CUT-OFF

Definition: CUT-OFF

CUT-OFF

Noun

1. Any device for stopping or changing a current, as of grain or water in a spout.

2. The valve gearing or mechanism by which steam is cut off from entering the cylinder of a steam engine after a definite point in a stroke, so as to allow the remainder of the stroke to be made by the expansive force of the steam already let in. See Expansion gear, under Expansion.

3. That which cuts off or shortens, as a nearer passage or road.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "CUT-OFF" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

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Crosswords: CUT-OFF

Books

• The fissile material cut-off debate : a bibliographical survey (reference)

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Consumer Goods

• Milwaukee 6176-20 14" Abrasive Cut-Off Machine (reference)

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Cut-off, i.e. flashlight, in use at night on comparator Night-time operations in comparing lengths of steel tapes Fig. No. 13, Appendix No. 3, Report of Superintendent ... 1901, p. 258. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

New York Central Lines - Castleton cut-off - Alfred H. Smith Memorial Bridge. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Economic History

Ireland

EU transfers to Ireland will be reduced substantially as Ireland's per capita GDP now exceeds the cut-off for certain types of EU funding, and the expected accession to the EU of new member states will reduce the amounts available to current members. (references)

Political Economy

Georgia

Georgia emerged from the dark winter of 2000, plagued by a gas cut-off by Russia and a drought, which reduced hydropower. (references)

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Beginning with "CUT-OFF": cut-off-his-nose-to-spite-his-face.

Ending with "CUT-OFF": full-cut-off.

Danish

spaerretilstand (cutoff, cutoff condition, cut-off condition), sødannelse, sø (lake, loch), afskaering (expansion), afskårede papirstrimler (trim), afskærmning (guard, prophylaxis, screen, screening, shield, shielding), afskæring (dressing, edging off, offcut, shearing, trimming, truncation), afbrydelse af transmissionen (cutting the transmission), afbrydelse (interruption). (various references)

Dutch

verbreken van de transmissie (cutting the transmission), spervoorwaarde (cutoff, cutoff condition, cut-off condition), sperren (cutoff, cutoff condition, cut-off condition, inhibit), meer gevormd door afgesloten rivierarm, licht-donkergrens (cut-off point), dode arm, afscherming (armor, armour, barrier, cable armor, cable armour, screen, screening, shadowing, shield, shielding), afschermen (screen), afhakken (cut off), afgesnoeide papierranden (trim), afgesloten rivierarm. (various references)

Finnish

valonjaon rajoittaminen, tupakkapötkön leikkaus, siirron katkaisu (cutting the transmission), rajatila (cutoff, cutoff condition, cut-off condition, limit states), oikaisu (correction), leikkaus (carving, cut, cutting, editing, incision, operation, section), katko- (cutoff, cutoff condition, cut-off condition), katkaisuehto (cutoff, cutoff condition, cut-off condition), joen sivuväylälammikko. (various references)

French

cut-off (cutoff, cutoff condition, cut-off condition), coupure de la transmission (cutting the transmission), coupure (cut, cutoff, cutout), vignettage, tronçonnage (cross cutting, cutting up), saignée (cutting-off), rognure (cutting), méandre court-circuité, lac formé par un méandre de rivière court-circuité, extinction de moteur, dispositif de coupure, défilement, bras mort (cutoff meander, cut-off meander), accord de règlement définitif, accord de règlement. (various references)

German

Unterbrechung der Übertragung (cutting the transmission), Sperrzustand (off-state), Sperren (ban, bar, barricade, block, blockade, close, close off, cut off, disconnect, freeze, halt, inhibit, jam, lock, obstruct, obstruction, shut off, space out, stick, stop, to inhibit, to interlock), Späne (chippings, scrapings, shavings), Schnitt in Zigarettenlaenge, Hell-Dunkelgrenze (cut-off point), Dammsee, Altwasserarm (abandoned channel, abandoned meander, cutoff meander, old arm, old bed, old branch, oxbow), Abschirmung (air umbrella, covering, isolation, protection, screening, shield, shielding), Abdämmungssee. (various references)

Greek 

κανάλι αποκοπής, κοπή (cut, gash), σκιάδα (canopy), ξακρίσματα (trim), περικόμματα (trim), λίμνη αποκοπής, αποκοπή (abruption, abscission, amputation, apocope, recision, severance). (various references)

Hungarian

záróretesz, tölténytár záróretesze, rövidebb út (short cut, shortcut, short-cut), lezárás (close, lockup, quarantine, seal, sealing, settling, windup), levágott (cut, cut off, hewn, stumpy), kikapcsolás (cutoff, disengagement, knock-off, release, release motion, trip), határhelyzet, folyókanyart átvágó folyómeder, elzáró szerkezet, útrövidítés (chort cut, cutoff, short cut), átvágás (burn, cutoff, intersection, scam, through cut, traverse). (various references)

Italian

taglio (blade, clip, clipping, cut, cutoff, cutting, denomination, edge, gash, hack, kerf, length, section, slash, sliced, slot, style, styling), schermatura (shielding), raffilatura (burr, dressing, edging off, paring, shaving, trim, trimming), lago di meandro abbandonato, interruzione della trasmissione (cutting the transmission), interdizione (ban, disqualification, interdict, interdiction, prohibition), braccio diretto. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

� め切り (Closed, closing, deadline, end, No Entrance), � 切り (Closed, closing, deadline, end, No Entrance), � 切 (Closed, closing, deadline, end, No Entrance), 〆切り (Closed, closing, deadline, end, No Entrance), 〆切 (Closed, closing, deadline, end, No Entrance). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しめきり (Closed, closing, deadline, end, No Entrance). (various references)

Pig Latin

ut-offcay

Portuguese

corte de troço continuo do tabaco, corte da transmissão (cutting the transmission), corte (address, build, chop, cohort, court, courtship, cut, cutting, cutting edge, gash, hack, hackery, incision, intersection, kerf, make, nick, pen, scission, score, section, slash, swinery, tailoring), aparas (clipping, cutting, kindling, parings, scobs). (various references)

Russian 

отсечка отключенный. (various references)

Spanish

cut-off, corte de la transmisión (cutting the transmission), corte (blade, break, circumcision, concision, court, cutting, drop, edge, failure, hack, haircut, incision, kerf, length, Nick, notch, outage, paring, put down, retinue, scarf, section, snick), recortadura (trim), meandro recortado, maquina cortadora, desenfilamiento, brazo muerto (oxbow). (various references)

Swedish

spärrtillstånd (cutoff, cutoff condition, cut-off condition), meanderfåra, korvsjö (oxbow), bländskydd (lens hood), avskärmning (screening), avbrott i överföring (cutting the transmission). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự cắt (clipping, cut, cut-out, cutting, disconnection, disconnexion, excision, mutilation, section). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cutoff, offcut.

-2 letters: coff, coft, cuff, toff, tofu, tuff.

-3 letters: cot, cut, fou, off, oft, out.

-4 letters: of, to, ut.

+1 letter: cutoffs, offcuts.

+3 letters: suffocate.

+4 letters: suffocated, suffocates, tuffaceous.

+5 letters: conflictful, suffocating, suffocation, suffocative.