Crosscut

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  • transitive verb. To cut or run across or through.
  • transitive verb. To cut using a crosscut saw.
  • transitive verb. To interweave (two separate, usually concurrent scenes or sequences) in a film.
  • adjective. Constructed or used for cutting crosswise.
  • adjective. Cut across or crosswise.
  • noun. A course or cut going crosswise.
  • noun. A path more direct than the main path; a shortcut.
  • noun. A level in a mine driven so that it intersects a vein of ore.
  • noun. A crosscut saw.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In mathematics, a line, regarded as a section actually made in the surface, which begins at one point of a boundary, goes into the interior of the surface, and, without anywhere intersecting either another boundary-line or itself, ends at a point of the boundary.
  • To cut across.
  • To cross-plow, as in fallowing.
  • noun. A direct course from one point to another, crosswise or diagonal to another or the usual one; a shortened road or path.
  • noun. In mining: A level driven across the “country,” or so as to connect two levels with each other.
  • noun. A trench or opening in the surface-detritus or -soil, at right angles to the supposed course of the lode, made for the purpose of ascertaining the exact position and nature of the latter.
  • Adapted or used for cutting anything crosswise: as, a cross-cut saw or chisel.
  • Cut across the grain or on the bias: as, cross-cut crape.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A short cut across; a path shorter than by the high road.
  • noun. A level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another.
  • noun. A saw managed by two men, one at each end, for cutting large logs crosswise.
  • transitive verb. To cut across or through; to intersect.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To cut across something.
  • verb. To cut repeatedly between two concurrent scenes in a film
  • noun. A crosswise cut
  • noun. A shortcut
  • noun. An instance of filmic crosscutting
  • noun. A crosscut saw
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a route shorter than the usual one
  • verb. cut using a diagonal line
  • noun. a diagonal path
  • Word Usage
    "In testing a new lamp for miners, he crept into a "crosscut" of the mine, lamp in hand, and continued there so long and persistently that two men rushed in and drew him out by the feet, the gases having overcome him."
    Hypernym
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    cut  itinerary  path  road  route  
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    intersect  
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