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cut out

/kuht-out/US // ˈkʌtˌaʊt //

切出,切出的,删减,割除

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : something cut out from something else, as a pattern or figure cut out or intended to be cut out of paper, cardboard, or other material.
    • : a valve in the exhaust pipe of an internal-combustion engine, which when open permits the engine to exhaust directly into the air ahead of the muffler.
    • : an act or instance of cutting out.
    • : Slang. a trusted intermediary between two espionage agents or agencies.
    • : Electricity. a device for the manual or automatic interruption of electric current.

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Examples

  • His house there is a museum with a large collection of his paintings and cutouts, along with some of the recognizable objects he pictured over and over.

  • The assemblages’s see-through portals include a doggy door and intricate cutouts, but some possible passageways are blocked by wooden 2-by-4s or slabs of blank plywood.

  • In Major League Baseball, the teams begin a shortened season with stadium seats occupied by cardboard cutouts representing fans, except in the case of the Houston Astros, who use live human snipers.

  • Empty stadiums were filled with posterboards, stuffed animals and cardboard cutouts.

  • Skip the typical top crust and try this method for decorative pie crust cutouts instead.

  • Another showed black crows pecking at a cutout of Switzerland.

  • In the black-and-white stop-motion animation Dollhouse, Sherman casts herself as a cutout doll from a book.

  • I squinted through a cutout in the hut: nothing but thick rainforest.

  • The spandex dresses feature cutout panels on the sides, short skirts, and the word “MAVS” written across the chest.

  • Their house, she said, had a John McCain poster on the door and a Barak Obama cutout in the living room.

  • The pencil is drawn along one edge of the cutout so that it will make lines as shown in Fig. 2.

  • Gault was holding up a large paper cutout of a human figure—a long, rangy man.

  • He would get the Professor returned by pressing the upper portion of the cutout flatly onto the desk surface.

  • He would distract the attention of the Entity from Gault by making another cutout.

  • He reached a hand toward the cutout, the torso of which still bulged upward from the desk.