Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A designated limit or point of termination.
- noun A shortcut or bypass.
- noun A new channel cut by a river across the neck of an oxbow.
- noun The act or an instance of cutting off.
- noun Baseball The interception by an infielder of a throw to home plate from the outfield.
- noun A device that cuts off a flow of fluid.
- noun Music A conductor's signal indicating a stop or break in playing or singing.
- noun Pants, such as blue jeans, made into shorts by cutting off part of the legs.
- adjective Designating a limit or point of termination.
- adjective Baseball Serving to intercept or relay a throw to home plate from the outfield.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The point at which something
terminates or to which it islimited . - noun A
road ,path ofchannel that provides a shorter or quicker path; ashortcut . - noun A device that stops the flow of a
current . - noun A
cessation in a flow or activity. - noun poker The player who acts directly before the player on the
button preflop inTexas hold 'em . - noun
shorts made by cutting off the legs fromtrousers
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Examples
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Once one reaches the cutoff from the Villahermosa highway to Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas in Southeastern Mexico, one is still about 1,000 kilometers from Cancun to the north and east.
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Once one reaches the cutoff from the Villahermosa highway to Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas in Southeastern Mexico, one is still about 1,000 kilometers from Cancun to the north and east.
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The threat of a funding cutoff is an old one among conservatives, who have long characterized NPR as a bastion of liberal bias.
Amid anger, regret over Williams's firing, NPR staffers fear financial backlash Paul Farhi 2010
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Once one reaches the cutoff from the Villahermosa highway to Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas in Southeastern Mexico, one is still about 1,000 kilometers from Cancun to the north and east.
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A cutoff is good (actually happened in my first chase, although the PC just spent an Infamy Point to make it happen instead of it being part of the chase rules).
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The threat of a funding cutoff is an old one among conservatives, who have long characterized NPR as a bastion of liberal bias.
After Williams's firing, NPR fears financial backlash Paul Farhi 2010
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The cutoff for runoffs should be more like 45% or 42% - 40% for runoffs for sure - but a hard 50+1 cutoff is pretty dumb IMO.
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Once one reaches the cutoff from the Villahermosa highway to Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas in Southeastern Mexico, one is still about 1,000 kilometers from Cancun to the north and east.
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Once one reaches the cutoff from the Villahermosa highway to Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas in Southeastern Mexico, one is still about 1,000 kilometers from Cancun to the north and east.
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The CRA allows charitable organizations to spend some time on “political activities,” but the cutoff is 10%.
Calgary church feeds 150,000 people a year. Loses charitable status. « Anglican Samizdat 2010
latebloom65 commented on the word cutoff
Only one word, when used in the time line sense.
March 4, 2008