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cut and paste

cut and paste verb: to compose a document by piecing together components of other documents.

Verb

cut and paste (third-person singular simple present cuts and pastes, present participle cutting and pasting, simple past and past participle cut and pasted)

  1. To compose a document by piecing together components of other documents.
  2. To delete text or other data in one document and insert it in the same or a different one.

Forms of cut and paste

third-person singular presentcuts and pastes
present participlecutting and pasting
past participlecut and pasted
pastcut and pasted

Words formed from cut and paste

Questions about cut and paste

What does cut and paste mean?
Cut and paste means to compose a document by piecing together components of other documents.
What part of speech is cut and paste?
Cut and paste is a verb.
What is the past tense of cut and paste?
The past tense of cut and paste is cut and pasted.

Words near cut and paste in the dictionary

  1. cut and choose
  2. cut and come again
  3. cut and cover
  4. cut and dried
  5. cut and dry
  6. cut and paste
  7. cut and run
  8. cut and sew
  9. cut and thrust
  10. cut autograph
  11. cut autographs

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