cut_out has definitions from the field of baseball
1
[ verb ] delete or remove

Examples

"Cut out the extra text" "cut out the newspaper article"

Used in print

(Robert L. Duncan, The Voice of Strangers....)

`` I 've adjusted the gauge so that the pump cuts_out before the water gets too low '' .

Related terms

eliminate excise

2
[ verb ] cut off and stop

Synonyms

cut_off

Examples

"The bicyclist was cut out by the van"

Used in print

(The Christian Science Monitor...)

In Chicago , the driver cut_out would likely jam his gas pedal to the floor in an effort to force the other car back .

Related terms

intercept

3
[ verb ] form by cutting out

Examples

"Picasso cut out a piece of paper in the shape of a guitar"

Used in print

(Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)

Some time in 1912 , Picasso cut_out and folded a piece_of_paper in the shape of a guitar ; to this he glued and fitted other pieces_of_paper and four taut strings , thus creating a sequence of flat surfaces in real and sculptural space to which there clung only the vestige of a picture_plane .

Related terms

form rabbet die gouge_out cut

4
[ verb ] form or shape by cutting or incising

Synonyms

cut

Examples

"cut out paper dolls"

Related terms

make cut carving

5
[ verb ] cut out material such as wood, etc., so as to make as certain shape
6
[ verb ] strike or cancel by or as if by rubbing or crossing out

Synonyms

scratch_out

Examples

"scratch out my name on that list"

Related terms

erase

7
[ verb ] (baseball) intercept (a player), in baseball

Synonyms

cut_down

Related terms

check baseball

8
[ adjective ] having been cut out

Examples

"the cut-out pieces of the dress"

Related terms

cut

9
[ verb ] cease operating; as of machinery

Examples

: "The pump suddenly cut out"

Related terms

terminate end

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