Cut or CUT may refer to:

Common uses

* The act of

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 ...

, the separation of an object into two through acutely directed force ** A type of

wound A wound is any disruption of or damage to living tissue, such as skin, mucous membranes, or organs. Wounds can either be the sudden result of direct trauma (mechanical, thermal, chemical), or can develop slowly over time due to underlying diseas ...

Cut (archaeology) In archaeology and stratification (archaeology), archaeological stratification, a cut or truncation is a Archaeological context, context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits were removed for the creation of some Fea ...

, a hole dug in the past **

Cut (clothing) Cut in clothing, sewing and tailoring, is the style or shape of a garment as opposed to its fabric or trimmings. The ''cut'' of a coat refers to the way the garment hangs on the body based on the shape of the fabric pieces used to construct i ...

, the style or shape of a garment **

Cut (earthworks) In civil engineering, a cut or cutting is where soil or rock from a relative rise is removed. Cuts are typically used in road, rail, and canal construction to reduce a route's length and grade. Cut and fill construction uses the spoils from c ...

, an excavation to make way for a transport route **

Cut (gems) A gemstone desired to be used in jewelry is cut, carved or made into a bead. The best quality rough is cut, also often referred to as faceting. This is done by a lapidary who decides how to reshape the gemstone using his knowledge of the refracti ...

Cut of meat A primal cut or cut of meat is a piece of meat initially separated from the dressed weight, carcass of an animal during butchering. Examples of primals include the round, loin, rib, and chuck for beef or the ham, loin, Boston butt, and picnic for ...

* Cut (etiquette), a snub or slight such as failure to greet an acquaintance

Geography

Romania

Cut, Alba Cut (; ) is a commune located in the southeastern part of Alba County, Transylvania, Romania. It is composed of a single village, Cut. The commune is situated on the , in the southwestern part of the Transylvanian Plateau. It is located in th ...

, a commune * Cut, a village in Dumbrava Roșie

United States

* Cut, Texas, an unincorporated community * Cut River (Mackinac County, Michigan) * Cut River (Roscommon County, Michigan) *

Custer County Airport Custer County Airport is a public-use airport located southwest of Custer, South Dakota, United States. Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA, ICAO and IATA, Custer County Airport is assigned ...

, South Dakota, US (FAA identifier CUT)

Computing and mathematics

Cut (logic programming) The cut, in Prolog, is a goal, written as !, which always succeeds but cannot be backtracked. Cuts can prevent unwanted backtracking, which could add unwanted solutions and/or space/time overhead to a query. The cut should be used sparingly. W ...

cut (Unix) In computing, cut is a command line utility on Unix and Unix-like operating systems which is used to extract sections from each line of input — usually from a file. It is currently part of the GNU coreutils package and the BSD Base System. Ex ...

, a command line utility *

Cut, copy, and paste Cut, copy, and paste are essential commands of modern human–computer interaction and user interface design. They offer an interprocess communication technique for transferring data through a computer's user interface. The ''cut'' command rem ...

, a set of editing procedures * Control Unit Terminal, a kind of IBM display terminal for mainframe computers *

Cut (graph theory) In graph theory, a cut is a partition of the vertices of a graph into two disjoint subsets. Any cut determines a cut-set, the set of edges that have one endpoint in each subset of the partition. These edges are said to cross the cut. In a connec ...

Books

* ''Cut'' (manga), a 2008 Japanese manga * ''Cut'' (novel), by Patricia McCormick

Films and television

Cut (censorship) Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information. This may be done on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient". Censorship can be conducted by governmen ...

, removal of a scene to meet censors' requirements *

Cut (transition) In the post-production process of film editing and video editing, a cut is an abrupt, but usually trivial film transition from one sequence to another. It is synonymous with the term ''edit'', though "edit" can imply any number of transitions or ...

, a transition from one sequence to another * ''Cut'' (2000 film), a horror comedy film * ''Cut'' (2011 film), a Japanese drama film * ''Cut'' (advertisement), a 2009 British advertising campaign on domestic violence

Games and sport

Cut (cards) In card games, to cut the cards (also "cut the deck" or "cut the pack") is to split the deck into two packets by lifting one packet from the top and placing it face down next to the remaining cards beneath it. The lower packet is then placed o ...

, a method of mixing a deck of cards *

Cut (golf) The following is a glossary of the terminology currently used in the sport of golf. Where words in a sentence are also defined elsewhere in this article, they appear in italics. Old names for clubs can be found at Obsolete golf clubs. 0–9 ...

, a means of reducing the number of competitors in a golf tournament; also, a type of stroke intended to induce a particular ball flight

Music

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 ...

, an African-American music technique *

Cut drum This is a list of membranophones used in the Caribbean music area, including the islands of the Caribbean Sea, as well as the musics of Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Belize, Honduras, and Bermuda. It only includes membranophones that are indi ...

* Cut_, a one-off solo/band effort by Ray Wilson, which released ''

Millionairhead ''Millionairhead'' is the only album by Cut_, a project led by Ray Wilson. It was Wilson's first release on which he took on the majority of the songwriting duties. The album proved to be a one-off project; Wilson would go on to record his own ...

'' in 2000

Albums

* ''Cut'' (C-Tec album), 2000 * ''Cut'' (Crack the Sky album), 1998 * ''Cut'' (EP), a 2014 EP by Aaron Yan * ''Cut'' (Golden Earring album), 1982 * ''Cut'' (Hunters and Collectors album), 1992 * ''Cut'' (The Slits album), 1979 * ''Cut'', an album by Flare Acoustic Arts League *''Cut'', 1982 album by Adrian Snell

Songs

* "Cut" (Plumb song), a 2006 song by the singer Plumb * "Cut", a song by The Cure on the album ''

Wish A wish is a hope or desire for something. In fiction, wishes can be used as plot devices. In folklore, opportunities for "making a wish" or for wishes to "come true" or "be granted" are themes that are sometimes used. Sociology Several cu ...

'' * "Cut", a song by iamnot on the album ''Whoami'' * "Cut", a song by No One from '' No One'' * "Cut", a song by Panchiko from '' D>E>A>T>H>M>E>T>A>L'' * "Cut!", a song by Maren Morris and Julia Michaels from Morris's album '' Dreamsicle''

Acronym

Schools

Curtin University of Technology Curtin University (previously Curtin University of Technology and Western Australian Institute of Technology) is an Australian public research university based in Bentley, Perth, Western Australia. It is named after John Curtin, Prime Minister ...

, Australia *

Cyprus University of Technology The Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) ( or "ΤΕ.ΠΑ.Κ.") is a university established in 2004. Its first intake of students took place in the academic year 2007–08. The establishment of CUT is an attempt to fill in gaps that still exist ...

, Cyprus *

Central University of Technology The Central University of Technology, Free State (CUT) is a public technology university with campuses in Bloemfontein and Welkom, Free State (province), Free State province, South Africa. It was established in 1981 as "Technikon Free State." ...

, South Africa *

Chalmers University of Technology Chalmers University of Technology (, commonly referred to as Chalmers) is a private university, private research university located in Gothenburg, Sweden. Chalmers focuses on engineering and science, but more broadly it also conducts research ...

, Sweden *

Chinhoyi University of Technology Chinhoyi University of Technology also known as CUT was established by an Act by the Parliament of Zimbabwe on 10 December 2001. It is located in the town of Chinhoyi in Mashonaland West about 120 km from Harare towards Lake Kariba and the Zamb ...

, Zimbabwe

Trade unions

* ''

Central Única dos Trabalhadores Central Única dos Trabalhadores (), commonly known by the acronym CUT, is the main national trade union center in Brazil. History CUT was formed on 28 August 1983 in São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, during the First National Congress of the W ...

'', Brazil * ''

Central Unitaria de Traballadores The Central Unitaria de Traballadores (CUT, ''Workers Unitary Central'' or ''Workers Unitary Confederation'' in English language) is a Galician union created in the December 1998 after a split with the Confederación Intersindical Galega. The C ...

'' Galicia, Spain * ''Central Unitaria de Trabajadores de Chile'' (

Workers' United Center of Chile The Workers' United Center of Chile (, CUT) is a union federation in Chile. The CUT was founded in 1953, but it was suppressed after the Chilean coup of 1973. It was refounded in September 1988 near the end of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship. ...

) * ''Confederación Unitaria de Trabajadores'' (Costa Rica) * ''

Confederación Unitaria de Trabajadores del Perú The Confederación Unitaria de Trabajadores del Perú (, CUT) is a national trade union center in Peru. It was founded in 1992 and has a membership of 300,000. ICTUR reports that the CUT was active in the movement that led to Alberto Fujimori fl ...

Other

Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications The Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications (CUT) was a United Kingdom political pressure group that operated between 1998 and 2001. CUT campaigned for a fairer choice of telecommunications tariffs for consumers—in particular, unmetered local ...

, a UK political pressure group * '' Candidatura Unitaria de Trabajadores'' (

Unitarian Candidacy of Workers The Unitarian Candidacy of Workers (Spanish: ''Candidatura Unitaria de Trabajadores'', CUT) is a Libertarian communism, libertarian communist and Andalusian nationalism, Andalusian nationalist party in Andalusia, Spain. Founded in 1979 with the na ...

) *

Carleton Ultimate Team The Carleton Ultimate Team (CUT) is the division I men's ultimate (sport), ultimate team at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. A perennial national contender, the team won national championships in 2001, 2009, 2011, 2017 & 2025. History T ...

Church Universal and Triumphant The Church Universal and Triumphant (CUT) is a New Age religious organization combining elements of Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and Theosophy, founded in the United States in 1975 by Elizabeth Clare Prophet. The church is headquartered near ...

, a religious movement *

Cincinnati Union Terminal Cincinnati Union Terminal is an intercity train station and museum center in the Queensgate, Cincinnati, Queensgate neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio. Commonly abbreviated as CUT, or by its Amtrak station code, CIN, the Railroad terminal, termin ...

* Cleveland Union Terminal * Compact Utility Tractor *

Coordinated Universal Time Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the primary time standard globally used to regulate clocks and time. It establishes a reference for the current time, forming the basis for civil time and time zones. UTC facilitates international communicat ...

, a time standard; the official abbreviation is "UTC". * Cryptic unstable transcript, a type of RNA molecule

Codes

* CUT, IATA code for Cutral Có Airport, Argentina * CUT, English MTR station code for Chung Uk Tsuen stop, Hong Kong