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rough cuts

rough cuts is the plural of rough cut.

Meaning of rough cut

Noun

rough cut (plural rough cuts)

  1. The second of three stages of offline editing of a film, recognizable as a conventional film but having notable defects such as incomplete narrative flow and missing visual or sound effects.
  2. A poor quality reproduction of an illustration in a printed work.
    • In this small quarto volume the illustrations are rough cuts.1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page 10

Questions about rough cuts

What is rough cuts the plural of?
Rough cuts is the plural of rough cut.

Words near rough cuts in the dictionary

  1. rough breathings
  2. rough collie
  3. rough collies
  4. Rough Common
  5. rough cut
  6. rough cuts
  7. rough diamond
  8. rough diamonds
  9. rough draw
  10. rough drawing
  11. rough drawn

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