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), the style or shape of a garment ** Cut (earthworks), an excavation to make way for a transport route ** Cut (gems) **

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, 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), 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)

Books

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

Films and television

* Cut (censorship), 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'' * "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, Australia * Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus * Central University of Technology, 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, Zimbabwe

Trade unions

* '' Central Única dos Trabalhadores'', Brazil * '' Central Unitaria de Traballadores'' Galicia, Spain * ''Central Unitaria de Trabajadores de Chile'' ( Workers' United Center of Chile) * ''Confederación Unitaria de Trabajadores'' (Costa Rica) * '' Confederación Unitaria de Trabajadores del Perú''

Other

* Campaign for Unmetered Telecommunications, a UK political pressure group * '' Candidatura Unitaria de Trabajadores'' ( Unitarian Candidacy of Workers) * Carleton Ultimate Team * Church Universal and Triumphant, 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