overcutting
overcutting is the present participle and gerund of overcut.
Meaning of overcut
Verb
overcut (third-person singular simple present overcuts, present participle overcutting, simple past and past participle overcut)
- To cut excessively.
- To employ the overcut strategy.
Noun
overcutting (plural overcuttings)
- Excessive cutting.
- The first recorded export of timber was in the thirteenth century when cargoes were sent via Liibeck to England and the Low Countries. Although relatively easy to exploit, the forests were in no danger of overcutting until the industrial revolution and the decade 1860-70, when the wood converting...1862, Andrew C. O'dell, The Scandinavian World, Longmans, page 86
- The technical people I asked about this said it was due to the overcutting they showed me on the records: the cutting needle of the recording apparatus had swung too far laterally. This would not happen, they said, if the companies recorded at a low volume level and depended on amplification by the...1940, The Nation, J.H. Richards, page 691
Forms of overcutting
| plural | overcuttings |
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Origin of overcutting
From over- + cutting.
Questions about overcutting
- What does overcutting mean?
- Overcutting means excessive cutting.
- What is overcutting the present participle and gerund of?
- Overcutting is the present participle and gerund of overcut.
- What part of speech is overcutting?
- Overcutting is a noun.
- What is the plural of overcutting?
- The plural of overcutting is overcuttings.
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