cutting

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• adjective Capable of or designed for incising, shearing, or severing.
• adjective Sharply penetrating; piercing.
• adjective Injuring or capable of injuring the feelings of others.
• noun A part cut off from a main body.
• noun A part, such as a stem, leaf, or root, removed from a plant to propagate a new plant, as through rooting or grafting.
• noun An excavation made through high ground in a construction project.
• noun The editing of film or recording tape.
• noun Chiefly British A clipping, as from a newspaper.
• noun Self-injury in which cuts are made in the skin.

from The Century Dictionary.

• Penetrating or dividing by a cut, as of an edged tool; serving to penetrate or divide; sharp.
• 2. Wounding or deeply affecting the feelings, as with pain, shame, etc.; satirical; severe: applied to persons or things: as, he was very cutting; a cutting remark.
• Thieving; swaggering; bullying.
• noun A piece cut off; a slip; a slice; a clipping.
• noun A section; a thin slice used for microscopical purposes.
• noun A slip cut from a newspaper or other print containing a paragraph or an article which one wishes to use or preserve.
• noun An excavation made through a hill or rising ground, in constructing a road, railway, canal, etc.: the opposite of a filling.
• noun The action of a horse when he strikes the inner and lower part of the fetlock-joint with the opposite hoof while traveling.
• noun A caper; a curvet.
• noun In coal-mining, work done in mining or getting coal so that it may be broken down.
• noun plural The refuse obtained from the sieve of a hutch.
• noun plural Bruised groats, or oats prepared for gruel, porridge, etc.
• noun See the extract.
• noun A process in bookbinding. After gluing, rounding, and backing, the edges are cut in a special machine. Cutting is one of the secondary processes included in the general term forwarding. See forwarding, n., 2.
• noun An area upon which the entire stand has been cut.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc.
• noun Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or scion cut off from a stock for the purpose of grafting or of rooting as an independent plant; something cut out of a newspaper; an excavation cut through a hill or elsewhere to make a way for a railroad, canal, etc.; a cut.
• adjective Adapted to cut.
• adjective Chilling; penetrating; sharp.
• adjective Severe; sarcastic; biting.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb Present participle of cut.
• noun countable, uncountable The action of the verb to cut.
• noun countable A section removed from the larger whole.
• noun countable A newspaper clipping.
• noun countable A leaf, stem, branch, or root removed from a plant and cultivated to grow a new plant.
• noun countable An abridged selection of written work, often intended for performance.
• noun uncountable The editing of film or other recordings.
• noun uncountable Self-harm; the act of cutting one's own skin.
• noun countable A narrow passage, dug for a road, railway or canal to go through.
• adjective not comparable That is used for cutting.
• adjective Of remarks, criticism, etc., potentially hurtful.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun the act of penetrating or opening open with a sharp edge
• noun the act of shortening something by chopping off the ends
• noun the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film
• noun the division of a deck of cards before dealing
• noun the act of cutting something into parts
• noun the act of diluting something
• adjective painful as if caused by a sharp instrument
• noun an excerpt cut from a newspaper or magazine
• noun removing parts from hard material to create a desired pattern or shape
• noun a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting