crosscut
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɹɒskʌt/ (also, especially formerly /ˈkɹɔːskʌt/)
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈkɹɔskʌt/, /ˈkɹɑskʌt/
- Hyphenation: cross‧cut
- Rhymes: -ʌt
Noun
[edit]crosscut (plural crosscuts)
- A crosswise cut.
- A shortcut.
- An instance of filmic crosscutting.
- A crosscut saw.
- (mining) A tunnel or level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another through the country rock.
Translations
[edit]A crosswise cut
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shortcut — see shortcut
instance of crosscutting in film
crosscut saw — see crosscut saw
level driven across the course of a vein
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Verb
[edit]crosscut (third-person singular simple present crosscuts, present participle crosscutting, simple past and past participle crosscut)
- To cut across something.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Matter of doubt and dread suspitious, / That doth with curelesse care consume the hart, / Corrupts the stomacke with gall vitious, / Croscuts the liuer with internall smart, / And doth transfixe the soule with deathes eternall dart.
- To cut (wood, lumber) across the grain.
- Coordinate term: rip (verb)
- (film) To cut repeatedly between two concurrent scenes.
- (software engineering) To affect several modules of a program, without the possibility of being encapsulated in any one of them. See Cross-cutting concern.
- 2003, Joseph D. Gradecki, Nicholas Lesiecki, Mastering AspectJ: Aspect-Oriented Programming in Java, page 34:
- Once we've implemented a concern in the component language, we need to perform an analysis to determine where ancillary concerns might crosscut the code.
Translations
[edit]To cut or saw across the grain of timber
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