasts for Imported Tanned and Dressed Furskins including Pieces and Cuttings (reference)

• The 2003 World Market Forecasts for Imported Tanned and Dressed Furskins including Pieces and Cuttings (reference)

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Books

• Plant Propagation in Pictures: How to Increase the Number of Plants in Your Home and Garden by Division, Grafting, Layering, Cuttings, Bulbs and Tube (reference)

• Short Scenes from Shakespeare: Nineteen Cuttings for the Classroom (reference)

• Grow your own plants: from seeds, cuttings, division, layering, and grafting (reference)

• Plants-A-Plenty: How to Multiply Outdoor and Indoor Plants Through Cuttings, Crown and Root Divisions, Grafting, Layering, and Seeds (reference)

• Simple Propagation: A Book of Instructions for Propagation by Seed, Division, Layering, Cuttings, Budding, and Grafting (reference)

  (more book examples)

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

An employee of the Joseph Fields Farm, shows Dwayne Mangum, NRCS District Conservationist, cuttings of a few of the crops such as cantaloupe, collards, tomatoes, and watermelon grown on the farm. Half of the farm’s crops are propagated in the greenhouse. Credit: Bob Nichols.

Field worker irrigating alfalfa and barley fields. The field produces eleven cuttings of alfalfa a year, yields nine to ten tons to the acre; sold for twenty-two dollars per ton in 1936. Near Indio, Coachella Valley, California. Credit: Library of Congress.

Sherman County, Texas. Geologist examining cuttings on location of a wildcat well which is drilling a core. Credit: Library of Congress.

Geologist examining cuttings from wildcat well, Amarillo, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Political Economy

Sudan

Police took a camera, a file of newspaper cuttings, five boxes of slides, a corrector tape, three floppy disks, and a bottle of whiskey. (references)

Trade

Argentina

Many food-related and agricultural imports, such as livestock, plants, bulbs, cuttings, rhizomes, roots, grains, and plant products, require a sanitary certificate issued by a competent authority in the exporting country. (references)

Kenya

Importation of any form of plant material (seeds, cuttings, budwood plantlets, fresh fruit, flowers and timber) into Kenya is subject to strict specified conditions as outlined in the import permit issued by the Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "CUTTINGS": bruising the base of cuttings RF office international de la vigne et du vin ♦ contouring with plant cuttings ♦ horizontally planted cuttings ♦ propagation by cuttings. Additional references.

Beginning with "CUTTINGS": cuttings-book.

Ending with "CUTTINGS": news-cuttings, press-cuttings, stem-cuttings.

Afrikaans

afval (apostasy, apostatize, clippings, debris, defection, desert, drop, drop out, fall, fall away, lose, lose flesh, lose in weight, parings, refuse, remainder, rest, rubbish, rubble, secede, waste, windfall). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стружки (raspings, shavings, turnings), изрезки (clippings, trimmings, waste). (various references)

Czech

výstřižky (clippings). (various references)

Danish

spån (chip, millings, planings, sliver, splinter, swarf, turnings). (various references)

Dutch

vuil (clippings, debris, dirt, dirty, filth, filthy, foul, nasty, parings, refuse, rubbish, rubble, soiled, unclean, waste, windfall), spaander (chip, chips, millings, particles, planings, swarf, turnings), rommel (chaos, clippings, confusion, debris, disorder, garbage, leavings, parings, refuse, remainder, rest, rubbish, rubble, tangle, waste, windfall), afval (apostasy, clippings, debris, defection, garbage, leavings, parings, refuse, remainder, rest, rubbish, rubble, waste, windfall). (various references)

Esperanto

defalaĵo (clippings, parings, refuse, rubbish, waste, windfall). (various references)

Finnish

lastu (chip, shaving). (various references)

French

copeau (cutting). (various references)

Frisian

ôffal (apostasy, apostate, clippings, defection, parings, refuse, remainder, rest, rubbish, waste, windfall), ôfeart (clippings, parings, refuse, remainder, rest, rubbish, waste, windfall). (various references)

German

Span (boring, chip, filing, flake, piece of kindling, shaving, spill), Schnitte (cuts, open sandwich, sandwich, serrations, slice). (various references)

Greek 

απόβλητο κοπής (chip, millings, planings, swarf, turnings). (various references)

Hungarian

kivágások, hulladék (cabbage, clippings, cut-offs, debris, dross, end, garbage, junk, lop, oddments, offal, paring, pickings, refuse, scrapings, spilt, spoilage, sweepings, trash, wastage, waste). (various references)

Italian

truciolo (chip, shaving). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

裁ち屑　 (scraps), 裁ち屑 (scraps). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たちくず (scraps). (various references)

Pig Latin

uttingscay.(various references)

Portuguese

apara (clipping, shaving). (various references)

Russian 

обрезки (paring), брак (clippings, marriage, match, matrimony, parings, refuse, rubbish, spoilage, waste, waster, wastrel, wedlock, windfall). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

isečci. (various references)

Spanish

viruta (shave, shaving), detrito (clippings, debris, detritus, parings, refuse, remainder, rest, rubbish, rubble, waste, windfall), desechos (clippings, debris, parings, refuse, rejectamenta, remainder, rest, rubbish, rubble, waste, windfall). (various references)

Swedish

avfall (apostasy, backsliding, chips, cutting, defection, dross, falling away, garbage, leavings, litter, odd-come-short, offal, recrement, refuse, rejectamenta, waste). (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words ending with "CUTTINGS": crosscuttings, haircuttings, stonecuttings, woodcuttings. (additional references)

Misspellings

"CUTTINGS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: buttings, cotinga, cottin, Cuttinge, cuttting. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: tungstic.

-1 letter: cutting.

-2 letters: cutins, tincts, tunics.

-3 letters: cuing, cutin, cutis, ictus, incus, sting, stint, stung, stunt, suing, suint, tinct, tings, tints, tungs, tunic, units, using.

-4 letters: cigs, cist, cuts, gins, gist, gits, gnus, guns, gust, guts, nits, nuts, scut, sign, sing, snit, snug, stun, suit, sung, tics, ting, tins, tint, tugs, tuis, tung, tuns, tuts.

+1 letter: scuttling.

+2 letters: miscutting, scuttering.

+3 letters: destructing, fungistatic, gesticulant, instructing, obstructing, rusticating, structuring, subtracting, unstitching.

+4 letters: auscultating, constituting, constructing, contiguities, crosscutting, haircuttings, shortcutting, stonecutting, woodcuttings.

+5 letters: conglutinates, crosscuttings, gesticulating, gesticulation, outdistancing, outstretching, restructuring, resuscitating, stonecuttings.