Definition of cutting
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Examples of cutting in a Sentence
Take some cuttings from the plant and put them in water.
a bag full of grass cuttings
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East Includes Atwater Village, Eagle Rock, East L.A., Echo Park, Glendale, Los Feliz, Pasadena, San Gabriel Valley, Silver Lake Alimento Silver Lake, $$$ Chef Zach Pollack navigates regional demarcations like a Fiat cutting between Roman buses.
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Mrs. Merkel was particularly upset last year, German officials have said, when China bought the cutting-edge German robotics firm so important to manufacturing, Kuka Robotics.
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Transfer to a cutting board or plate and let cool completely before slicing.
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Whatever their purpose, the carvings seem to mark the skulls as outliers: Dozens of other skull fragments have been found at Göbekli Tepe with no sign of carving or cutting.
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Remove the steaks to a cutting board several minutes to give the meat time to rest.
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Genital mutilation, also known as female circumcision or cutting, has been condemned by the United Nations and outlawed in the United States.
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Katrina Lake wanted to be on the cutting edge of the retail industry, and her startup is targeting people who like clothes but don’t like to shop.
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Even after a run through the dishwasher or a vigorous scrub, your cutting board is probably still covered in harmful bacteria.
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First Known Use of cutting
14th century
cutting
Definition of cutting
Examples of cutting in a Sentence
He made a cutting remark about my family, and I haven't spoken to him since.
a frigid day with a cutting wind that made it seem even colder
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Good news: Most of those survey takers — 90 percent — reported cleaning cutting boards after using them or changing cutting boards after prepping raw meat, poultry or fish.
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The SolarWise garden in Ramsey, Minnesota, doesn't look especially cutting edge as solar farms go.
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The complex itself is very nearly cutting edge — or at least very forward-thinking.
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Foil hits only with the point and sabre is, in theory, a cutting weapon.
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Besides being more cutting-edge, Panthers coach Ron Rivera says the telescoping cameras also are safer.
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The combination, on top of a technologically impressive set of products, has given AWS an enviable list of customers at the cutting edge of technology, including Netflix, Airbnb and Slack.
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In his view, government’s role would shift from saving manufacturing jobs to figuring out how cutting-edge university research can get into the hands of US entrepreneurs.
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Students know what the cutting edge entails and are eager to participate.
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First Known Use of cutting
15th century
CUTTING Defined for English Language Learners
cutting
playDefinition of cutting for English Language Learners
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: a stem, leaf, or root that is cut from a plant and used to grow a new plant
cutting
Definition of cutting for English Language Learners
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: used for cutting things
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: unpleasantly cold
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: causing great physical pain
CUTTING Defined for Kids
cutting
playDefinition of cutting for Students
: a part (as a shoot) of a plant able to grow into a whole new plant
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