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crosscut

Syllables: cross·cutUK/ˈkɹɒskʌt/US/ˈkɹɔskʌt/

crosscut noun: a crosswise cut.

Noun

crosscut (plural crosscuts)

  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.

Verb

crosscut (third-person singular simple present crosscuts, present participle crosscutting, simple past and past participle crosscut)

  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
    1. To cut (wood, lumber) across the grain.
  2. To cut repeatedly between two concurrent scenes.
  3. 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 of crosscut

Noun
pluralcrosscuts
alternative formcross-cut
Verb
third-person singular presentcrosscuts
present participlecrosscutting
past participlecrosscut
pastcrosscut

Origin of crosscut

From cross- + cut.

Phrases with crosscut

Words that rhyme with crosscut

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Questions about crosscut

What does crosscut mean?
Crosscut means a crosswise cut.
What part of speech is crosscut?
Crosscut can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce crosscut?
Crosscut is pronounced /ˈkɹɒskʌt/ (UK).
What is the plural of crosscut?
The plural of crosscut is crosscuts.

Words near crosscut in the dictionary

  1. crossculturally
  2. crosscurrent
  3. crosscurrented
  4. crosscurrents
  5. crosscurricular
  6. crosscut
  7. crosscut saw
  8. crosscut saws
  9. crosscuts
  10. crosscutter
  11. crosscutters

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