Definition of Rough cut

1. Noun. The first print of a movie after preliminary editing.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Rough Cut

rough-skinned newt
rough-spoken
rough-stemmed goldenrod
rough-surfaced endoplasmic reticulum
rough-textured
rough and ready
rough and tumble
rough and tumbles
rough around the edges
rough bindweed
rough breathing
rough breathings
rough collie
rough colony
rough cut (current term)
rough diamond
rough drawing
rough endoplasmic reticulum
rough fish
rough green snake
rough horsetail
rough horsetails
rough house
rough in
rough line
rough microsome
rough out
rough pea
rough sledding

Literary usage of Rough cut

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

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"This Rough-cut arches are those in which the bricks arc roughly cut with an axe to ... may be classed under three heads: plain arches, rough-cut and gauged. ..."

2. The File in History: A Description of the Development of the File from the (1921)
"It is well to bear in mind that a "rough-cut" or coarse file has the least number of teeth to the inch, ..."

3. The Architects' and Builders' Handbook: Data for Architects, Structural by Frank Eugene Kidder (1921)
"The slates are made wiii rough-cut edges in all thicknesses from ?ie to \\t in, in a combination of various shades carefully selected in such proportion as ..."

4. Estimating by George Stephenson (1897)
"177 ft. run rough-cut chamfer :— This is worth about half the last item; it, ... 21 ft. run rough-cut splay, 5 in. wide :— This is only rough-cutting as ..."

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