Definition of Cutting

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Cutting

of Cut

The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc.

Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or scion cut off from a stock for the purpose of grafting or of rooting as an independent plant; something cut out of a newspaper; an excavation cut through a hill or elsewhere to make a way for a railroad, canal, etc.; a cut.

Adapted to cut; as, a cutting tool.

Chilling; penetrating; sharp; as, a cutting wind.

Severe; sarcastic; biting; as, a cutting reply.

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Cutting Quotations

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.
Henry Ford

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
Jonathan Swift

Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
George Burns

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
George Burns

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.
Milton Friedman

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Virginia Woolf

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
Aldous Huxley

A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
Saint Francis de Sales

There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.
Eric Hoffer

There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.
Wangari Maathai

Cutting Translations

cutting in French is rognure
cutting in German is Schneiden, abschneidend, anschneidend

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