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cutaway

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cut·a·way  (kt-w)
n.
1. A man's formal daytime coat, with front edges sloping diagonally from the waist and forming tails at the back.
2. A brief shot that interrupts the main action of a film, often to depict related matter or supposedly concurrent action.
3. A model or diagram of an object with part of the outer layer removed so as to reveal the interior.
4. Sports An inward dive.

cutaway [ˈkʌtəˌweɪ]
n
1. (Clothing & Fashion) a man's coat cut diagonally from the front waist to the back of the knees
2. (Engineering / General Engineering)
a.  a drawing or model of a machine, engine, etc., in which part of the casing is omitted to reveal the workings
b.  (as modifier) a cutaway model
3. (Performing Arts) Films Television a shot separate from the main action of a scene, to emphasize something or to show simultaneous events
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.cutawaycutaway - a representation (drawing or model) of something in which the outside is omitted to reveal the inner parts
representation - a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something
2.cutaway - a man's coat cut diagonally from the waist to the back of the knees
coat - an outer garment that has sleeves and covers the body from shoulder down; worn outdoors
Translations
cutaway [ˈkʌtəweɪ]
adj [drawing] → écorché (e)
n (= drawing) → écorché m
cutaway
nCut(away) m
adj cutaway coatCut(away) m; cutaway drawingSchnittdiagramm nt
cutaway [ˈkʌtəˌweɪ] adj & n cutaway (drawing)spaccato
cutaway [ˈkʌtəˌweɪ] adj & n cutaway (drawing)spaccato


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Sometimes these correspondents assumed facetious names, as the Brick, Bellows, Old Gooseberry, Wideawake, Snooks, Mops, Cutaway, the Dogs-meat Man; but he considered this in bad taste, and was always a little hurt by it.
Made up with curls, wreaths, wings, white bismuth, and carmine, this hopeful young person soared into so pleasing a Cupid as to constitute the chief delight of the maternal part of the spectators; but in private, where his characteristics were a precocious cutaway coat and an extremely gruff voice, he became of the Turf, turfy.
"The hounds," calls out a fifth-form boy, clad in a green cutaway with brass buttons and cord trousers, the leader of the sporting interest, and reputed a great rider and keen hand generally.
 
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