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Hi, everybody.

My name is Alicia.

Welcome back to know your verbs.

In this episode, we're going to talk about the verb cut.

Let's get started.

So the basic definition of the verb to cut is to make something smaller or to open something using a sharp tool, like a knife or scissors or something else kind of pointy.

Let's look at the congregations of this Ferb present.

Tense cut cuts past tense.

Cut past participle.

Tents cut progressive tents cutting away.

So now let's take a look at some additional meanings of this firm.

The first additional meaning is to make something smaller to make something smaller.

But this can mean like conceptual e, or it can refer to the amount of something not on Lee the size of something examples.

The company had to cut costs.

You should probably cut your hair.

So in both of these were seeing examples of things that became smaller In the first sentence.

The company had to cut costs, so to cut costs means to decrease costs to reduce costs to make the cost smaller.

So we say cut costs in the second sentence.

It's about hair.

So we just say to cut hair this case, in this case, yes, we're talking about something pointy like a sharp tool.

That's fine, but we're making hair smaller, so we say, to cut hair.

The second additional meaning for the verb to cut is to remove something to remove something from something else.

So examples of this I cut some mistakes from the radio show.

She's cutting the damaged parts out of the fabric.

So in both of these sentences, you'll see we use the verb cut with, from or out of in the first example sentence.

I cut some mistakes from the radio show means in the radio show the original radio show.

There were some mistakes.

I cut the mistake, so I removed the mistakes from the radio show.

So we use from or we can use out of.

Both are fine, as in the second example sentence, she cut the damaged parts out of the fabric.

So in that sentence we see out of instead, we could say she's cutting the damaged parts from the fabric both are okay.

It just means we're removing the damaged parts in that case, So we're moving something from something else.

Okay, let's go to these third meaning for the berm.

The third meaning is to stop something or to cause something to stop.

Examples.

Can you cut the engine?

Oh, no.

They cut the power.

So here, stop.

We're not physically cutting something, and we're not removing anything here, here, we're talking about, like, cutting maybe, uh, energy source.

Or we're talking about cutting like an action, if you can imagine that.

So stopping in action, causing something to stop in the first example sentence.

It's an engine cut.

The engine means stop the engine or make the engine stop.

In other words, in the second example sentence Oh, no.

They cut the power means Oh, no.

They stopped the power or they turned off the power.

Maybe it's the electrical company.

Power means electricity.

So they turned off the electricity.

But we usually say cut the power.

We can use this for computers for machines.

Um, anything that can start and stop really cut something.

The fourth meaning for this verb is to move across or through a place examples of this.

Let's cut across the soccer field.

Can we cut through the tunnel?

So here we see cut with a cross and cut through.

So we use cut across when we're talking about moving physically like across an open area So we could say, Cut across the street, cut across the field, cut across the road Maybe, but with through, we're going into something.

We're going inside something.

So cut through the tunnel, for example, or cut through the house or cut through the shopping mall, so entering something to come out the other side through so we can use across and through.

So those air, some common examples of expressions we use with cut in this way meaning to go across something.

Okay, let's move on to some variations for this for the first variation.

For the service to be cut out for something to be cut out for something means to be suited for something.

This is an expression we commonly used in the negative form.

Actually, let's look at some examples.

I'm not cut out for the pace of this work.

He's not cut out for life in the city, so as you can see, we use this with not in many cases.

So in the first example, I'm not cut out for the pace of this work means I'm not suited to the pace of this work.

It's not a good match for me and my personality.

My lifestyle, for example, in the second example sentence.

He's not cut out for life in the city.

It means life in the city does not suit him.

It doesn't match him very well.

So to not be cut out for something is probably more common than to be cut out for something.

The second variation is to cut somebody off.

To cut somebody off means to interrupt someone or to stop them from doing an activity.

Ah, we often use this with, like driving with drinking.

Also in speaking, Yeah, so driving, drinking in speaking or common situations where we use this in speaking, we use it when we interrupt someone.

So examples the bartender cut off the noisy couple in the restaurant.

Somebody cut me off on the highway.

One more example to is when we're talking about money, especially with parents and Children, here's an example.

His parents are going to cut him off when he turns 35.

So when all of these were seeing cut off, But actually each of these presents a different use.

In the first example, it's ah, bartender.

So the sentence was the bartender cut off the noisy couple cut off.

Here we have.

We know it means interrupt, but the key, actually to the meaning is bartender here Bartender as the subject suggests that the couple are drinking in the restaurant.

So to cut off some people at a bar means to stop serving drinks to stop serving alcoholic drinks.

So when a bartender or restaurant staff cuts off someone who is drinking, it means they stop serving that person or those people.

Alcoholic drinks.

So that's one meaning of to cut someone off.

In the second example sentence, somebody cut me off on the highway.

This is very, very common and driving.

When you and your you're driving along in your car, I'll put this This is your car.

Okay, so you're driving along in your car, but quickly, somebody else comes near you and drives in front of you very quickly, like kind of interrupting you.

Maybe you have to touch your brakes or you have to stop or you have to move some something that surprises you.

So we say this motion, this activity when driving is cutting someone off.

So it's like you're causing an interruption in in the driver's activity, so there's some interruption that happens.

This other car disrupts your activity or interrupts your activity.

So we say this person Carby cut me off on the highway.

In the third example, it's about money.

His parents say they're going to cut him off when he turns 35.

This is an expression that means they're going to cut him off financially.

In other words, when he turns 35 his parents are going to stop giving him money.

So there are a few expressions here that we have to really think about the situation to understand what is being stopped.

Is it drinks?

Is it like driving?

Is it money?

We can also use it when speaking.

If someone interrupts you when speaking, you can say, don't cut me off like I'm trying to talk.

The next variation for this verb is to cut to the chase to cut to the chase.

Um, this is an expression, which means to explain the main point of something to explain the main idea of something.

Examples.

Hurry up and cut to the chase.

He won't cut to the chase and explain what he wants.

So, quite simply, cut to the chase means to explain the main idea.

So in the first example sentence, hurry up and cut to the chase means hurry up and explain the thing you want to say.

So if someone is saying many, many different things but won't say the main point, you can use this expression.

Hurry up and cut to the chase.

In the second example sentence.

He won't cut to the chase and explain what he wants means again.

He's saying a lot of different things, but he won't just say the thing he does want to say or the thing he needs to say.

So we can say Cut to the chase to make a request of him.

So those are a few maybe new ways to use the verb cut.

I hope you found something new or interesting here.

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