English-French translations for cut

• couper
  - Monsieur Lepper, on est obligé de vous couper le micro. – Mr Lepper, I have to cut off your microphone.
  Encore faut-il ne pas leur couper les vivres budgétaires... We must not cut off their financial means of existence....
  Madame Figueiredo, j'ai hélas dû couper votre micro. Mrs Figueiredo, I am afraid I have cut off your microphone.
• coupe
  Et nous nous retrouvons donc à discuter d'une décote, d'une "coupe de cheveux". So what we are talking about here is a 'hair cut'.
  Seuls les fonds peuvent faire l’objet de coupes. Only the funds remain to be cut.
  Vous ne vous étonnerez pas si je vous coupe le micro. Do not be surprised if I cut you off.
• entaille
• coupure
  J'ai ici une coupure de presse qui en parle. I have a press cutting about it here.
  D'où sa préférence pour les coupures de presse, plutôt que pour les preuves avérées. Hence, its preference for press cuttings, rather than hard evidence.
  Nous avons été des milliers à souffrir aussi de coupures de téléphone, mais aussi de ruptures d'approvisionnement en eau. Thousands had their phone lines cut and also their water supply disrupted.
• blessure
  Cela permettra de sauver 2 500 vies, de réduire de 15% le degré de gravité des blessures encourues et de diminuer la facture des accidents de la route de 22 milliards d’euros chaque année. That will save 2500 lives, reduce serious injuries by 15% and so cut road-traffic accident bills by EUR 22 billion a year.
• castrer
• coupé
  La Russie a fait de même lorsqu'elle a coupé la fourniture de gaz à l'UE. Russia did the same when it cut off the EU gas section.
  Vous m’avez donc coupé la parole, vous pouvez protester. You therefore cut me off; you can protest.
  Vous avez coupé le ruban de l'implantation de l'euro. You cut the tape for the launch of the euro.
• coupée
• coupées
• couper sec
• coupes
  Seuls les fonds peuvent faire l’objet de coupes. Only the funds remain to be cut.
  Le Conseil a effectué quelques coupes dans son propre budget. The Council cut back a little on its own budget.
  Il y a les coupes dans les dépenses et il y a l'augmentation des impôts. Expenditure can be cut or taxes can be increased.
• faucher
• hacher
• inciser
• parage
• réduire
  Pourquoi, dès lors, en réduire le financement? Why are you cutting back on that?
  Pouvons-nous réduire les déplacements inutiles? Can we cut back on unnecessary travel?
  Ce premier pas peut contribuer à réduire le nombre d'accidents. This one can help cut down on accidents.
• retrancher
  Les minibudgets sont à l'origine d'un différend de plus en plus profond entre nous et le Conseil, qui menace de les retrancher des crédits opérationnels. Of course the administrative load is quite heavy with small-scale projects of this kind; in other words, cutting the operating budget becomes very attractive.
• sécher
• sectionner
• taille
  Je voudrais demander à la Commission si elle s' est réellement interrogée sur l' incidence de la diminution de la taille des flottes sur l' amélioration de la préservation des ressources halieutiques. I would like to ask the Commission if they have really looked at whether cutting fleet sizes actually improves the conservation of fisheries.
  J’ai dernièrement visité une centrale nucléaire où une pile de la taille d’un bâtiment fournit l’électricité de secours en cas de coupure de courant. Recently I was at a nuclear power station where they have a battery the size of a building which provides the back-up power in the event of a power cut.
• taillé
  Je voudrais recevoir une réponse claire et détaillée de votre part. I would like to hear a clear-cut, detailed answer from you.
  Ma question est la suivante: qui doit aujourd'hui être tenu responsable d'avoir taillé dedans à un tel point en 2006? My question is: who should now be held responsible for having cut them back so hard in 2006?
  Des réductions à tous les niveaux n'y aboutiront pas: il nous faut un système de taxation de l'énergie détaillé. Cuts across the board will not bring that about: we need a comprehensive energy taxation system.
• tailler
  La tarification est une pierre brute fondamentale du Livre blanc qu'il faut pouvoir tailler maintenant. Charging is a rough diamond in the White Paper which we must be able to cut from now on and which is essential.
  Ils ne doivent pas être les seuls à le faire, l'UE devrait elle aussi tailler dans les fonds publics et les dépenser de manière plus ciblée. It is not only Member States who must make cuts, then; the EU should also trim down its public funds and spend these in a more targeted manner.
• tondre

Definition of cut

• ''To incise, to cut into the surface of something.''
• To admit of incision or severance; to yield to a cutting instrument
• ''To separate, remove, reject or reduce.''
• To cease recording activities
• To make an abrupt transition from one scene or image to another
• To edit a film by selecting takes from original footage
• To enter a queue in the wrong place
• To intersect or cross in such a way as to divide in half or nearly so
• To make the ball spin sideways by running one's fingers down the side of the ball while bowling it.
• To change direction suddenly
• To divide a pack of playing cards into two
• To write
• To dilute or adulterate something, especially a recreational drug
• To exhibit . needs improving: you don't cut a quality, but a figure--
• To stop or disengage
• To drive to one side, as by hitting it fine with another ball, or striking it with the racket inclined
• To perform (a dancing movement etc
• Having been cut
• Omitted from a literary, musical or other work
• Carved into a shape; not raw
• Having muscular definition in which individual groups of muscle fibers stand out among larger muscles
• Circumcised or having been the subject of female genital mutilation
• Eliminated from consideration during a recruitment drive
• Intoxicated as a result of drugs or alcohol
• The act of cutting
• The result of cutting
• An opening resulting from cutting; an incision or wound
• A notch, passage, or channel made by cutting or digging; a furrow; a groove
• A share or portion
• A batsman's shot played with a swinging motion of the bat, to hit the ball backward of point
• In lawn tennis, etc., a slanting stroke causing the ball to spin and bound irregularly; also, the spin thus given to the ball
• A passage omitted or to be omitted from a play
• A particular version or edit of a film
• The card obtained by dividing the pack
• A slab, especially of meat
• An attack made with a chopping motion of the blade, landing with its edge or point
• An unkind act; a cruelty
• A truncation, a context that represents a moment in time when other archaeological deposits were removed for the creation of some feature such as a ditch or pit
• The partition of a graph’s vertices into two subgroups
• An engraved block or plate; the impression from such an engraving
• A common workhorse; a gelding
• The failure of a college officer or student to be present at any appointed exercise
• That which is used to dilute or adulterate a recreational drug
• A notch shaved into an eyebrow
• A hidden or secure place

Examples

• Would you please cut the cake?
• I have three diamonds to cut today
• The patient said she had been cutting since the age of thirteen.
• Sarcasm cuts to the quick
• to cut a horse
• Travis was cut from the team
• Theyre going to cut salaries by fifteen percent
• I cut fifth period to hang out with Angela
• After the incident at the dinner party, people started to cut him on the street
• After the actors read their lines, the director yelled, "Cut!
• The camera then cut to the woman on the front row who was clearly overcome and crying tears of joy.
• Select the text, cut it, and then paste it in the other application
• One student kept trying to cut in front of the line
• This road cuts right through downtown
• The football player cut to his left to evade a tackle
• If you cut then Ill deal
• cut orders; cut a check
• The best malt whiskies are improved if they are cut with a dash of water
• The bartender cuts his beer to save money and now its all watery
• Drug dealers sometimes cut cocaine with lidocaine
• Cut the engines when the plane comes to a halt!
• to cut a caper
• The pitcher threw a cut fastball that was slower than his usual pitch
• Cut brandy is a liquor made of brandy and hard grain liquor
• My favourite song had been cut from the show
• He made a fine cut with his sword
• a smooth or clear cut
• Look at this cut on my finger!
• a cut for a railroad
• The lawyer took a cut of the profits
• The director asked the cast to note down the following cuts
• The player next to the dealer makes a cut by placing the bottom half on top
• I like the cut of that suit
• That’s our finest cut of meat
• The drummer on the last cut of their CD is not identified
• a book illustrated with fine cuts
• Dont buy his coke: its full of cut

Related words

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• prosecute
• execute
• woodcutter
• execution
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• persecution
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