Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In printing: Any excess of paper which is cut off the main sheet.
- noun That part of a printed sheet which is cut from the main sheet and separately folded. In the ordinary half-sheet form of 12mo, pages 5, 6, 7, and 8 are in the offcut of the half sheet of twelve pages.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That which is cut off.
- noun (Bookbinding) A portion of the printed sheet, in certain sizes of books, that is cut off before folding.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To cut off.
- noun A
piece that has beencut off of a larger piece when not needed;surplus . - adjective Cut off.
- adjective
Excess ;surplus .
Etymologies
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Examples
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This sounds more like a Beach Boys offcut mind, but the lyrics are unimpeachable in their brown-nosing: "They were playing lovely tunes/by the light of the moon."
Readers recommend: fantasy songs Paul MacInnes 2010
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The flowers are passable, but also inexpensive, but the lace is like offcut afterthought thrown on the bodice, and probably about 5 bucks worth.
Regretsy – I Don’t 2010
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Yesterday afternoon I painted this – acrylic paints on an offcut of matt board.
Painting session 2009
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Yesterday afternoon I painted this – acrylic paints on an offcut of matt board.
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The Bedroom In The Sky is three-quarters windowed and the last window blocked off with a hardboard offcut insulated, floored, plasterboarded, plumbed and wired.
April 1st, 2007 2007
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London, and Paris may be more reluctant these days to risk openly displaying legally dubious offcut statuary from
Off With the Heads 1999
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For one thing, it had a carpet - a good carpet, too, a thick-piled offcut.
Strip Jack Rankin, Ian, 1960- 1992
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It would have to go into a cold place to preserve its sharpness, but for good measure he had also purloined a discarded offcut of thin leather, and made a careful outline of the print, marking where heel and toe were worn down, and the diagonal crack across the ball of the foot.
The Rose Rent Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1986
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For last year's collaborative show between Fendi and the Gallery Fumi at the London Design Festival, Mersh created a wall display using slivers of offcut leather from Fendi accessories.
Evening Standard - Home Hannah Bort 2011
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There was also the breezy At the Indie Disco, Island Life, an enjoyable offcut from his musical, and the album title track about perversion in high places.
Evening Standard - Home André Paine 2011
ruzuzu commented on the word offcut
"That part of a printed sheet which is cut from the main sheet and separately folded. In the ordinary half-sheet form of 12mo, pages 5, 6, 7, and 8 are in the offcut of the half sheet of twelve pages."
--Cent. Dict.
August 7, 2012