Definition of cutaway
:having or showing parts cut away
- a cutaway drawing
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Examples of cutaway in a Sentence
The diagram shows a cutaway view of an engine.
Recent Examples of cutaway from the Web
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Hadid zipped into David Koma’s high-waisted flares featuring cargo pockets, belted detailing, and cutaway effects running up and down the sides.
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First Known Use of cutaway
1841
Definition of cutaway
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:a coat with skirts tapering from the front waistline to form tails at the back
2 a
:a cutaway picture or representation
b
:a shot that interrupts the main action of a film or television program to take up a related subject or to depict action supposed to be going on at the same time as the main action
3
:a back dive in which the head is lowered toward the board after the takeoff
Recent Examples of cutaway from the Web
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There are cutaways to footage of real protests (such as the Women’s March), riots around the world, and images of stock markets and other masses of people.
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The Class A Potomac Nationals gave away 1,250 Tommy John surgery bobbleheads — a headless half-torso with a cutaway elbow.
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While most of the first episode focused on Ami's doctor visits and the family talking about their feels, there were still a fair amount of cutaways to random acts of the Brown children being fish out of water.
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His usual bag of tricks -- the slow-motion hero walks, the incomprehensible action sequences, the lens flares, the globe-trotting cutaways -- are on full display.
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Meanwhile, the mind’s eye is free to go where cameras cannot — like a cutaway rendering of a woman’s uterus as a Godzilla-like monster fills it with semen.
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Wednesday night’s game coverage featured cutaways to several city landmarks, a bit of free publicity that, while appreciated, won't soften the blow of the Cavaliers' heartbreaking loss.
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The footage was shown during the live stream of the concert, as a cutaway from Justin Bieber's emotional performance.
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In one work, from 1960, a man with green legs twice as long as the rest of his body is surrounded by cutaway houses, oversized leopards, and scores of small figures in brown, black, and dark green.
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'cutaway.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
First Known Use of cutaway
1849
CUTAWAY Defined for English Language Learners
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adjective
Definition of cutaway for English Language Learners
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: having the top or outside removed so the inside parts can be seen
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