cutting

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

cut·ting [cutting cuttings] noun, adjective BrE [ˈkʌtɪŋ] NAmE [ˈkʌtɪŋ]
noun
1. (also ˈpress cutting) (both BrE) (also clip·ping, ˈpress clipping NAmE, BrE)an article or a story that you cut from a newspaper or magazine and keep
•newspaper/press cuttings
2. a piece cut off a plant that will be used to grow a new plant
•Take geranium cuttings in late summer.
3. (BrE)a narrow open passage that is dug through high ground for a road, railway/railroad or ↑canal

Example Bank:
•After about four weeks you will be able to see whether the cuttings have taken.
•She had kept all the press cuttings about the murder.
•Take cuttings from mature plants in the spring.
•These plants are easy to propagate from leaf cuttings.
•You can see whether the cuttings have taken.
•a cutting from ‘The Guardian’

 
adjective usually before noun
1. unkind and likely to hurt sb's feelings
Syn: ↑biting
•a cutting remark
2. (of winds)cold in a sharp and unpleasant way
Syn: ↑biting

Example Bank:
•There was a cutting reference to Taylor's failure to secure a deal.

 
See also: ↑clipping ▪ ↑press cutting

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  keen, knifelike, piercing, stabbing, lancinate, lancinating, bleak, raw, edged, stinging, cut, cutting off, thinning, carving, clipping, newspaper clipping, press clipping, press cutting, slip, film editing