Lexic.us

Definition of Cut across

1. Verb. Travel across or pass over. "These men cut across the river"; "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day"

2. Verb. Be contrary to ordinary procedure or limitations. "Opinions on bombing the Serbs cut across party lines"

3. Verb. Cut using a diagonal line.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cut Across

cut-outs cut-price cut-rate cut-rate sale cut-throat cut-throat razor cut-throat razors cut-up cut a caper cut a dash

cut a rug cut a swath cut a swathe cut a wide swath cut a wide swathe cut across (current term) cut and cover cut and dried cut and paste cut and run

cut away cut back cut bait cut both ways cut capers cut corners cut down cut fastball cut from the same cloth

Literary usage of Cut across

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Nature by Norman Lockyer, Nature Publishing Group (1875)
"It is cut across the middle, the necessary holes are bored in it for the tubes, and a conical cavity is cut into each half with a sharp penknife, ..."

2. Outlines of Botany for the High School Laboratory and Classroom by Robert Greenleaf Leavitt, Charles Herbert Clark, Mrs. Sophia M'Ilvaine (Bledsoe) Herrick, Asa Gray (1885)
"29 shows a corn stalk cut across. You see some roundish holes, marked a; these are the ... CORN STALK cut across. (aw.) one of those white dots magnified. ..."

3. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition by Andrew Ure (1854)
"... with their ends at the bottom of it, and are all cut across by this gauge- The wires, thus cut, are deposited into a box placed alongside of the ..."

4. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines by Andrew Ure (1858)
"For this purpose the wires are put into a semi- cyli nder of the proper length, with their ends at the bottom of it, and are all cut across by this gauge. ..."

5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1857)
"It is formed by laying the first course with whole bricks; the next course the bricks are cut across for the outside brick, ..."

6. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1883)
"which fastens on to the top of the epi-hyal bar is cut across, and, lower down, ... The extra-hyal is cut across as it goes back to join the general ..."

7. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1913)
"The white dots are arteries, containing bismuth, which have been cut across. Uterus removed during the interval stage of the menstrual cycle. ..."

8. Text-book of Geology by Archibald Geikie (1885)
"In a number of examples from Cape Wrath to Loch Laxford I have observed that in pegmatite veins which cut across the gneiss, a rude foliation has been ..."

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