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CUT IN
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Mix in with cutting motions
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "cut in" is one way to...):
blend in; mix in (cause (something) to be mixed with (something else))
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Sense 2
Meaning:
Interrupt a dancing couple in order to take one of them as one's own partner
Example:
Jim always cuts in!
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "cut in" is one way to...):
disrupt; interrupt (interfere in someone else's activity)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Sense 3
Meaning:
Break into a conversation
Example:
her husband always chimes in, even when he is not involved in the conversation
Synonyms:
barge in; break in; butt in; chime in; chisel in; cut in; put in
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "cut in" is one way to...):
break up; cut off; disrupt; interrupt (make a break in)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "cut in"):
disrupt; interrupt (interfere in someone else's activity)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Sense 4
Meaning:
Drive in front of another vehicle leaving too little space for that vehicle to maneuver comfortably
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "cut in" is one way to...):
pull (move into a certain direction)
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Sentence example:
These cars won't cut in
Sense 5
Meaning:
Allow someone to have a share or profit
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "cut in" is one way to...):
partake; partake in; share (have, give, or receive a share of)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Sentence example:
Sam cannot cut in Sue
Context examples:
Now I found a clean cut in it about three inches long—not a mere scratch, but a positive cut.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This accomplished, the outfit, though cut in half, was still a formidable bulk.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
But, not to detract from a nation, to which, during my life, I shall acknowledge myself extremely obliged, it must be allowed, that whatever this famous tower wants in height, is amply made up in beauty and strength: for the walls are near a hundred feet thick, built of hewn stone, whereof each is about forty feet square, and adorned on all sides with statues of gods and emperors, cut in marble, larger than the life, placed in their several niches.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
"You are very kind," said Lady Middleton to Elinor; "and as you really like the work, perhaps you will be as well pleased not to cut in till another rubber, or will you take your chance now?"
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
There was a delightful door cut in the side, and it was roofed in, and there were little windows in it; but the wonderful charm of it was, that it was a real boat which had no doubt been upon the water hundreds of times, and which had never been intended to be lived in, on dry land.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
"Such as fellows going to college, hey?" cut in Laurie, with suggestive laugh.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I did not then know that it was no transitory blossom, but rather the radiant resemblance of one, cut in an indestructible gem.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
After all, important fresh evidence is a two-edged thing, and may possibly cut in a very different direction to that which Lestrade imagines.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Scared and confounded as I was, I could not forbear going on with these reflections, when one of the reapers, approaching within ten yards of the ridge where I lay, made me apprehend that with the next step I should be squashed to death under his foot, or cut in two with his reaping-hook.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
More than once, when I went there early, I had audience of him in a turn-up bedstead, with a cut in his forehead or a black eye, bearing witness to his excesses over-night (I am afraid he was quarrelsome in his drink), and he, with a shaking hand, endeavouring to find the needful shillings in one or other of the pockets of his clothes, which lay upon the floor, while his wife, with a baby in her arms and her shoes down at heel, never left off rating him.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
