Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An attachment to a magazine firearm which enables the soldier to use it as a single-loader and reserve the cartridges in the magazine.
- noun In forestry, an artificial channel by which the course of a stream is straightened to facilitate log-driving.
- noun The practice of stopping or cutting off the admission of motor-fluid, such as steam, to the engine-cylinder before the traverse of the piston is completed.
- noun A partition or plate in a valve-chest having one or more ports controlled, as to opening and closure, by a cut-off valve.
- noun That which cuts off or shortens, as a short path or cross-cut. Specifically
- noun In steam-engines, a contrivance for cutting off the passage of steam from the steamchest to the cylinder, when the piston has made a part of its stroke, leaving the rest of the stroke to be accomplished by the expansive force of the steam already in the cylinder. It economizes steam, and thus saves fuel. See
governor . - noun A new and shorter channel formed for a river by the waters cutting off or across an angle or bend in its course.
- noun A slide in a delivery-spout in grain-elevators, etc., for shutting off the flow.—5. An arm on a reaper designed to support the falling grain while the platform is being cleared.—6. In plumbing, a connecting pipe.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That which cuts off or shortens, as a nearer passage or road.
- noun The valve gearing or mechanism by which steam is cut off from entering the cylinder of a steam engine after a definite point in a stroke, so as to allow the remainder of the stroke to be made by the expansive force of the steam already let in. See Expansion gear, under
Expansion . - noun Any device for stopping or changing a current, as of grain or water in a spout.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
cutoff . - adjective Having had shirt
sleeves orpantlegs shortened by cutting material from the end.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective detached by cutting
- verb remove by or as if by cutting
- verb cease, stop
- verb remove surgically
- verb cut off and stop
- verb break a small piece off from
- verb make a break in
- noun a route shorter than the usual one
- noun a device that terminates the flow in a pipe
- noun a designated limit beyond which something cannot function or must be terminated
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Examples
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The bayou once served as a shortcut, known as a cut-off, from the Mississippi River south to the Gulf, but was dammed shut in 1904.
Hurricane Season Neal Thompson 2007
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The bayou once served as a shortcut, known as a cut-off, from the Mississippi River south to the Gulf, but was dammed shut in 1904.
Hurricane Season Neal Thompson 2007
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As Theroux so eloquently puts it, "As an adult traveling alone in remote and cut-off places, I learned a great deal about the world and myself: the strangeness, the joy, the liberation and truth of travel, the way loneliness -- such a trial at home -- is the condition of a traveler."
Melissa Biggs Bradley: Going Off the Beaten Path Melissa Biggs Bradley 2011
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If a company ranks below any metric's 2000 list cut-off see above minimum cut-off values, it receives a zero score for that metric.
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As Theroux so eloquently puts it, "As an adult traveling alone in remote and cut-off places, I learned a great deal about the world and myself: the strangeness, the joy, the liberation and truth of travel, the way loneliness -- such a trial at home -- is the condition of a traveler."
Melissa Biggs Bradley: Going Off the Beaten Path Melissa Biggs Bradley 2011
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A senior U.S. diplomat visiting Asia says China did not expect North Korea to abruptly cut-off dialogue with South Korea last week.
China Urged to Encourage N. Korea to Resume Talks with Seoul 2011
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Since these animals will declare anything a PEC, any temporal breach will suffice as an excuse to cut-off benefits.
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Must have been some kind of cut-off point, after which women on his list widowed, elderly, presumed to go to bed early might be offended.
Phone Sex With the Telemarketer Gita M. Smith 2011
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She cut-off business in the House so that she, and 21other "true politicians", could fly to Copenhagen, at enormous cost to the taxpayer and to the atmosphere, for a 24 hour visit to meetings in which she took no part.
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A senior U.S. diplomat visiting Asia says China did not expect North Korea to abruptly cut-off dialogue with South Korea last week.
China Urged to Encourage N. Korea to Resume Talks with Seoul 2011
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