cutaway
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Is cutaway a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of cutaway?
Definition
adj (English)
1. (illustration, computer graphics) Having selected portions of the outside removed so as to give an impression of the interior.Examples: "While it used to take several seconds to generate a single cutaway view in a complex freeform model, you can now view them just about instantly by dynamically scrolling and rotating a plane forward and backward through an object."not-comparable
noun (English)
1. (television, cinematography) The interruption of a continuously filmed action by inserting a view of something else.Examples: "the director struggles to jazz up his stilted blocking with clumsy montage cutaways, which are only effective in the upbeat, darkly funny number “Sincerely, Me,” in which Evan dreams up a dance-filled fantasy of his fake friendship with Connor."
2. (television, cinematography) The interruption of a continuously filmed action by inserting a view of something else.Examples: "Despite a pre-debate “memorandum of understanding” between the Bush campaign and the Kerry campaign that there would be no televised “cutaways” or reaction shots […]"
3. (music) An indentation in the upper bout of a guitar's body adjacent to the neck, allowing easier access to the upper frets.
4. (Ireland) Short for cutaway bogExamples: "Thousands of hectares of cutaway are now under squares of grass and conifers, but by the 1990s it was obvious that most of the total area was suitable only for "non-productive" uses."; "This vast land-art and sculpture park is on a former cutaway bog – “cutaway” being the term for a bog where all the commercial peat has been extracted."Irelandabbreviationalt-of
Definition source: Wiktionary