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動詞

cut off (third-person singular simple present cuts off, present participle cutting off, simple past and past participle cut off) (transitive)

1. To remove by cutting.

   Synonyms: prune, trim

   Hyponym: amputate

2. To isolate or remove from contact.
   • 1956, Arthur C. Clarke, The City and the Stars, page 37:

     The entranced spectator was cut off from reality as long as the adventure lasted; it was as if he lived a dream yet believed he was awake.

   • 1958 June, “First Battery Railcars on B.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 420:

     […] the master controller handle contains a device which automatically applies the brakes and cuts off all power to the electric motors in the event of an emergency; […]

3. To stop the provision or supply of something, e.g. power, water.
   • 1923, Ernest Bramah, The Eyes of Max Carrados:

     "I suppose they lit the gas, or whatever it is there, as well?"
     "It is gas, but they could not light it because it was cut off at the meter. We always cut it off when a flat becomes vacant."

   • 1962 April, R. K. Evans, “The Acceptance Testing of Diesel Locomotives”, in Modern Railways, page 268:

     The first English Electric units were not fitted with an anti-slip brake, but a hurried consultation of the wiring diagram showed that it should be possible to hold in the low-voltage anti-slip relay for long enough to let speed build up without cutting off the motor current.

4. (of a boundary) To exclude (something) from the field of view.

   Half of his head has been cut off by the edge of the photo.

5. To stop providing funds or something else to (someone).

   His parents cut him off to encourage him to find a job.

   You're drunk, Jerry, I'm cutting you off.

6. To end abruptly.

   My phone call was cut off before I could get the information.

7. To interrupt (someone speaking).

   That dingbat cut me off as I was about to conclude my thesis.

8. To swerve in front of (another car) while driving.

   Synonym: (UK, Ireland) cut up

9. To move so as to block someone else's movement in a direction.

   I ran to the house, but Sally is quicker and cut me off.

10. (Southern US) To turn off or switch off (an electrical device).

    Cut off the lamp so I can get some sleep.

派生語

名詞

cut off (plural cut offs)

1. Alternative form of cutoff.

参照

• “cut off”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

アナグラム

• offcut

語源

Deverbal from cut off.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /kəˈtɒf/
• (Conservative RP) IPA: /kəˈtɔːf/
• (General American) enPR: ŏf, IPA: /kəˈtɔf/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA: /kəˈtɑf/, [kəˈɾɑf]
• (General Australian) IPA: /kəˈtɔːf/, [kəˈɾɔːf]

名詞

cutoff (countable and uncountable, plural cutoffs)

1. The point at which something terminates or to which it is limited.
   1. (medicine) A cutoff point (cutoff value, threshold value, cutpoint): the amount set by an operational definition as the transition point between states in a discretization or dichotomization.
2. A road, path or channel that provides a shorter or quicker path; a shortcut.
3. A device that stops the flow of a current.
4. A device for saving steam by regulating its admission to the cylinder (see quotation at cut-off).
5. A cessation in a flow or activity.
   • 1985, Alfred Brenner, The TV Scriptwriter's Handbook, page 144:

     If the treatment is approved, a script is written. If the script is approved, it goes into production. But this is usually a long and painful process. A cutoff can take place (and often does) at any step along the way.

6. (poker) The player who acts directly before the player on the button pre-flop.
7. (fashion, chiefly in the plural) Shorts made by cutting off the legs from trousers.
   • 2021 July 22, Guy Trebay, “Suddenly It’s Bare Season”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     […] I spotted through the window a young woman casually crossing Astor Place wearing a pair of cutoffs, some sandals and — it is fully legal to do this — naked above the waist.

8. (fashion) A sleeveless shirt, especially one made by cutting the sleeves off of a t-shirt.
9. (journalism) A horizontal line separating sections of the page.
   • 1919, The Washington Newspaper:

     Light-face type, cutoffs, borders and rules are the universal plan. No black body matter and almost no black headlines appear.

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形容詞

cutoff (not comparable)

1. Constituting a limit or ending.
2. (psychology, medicine) Designating a score or value demarcating the presence (or absence) of a disease, condition, or similar.

アナグラム

• offcut