Cutting Cutting is the separation or opening of a physical object, into two or more portions, through the application of an acutely directed force. Implements commonly used for wikt:cut, cutting are the knife and saw, or in medicine and science the sca ...

is the division or separation of a physical object with an edged instrument. Cutting or cuttings may also refer to:

Entertainment

Film editing Film editing is both a creative and a technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking. The term is derived from the traditional process of working with film stock, film which increasingly involves the use Digital cinema, of digital ...

Cut (music) In African American music, and in deejaying and turntablism, a cut "overtly insists on the repetitive nature of the music, by abruptly skipping it back to another beginning which we have already heard. Moreover, the greater the insistence on the ...

, a musical and deejaying technique * The act of competing in or winning a

cutting contest A cutting contest is a type of musical battle that was traditionally held between various stride piano players from the 1920s to the 1940s, and to a lesser extent in improvisation contests on other jazz instruments during the swing era. Up to t ...

, a type of musical battle

Human behaviour

Cutting in line Cutting in line (also known as line/queue jumping, butting, barging, budging, bunking, skipping, breaking, ditching, shorting, pushing in, or cutsies) is the act of entering a queue area, queue or line at any position other than the end. The act i ...

, the act of entering a queue at any position other than the end *

Slashing (crime) Slashing is a crime intended to cause bodily harm to a victim. A slashing is typically performed with a knife or other type of bladed or sharp object. Slashing of the throat Cutting of the throat as to render the victim unable to breathing, breat ...

, a method of

assault In the terminology of law, an assault is the act of causing physical harm or consent, unwanted physical contact to another person, or, in some legal definitions, the threat or attempt to do so. It is both a crime and a tort and, therefore, may ...

* A form of

suicide Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Risk factors for suicide include mental disorders, physical disorders, and substance abuse. Some suicides are impulsive acts driven by stress (such as from financial or ac ...

and

self-harm Self-harm refers to intentional behaviors that cause harm to oneself. This is most commonly regarded as direct injury of one's own skin tissues, usually without suicidal intention. Other terms such as cutting, self-abuse, self-injury, and s ...

Sport and leisure

Cutting (sport) Cutting is a western-style equestrian competition in which a horse and rider work together before a judge or panel of judges to demonstrate the horse's athleticism and ability to handle cattle. Modern competition utilizes a minute performance ...

, an equestrian event * Cutting (cards), a common practice in card games to prevent cheating * Weight cutting, the practice of rapid weight loss prior to a sporting competition * Cutting in, the act of taking a dance partner from another * A bodybuilding strategy

Transport

Cutting (automobile) The Cutting was an American Car, automobile manufactured in Jackson, Michigan by the Clark-Carter Automobile Company from 1909 to 1912,Kimes, Beverly R. (editor), and Clark, Henry A. ''The Standard Catalog of American Cars 1805–1945''. Krause ...

Cutting (transportation) Cutting is the separation or opening of a physical object, into two or more portions, through the application of an acutely directed force. Implements commonly used for cutting are the knife and saw, or in medicine and science the scalpel an ...

, an excavation to make way for a transport route * A form of

naval boarding Naval boarding is an offensive (military), offensive military tactics, tactic used in naval warfare to come up against (or alongside) an enemy watercraft and attack by inserting combatants aboard that vessel. The goal of boarding is to invade ...

, popular during the age of sail

Other uses

* Cutting (surname), a surname * Cutting, Moselle, France *

Cutting (plant) A plant cutting is a piece of a plant that is used in horticulture for vegetative reproduction, vegetative (asexual) plant propagation, propagation. A piece of the Plant stem, stem or root of the source plant is placed in a suitable medium such a ...

, a technique for plant propagation *

Cutting horse A cutting horse is a stock horse, typically an American Quarter Horse, bred and trained for cutting, a modern equestrian competition requiring a horse and rider to separate a single cow from a herd of cattle and prevent it from getting back to t ...

, horse trained to cut cattle * The act of using a cutting agent to dilute drugs

Entertainment

Human behaviour

Sport and leisure

Transport

Other uses

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