cut short
Definitions
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WordNet 3.6
- v cut short terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end or its full extent "My speech was cut short","Personal freedom is curtailed in many countries"
- v cut short make shorter as if by cutting off "truncate a word","Erosion has truncated the ridges of the mountains"
- v cut short interrupt before its natural or planned end "We had to cut short our vacation"
- v cut short cause to end earlier than intended "The spontaneous applause cut the singer short"
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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
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Interesting fact: People still cut the cheese shortly after death
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- Cut short to abridge: check
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Quotations
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“Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.” -
“Sex is a short cut to everything.”
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“Nothing good comes in life or athletics unless a lot of hard work has preceded the effort. Only temporary success is achieved by taking short cuts.”
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“Wickedness is always easier than virtue, for it takes a short cut to everything.”
Idioms
Cut a long story short - This idiom is used as a way of shortening a story by getting to to the end or the point.
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Etymology
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
Prob. W. cwtau, shorten.
Usage
In literature:
The passage was cut short by a glass door, but a narrow staircase descended to the left.
"Post Haste" by R.M. Ballantyne
There is no doubt that this ostrich would have reached a healthy maturity if its career had not been cut short by a hyena.
"The Settler and the Savage" by R.M. Ballantyne
Indeed, he saw them ride away in that direction soon afterwards, and started off to forestall them if possible by taking a short cut.
"Hunted and Harried" by R.M. Ballantyne
Happily, the interview was cut short by the entrance of Mr. Fullerton.
"The Daughters of Danaus" by Mona Caird
Passing one of these, Richard Cleave cut short some bewailing on the part of the ring about it.
"The Long Roll" by Mary Johnston
This hospitable openness was a fortunate thing for the traveling public, affording as it did a short cut to town.
"The Wrong Woman" by Charles D. Stewart
Foyle cut him short now and again as he rambled on with a question.
"The Grell Mystery" by Frank Froest
The gully itself, though daunting at first sight, gave, in fact, a short cut down to the meadows above Cleeve Court, easy and moderately safe.
"Two Sides of the Face" by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Some friends concerned at this cutting short of my career pressed him to send me off once again.
"My Reminiscences" by Rabindranath Tagore
His search was cut short by the return of Carmena.
"Bloom of Cactus" by Robert Ames Bennet
With picks and spades we cut a narrow path for a short distance in order to start the reluctant beasts down.
"Across Unknown South America" by Arnold Henry Savage Landor
I did not exactly see where the luck came in; but the sound of the bugle cut short my reply, and I took my place in the column.
"At the Point of the Sword" by Herbert Hayens
Believe me, it is with great regret I am forced to cut short so promising a career.
"The Pirate of Panama" by William MacLeod Raine
Forced the gracious, quiet, honorable man and father to cut short his life with his own hand!
"Debts of Honor" by Maurus Jókai
With forceps fill the skull back of mouth with tow cut in short pieces.
"Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit" by Albert B. Farnham
Well, I must cut my story short.
"Tales of the Sea" by W.H.G. Kingston
Hay and fodder are economized when cut in short pieces.
"Special Report on Diseases of the Horse" by United States Department of Agriculture
The Almy couriers took the short cut.
"Tonio, Son of the Sierras" by Charles King
He cut both short by getting his blow in before the ruse he believed Gleeson was trying to use could develop.
"Colonial Born" by G. Firth Scott
His military career was cut short by the peace of 1763.
"Celebrated Travels and Travellers" by Jules Verne
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In poetry:
Cut short,
I will not vanish into the skies;
No end to
The loathsome, hurtful world to which
I am returning.
I will not vanish into the skies;
No end to
The loathsome, hurtful world to which
I am returning.
"Cut short," by Ise
I long for your hug and kiss,
I want the wine that will bliss.
Let me cut the story short,
Please return, cause you I miss.
I want the wine that will bliss.
Let me cut the story short,
Please return, cause you I miss.
"Rubaiyat 29" by Shams al-Din Hafiz
The trousers are short;
They belonged to Bob
Before he had got his growth;
But John's no snob,
And, unlike Bob,
Cuts his legs to the length of his cloth.
They belonged to Bob
Before he had got his growth;
But John's no snob,
And, unlike Bob,
Cuts his legs to the length of his cloth.
"John S. Crow" by Clara Doty Bates
His speech was cut short by a general dismay;
For William the Second had fainted away,
At the smell of some New Forest venison before him;
But a tweak on the nose, Arthur said, would restore him.
For William the Second had fainted away,
At the smell of some New Forest venison before him;
But a tweak on the nose, Arthur said, would restore him.
"The Round Table or, King Arthur's Feast" by Thomas Love Peacock
Beautifu sun that rises, his work not forgotten,
And completes it, most beautifully in summer, when a day
Evaporates on the coast, and effortlessly mirrored the sails
Pass through your sight, till you tire and cut short the last.
And completes it, most beautifully in summer, when a day
Evaporates on the coast, and effortlessly mirrored the sails
Pass through your sight, till you tire and cut short the last.
"To The Sun" by Ingeborg Bachmann
Now then, old boys, and reverend youth, of high or low degree,
Remember how we only get one annual out of three,
And such as dare to simmer down three dinners into one
Must cut their salads mighty short, and pepper well with fun.
Remember how we only get one annual out of three,
And such as dare to simmer down three dinners into one
Must cut their salads mighty short, and pepper well with fun.
"Meeting Of The Alumni Of Harvard College" by Oliver Wendell Holmes
In news:
The Raider golf match at home on Thursday was cut short because of the wet weather.
Ravenwood's Robble has season cut short , does not see same for her team.
The view in driver's mirror was of young Hamilton man whose life was cut short .
Life of Fiery Rapper Lisa Lopes Tragically Cut Short .
Treasury oversight of Solyndra loan was cut short .
Thunderstorms cut the Bluffton Relay for Life short, but organizers were still pleased with the results.
Cameron's Historic Dive Cut Short by Leak.
The audience at last night's (Feb. Stop on the In Flames and Trivium tour missed out on seeing the full experience, due to a bomb threat that forced In Flames to cut their set short before completing their final song of the show.
Article "Celebrations Cut Short " Is Not Available At This Time.
Orion's playoffs cut short .
Short cut to tender red curry-glazed pork.
Cyclist 's journey cut short in Santa Fe.
The tight economy has some schools offering a short-cut to a bachelor's degree .
Definitive diagnosis requires referral to a specialist for an electroretinogram (ERG), so Isaac's owner cut his trip short and came back to take his boy to the ophthalmologist and neurologist.
If they cut ties with aging middle linebacker next season, he may be more difficult to replace then than in short term now.
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In science:
We will make short the sequence step by step by applying the process of ”cutting” or ”unfolding”.
Limit theorems for open quantum random walks
At T = 0 we have a sharp cut-off at Jmax = 1 (18), at finite T , P (JL ) has a fast decay which depends on the fluctuations of V (x) at a short length scale close to the origin x = 0.
Anomalous fluctuations of currents in Sinai-type random chains with strongly correlated disorder
In this short exposition, we present a lower bound method for Tree-like Cutting Planes proofs, without restriction on the size of coefficients in the proof.
On Lower Bound Methods for Tree-like Cutting Plane Proofs
We want to cut-off both long and short wave-length contributions.
A Remark on Conformal Anomaly and Extrinsic Geometry of Random Surfaces
In this short paper we discuss how the position - scale half-space ofwavelet analysis may be cut into different regions.
Some directional microlocal classes defined using wavelet transforms
The question arises whether an acceptable approximation of the seedless algorithm can be constructed, analogous to the parton level short-cut, by considering only those towers which have energy depositions above a minimal seed threshold.
The QCD and Standard Model Working Group: Summary Report from Les Houches
If the coherence is not lost for sufficiently large distances then the condition ||{O}k || = 1 can be reached at low enough k for any value of the UV cut-off, i.e. the IR instability can make the otherwise weak sensitivity on the short distance physics strong.
Renormalization of composite operators
The theory with non-renormalizable coupling constants does not allow the removal of the cut-off, i.e. the extrapolation towards short distances is problematic.
Renormalization of composite operators
Sonia might have talked about this today, had illness not cut her life so short.
The scientific work of Sonia Stanciu
Since the perturbative effects can potentially modify the effect, we have evaluated the cut-induced deficit in ˜Λ and ˜µ2 π including short-distance corrections.
On Extracting Heavy Quark Parameters from Moments with Cuts
V , where P is the pressure on the walls and Φ is the correction to the potential energy arising from the short distance cut-off.
Gravitational clustering in Static and Expanding Backgrounds
This implies that we cannot reproduce the cut-off at short times and the upstream velocity of jams at the same time.
An empirical test for cellular automaton models of traffic flow
To An alternative, and more simple, argument goes as folachieve this, the terms in Eq. (A5d) that are proporlows: according to the short-cut “self-energy-diagramstional to tanh · C 0 q− ¯q (ω ± ¯ω ) were added in Eq. (A5c) only” approach of Section II C, the decoherence rate is and subtracted in (A5d), respectively.
Decoherence in weak localization II: Bethe-Salpeter calculation of Cooperon
We cut the tra jectory of the process Y into short pieces.
Dynamics of trap models
In order to eliminate unphysical effect due to large quantum fluctuations at short distance, we have cut the initial quantum fluctuations with mode k > m, although this does not much affect the result (for more detail about initial condition for tachyonic potential, see ).
Late-time Affleck-Dine baryogenesis after thermal inflation
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