Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not cut.
- adjective Printing Having the page edge not slit or trimmed. Used of a book.
- adjective Not cut or ground to a specific shape. Used of a gemstone.
- adjective Not condensed, abridged, or shortened, as by an editor or censor.
- adjective Slang Uncircumcised. Used of a man or boy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not cut; specifically, in bookbinding, not trimmed across the bolts; having the full margin of the untrimmed sheets.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not cut; not separated or divided by cutting or otherwise; -- said especially of books, periodicals, and the like, when the leaves have not been separated by trimming in binding.
- adjective Not ground, or otherwise cut, into a certain shape.
- adjective Not shortened; not condensed; unabridged; -- said of books, plays, and movies.
- adjective Not diluted; -- said especially of illegal narcotic drugs. Such illegal drugs are often diluted by admixture with harmless foodstuffs such as sugars.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective not
cut - adjective of a gemstone not cut or
ground to thedesired shape - adjective of a book not having the
page edges trimmed - adjective of a play, film etc not
edited orabridged by acensor - adjective not
circumcised .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective complete
- adjective not cut
- adjective (used of grass or vegetation) not cut down with a hand implement or machine
- adjective not shaped by cutting or trimming
- adjective (of pages of a book) having adjacent leaves still joined at the fore edge
- adjective not cut
- adjective not trimmed
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Examples
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It produces what I call the uncut diamond that can still be picked up by local companies in India like Infosys or Wipro or Quatrro then cut and polished to create a billable-revenue-generating resource.
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So having told Street-Porter that her stuff would go in uncut, he left it to Platell to make the overlong, overwrought submissions fit.
Diary Hugh Muir 2010
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To publish his own English translation, taken direct and uncut from the German edition.
The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind James Boyle
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I should have sent them the cut version of the piece though I think the uncut is better.)
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He has now handed them over to South African authorities and they have been identified as uncut diamonds.
Mia Farrow Contradicts Naomi Campbell's Testimony About Diamond 2010
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My one-on-one interview, the complete interview, uncut, that is coming up.
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Serve them upside down, that is, the uncut part upward.
Choice Cookery Catherine Owen
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If they are not cut we have instead the material known as uncut velvet, largely used for upholstery purposes.
The Story of Silk Sara Ware Bassett 1920
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He has now handed them over to South African authorities and they have been identified as uncut diamonds.
The Seattle Times 2010
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He has now handed them over to South African authorities and they have been identified as uncut diamonds, but their origins are unknown.
reesetee commented on the word uncut
In rare/antique books, describes pages that have not been shaved down to a uniform surface.
February 22, 2007