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cut

1. Botany incised or divided

2. Veterinary science gelded or castrated

3. Economics a decrease in government finance in a particular department or area, usually leading to a reduction of services, staff numbers, etc.

4. short for power cut

5. Chiefly US and Canadian a quantity of timber cut during a specific time or operation

6. Sport the spin of a cut ball

7. Cricket a stroke made with the bat in a roughly horizontal position

8. Films an immediate transition from one shot to the next, brought about by splicing the two shots together

9. Chem a fraction obtained in distillation, as in oil refining

10. the metal removed in a single pass of a machine tool

11. 

a. the shape of the teeth of a file

b. their coarseness or fineness

12. Brit a stretch of water, esp a canal

13. make the cut Golf to better or equal the required score after two rounds in a strokeplay tournament, thus avoiding elimination from the final two rounds

14. miss the cut Golf to achieve a greater score after the first two rounds of a strokeplay tournament than that required to play in the remaining two rounds

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