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crosscut en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈkɹɒskʌt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈkɹɑskʌt/ (US)
  • /ˈkɹɔskʌt/ (US)

Etymology

From cross- + cut.

Meanings

  1. A crosswise cut.
  2. A shortcut.
  3. An instance of filmic crosscutting.
  4. A crosscut saw.
  5. A tunnel or level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another through the country rock.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
cross-cut alternative lexicographic
crosscuts Number=Plur lexicographic

Translations (6)

de Durchhieb (A crosswise cut) · de Durchstich (A crosswise cut) · de Kreuzhieb (A crosswise cut) · fi vaakaleikkaus (A crosswise cut) · bg напречен разрез (A crosswise cut) · de Querschlag (level driven across the course of a vein)

crosscut en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /ˈkɹɒskʌt/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈkɹɑskʌt/ (US)
  • /ˈkɹɔskʌt/ (US)

Etymology

From cross- + cut.

Meanings

  1. To cut across something.
    • Matter of doubt and dread suspitious, / That doth with curelesse care consume the hart, / Corrupts the stomacke with gall vitious, / Croscuts the liuer with internall smart, / And doth transfixe the soule with deathes eternall dart. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  2. To cut across something. ▸ To cut (wood, lumber) across the grain.
  3. To cut repeatedly between two concurrent scenes.
  4. To affect several modules of a program, without the possibility of being encapsulated in any one of them. See Cross-cutting concern.
    • Once we've implemented a concern in the component language, we need to perform an analysis to determine where ancillary concerns might crosscut the code. 2003, Joseph D. Gradecki, Nicholas Lesiecki, Mastering AspectJ: Aspect-Oriented Programming in Java, page 34:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
crosscut Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
crosscut Tense=Past lexicographic
cross-cut alternative lexicographic
crosscuts Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
crosscutting Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Coordinates

rip

Translations (1)

mi kani tāmaku (to cut or saw across the grain of timber)